AI Marketing Integration
Supercharge what you already do.
We build the right AI into how your business already works - then teach you to run the whole thing yourself, up to 50% funded for eligible Waikato businesses. Or we'll just run it for you.
TL;DR
- Every week brings new AI tools and hype. None of it tells you what your business should actually do.
- We design your AI stack, set it up, and train your team to run it - no ongoing dependency.
- It starts with a fixed-price AI Audit: a complete department-by-department playbook, yours to keep.
- We run everything we recommend - the website you're reading was built with AI.
A note from Louis
Co-Founder, King Tide
You know AI matters.You don't know where to start.
Every week there's a new AI tool, a new model, a new use case. Most of it is hype. Some of it is genuinely useful. None of it tells you what your business should actually do.
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Meanwhile, your team is either ignoring AI entirely or paying for ChatGPT subscriptions they barely use. The result is the same - you're not getting the value, but you're losing ground to businesses that are.
We've already done this for ourselves. The website you're reading was built with Claude Code. Our content uses AI workflows. Our analytics, attribution, and reporting all run through AI-powered systems. We're not selling you something we're still figuring out - we're selling you what we run ourselves. Read how we built this site with AI →
AI Marketing Integration fixes this. We design your stack, set it up, and train your team - so AI becomes part of how your business runs, not a side experiment.
- Louis
The AI Training Programme
Build a marketing engine that runs on AI.
One connected system - not a pile of tools. Whether we build it for you or teach you to build it yourself, this is what your business ends up with. Go the trained route and you'll know it well enough to keep tuning it yourself.
An AI-integrated website
A fast site with AI built in - smart lead capture, instant answers, and content that doesn't go stale.
An AI-run CRM & follow-up
Your customer database set up so AI sorts enquiries, chases follow-ups, and never lets a lead go cold.
Your brand voice, captured
A prompt library that locks in your tone - so everything the AI writes sounds like you, not a robot.
A content engine
A content plan plus the AI to produce it - social, email, blog - so you're never staring at a blank page.
Custom AI assistants
Branded GPTs and Claude Projects for sales, support and onboarding - trained on your docs, used by your team.
Training and a playbook you own
Hands-on sessions and full documentation, so your team can run and extend the whole thing themselves.
Waikato business? It could be half-funded.
Eligible Waikato businesses can have up to 50% of the training covered by government grants. It's not open to everyone, so we'll tell you honestly whether you qualify before you commit to anything.
This is for you if:
- You already have a working business with established processes - you're not starting from scratch
- You know AI matters but you're overwhelmed by the hype, the tools, and the changing landscape
- You want practical, integrated AI - not a chatbot bolted onto your homepage
- You'd rather learn to run it yourself than pay an agency every time something changes
- You've got someone in the business - you or your team - keen to actually get their hands on it
- You want to own the system and the know-how, not depend on a consultant forever
Our Principles
How we think about AI.
We use what we recommend.
The King Tide website you're reading was built with AI. Our content, our analytics, our workflows all use it. We won't recommend anything we don't run ourselves.
AI amplifies, it doesn't replace.
Your team's judgment stays central. AI handles the volume, speed, and consistency. Humans handle the strategy, taste, and decisions.
Practical over impressive.
We won't sell you AI transformation, agentic everything, or the next shiny thing. We'll set up the 5-10 tools that actually move the needle for your business.
Built to hand over.
Same as everything we do at King Tide - we build the system, train your team, and step back. No lock-in, no ongoing dependency.
Proof - We Run On This
We're our own best case study.
The reason a small Waikato team can ship a 98-page website in weeks, run ad campaigns, and publish this much content? AI is threaded through everything we do - research, copy, build, reporting. Output that used to take an agency team months and a five-figure invoice now takes us weeks, at prices that look like typos. Same hours, several times the output. That's margin - and the audit maps the same wiring for your business.
See what that output looks like for a client →
Case Studies
Real results from real businesses.
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Just Bathrooms
A brand new bathroom renovation business launched with a 48-page search-built website and an AI tool that reimagines a customer's actual bathroom in seconds.
48
Pages live at launch
~13s
To reimagine a bathroom
NZ Concrete Group
A 22-page Wix site replaced with a 49-page search-optimised website, live in six days. Google impressions up more than five times over in the first seven weeks.
5.6x
Google impressions, first 7 weeks
2.9x
Clicks, first 7 weeks
Airmax
A basic WordPress site replaced with a 98-page, search-optimised website - built with AI. Two months later: search visibility up 29x, Google clicks up 6x, and the phone doesn't stop.
1 → 10+
Calls per day
29x
Search visibility, 2 months
Empower Software
A workshop-software company with a tight ad budget and a flat year behind it. Three months later: a paid lead engine that scales, a search-optimised site pulling free organic traffic, and the first leads landing in Australia.
31
Qualified workshop leads, first 3 months
~$102
Cost per qualified lead
Alpha Trailers
A tired WordPress site replaced with a fast, search-optimised website - built with AI, live in six weeks. The owner now edits it himself in plain English.
