Senior-led advisory for New Zealand organisations navigating AI adoption, programme delivery, and digital transformation — from the boardroom of Small to Medium size Businesses to the Business Transformation programme floor.
Whether you're a business owner wondering where AI fits, or leading a transformation programme, the path into Invert is the same — direct, senior, and shaped to your context.
For organisations delivering complex programmes — programme and portfolio leadership, transformation advisory, and application testing at scale, grounded in two decades of NZ public sector experience.
For business owners and leadership teams ready to see where AI fits — without the hype, without the procurement cycle, without committing to tools you don't yet understand.
Same structured delivery, full-quality output, preferential terms for early clients as the AI practice is established. Limited availability.
Every engagement — whether a two-week AI Launchpad or a multi-year transformation programme — moves through the same three-stage shape.
A structured discovery of your business, your people, and what you're actually trying to achieve. No generic questionnaires.
A clear, prioritised view of opportunity and risk — specific to your context, reviewed by a senior consultant before you see it.
Practical, outcome-based engagements — with the clarity of fixed fees and the discipline of senior-led delivery.
A structured assessment that identifies where AI can save you time, reduce errors, and create capacity — starting this quarter, not next year.
Every AI Launchpad produces the same shape of deliverable: a branded report with quick wins you can act on this month, strategic opportunities for the next six months, and a realistic view of what's further out.
We arrive prepared — with a view of your business, your industry, and the AI landscape relevant to your context.
A structured conversation about your business, your people, your pain points, and where your time actually goes.
A branded report identifying Quick Wins, Strategic opportunities, and Future considerations — prioritised and specific.
A clear picture of what good looks like six months from now, and the sequence of steps to get there.
A second meeting to walk through the draft report, refine recommendations, and confirm next steps.
A polished, client-ready deliverable you can act on, share with your team, or take to your board.
The AI Launchpad is designed for New Zealand businesses navigating genuine operational pressure — not theoretical use cases. Here are two Invert is working with.
An owner-led Wellington business with a strong referral base, a custom quoting tool creating proposal bottlenecks, and an install process living largely in the owner's head. The Launchpad identified practical AI opportunities across customer communications, SOP extraction, install scheduling, and quoting — with the first quick wins deliverable in under eight weeks.
An owner-led NZ business working through where AI can meaningfully reduce admin overhead, sharpen customer-facing communications, and create capacity in the leadership team. The engagement follows the same structured Launchpad process — pre-engagement research, discovery workshop, prioritised opportunity report, and a six-month vision.
A predictable, structured delivery path so you always know what's happening next.
Enquiry, scope, fit.
Internal research.
Scope & offer selected.
Discovery meeting.
Draft produced.
Client feedback.
Delivered, ready to act.
Two to three weeks from first call to final report. Limited Foundation cohort availability for early clients.
Two decades of delivery on nationally significant NZ programmes — from Inland Revenue's Business Transformation to New Zealand's first public sector open banking market engagement.
Email Chris about your engagementTop-table advisory across three capability areas. Typically delivered by Chris directly; scaled through partner networks where the engagement requires it.
Planning, resourcing, governance, reporting, risk, stakeholder management, financials, and procurement of outcome-based services. Prince 2 and Agile adaptive.
Test strategy, operating model shifts, market engagement and RFP support, cross-government coordination, and executive reporting on delivery quality.
Concept-to-delivery leadership across complex initiatives — API integration, identity and access management, payment services, and open banking.
A selection of nationally significant engagements from the last decade.
Consultancy enquiries go straight to Chris. Typical response: same business day.
The testing discipline behind Inland Revenue's Business Transformation, Educational Payroll Upgrade, providing external assurance to Census 2023, Fire and Emergency NZ and Transpower. Listed on the DIA Marketplace under Digital Experience Professional Services.
Start a testing conversationTop-table testing advisory across strategy, governance, and execution. Scaled through partner networks and managed services where the engagement requires it.
Transformation-context test strategy covering phases, entry/exit, defect management, reporting.
Executive reporting on delivery quality, independent assurance, vendor oversight.
Preparation, scheduling, execution, defect management across functional and non-functional scope.
API, web, regression — scaled to support large external integration footprints.
Performance testing, load testing, and operational readiness for scaled delivery.
Market engagement and procurement of outcome-based testing services and managed testing partners.
A single principle guides every testing engagement: testing exists to give leadership an independent, trustworthy view of delivery quality — and to do that at the lowest total overhead the context allows.
Every engagement starts with a fit-for-context test strategy — defining standards, phases, and criteria before execution begins.
Business resources are part of the test team, not a downstream check. Customer Interaction Testing is a core pattern.
Resource-augmentation models are replaced with outcome-based managed services — reducing overhead and improving predictability.
Selected testing leadership engagements from the last decade.
Whether it's a new test strategy, a programme assurance review, or capability coaching — every engagement starts with a direct conversation.
Invert Consulting helps organisations navigate complexity — from AI adoption for owner-led Kiwi businesses to nationally significant transformation programmes.
Two decades of delivery on some of New Zealand's largest public-sector programmes. Chris has led enterprise testing for Inland Revenue's Business Transformation and many other engagements, managed the portfolio that took NZ's first public sector open banking market engagement to market, and is currently supporting the market in Quality Assurance, Testing and AI services
Invert Consulting was established to bring that same senior, outcome-based approach to two audiences at once — the Kiwi Small to Medium Sized Businesses looking at where AI fits, this is where the rubber is hitting the road in AI at the moment, and the enterprise programmes navigating complexity.
Every engagement — AI Launchpad, programme advisory, testing strategy — is shaped by the same five principles.
Every engagement is led by an experienced principal. No junior handoffs, no drift from the initial conversation.
Fixed fees tied to deliverables. Time-and-materials billing is available but is not the default.
We share learning openly where appropriate. NZ organisations benefit from shared knowledge, not duplicated effort.
Every recommendation is specific to the client. No templates, no generic playbooks applied without context.
Client information is never shared across engagements.
Listed supplier — Consultancy and Professional Services, Digital Experience Professional Services (Project Management Services, Application Testing).
Personnel vetting in place. All client information treated as strictly confidential.
Based in Wellington, with client engagements across Wellington, Auckland, and remotely NZ-wide. In-person or video as the engagement needs.
The shape of the conversation is always the same — direct, senior, and shaped to your context.
Use the form below to enquire about an AI Launchpad, or email Chris directly for consultancy, programme advisory, or testing engagements.
A short form — enough to understand your business and what you'd want AI to help with. Chris will respond within one business day.
For consultancy, programme advisory, and testing engagements — go direct. Email or phone is the fastest route.
Your information is never shared across engagements. AI tools used in our work are configured to exclude client data from training.