From Aotearoa New Zealand

Learn to think with AI — not just search with it.

Kaiārahi teaches you to actually direct AI — to brief it, judge what it gives back, and get real work out of it. It starts with a book you read right in your browser, where every idea is live: type a prompt, and a genuine answer comes back on the page. Plain language, no jargon, built for capable adults.

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A guide, not a search box.

Most people use AI like a faster Google. This teaches the other way — to brief it, judge what comes back, and direct it like a capable partner. The skill is older than the technology, and anyone can pick it up.

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Read the book

Twenty-one short chapters that teach you to think with AI — briefing, judgement, direction — in warm, plain language written for grown-ups, not engineers.

II

Practise, live

Every exercise is real. Type a prompt while you read and a genuine answer comes back, on the page. You learn by doing, not by watching.

III

Walk out capable

You leave able to direct AI with real judgement — checking it, shaping it, making things with it. A skill that keeps paying off long after you close the book.

The doorway

Thinking AI

A field guide for the new world — how to stop searching and start thinking with AI. Read a free sample, then unlock the whole book and its live exercises with a single purchase. Yours as a browser reader and a PDF.

21 chapters · live exercises · read free, then a one-time unlock — US$19

Choose your way in.

Start with the book, step up to the full home experience, or bring Kaiārahi to your organisation. Prices in USD; digital delivery.

The book

Thinking AI

US$19

The whole book as a browser reader and a PDF — 21 chapters with live exercises. Read a free sample, then unlock with one payment.

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For home · the full experience

Kaiārahi PlayBox

US$149 launch US$199

Launch offer — save $50

The home offering — the guided, self-paced platform that carries you from the book to confidently making real things with AI. Includes starting credits.

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For government & organisations

Kaiārahi Playbook

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A supported, outcome-measured programme — including agentic training, where teams learn to build the AI agents their work needs. Bicultural, dignity-first.

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Why we're called this

A tatau pounamu — a greenstone door — was the old name for a lasting peace: a door closed for good, as enduring as the stone itself.

We took the name because that's the feeling we're after for you — arriving somewhere settled and capable, the hard part behind you. We're a New Zealand company grounded in Te Tai Poutini, built by people who've spent years walking alongside others through change. The name isn't decoration; it's where we're from.

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Who it's for.

Whether you're itching to get good at this or not sure where to start, Kaiārahi meets you where you are — and takes you further than you'd expect.