Every leaky process, unanswered lead, and manual task is costing you thousands. We find the leak. We fix it with automation. Then we govern it so it never breaks.
Before Vinn, Soney spent seventeen years inside critical health and safety risk programmes, the kind where the operation is genuinely dangerous and the stakes are real. Oil and gas. International development work in volatile environments. Leading national programmes in New Zealand. Supporting international programmes where decisions had to land cleanly the first time.
"The most skilled people in the room were spending their best hours on compliance administration. The work that actually required their expertise was constantly losing to the work that just had to get done."
The pattern she kept seeing: the most skilled people in the room were drowning in administration. The work that actually required their expertise was losing to the work that just had to get done.
That's not unique to high-hazard industries. It's every NZ service business that ever grew past one person. Vinn exists to fix that.
Soney runs every Blueprint personally. Max 5 clients at a time. Non-negotiable.
Hiring more staff. Working longer hours. Buying another tool. None of it sticks because the root issue, the actual operational leak, was never diagnosed. Here's where most NZ service businesses lose money every week:
Leads fall through the cracks before they ever book.
Manual handoffs, repeated tasks, and wasted hours every day.
Clients slip through onboarding gaps and churn silently.
Late invoices, missed follow-ups, revenue left on the table.
You're the bottleneck. Nothing runs without you.
Every business owner we work with has one bucket that's cracked wider than the rest. That's the one costing the most. That's the one we find first.
The type of fix depends entirely on the type of leak. Vinn matches your leak to the right bucket before touching a single tool.
Rule-based. If X happens, do Y. Every time, without exception. No judgement needed.
Invoice routing · appointment reminders · form confirmations · payment notifications
AI reads the context and decides. Output adapts to the situation. Slower, smarter, more flexible.
Client email drafts · meeting summaries · social content · personalised responses
Deterministic structure with an agentic intelligence layer on top. The most powerful combination.
Lead enquiry → AI draft → automated follow-up · onboarding sequence + personalised welcome
The Umbrella Automation Report™ names it, specifically, in your business, within 48 hours.
The Vinn AI Implementation Blueprint™ maps to the NZ AI Strategy. You discover where you stand, learn the basics, build your first automations, grow with the platform, then govern the lot. Pick your stage. Move when you're ready.
Start anywhere. Move at your pace. Most people find their home at stage 3 or 4.
Five stages. Pick where you are right now.
Both paths start with one thing: knowing exactly where your business is leaking.
For business owners who want to understand automation and build it themselves, at their own pace.
For business owners who want it built properly, fast, without learning the tools themselves.
Not a quiz with a score. Not a generic PDF. Soney reads your answers personally and writes a report specific to your business, within 48 hours.
You receive the 25-question link immediately.
About 15 minutes. The more specific you are, the more useful your report.
No AI summaries. No templates.
Your written report arrives in your inbox within 48 hours.
| Free generic assessment | Umbrella Automation Report™ |
|---|---|
| Generic score out of 100 | Your specific leak, named |
| No first step, no path forward | One specific action to take this week |
| Applies to any business in any industry | Written for your specific business |
| AI-generated summary | Written by Soney, personally |
Your $127 report fee is fully credited toward the Bottleneck Breakthrough session if you book within 30 days of receiving your report. The report gives Soney everything she needs to go deeper, no starting from scratch.
In the meantime, get your Umbrella Automation Report™ and see exactly where your business stands.
Get my Umbrella Automation Report™ $127 NZDYour full operational layer built, running, and governed.
This is not a strategy session. Not a report and a recommendation. It is Soney inside your business, mapping what you have, capturing how you communicate, building what's missing, and making sure the whole thing holds up without you watching it.
By the end of three months you have a working automation layer that sounds like you, runs in your workflow, and is governed from day one. Not a prototype. Not a plan. A system.
Book a session with Soney → Start with the Umbrella Automation Report™, $127 NZD. Fee credited toward this engagement.Deep one-on-one diagnostic. Start here if you already have your Umbrella Automation Report™. Leave with a full build map and an honest recommendation on which path fits.
Soney inside your business for three months. Full operational layer built, voice captured, governance written in. This is not done-for-you in name only, it is the whole thing, end to end.
