AI that writes the client report, turns one video into a week of content and audits every site while you sleep. We set it up inside your agency and train your team on their actual work.
For NZ agencies of 5-30 people running content, SEO, ads and email for clients.
The numbers take ten minutes to pull. Writing what they mean takes the afternoon.
Every one of these runs on our own channels first. Same reports, same commentary, ready for an account manager to check and send.
Claude pulls the month's numbers, compares them with last month and writes the "what it means" and "do this next" an account manager would.
Our YouTube channel review, August 2026 data.
Every short since August coded for script and visuals against its results, so the advice comes from the account's own data, not trends.
Our short-form review across four platforms, data to 18 Oct 2026.
Every reel ranked, with plain-English reasons for what worked and what did not, plus one test for next week.
Our Instagram reel review, 18 reels, 11-25 Sep 2026.
Claude reads the actual TikTok Studio export - 262 posts with views, watch time and finish rate - instead of screenshots or guesses.
Our own TikTok export, read for the monthly review.
Each video gets its own tracked link, so an enquiry can be traced to the exact piece of content that sent it.
Per-video tracked links, kept by Claude.
Filming is the easy part. Turning one video into ten posts is where the week goes.
Here is one real tutorial and everything it turned into. Claude does the cutting, captioning and rewriting. A person checks every piece before it goes out.
Automate your accounting in NZ with Claude and Xero 9 min YouTube tutorial, 6,387 viewsA relaxed chat filmed on two cameras becomes short clips with speaker switching, captions and explainer graphics.
Clip 01 from a chat with Ming Cheuk of ElementX.
One take filmed on a phone becomes a captioned short with on-brand graphics. Claude handles the cuts, captions and layout, so it goes out the same day.
The finished "How they got AI jobs in NZ" short.
A 60-minute podcast episode becomes swipeable carousels: real stills from the video with what was actually said as bold captions.
Slides from the Marketing 4 Business podcast carousel.
Every video gets a bold thumbnail built from a real photo, so it can be tested and swapped fast.
Eight real thumbnails from our YouTube channel.
Every client wants to rank on Google and get named by ChatGPT. Nobody has time to audit every site every week.
How we run our own three sites. The same routine can run across every client site you look after.
Claude reads Search Console straight from the source and charts the trend, so the client sees the shape of the growth, not one number.
harknessai.nz Search Console, 11 Jun to 22 Oct 2026.
A Claude routine audits every site every two days and names the top fixes. Claude Code then fixed them on the live site. Same crawl, same checks, ten days apart.
harknessai.nz audit, 13 Oct vs 23 Oct 2026.
Ask Google for the best AI consultant in Christchurch and its AI Overview names Harkness AI first.
Google AI Overview, October 2026. Other firms blurred.
Claude asks AI search the questions buyers type, records who gets named and re-checks every two days.
ChatGPT with web search, asked from Christchurch, 25 Oct 2026. Other firms hidden.
Every call needs a recap, every lead a reply, every proposal a first draft. That is hours a week nobody bills for.
How we run our own client admin. Real calls, real emails and real follow-ups, with names and prices taken out. Claude drafts, a person checks and sends.
Drop in the transcript and Claude writes the brief, pulls out who owes what by when, and drafts the follow-up email. It all sits as a draft until you send it.
Built from a real discovery call, August 2026. Details changed.
Claude builds the proposal from what was said on the call and the template of your past proposals. Every starting point traces back to the transcript. You set the price.
The outline of a real proposal, drafted from the call. Pricing removed.
How to automate proposals with Claude
Claude learnt how you write from your own sent emails, so a new enquiry gets a reply that sounds like you. It lands in drafts, never sent.
The reply shape we use on every website enquiry. Enquiry reworded.
Teach Claude to write in your voice
Claude reads the inbox, invoices and calendar, ranks every stalled thread and drafts the nudges. Nothing goes to a client until you send it.
Our own chase list, run 9 Sep 2026. Clients anonymised, amounts removed.
Clients want to know why the spend did not turn into leads. Digging through the account to answer it takes hours.
Claude reads the ad account, never changes it. Most shots here use example data, because we do not show client ad accounts. The ad copy is real, written for our own ads test.
Example data from a made-up account.
We run every one of these workflows on our own business first. These are our numbers, not a client's.
The pattern we start agencies on.
Claude takes the middle three steps. The person who knows the client reads every report.
Two reviews from AI in marketing talks.
We recently invited Blake to speak at a UC Marketing Society event about how AI is actually being used in marketing, and he was fantastic. Blake made AI feel practical and accessible, sharing real examples from his own business, including content repurposing, organising media, competitor research and SEO. I especially appreciated his honesty about the mistakes he had made, including handing too much of the creative process over to AI and seeing how quickly that can weaken a brand. His presentation was engaging, relatable and refreshingly free of empty AI buzzwords. The key message, that AI should amplify your skills rather than replace your thinking, really stuck with me. Blake was also incredibly generous with his time and advice. I would highly recommend him to any business, organisation or student group wanting a realistic and genuinely useful perspective on AI and marketing.
I attended a seminar about AI in marketing where Blake was one of the presenters. I learned plenty from the discussion and his insights were seriously valuable in guiding my approach to using AI in marketing strategy in my own work. Definitely worth learning from these guys as they are experts with AI and I think it's super important to know how to use it to support your work, not take it over. I highly recommend Harkness AI.
Bring the job that eats your team's week. We will tell you straight whether Claude helps.
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Nothing to replace. Claude sits in the middle of the tools NZ agencies already run.
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HubSpot
ClickUp
Outlook
Teams
Canva
Klaviyo
Agency Analytics
Google Ads
Meta Ads
GA4
Search Console
Fireflies
Slack
Gmail
Google Drive
Notion
Asana
Semrush
WordPress
Shopify
Figma
Mailchimp
XeroHubSpot, ClickUp, Canva, Klaviyo and Microsoft 365 have Claude connectors you switch on. Ads and analytics connect read-only, so Claude can report on every campaign but never change a bid. Where a tool has no connector, we build one.
We set Claude up for your agency on site: every seat configured, your tools connected, a skill per role, and your team trained on the work they actually do. It starts with a free call.
Last updated 25 October 2026