Services
Strategic technology services
Advisory for boards, delivery for growing businesses, and the software to back both
Advice from people who build
Advancer's advice comes from people who still build and run production systems, with hands-on experience in AI, cloud architecture and modern software delivery.
Fractional CxO
For boards and executives
Board and executive advice on business, technology and AI. Interim technology leadership when you need a seat filled. An independent review and recovery plan when a project has gone wrong.
- Six Pillars strategy assessment
- Interim CTO, CIO or CDO leadership
- Independent project review and recovery
- Technology and AI advice at board level
| Offer | Price | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Fractional CxO | From $6,400 a month | Four days a month at the entry level; interim leadership priced per engagement |
Prices are in New Zealand dollars and exclude GST.
Forward Deployed CTO
For growing businesses
A senior technology leader works inside your business, captures what it knows, finds where AI will help, and has the software built and supported.
| Offer | Price | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Business Brain Discovery | From $15,000, fixed price once scoped | About six weeks |
| Transformation Strategy | From $30,000 | About eight weeks |
| Accelerated Build | Fixed price per slice, first release from $25,000 | Per slice |
| Run | From $750 a month per app | Ongoing |
Accelerated Build: Business software built with AI, to production standard.
Run: The level of support you choose sets the price. The detail is in the proposal.
Prices are in New Zealand dollars and exclude GST.
Apps built outside Advancer join a Run plan after a prototype review, and usually a rebuild.
Already built something with AI?
If your app was built quickly with AI tools, we treat it as a valuable prototype. It shows us what the software needs to do. Before we support it, we review it and give you a fixed price to rebuild it to production standard.
Prototype to production
Managed Hive
Your business brain runs on Aiqbee Hive by default, a knowledge server that lets Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools answer from your organisation's own knowledge instead of the open internet, with access set user by user and brain by brain. It's hosted by Advancer or in your own Azure. Aiqbee was founded by Sean Davidson, and the offer is product-neutral, so if you'd rather host your brain on a different knowledge platform, you can. You own the brain's content and can export it at any time.
| Offer | Price | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Managed Hive | From $350 a month | Ongoing |
Managed Hive: The level of support and hosting option you choose set the price. The detail is in the proposal.
The fee covers a monthly upgrade with backup and rollback, daily backups, monitoring, and user administration. Time beyond the included hours is billed at the standard hourly rate.
Run
Support at the right level
Shepherds are built to watch your app around the clock and fix known problems automatically. A local IT partner handles phones, accounts and devices. An offshore engineering partner handles medium-sized fixes. Advancer staff and associates handle the complex work and the incidents.
L0 · Shepherds
Advancer’s autonomous support agents watch the app around the clock, apply security and dependency updates, and fix known problems.
L1 · Local IT partner
Phone calls, Microsoft 365 accounts, devices, Wi-Fi and network, and on-site visits.
L2 · Offshore engineering partner
Medium-sized fixes and patches.
L3 · Advancer staff and associates
Complex problems, architecture, major incidents and enhancements.
Apps built outside Advancer join a Run plan after a prototype review, and usually a rebuild.
Six Pillars strategic framework
Our framework for a funded, sequenced technology roadmap, covering all six aspects of your technology estate
Standards and Practices
One agreed way of building for people and AI agents alike, including what an agent may do unsupervised and what a change must pass before it ships.
Digital Blueprint
A target architecture your AI tools can actually reach, with governed access to your data ahead of the AI strategy itself.
Capabilities and Skills
The people and structure to run this well, so judgement sits with senior staff while juniors still learn the job.
Common Digital Platform
A shared platform, including the business brain, so what one person learns is there for the next person and every tool.
Product and Services Portfolio
Rationalising what the organisation offers and runs, with every pilot given an owner and a point at which it ships or stops.
Optimisation and Funding
Consolidating systems and vendors to free up money, so the earliest projects pay for the ones that follow.
Our approach
Pragmatic solutions
We recommend what works, not what is trendy. Technology choices are driven by your context and constraints, not by a vendor relationship.
Outcome focused
We measure success by business impact. Every engagement is structured around outcomes that matter to your organisation, not around hours billed.
Let's discuss your challenges
Every organisation is different. Tell us what you're trying to achieve.
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