AI without governance breaks. This keeps yours running, evolving, and compounding returns every month.
The future belongs to those who plan wisely. Automate what is repetitive, and use agentic systems for what requires reasoning. Agentic AI navigates uncertainty with Human in the Loop Protocols where needed.
Not every business owner wants a consultant inside their operations. Some want to understand how this works, build it themselves, and own the result completely.
The DIY path teaches you the same Automation Umbrella™ framework Soney uses with consulting clients, without needing a technical background, without learning to code, and without sounding like a robot when the output comes out the other side.
You move through two courses in sequence. The first names your leak and gives you your 30-day plan. The second builds your first automation matched to the way your brain actually works.
5 focused modules. Diagnose your leak, assign it to the right bucket, build your 30-day patch plan. Each module ends with a specific output, not just knowledge.
Build your first automation matched to your personality type: Architect, Connector, Builder, or Activator. Each type follows their own build path.
Not a free standalone tool. The quiz is built into Course 02, Automate Like YOU™. Your result, Architect, Connector, Builder, or Activator, sets the build path you follow from the moment you start.
Once your operations are patched, there's one leak almost every business owner still has: social content that never gets done.
Not because they don't know what to say. Because the gap between knowing and posting is filled with time they don't have, tools that sound generic, and output that doesn't sound anything like them.
Mempra fixes that.
You enter your website URL. Mempra reads it, extracts your brand DNA, your voice, your values, your fingerprint, and creates posts for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads that sound like you wrote them. You swipe right to keep, left to skip. Mempra learns. The posts get better. The ones you approve go straight into your planner, ready to schedule or post immediately.
Every output is generated from your brand DNA, not a generic template. The more you swipe, the more accurately Mempra learns what sounds like you.
Multi-slide posts that break down your expertise into digestible content, in your voice, with your framing.
Single-image posts with captions written in your brand voice, ready to customise or post as-is.
Long-form and short-form text content that sounds like you talking to your audience, not a content generator.
Short-form video scripts for Reels and TikTok, written to your brand fingerprint, ready to record.
Approved posts land in your planner automatically. Schedule across platforms, edit before posting, or publish immediately.
Every swipe teaches Mempra more about your preferences. The output gets sharper the more you use it.
The difference between deterministic and agentic AI is the difference between a rule and a judgement. Most content generators follow a rule, give them a prompt, get a post.
Mempra is agentic. It reads your website, understands your brand, and decides what sounds right for you, then refines that understanding every time you swipe. It doesn't just fill a template. It learns your fingerprint.
That's why the output sounds like you wrote it. Because it was built from you.
"Automation isn't about replacing people. It's about giving your best people back their best hours."
→ Keep"Leverage AI-powered solutions to optimise your workflow efficiency and maximise ROI across all touchpoints."
← Skip"Your business has a leak. Most people can feel it. Almost none can name it. Here's how to find yours."
→ KeepMempra learns from every swipe. Keep = more like this. Skip = less like this.
Vinn isn't right for everyone and we'd rather you knew that upfront. Here's what we hear most often, answered directly, without the sales spin.
I'm not technical. Will this go over my head?
If you can write an email, you can work with Vinn. No code, no integrations you can't manage, no jargon. The tools do the technical work. You bring the voice and the decisions.
I've tried AI tools before and the output sounded nothing like me.
That's a voice problem, not a tools problem. Before anything gets built, Soney captures exactly how you communicate: your tone, your phrases, what you'd never say. That document is what separates every Vinn engagement from raw ChatGPT.
What's the difference between the Report and a free AI assessment?
Free assessments give you a score. The Umbrella Automation Report™ gives you a read. Soney personally reviews your questionnaire and writes back: your specific leak named, your bucket assigned, your first build step written. No AI summaries. A real person read your answers.
I haven't got time for another programme.
The Report takes 15 minutes to complete and delivers in 48 hours. The courses are self-paced. The Vinn Blueprint™ is built around your schedule. The goal is to give you time back, not take more of it.
What about privacy and client data?
Governance is built into every Vinn engagement from day one. AI policies, human-review checkpoints, client disclosure language, and data rules, all aligned with the NZ Privacy Act 2020. Written in, not bolted on.
