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Pakipaki · Heretaunga · Te Matau-a-Māui

Tiaki

A locally built AI guide for Pakipaki.

It speaks te reo Māori and English, and it knows the place it lives in.

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Mihi · to be written by whānauThis space is kept for a mihi to Te Pakipakitanga o Hinetemoa and the whenua. It will be written and reviewed by people, not by AI.
The Earth from space Imagery © Esri · captured in Tiaki's Earth view
PapatūānukuThe Earth, seen from 12,000 km up.
ALTITUDE12,000 km

The kaupapa

A spoken and on-screen guide, grounded here.

Tiaki answers in or English with live local information: traffic, nearby places, weather, flights and schools.

Pātai atu · ask Tiaki

Real answers, recorded from Tiaki on 19 October.

Where is the nearest ATM in Hastings?

He 51 ngā mīhini moni (ATM) kei te takiwā o Heretaunga. Ko te mea pātata rawa ki te pokapū o Heretaunga, ko Hastings Branch kei Market Street North, e 260 m noa iho te tawhiti mā te rere a te manu. Ko ētahi atu e pātata ana kei Queen Street West, King Street North, me Heretaunga Street West. Ka taea e au te pine ki te mapi o Papatūānuku māu. Me kī mai, 'pinea'.

In English mode, Tiaki says: There are 51 ATMs around Hastings. The nearest to Hastings centre is Hastings Branch on Market Street North, only 260 m away as the crow flies. Others close by are on Queen Street West, King Street North and Heretaunga Street West. I can pin it on the Earth map for you. Just say “pin it”.

via TomTom Search · 51 ATMs within 8 km of Hastings centre · straight-line distances

Recording to comeTiaki speaking this answer. Pronunciation to be checked by whānau first.
Tiaki's te reo Māori answer about ATMs, shown over the Earth view
Tiaki's screen, reply language set to te reo Māori.

What it does today

Locally hosted. The AI and its notes run on our own machine.

Live maps and data feeds use the internet.

16 kinds of place

Live local answers

TomTom traffic, incidents and nearby searches, with "pinea" on the 3D globe.

51 of 85 lines

Whānau-reviewed reo

Every live answer can be given in te reo. 51 lines are reviewed and approved so far.

97 schools · 9 kura

Mātauranga activities

Schools and kura of Hawke's Bay from Ministry of Education data, with "Show on Earth".

72 datasets

Open data about our whenua

Government datasets on mātauranga, Māori land and the Hawke's Bay environment.

Where it's at

October 2026, one step at a time.

  1. Foundations

    A local AI "brain" and a 3D Earth view, both running on one machine.

  2. Named Tiaki

    Weather and map panels added.

  3. A voice and live roads

    The voice ring, live traffic, and the first te reo answer lines.

  4. Whānau review

    51 te reo items approved. Traffic and place answers fully in te reo. Schools and kura activity built.

  5. Open data

    Datasets on mātauranga, Māori land and the Hawke's Bay environment.

Tikanga & whānau

Whānau-reviewed reo.

85 live-answer lines are written in te reo. 51 have been reviewed and approved by whānau, and the rest are going through the same review.

Cultural content in Tiaki comes from people and is reviewed before it is used.

Nothing here speaks for the hapū, the marae or any kura.

Whānau photoHarakeke or weaving, taken by a person.
Whānau photoThe whenua around Pakipaki.
Whānau photoChosen by whānau.

Where it could help

If the people involved choose.

Orientation for visitorsFor new crews and visitors to Pakipaki.

If Te Pakipakitanga o Hinetemoa wished, Tiaki could carry what the hapū wants visitors to know, under the hapū's control. It would sit alongside their induction, never in place of it.

Local logisticsGetting around Heretaunga.

Live traffic, travel times and nearby services for crew moving around Heretaunga.

Pathways for tamarikiInto digital and spatial work.

A hands-on route into the digital and spatial side of screen work, built with local schools.

Kōrero mai

This is an early, working prototype.

Happy to show it over a cup of tea.

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