Silky Insights

Selected work

Working AI systems, not just advice

We are strongest when we can point to systems that are already in use. Across energy, media, HR and compliance, the pattern is similar: valuable knowledge is trapped in documents, workflows, databases or archives, and teams need a reliable way to turn it into action.

Who we work with

Startups

Early-stage teams building the product itself, where the AI has to work the first time because there is no legacy system to fall back on.

Established companies in legacy industries

Businesses with years of accumulated data and workflows (energy, media) where the win is making what already exists usable, not replacing it.

Boutique firms

Small, specialist teams who need senior AI capability without the overhead of hiring an internal team.

Market reports, PDFs and data tables as received. No schema.

  • AI-Ready Data Foundations
  • AI & Data Strategy Advisory
  • AI Product Implementation
  • Document Intelligence

Enerlytica

Energy market intelligence · New Zealand · Boutique firm

Dense, high-value energy market information converted into a structured, searchable data core in 2023, then extended, in the years since, into fully automated daily reporting and a rebuilt web platform.

Built

Document ingestion · Table extraction · Foundational database design · Semantic search · API-connected workflows · Automated daily reporting · Website rebuild

Outcome

Five-plus years of reporting, a large archive held in many different formats, made accessible and reusable as one structured layer, which now also runs Enerlytica’s daily market reports end-to-end: generated, published and emailed without manual formatting.

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Raw meeting conversation, context and user input.

  • Product Implementation
  • Product Strategy & UX Advisory
  • Embedded AI
  • Workflow Copilots
  • Document Generation

Humaneer

HR and compliance product · Australia · Startup

Practical AI layered into Mak, Humaneer’s HR and compliance product, alongside ongoing UX and product strategy advice. Humaneer made every product call; ours was the advisory seat.

Built

Meeting transcript processing · Knowledge retrieval · Contextual reasoning · Document generation · Compliance guidance · Feedback monitoring · Meeting-platform integration · Recommendation engine

Outcome

A product that carried VC fund pitches, first customers, beta trials and early-adopter feedback, with AI working inside its existing workflows, and an engagement that has since grown Mak from a chat assistant into a system that listens to meetings and recommends next steps.

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Years of articles, company coverage and journalist profiles, sitting as inventory almost no reader reaches.

  • Archive Discovery
  • User-facing AI Features
  • Product Integration
  • Semantic Search

BusinessDesk

Business journalism · New Zealand · Established company

A large archive of business journalism made genuinely discoverable: search and recommendation that understands queries and article context, not just keywords.

Built

AI-powered search · Recommendations · Query understanding · Article-context matching · Product integration

Outcome

Five-plus years of accumulated coverage turned into related reading a reader actually reaches, live in production since 2023 and still running today.

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The set of companies FOS identifies as worth tracking. Their list, not ours.

  • Workflow Automation
  • Competitor Intelligence
  • Custom Scrapers
  • Open-Source Monitoring
  • Hosted & Supported

FOS

Business growth consultancy · United Kingdom · Boutique firm

A monthly competitor intelligence brief, built and hosted by us for two years: selected archives and news sites, scraped where no usable API existed, turned into an update their team acts on.

Built

Source and archive selection · Custom scrapers · News site monitoring · Company activity monitoring · Monthly reporting pipeline · Hosting and ongoing support

Outcome

Research that used to be staff searching the internet by hand now arrives as a monthly brief, freeing senior people for the decisions rather than the gathering, and giving FOS data to bring to their own customers.

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Let’s work out what is worth building.

Thirty minutes, no deck, no discovery phase. If it is not worth building, we will say so.