199
Google clicks, first week
4,360
Impressions, first week
River Path Home Loans
A team of mortgage advisers left an established brokerage to start their own firm - no brand, no website, no online presence. Seven days later they had all three.
7
Days to launch
55+
Pages built
PPC Foiling
From 7 dealers to 95 - how a Kiwi wing foiling brand built a global B2B channel from scratch with King Tide.
7→95
Dealers across NA & Europe
Consistent
Reorders from dealer network
Smart Housing Solutions
From tyre-kickers to 6 signed contracts in two weeks. How a husband-and-wife tiny home business in New Zealand transformed their marketing from scattered to strategic.
6
Contracts in 2 weeks
10+
Quality leads per week
Pricing
Two ways to get it. One's funded.
Every engagement starts with an audit that maps exactly what your business needs. From there, two ways to go:
Learn to run it yourself
From $3,000
Eligible Waikato businesses: up to 50% government-funded, so it could be far less. Not everyone qualifies - we check before you commit.
The AI Training Programme. You build the system with us coaching, so you own it and can run it yourself - no agency invoice every time something changes.
Not for you? We'll run it
From $1,500
no funding, but a lower price - no coaching time built in
Prefer not to learn it? We build and run the whole system for you. It starts lower than the training because we're not coaching you through it - you just get the finished thing.
Testimonials
Don't just take our word for it.
“The team deliver results at more than twice the pace and impact than normal marketing executives. A real hands on do and deliver team. Jumping from strategy to execution and results in days. The best marketing exec I have ever worked with.”
Mark Robotham
CEO, Manta5
“Louis has a rare and hard-to-find talent for reaching and engaging a target market. He made marketing a core competency of our business. I'm still blown away by the reach and engagement we had on social media and the thousands of enquiries we received over the years.”
Guy Howard-Willis
Founder, Torpedo 7
“The foiling industry is super competitive, and standing out isn't easy. We've made huge progress - we're selling more to end consumers and signing up dealers faster than we ever have. It's momentum.”
Sam Loader
Founder, PPC Foiling
“The team at King Tide are great people to work with. They strike a rare balance between big picture strategic thinking and sharp execution to ensure they deliver actual results, not just glossy reports. Highly recommend.”
Greg Johnston
37 South Capital
“Louis and Ella at King Tide are incredible, after a full brief, intel gathering and outlining our current frustrations and what we were looking for, these guys delivered!! Not only were they incredibly responsive, but they were also intuitive to tap into our Industry to produce result quickly, collaboratively and without fuss - would 100% recommend.”
Cherrie Wheeler
Presto Resourcing
“We've been using King Tide for 12 months as a general advisor for all marketing. The improvement we've seen in our business is off the charts and I see no other reason for it. They're awesome to deal with, incredibly knowledgeable, and their advice works. Can not recommend enough.”
Jake
RB Thomas Building
Questions you're probably asking.
How is this different from just using ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a tool. AI Marketing Integration is a system. We design the stack, integrate it into your actual workflows, build the prompts and templates, and train your team to use it consistently. Most businesses using ChatGPT casually get 10% of the value available - we close that gap.
What tools do you use?
Our default stack includes Claude (for content, copy, and complex thinking), ChatGPT (for general workflows), automation platforms like Make or n8n, and integrations with whatever you already use - HubSpot, Mailchimp, Notion, Google Workspace. The exact stack depends on your business.
Is this for any business or just marketing-heavy ones?
It's marketing-led but cuts across the whole business. AI for content production, customer comms, sales follow-up, reporting, internal docs, onboarding - all of it. If your business has workflows, we can integrate AI into them.
How long does it take?
A standard engagement runs 6-8 weeks. Larger businesses with more complex stacks can take longer. We scope it upfront based on what you actually need.
What does it cost?
The AI Audit is a fixed price of $1,500 NZD. You get a complete playbook covering tools, workflows, and rollout - and you can take that playbook and run it yourself if you want. If you'd like us to implement it, we scope and quote that separately based on what the audit recommends. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
Will the tools we set up still work in 12 months?
We choose tools that are stable, mature, and have momentum - not the latest experimental thing. We also build the playbook so your team can swap tools later if needed. The principles outlast the tools.
Can we learn to run this ourselves?
Yes, and it's often the better outcome. Instead of us building the system for you, we can run the implementation as training - you at the keyboard, us coaching through it - so you can operate and extend it yourself afterwards. For eligible Waikato businesses, up to 50% of that training cost is funded by government grants. Eligible means Waikato based, under 50 staff, GST registered, privately owned, and the owner or a key decision-maker actually in the seat doing the training. Funding is assessed per business, so we'll tell you honestly whether you qualify before you commit to anything.
Do we need to be technical?
No. The whole point is that your team can run this without engineers or AI specialists. We set things up so they're usable by your existing people in their normal workflow.
Ready to make AI part of how your business actually runs?
Start with the AI Audit - $1,500 NZD for a complete department-by-department playbook. Yours to keep, whether you implement with us or not.