If you look past the hype, you can see that AI in the hands of everyone could change everything.
We want that change to be for the better.
We want every organisation to take charge of their AI destiny. We believe that the best way to do that is by helping people understand how to use AI and apply AI thinking.
Imagine every organisation understanding how to apply AI. Imagine a country with the best understanding of how to apply AI. Imagine every child in school understanding models and how to deploy AI in new, creative, positive and productive ways. Imagine the nation as one diverse, cross-functional team collaborating with AI for a better world.
What if how New Zealand thinks about AI was a mainstay of future success and prosperity?
We’re excited about that potential.
Ethics
We fully acknowledge that resource-hungry AI technologies have an impact on the environment. We fully acknowledge that some AI companies may have illegally scraped data to train their models. We fully acknowledge that AI technologies may make some human roles redundant. We try to mitigate the bad by doing our best to adopt sustainable, ethical and positive AI practices.
We also believe that AI has the potential to tackle some of these issues and make the world a better, more productive, and more equitable place.
AI at the heart of strategy
Strategy is about making meaningful choices. When it comes to AI, how you think about the risks and opportunities and the subsequent choices you make will inevitably start shaping your strategy. If you do nothing, AI will shape your strategy for you.
Experience and independence
Mainstay is independent. We don’t sell AI software, platforms or empty promises. We help you determine how your organisation can best use AI now, and in the future. We give you peace of mind and confidence that when the time is right for AI to add value, you’ll be ready.
Mainstay is a trading name used by Diagram Limited. Diagram is a member of the AI Forum New Zealand. Diagram is led by Tom Hovey. Tom has over 25 years of experience working in the digital industry. Diagram has been providing strategy services since 2016 and is a NZ Government Approved supplier of professional services.
Want to join Mainstay?
We’re always keen to hear from AI curious people with different backgrounds. To make sure our workshops and strategy work adds value to clients, we work with designers, developers, data analysts, researchers, technologists and more. If you’d like to do some Mainstay thinking, drop Tom a line.