I've bought courses before and never finished them.
Your Most Expensive Leak™ is 5 focused modules. Each one ends with a specific output, not just knowledge. You leave Module 4 with a 30-day patch plan you can act on the same week.
Am I going to replace my team with this?
You're not using AI instead of thinking. You're using it so you can think better. Vinn gives you and your team back the hours being lost to repetition. The human work, the judgement, the relationships, gets the time it deserves.
Not sure whether to do it myself or work with Soney?
Your Umbrella Automation Report™ will tell you. The report includes a specific recommendation on which path fits your situation, your capacity, and your timeline.
Still have a question? The best next step is a session. Book a free session with Soney. No obligation, no pitch until you ask for one.
You've felt it for a while. The admin that shouldn't be yours. The evenings that go nowhere. The business you built that now runs you. The Umbrella Automation Report™ names it, specifically, in your business, and tells you exactly what to fix first.
Your leak named. Your bucket assigned. Your first build step written. Delivered personally by Soney within 48 hours.
Find your most expensive leak →A free 45-minute working session. Not a sales pitch. Leave with a named bottleneck and an honest recommendation.
Book a session →Not ready for either? Start completely free.
Your AI implementation journey, pick your stage
17 years
H&S risk programmes
$127
to name your leak
48 hrs
report delivered
Max 5
intensive clients at once
NZ-built
not a US import
4 paths
one starting point
Vinn is built to the standard of work where getting it wrong had consequences. Every report is written by Soney personally. Every intensive is capped at five clients. Every system is governed from day one. That's not a marketing line. That's the only way this works.
You walk away with a running system, not knowledge about running one. Fixed scope. Fixed price. Fixed deliverables. All in.
Start with the free AI Readiness Assessment. 26 questions, 16 minutes, two scores (implementation and governance), and a personalised 90-day action guide.
26 questions across implementation and governance. Two scores, instant, plus a personalised 90-day action guide. No email required to see your results.
Take the free audit →The 90-minute live session where you write the one-page document that makes your AI sound like you. Leave with a Brief in your own voice.
Pick your date →One practical insight. One NZ reference. Every Tuesday morning. No noise, no selling, no five-paragraph intros.
Subscribe →The six-week cohort where founders and entrepreneurs build their first AI Worker, in their voice, running on real work. Done-with-you, small group, no coding.
See Wired™ →Wired™ sets up your first Worker. Vinn Blueprint™ sets up the whole layer. The Vinn Operator™ keeps it running and compounding. Pick where you are. Move when you're ready.
Take the free AI Readiness Assessment, 26 questions, 16 minutes, two scores (implementation and governance) and a personalised action guide. Or book your Bottleneck Breakthrough Session and we'll map your first Worker together.
Most governance frameworks are built for enterprise. This one is built for founders and SMEs, in plain language, built for Kiwi business realities. The Privacy Act 2020. Real client relationships. One-person teams.
Take the free AI governance audit →If you're using AI tools in your business right now, and most NZ founders are, there's a good chance you're doing it without a written policy, without client disclosure, and without a documented review process. That's not a moral failure. It's just where most businesses are.
The Vinn AI Readiness Assessment tells you exactly where you stand on implementation and governance, with two scores and what to do first. It takes 16 minutes. It's free. You see your results instantly, no email required.
Take the free AI Assessment →The Vinn AI Readiness Assessment starts with the implementation side, the tasks and Workers you've actually shipped, then covers the six governance areas below. You see both scores immediately. No email required.
Implementation
Tasks and Workers you've actually shipped
Governance
Policy, review, disclosure, data, team
Example only. The governance score is built from the six dimensions below.
Do you have a written AI usage policy? A documented approved tools list? A named person responsible for governance?
Does a human read every AI-drafted client email before it's sent? Do you verify figures in AI-assisted proposals?
Do your clients know you use AI, before they have to ask? Do you have written disclosure templates?
Do you know how each AI tool handles the data you enter? Have you considered the NZ Privacy Act 2020 implications?
Does everyone who uses AI in your business know what they can and can't do? What to do if they're unsure?
Do you have a scheduled, recurring review of your AI governance framework? A record of what's changed?
