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Waboom AI delivers practical AI training for businesses in Napier, Hastings and across Hawke's Bay, in ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot. Your team learns to connect the tool to the apps you use, turn repeat jobs into Skills and delegate whole tasks to AI. Sessions are hands-on and run face to face at your office or packhouse, or virtual.
From $1,995 + GST, includes 10 people.
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TL;DR
Waboom AI runs hands-on AI training for Napier and Hastings businesses, including orchards and packhouses, wineries and food producers, and port and freight firms. Teams learn ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot beyond prompting: connecting tools to their apps, saving repeat work as Skills and delegating whole tasks with a person reviewing the result. Sessions run face to face in Napier or Hastings, or virtual. The three hour AI Foundations workshop is $1,995 + GST for up to 10 people. Leo leads every session himself, an experienced AI practitioner.
This is the Napier and Hastings page of our national programme. See AI training NZ for the full course, levels and FAQs.
AI training in Napier and Hastings starts at $1,995 + GST for AI Foundations, a three hour workshop for up to 10 people. AI Power User is $3,995 + GST and the six hour AI Builder Bootcamp is $5,995 + GST. Extra people are $200 + GST each.
Licences for ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot are billed by the vendors.
We run Hawke's Bay sessions face to face at your office, packhouse meeting room or boardroom in Napier, Hastings or Havelock North, or virtual over Teams or Zoom. We have no local office or venue.
Teams split between sites, or with staff in the orchard during harvest, can join virtually.
Port, freight and food processing firms on Microsoft 365 usually start with Copilot, because shipment email and volume reports already sit in Outlook and Excel.
Orchards, packhouses and labour contractors often pick ChatGPT for seasonal staff instructions in several languages. Wineries and food brands writing export copy and certification paperwork tend to prefer Claude.
If the choice is unclear, we will recommend one after a short chat about your work.
For Hawke's Bay orchards, packhouses and labour contractors: seasonal crew instructions, safety documents and buyer email, translated and checked.
ChatGPT training NZFor Napier and Hastings wineries and food producers writing export copy, tasting notes and certification paperwork in their own brand voice.
Claude training NZFor port, freight and food processing firms on Microsoft 365: Outlook shipment threads, Teams handovers and Excel volume reporting.
Microsoft Copilot training NZHawke's Bay runs on fruit, wine and the port that ships them. These are the jobs each tool can take off a Napier or Hastings team.
Training runs face to face at your Napier or Hastings office, packhouse or boardroom, or virtual for teams across Hawke's Bay.
Areas we cover: Napier central, Ahuriri, Taradale, Greenmeadows, Hastings central, Havelock North, Flaxmere, Clive.
Napier City had 6,918 businesses and Hastings District 11,373 as at February 2025.
Source: Stats NZ business demography, via Figure.NZNapier Port handled 250,000 TEU of containers in the year to September 2025, with new records for refrigerated apple exports.
Source: Napier Port annual result, NZX, October 2025About two thirds of New Zealand's apple crop is grown in Hawke's Bay (2023).
Source: Hort News, Rural News Group, 20233 hours, includes 10 people
Build confidence, learn effective prompting, understand safe use and start applying AI to everyday work.
Platform: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot
From $1,995+ GST
3 hours, includes 10 people
Go beyond prompts to connect tools, create reusable workflows and build practical AI solutions with the platform your team already uses.
Platform: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot
From $3,995+ GST
6 hours, includes 10 people
For teams ready to build applications, agents, automations and business tools.
Platform: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot
From $5,995+ GST
Tailored programmes across departments
For organisations wanting to train multiple departments, develop internal AI champions and build long-term workforce capability.
Every workshop includes 10 people and access to our training videos afterwards. Bringing more people? It's $200 each + GST.
We have trained more than 2,000 people in AI across New Zealand and Australia. Teams in Napier and Hastings can book us face to face or virtual, and the stories below come from teams elsewhere in the country.
Xero
Making AI accessible across teams
“Waboom trained 50+ Xero employees across all skill levels. The feedback from the team was unanimous: life-changing. Their hands-on approach makes AI genuinely accessible.”
Regan AshworthHead of Ecosystem Governance, XeroWaikato Sheds
From AI interest to daily adoption
“Had Leo and the Waboom team run AI training for our crew at Waikato Sheds. Wasn't sure what to expect, but they made it practical — prompt engineering, real use cases, stuff we could apply straight away. Team's now using AI daily instead of just talking about it.”
Jason DavisOwner, Waikato Sheds
Good George
Greater marketing productivity
“Your training made an immediate impact. Our marketing team is now more productive than ever.”
Damon YoudaleBrand marketing and product innovation, Good George
2,000+
people trained in AI across New Zealand and Australia
2,000+
people trained in AI across NZ and Australia
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Rhys Black
Great foundation builder for anyone looking to develop their AI skillset with Claude. Particularly good at bringing the audience into thinking about how to reverse engineer the pro...
Dawn Engelbrecht
Fabulous introductory session on how to use Claude Looking forward to implementing it in my business Thanks !
Jay Vyas
Leo is very well informed and gives hands on technical walk throughs for your business problems. His approach is what suits your infrastructure and works according to your availabl...
Leo Garcia-Curtis, Founder, Waboom AI. Leo has trained more than 2,000 people in AI across New Zealand and Australia and builds AI systems for businesses every week, from voice agents to internal tools. You learn what is working in real businesses right now, from the person who builds it, not from a slide deck.
Waboom AI training in Napier and Hastings is a hands-on workshop that teaches Hawke's Bay orchard, wine, port and business teams to use ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot on real work: connected apps, repeat jobs saved as Skills and whole tasks delegated with human review. It runs at three levels, AI Foundations, AI Power User and AI Builder Bootcamp, from $1,995 + GST including 10 people, face to face in Napier or Hastings, or virtual. Waboom AI is an independent New Zealand company and is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Microsoft.
Yes. We run the session face to face at your office, packhouse meeting room or boardroom. Your team uses its own laptops and accounts, so everything they set up is ready to use straight after.
Virtual sessions have no extra costs. For face to face sessions in Napier and Hastings, any additional costs such as travel are discussed with you over the phone before you book, so there are no surprises.
AI Foundations. It starts with jobs your team already does and builds from there. AI Power User adds Skills, connected apps and delegated tasks, and the AI Builder Bootcamp is for teams ready to build agents and automations.
Put grower and company data only into a business plan. Business plans from OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft keep your data out of model training by default, but your workspace settings, permissions and policy decide what is safe. We set those rules with the team during the session.
Yes. We can book outside picking and vintage. A three hour session fits in a morning, and a virtual session is available if staff cannot leave the site.
Yes. Teams write a rule or briefing once and use AI to produce translated versions. Because translation can miss meaning, we teach teams to have a fluent speaker or supervisor check anything about safety before it is used.
No. Waboom AI is an independent New Zealand AI company. We are not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Microsoft, and none of them run or endorse this training. We teach what works in real businesses.
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Waboom AI doesn't just teach your team how to use AI tools. We teach them how to use them to get real work done. Tell us which tool you use and what your team spends its week on.
Leo Garcia-Curtis, Founder, Waboom AI
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Last updated 21 October 2026 · by Leonardo Garcia-Curtis
AI training Napier and Hastings
From $1,995 + GST