Ngāi Tahu
Seeing whether each investment is delivering what it set out to achieve, beyond the financial.
The challenge
Ngāi Tahu invests across its regions with more than a financial return in mind. Each investment is expected to deliver for the people and places it serves.
Knowing whether that is happening means reading years of papers, each written differently, about ventures that set out to do very different things. Each one deserves to be understood on its own terms.
The configuration
Mindstake reads everything the fund already holds about each investment and draws out what it shows about the difference being made.
Each investment is measured against its own purpose, not against the others. The question is always whether it is doing what it set out to do.
AI does the heavy reading, people stay in charge. Every finding points to the passage it came from, and the team checks and accepts the picture before it reaches a report.
The outcome
The fund sees each investment's progress in one place: what is being achieved, what is emerging, and what is not yet clear. Every point can be traced back to its source.
Where the evidence is thin, the report says so. Those gaps help shape the next kōrero with each venture, so understanding grows where it is needed most.
We needed a way to hold decisions accountable to our pou - not just one dimension, but the full range of what matters to us as an iwi.
- Ngāi Tahu
The broader lesson
Ngāi Tahu shows that AI can take on the reading without taking over the judgement. It surfaces the evidence; people decide what it means.
Measuring each investment against its own intention keeps the view fair, and tracing every point to its source means any finding can be questioned and understood.
Same engine, different decisions
Every Mindstake configuration starts with the same question: what does your organisation value, and how well are your options delivering?
Raukawa
Consistent, values-based review of documents - using the simplest Mindstake configuration.
Ngāi Tahu
Seeing whether each investment is delivering what it set out to achieve, beyond the financial.
Tapuwae Roa
Measuring alignment between organisational values and outcomes across five pou, using multi-modal data processing.
Getting started
Most teams are up and running within a few weeks. We work alongside you to set up your first decision process - criteria, rubrics, and scoring - then hand it over so you can run it yourself.
An initial conversation to understand your decision context
We help you define criteria and build your rubric
Your team runs the process on your own Mindstake instance