Your systems, inside Claude and ChatGPT.
If you have data or systems you rely on, get a native connector to the AI of your choice. More functions than the built-in connectors, more than one account at a time, and your rules on what the AI can touch.
From $450 + GST
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Claude, with your connectors
Connected to Xero and Outlook
- You: Which invoices are more than 30 days overdue, and have they emailed us about them?
- Claude: Four are overdue, $6,840 in total. Two customers emailed this week: one is paying Friday, one is querying a line item.
- You: Draft a polite reminder to the other two from the accounts mailbox.
- Claude: Done. Two drafts are waiting in accounts@ for you to check and send.
Two systems, one answer
Illustrative example. Your data stays in your systems.
Built for NZ businesses like
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What does a custom AI connector cost in NZ?
A connector we've already built, such as Outlook or Xero, is $450 + GST one-off to run on your own computer, or $99/mo + GST hosted for your team plus a $495 + GST setup. A custom connector for your own system is from $1,950 + GST one-off locally, or from $199/mo + GST hosted. Every connector is scoped on a free call first.
The built-in connectors only go so far
Claude and ChatGPT can now plug into Xero, Outlook and a handful of other apps. That's a great start. But the built-in connectors usually see one account at a time, expose only some of what the system can do, and can't follow your business's own rules.
And the systems many NZ businesses actually run on, their ERP, job system, booking platform or their own database, have no connector at all.
We build connectors that close that gap. We've built them for our own business, for agencies and for clients like Packaging Products, so we know where the off-the-shelf ones stop.
What we connect
Ready-made connectors for the common systems, and custom builds for everything else.
Outlook and Microsoft 365
Every mailbox in one conversation, even across separate Microsoft 365 organisations. Send, reply, file and flag, with your own rules checked before anything goes out.
Xero
The whole Xero API, not a short list of tools. Multiple organisations, bulk jobs, clean-ups and a preview of every change before it posts.
Your ERP
Greentree, MYOB Advanced, Unleashed and other systems with no official AI connector. Read-only, or with the write access you approve.
CRMs and job systems
HubSpot, Pipedrive, SimPro, ServiceM8 and industry platforms, so the AI can look up a customer or a job and act on it.
Your own database
SQL, DynamoDB or a spreadsheet the business runs on. We give the AI safe, named questions it can ask, not open access.
Anything with an API
In-house portals, booking engines and niche software. If it can be reached from code, it can be connected to your AI.
Custom connector vs the built-in ones
Use the free connectors where they're enough. Here's where a custom one earns its keep.
| Custom connector | Built-in connector | |
|---|---|---|
| Works with Claude and ChatGPT | Yes | YesVaries by app |
| More than one account or organisation at once | Yes | NoUsually one at a time |
| Every function your system offers | Yes | NoA chosen subset |
| Your own rules enforced (approvals, wording, limits) | Yes | No |
| Joins data from several systems in one answer | Yes | No |
| Systems with no official connector | Yes | No |
| Set up, hosted and kept up to date for you | Yes | NoYou manage it |
How a connector comes together
A minute on what a connector is, and what it can do with your systems.
Read the transcript
Claude and ChatGPT can now plug into apps like Xero and Outlook. But the built-in connectors see one account at a time, and only part of what each system can do.
And the systems many businesses actually run on, like their ERP, their job system or their own database, have no connector at all.
An Automate AI connector plugs your systems straight into the AI you already use. Ask a question in plain English, and it finds the answer in your real data.
Every mailbox, every Xero organisation and every Shopify store, in one conversation, with more of each system's features than the built-in connectors.
You decide what it can read and what it can change. It starts read-only, and your rules live inside the connector, so the AI can't talk its way around them.
We've built them for Greentree, Shopify, Xero, Outlook, Google Ads, our own CRM and more. If it has an API, it can be a connector for your AI.
Run it on your own computer for a one-off fee, or have us host it for your whole team for a simple monthly price.
Book a call for your free AI plan, and we'll show you what your AI could do with your data.
1. Map the questions
We find out what your team wants to ask and do, and which systems hold the answers. That becomes the list of tools.
2. Set the rules
You decide what the AI can read, what it can change, and what always needs a person. Read-only is the default.
3. Build and test
We build the connector on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard Claude and ChatGPT both support, and test it on your real data.
4. Install and hand over
On each person's computer, or hosted for the whole team. We show everyone how to use it and keep it working when the AI apps change.
Not sure what your AI could do with your data? Let's map it out together.
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If it has an API, it can be a connector for your AI
Some of the connectors we've built, for clients, for agencies and for our own business.
Greentree ERP
A hosted, read-only connector for Packaging Products, so staff can ask about their ERP from Claude on the web, desktop or phone.
Read the case studyShopify, many stores
Every client store an agency manages in one conversation. No disconnecting and reconnecting, and more of the Shopify API than the official connector.
Read the case studyXero, the full API
Our own books run through Claude, across two organisations, with checks that stop entries landing in the wrong ledger.
Read the case studyOutlook, every mailbox
Four mailboxes across two Microsoft 365 organisations, with our writing rules enforced before anything is sent.
Read the case studyGoogle Ads and Merchant Center
186 tools across reporting, keywords, budgets, Shopping and Performance Max, with changes prepared, reviewed and applied, and a rollback if needed.
Our CRM
Take a lead from an email and the AI creates the contact and the deal, puts values on it, assigns it, sets the follow-up task and moves it through the pipeline.
Trello
Unread email turned into proposed task cards, labelled by business, then created, moved, commented on and archived from the same conversation.
Desk365 helpdesk
Search, read and update support tickets, reply to customers and add private notes without opening the helpdesk.
Simple, published pricing
Run it on your own computer for a one-off fee, or have us host it for the whole team.
Runs on your computer
Installed beside Claude Desktop. No cloud hosting and no monthly fee. Best for one person or a small team.
- Ready-made connector: $450 + GST one-off
- Custom connector: From $1,950 + GST one-off
- Connector Care Plan (optional): $590 + GST a year, for updates when your system or the AI apps change
Hosted for your team
Runs in the cloud on AWS in Sydney, so it works in Claude and ChatGPT on the web, desktop and phone, for everyone you add. Monitoring, security updates and fixes are included. Plans below.
Ready-made Connector
$99/mo + GST
$495 + GST one-off setup
A connector we've already built, set up for your accounts.
- Outlook / Microsoft 365, Xero and more
- Multiple mailboxes or organisations
- Your rules on what the AI can read and change
- Hosted, secured and kept up to date
Custom Connector
$199/mo + GST
From $3,500 + GST one-off setup (quoted)
Your own system or database, connected to your AI.
- Any system with an API or database
- Read and write tools built around your work
- Guard rails, audit trail and staff logins
- Hosted, monitored and maintained
Multi-system Connector
$449/mo + GST
From $7,500 + GST one-off setup (quoted) · 3-month minimum
Several systems, one connector, the whole team.
- Joins data across several systems
- Team access with per-person permissions
- Scheduled jobs and reports
- Priority support
Built so you stay in control
Read-only by default
Write access is added tool by tool, only where you ask for it.
Each person signs in
Staff use their own logins, so the AI sees only what they could already see.
No passwords in files
Secrets live in the computer's keychain or AWS Secrets Manager, never in a config file.
Guard rails in the code
Rules sit in the connector itself, so the AI can't talk its way around them.
Frequently asked questions
What would you ask your AI if it could see your systems?
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll look at the systems you run and show you what a connector could do with them.
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