Start with the free audit. Then, if you want help fixing the gaps, there's a product for every level.
Governance is built into every Vinn programme from Blueprint™ onwards. Privacy Act 2020, client disclosure, human-review patterns, quarterly review rhythm, written in plain Kiwi. See Vinn Blueprint™ →
A full review of how AI is currently used in your business, what's working, what's risky, what's missing. Written report with prioritised actions. Delivered in 2 weeks.
A complete AI governance framework for businesses with staff or sensitive client data. Policy, human-review system, client communication templates, quarterly review schedule, annual governance audit. This is Vinn's long-game differentiator, nobody else in NZ is building this for small businesses.
Ongoing governance partner. Quarterly review, policy updates, NZ-law watch briefings, and a named contact for AI decisions in your business. For founders running serious operational AI.
Most AI governance frameworks are written for American or British enterprise. They're full of legal language that doesn't apply here, missing NZ-specific requirements, and built for businesses with full legal teams.
Vinn's governance framework is built for the NZ Privacy Act 2020. For Xero-based businesses. For ACC. For WorkSafe obligations. For the real client relationships that NZ founders run on trust.
In plain language. Without a legal team. Built to be understood and actually used.
Start with the free audit →Privacy Act 2020 compliance guidance, Xero-compatible documentation, ACC and WorkSafe references where relevant.
No legal jargon. Every policy and template is written to be read and understood by the business owner, not filed in a drawer.
Not adapted from enterprise templates. Built from scratch for founders running founder-led businesses with no dedicated compliance team.
See exactly where your business stands on AI implementation and governance. Two scores, the doing side first, then the safety net. Free, instant results. No email required to see your scores.
Take the free AI Assessment →You don't leave a Vinn engagement with knowledge about how to build Workers. You leave with Workers running. Here's exactly how we get there.
The most important thing to understand about Vinn is this: we are not the story. You are.
You're not looking for a product. You're living a story where you're the hero trying to solve a real problem, the admin, the inbox, the evenings that never really end. Vinn's job is to be the guide who hands you the right tool at the right moment, and helps you win.
That's why every piece of Vinn content, every session, every email centres you, not us. The guide doesn't take the stage. The guide makes the hero win.
"A good business owner should not have to choose between doing their best work and having a life."
You have a problem → meet Vinn → get a plan → take action → get your evenings back → become proof for the next business owner who's exactly where you are now.
The free AI Readiness Assessment shows you exactly where your business stands on implementation and governance. 26 questions. 16 minutes. Two scores, instant.
Take the free audit →These aren't features. They're the intellectual backbone of every product, every consulting engagement, and every piece of content Vinn produces.
Most businesses waste their first AI attempt on a task that wasn't ready for it. The Vinn AI Implementation Blueprint™ solves this. The free AI Readiness Assessment applies the Blueprint to your specific business, 26 questions, three categories: AI-ready today, needs preparation, keep human. You leave knowing exactly where to start and what to build first.
Take the free audit →Most AI output sounds generic because nobody told the AI who you are, how you talk, and what you never say. The Vinn Brief fixes that, permanently. It's the one-page document that makes your Worker sound like you, not a robot.
The Brief covers: who you are, your voice and tone rules, what you never say, the specific task it handles, how it should handle edge cases. When it's right, the output is genuinely indistinguishable from something you wrote yourself on a good day.
This is the thing that separates Vinn from "just using ChatGPT." Every engagement delivers it. Every Kit includes it.
AI that goes wrong in your business doesn't just waste time. It can damage the client relationship you spent two years building. The Human-in-the-Loop Protocol is Vinn's answer, a simple, three-step system for reviewing AI output before it reaches clients or the public.
This is what makes Vinn the responsible choice, and what makes every founder comfortable using Workers for client-facing work. It's the foundation of the AI Governance advisory tier.
Built into every Vinn engagement. The foundation of the AI Governance framework.
26 questions. 16 minutes. Two scores, implementation and governance, plus a personalised 90-day action guide. Free, you see your results instantly.
Take the free AI Assessment →30 minutes. We'll look at your specific business, identify which tasks are AI-ready right now, and map the path to your first Worker. No obligation, and no pitch until you ask for one.
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