About

The AI growth agency for Kiwi businesses.

Most agencies sell you a slide deck. We sell you outcomes — AI visibility, automation, conversion lifts — and show our work every week in plain English.

Why we exist

Search just split in two. Most NZ businesses missed it.

Half your customers still Google. The other half ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, or Gemini — and AI answers them in one sentence. If your business isn't the answer, your competitor is.

Most NZ businesses don't have the in-house resource to rebuild for that. Most agencies are still selling them Google Ads playbooks from 2019.

FoundByAI exists to close that gap — fast, locally, and without the agency theatre.

How we're built

Small senior team. No fluff layers.

Operators, not consultants

Our team comes from inside ecommerce, CRO, and growth — not from a slide-deck agency. We've scaled stores, run experiments, and shipped what works.

AI-native from day one

We were rebuilding workflows around AI before most agencies had a ChatGPT login. AEO, GEO, and AI automation aren't add-ons — they're how we think.

Small senior team

No junior account managers, no offshore handoffs. The person you brief is the person doing the work and sending you the report.

How we work

Four rules. No exceptions.

01

Plain English, not jargon

If we can't explain what we're doing to your nan, we're not doing it. Every report, every Loom, every call.

02

Show our work, weekly

Live dashboard. Weekly Loom videos. You'll never have to ask 'so what did we pay for this month?'

03

Local first

We only work with NZ businesses. No offshore agency layers, no time zone games, no generic templates.

04

Long game over short tricks

We don't chase loopholes. AEO done right compounds for years. We build moats, not hacks.

The path here

From Shopify stores to AI search.

2018–2024

Seven years scaling Shopify stores and running CRO experiments across 50+ NZ brands.

2024

First AI automation builds went live for clients — replacing manual ops with always-on workflows.

2025

Built and pressure-tested our AEO/GEO methodology across multiple industries.

2026

FoundByAI launched as a dedicated AI growth agency for Kiwi businesses.

Free AI Visibility Audit

Get your custom AI visibility report — free.

We'll scan ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini for your business, benchmark you against competitors, and send a custom action plan within 24 hours.

  • Full scan across 4 major AI engines
  • Side-by-side competitor benchmark
  • 12-point fix list, prioritised by impact
  • Optional 30-min review call (no sales pitch)
200+ businesses have used this audit. No spam, no sales call required.

We read every submission personally. Reply within 24 hours (NZ business hours).

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