Why
Manawaroa comes from te reo Māori. It means resilience and endurance.
We are Chris and Kim. We started Manawaroa after years at companies that cared more about the dollar than about their customers and the people doing the work. Now we work with businesses where one better system can change somebody's whole workday.
Services
Manawaroa offers one service: software development consulting. Here is the main work it covers.
AI can only use data it can reach, and that data often sits in old systems. We have spent two decades inside those. So we fix the systems and the data first, then add AI where it does the work well.
Modernizing legacy systems
We move the system nobody wants to touch to code a current team can maintain, while the business keeps running.
Connecting your systems
We connect systems that don't talk to each other, so nobody copies data between them by hand.
AI in your workflows
We automate the manual steps where AI does the job reliably and leave the rest alone.
New custom software
Web applications and internal tools for when no off-the-shelf product fits, built to work with the systems you already run.
Extending existing systems
New features and performance work on software you already run.
Support plans
Hosting, maintenance, and updates after launch, billed monthly or annually.
How pricing works
Project work is fixed-fee. We agree on the fee with you in a written statement of work before any work starts, and we don't bill by the hour. We bill support plans in advance, monthly or annually. Fees are set per project and per plan, so we don't publish a price list.
Contact
Email is the only way to reach us, which makes choosing easy.
Tell us what your current system does and what annoys you most about it.
For billing questions and policy contacts, see the contact page.