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An assistant for Cessnock
that runs in your building.
Cellar doors, venues, accommodation and the trades that keep them running — enquiries drafted, recordings written up, old paperwork findable, on hardware that sits in your own office.
Pokolbin to Kurri Kurri · no per-user Harness fee · core local work can run offline
One shire, two completely different economies.
The vineyards and the coalfields towns barely share a customer, and they do not share a problem either.
Pokolbin, Lovedale, Rothbury, Allandale
Australia's oldest wine region, and the admin behind it is relentless: cellar-door bookings, wedding and function enquiries, tour operators wanting rates, distributor emails, and a tasting-notes rewrite every time a new release goes out.
Most of these businesses employ ten or fifteen people and none of them full time on a keyboard. An inbox that drafts its own replies gives the weekend back.
Cessnock town, Kurri Kurri, Branxton
A different mix entirely — trades, transport, engineering, medical rooms, and the contractors around the power station at Kurri and the Huntlee estate at North Rothbury. Their paperwork is quotes, variations, safety documents and job history.
Dictate the site visit on the way back, and the quote is drafted before you reach the depot. The recording stays on your machine.
A trade that runs on a calendar.
Harvest lands in a few weeks of summer, the concert lawns at Pokolbin fill for whoever is touring that year, and the function diary is booked a year out.
Seasonal businesses get hit twice by monthly software. You pay through the quiet winter months for licences nobody touches, then in the flat-out weeks you cannot hire fast enough to use them anyway. A machine you own does not have an off-season bill.
- The Office
- from $7,900 bought once, whole property
- Casual and seasonal staff
- no per-user Harness fee approved accounts and capacity still apply
- Yearly visit and maintenance
- $600 optional
- GST
- registered; see current quote treatment
Core local work can run without the internet
Connections out through the vineyard roads are not what they are in town, and a cellar door full of people on a Saturday does not improve them. Core local chat, approved document search and transcription can keep working during an outage; web research and connected services cannot.
The full arithmetic against a monthly subscription, for a real-sized team, is worked through in this guide. Which box a cellar door or a trades office actually needs is set out on the machines page, with every price beside it.
We come out to the property.
Installed where the work happens
Winery offices are rarely tidy server rooms. It has been put in a converted cottage, a demountable behind the shed and a room off the tasting bar — all it needs is power, a network point and somewhere it will not cook in February.
Towns and villages
Further up the valley there is a page for Singleton, and one for Maitland the other way. New South Wales is written up as a state, and the hub lists the lot.
Cessnock questions.
Nearly all our bookings and function enquiries arrive by email. Can it help there?
When a mailbox workflow is included in the quote, it can read the approved thread, find the earlier quote and draft a reply in your venue's wording. The integration and draft-only behaviour are acceptance-tested before handover.
Vintage is flat out and nobody can stop for training. When would you install?
Choose a period when the staff who will use it can attend the agreed handover. The quote records timing, site access and network prerequisites, and we schedule around your operating hours where practical.
Our office is a converted cottage with no server room, and it hits forty degrees out here in February. Will it cope?
It wants three things: power, a network point, and air that actually moves. A cupboard under a tin roof in February is the one spot we would talk you out of, and on the visit we will find a better shelf with you — usually the coolest room in the building, which is often the one nobody sits in. The box itself is small and quiet enough to live in an office with people in it.
We're a trades business at Kurri Kurri, not a winery. Is any of this for us?
Yes, and it is a big part of what we do around Kurri, Weston and Branxton — dictated site notes turned into quotes, old job files searchable, and the tender or compliance paperwork drafted instead of retyped. The machine does not care what industry the documents come from.
Bring us your inbox.
Twenty minutes using a redacted or non-sensitive enquiry. Check the output, source trail and limits before deciding.
Bring us one job your team repeats every week. We will show you the system doing it →