Less admin. Better planning. More time for the work that matters.

Practical AI for market gardens, veg box schemes, and small food producers. I build systems that take the repetitive information work off your plate — so you can focus on growing, making, and running your operation well.

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Voice → Structured log
Market garden: "Harvested 14kg courgettes, aphids on row 3, need paper bags before Thursday."
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Sales → Crop plan
Veg box scheme: AI maps weekly order history — next season's planting schedule writes itself.
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Live schedule
Food producer: Production calendar updates in real time as your team reports in.
Process

How it works

Two ways to work with Octopus Works. Start wherever makes sense for you.

Start with a day on-site

Discovery Session or Training Day

Book a Discovery Session or Discovery & Training Day

I come to you for a half day or full day. We map your workflows, identify where AI can help, and get the ball rolling — setting you up so you can take things from there. Go full day and we start building together on the day, so you leave with working tools already in place. Travel costs additional outside the region.

Discovery Session · Half day · $500 + GST Discovery & Training Day · Full day · $900 + GST
Optional follow-up

Some clients stop here and run with what we built together. Others use the Discovery Day as a stepping stone to a full build. No obligation either way.

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The Full Build

A full implementation for your operation.

Two options — a fixed-scope Market Garden Package, or a custom build scoped to your specific needs. Both follow the same process:

Discovery Session

Half a day on-site. We map your workflows, find the bottlenecks, and scope the build together.

$500 + GST

Already done a standalone Discovery Session? That $500 comes off the build price.

Build & install

3–6 weeks, fixed price. I build the systems, set them up on your hardware, and train your team.

Fixed price
30 days support + follow-up review

Support included for 30 days. We meet again at day 60 to tune based on real use.

Included

See pricing options below for the Market Garden Package and Custom Build.

Start here

Not sure where to begin?

Before committing to a full build, most clients start with a Discovery Day. I come to you, we look at how your operation runs, and you leave with clarity — and sometimes working tools already set up.

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Half-day · $500 + GST

Discovery Session

Walk through your operation together. We map your workflows, identify where AI can help, and I write up a clear recommendation. Leave with clarity and a written plan — no build contract required.

$500 + GST

~3–4 hours on-site.

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Full day · $900 + GST

Discovery & Training Day

Everything in the Discovery Session, plus hands-on setup and teaching. We start building your systems together on the day. Leave with working tools, not just a plan — no build contract required.

$900 + GST

Full day on-site.

Introductory rate available for first 2 bookings — get in touch.

Based in Motueka. Travel costs additional outside the region.

The full build

Less chaos, more clarity.

A full implementation for food and farm operations. Two options depending on your needs.

Fixed scope · Known price

The Market Garden Package

$5,000–$7,000 + GST

Built for market gardens, veg box schemes, and small food producers. Three integrated systems — Voice Log, Sales-Driven Plan, and Implementation Schedule — installed and running in 3–6 weeks. Fixed price agreed before work begins.

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    The Voice Log Your team reports by voice — AI turns it into shared logs, task lists, records, and summaries. Every note adds to a record that gets more useful over time.
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    The Sales-Driven Plan Your actual sales data becomes a crop plan or production schedule. Grow and stock what your customers actually buy.
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    The Implementation Schedule A live calendar of what gets planted, harvested, made, sold — connected to the voice log so it updates as your team reports in.

Starts with a Discovery Session ($500 + GST), credited toward the build price.

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Flexible scope · Quoted per project

Custom Build

For operations that don't fit the standard package — different scale, different systems, or a specific problem that needs a tailored solution.

We scope it together, agree a price before work begins, and build what you actually need.

Get in touch to discuss your operation and what a custom build might look like.

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Founding offer · Full build only

Taking on 2 founding clients.

I'm taking on 2 founding clients for a full build implementation — either the Market Garden Package or a Custom Build — at a reduced rate in exchange for a case study and a testimonial. Real work, real results, honest documentation of what worked.

$5,000–$7,000 + GST

This offer applies to full build projects only. Discovery Sessions are booked separately — see above.

Depending on scope. All prices exclude GST.

Express interest

Only 2 spots available at this rate.

About

Built from the inside.

I ran Veda Organics, a biointensive organic market garden, alongside a customised vegetable box ordering and delivery service. It changed how both operations ran day to day — cutting the admin load, improving planning accuracy, and freeing up time for the actual growing.

That's what I built, tested, and ran myself. Octopus Works is built on that foundation.

My focus is market gardens, veg box schemes, and small food producers.

Proof point · Veda Organics Market Garden

From daily chaos to daily clarity

Running a biointensive garden with a veg box scheme means managing hundreds of crop cycles, dozens of customer orders, and a small team — all at once. Before AI: spreadsheets, memory, and a lot of dropped balls. After: a voice log that structured daily reports into shared tasks, a sales-driven planting plan that matched production to real demand, and a live schedule that the whole team could follow. The operation ran leaner and calmer. That's what Octopus Works replicates.

Market garden beds at sunset with tunnel house, Motueka New Zealand Veda Organics vegetable box with seasonal produce Veda Organics roadside produce stall
Contact

Let's talk.

If you're wondering whether AI could help your operation, the best place to start is a conversation. No pitch, no commitment.

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Name
Mihau Sowka
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Phone
022 192 8584

Based in Motueka · Available for site visits across New Zealand