This is my talk The Organisation as Code, given to the Wellington Architects Forum at Deloitte in Wellington on 30th September 2026. It's about getting the work out of people's heads and writing it down so a program can check it, and what that leaves for
I'm giving a talk! Come along if you've ever waited three weeks for sign-off on something that took an afternoon to build 😅 Registration details below. The Organisation as Code Wednesday, Sep 30 · 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM NZDT Deloitte Wellington Level 12/20 Customhouse
Co-authored by Chris Barlow & Claude Any organisation can be run the way good software is built. You write the work down, you have a program check it, you keep every change and you let AI help build the rest, and you do it one workflow at a time. Check
Join Tom Barraclough (Syncopate, Brainbox Institute) with co-founder Hamish Fraser for "Radical Full-Stack Digital Legal Systems", delivered to the Agentics NZ Wellington Meetup on 13 August 2026: what happens when you stop treating law as a pile of documents and start treating it as data. 🔬 In this session:
Recordings are now up for the two sessions held on Wednesday 3rd June! Check it out: Blair Nilsson joined us again for Part 2 of "unscrambling the egg" (part 1 is a must-see), reverse-engineering old SAS code and spreadsheets into something Databricks-friendly using "provably correct specs"
Join Chris Barlow, Carl Meyer, Manish Chhetri, Marcus Rodger, Dr. Paul Duignan and the Agentics New Zealand community for this session featuring entrepreneurial mindset for technical builders, AI-enabled test automation, spatial approaches to semantic vectors, and outcomes-based planning reinvented with AI. 🔬 In this session: * Carl Meyer's hard-won lessons
The AI Engineering Meetup is hosting an in-person event next week on Tuesday 25th March 5-7:30pm at the Hnry offices! What's in store? * Local insights on the OpenClaw craze which has taken off. * Get a peak at TradeMe's agentic swarms in their Security dept. * And
Join the Agentics NZ community online next Wednesday 1st April for an open forum to share learnings, swap insights, and see what others are building (no jokes!). What's in store: * Jason Simpson sharing his wild experiences working at Christchurch “business factory”, Agentic Intelligence. * Experimenting with the brand new
This week's Agentics NZ AI Hackerspace gave us a rare glimpse into what it actually looks like to work inside an AI-native organisation, with the Finland Agentics chapter showing how they ditched meetings and instead run collaborative agent swarms in real time 24/7. 😎Be an Agentics NZ
I built a thing. You know how traditional goal-setting feels like homework? Set a target, track progress, feel guilty when life gets in the way. I've been chewing on this idea that quests work better than goals — obstacles become expected parts of the adventure, struggle is proof you&
Join the Agentics NZ community online next Wednesday 28th January for an open forum to share learnings, swap insights, and see what others are building. To kick things off, Chris will demo what he's been experimenting with in his local model R&D lab. We've
Greetings everyone! It's been great to see the lively group chat as 2026 has kicked off 😃 This is just a friendly message to let you know I've relocated the Agentics NZ blog from one hosting provider (ghost.io) to another (fly.dev). The software underneath is