About

Built on insurance. Pointed at Claude.

Airclerk began by building AI workflow software for insurance. Through that work, we developed deep practical experience in document-heavy regulated workflows, frontier models, human-in-the-loop processes and auditability. The market moved quickly - and so have we. The company is new; the team isn't - Dan, Matt and Ed have been shipping platform implementations together since the Salesforce wave. Based in New Zealand, working across Australia, and with select international clients - particularly US carriers and brokers.

01 / Where we come from

One platform wave already.

Dan, Matt and Ed were part of Trineo - one of New Zealand's most successful cloud-platform implementation partners through the SaaS wave of the late 2000s and 2010s, acquired in 2021.

Between them they shipped more than one hundred projects, for organisations from 3 staff to 20,000 - across insurance, wealth management, retail, agriculture, advertising, sports and more. The lesson that came up on every one of them: the technology is the easy part. What makes an implementation stick is the change around it - who does what differently once the system is live. Airclerk is the same team, applying the same playbook to Claude.

02 / The pivot

Why we pivoted to Claude.

Claude and other frontier platforms are increasingly becoming the application layer. The product moat for standalone AI wrappers is eroding quickly.

Our conviction is that the opportunity is not to compete with Claude, but to help financial and professional services firms implement it safely and effectively. That requires deep industry context, governance discipline, and the ability to build the rails underneath - connectors, MCPs, orchestration, evidence and approvals. That is what Airclerk does now.

03 / Leadership

The people behind it.

Between them, Dan, Matt and Ed sat across the partner-firm leadership, the bespoke-integrations practice and the architecture team through the SaaS wave. The same three are now early to Claude implementation in regulated NZ and AU finance.

Dan Fowlie, co-founder and CEO of Airclerk.

Co-founder & CEO · Ex-Trineo

Dan

Cofounded and grew Trineo into one of NZ's most successful cloud-platform implementation partners (acquired in 2021). Knows the power of an ecosystem - now doing the same with Claude.

Co-founder & Technical Implementation Specialist · Ex-Trineo

Matt

Two decades across backend systems, integrations, AI workflows and production engineering. Part of Trineo's bespoke-integrations practice - the team that built the complex custom integrations behind enterprise cloud rollouts when off-the-shelf wasn't enough. Builds the rails that turn a Claude demo into something a regulated firm can run on.

Ed Groenendaal, Co-founder and Technical Implementation Specialist at Airclerk.

Co-founder & Technical Implementation Specialist · Ex-Trineo

Ed

Multiple patents, 30+ years building software at the frontier - Trineo-era architecture among them. The depth that lets us make confident calls about what AI should and shouldn't be doing inside a regulated workflow.

04 / What we believe

A handful of strong opinions.

The model becomes the interface.

Forcing users into another portal is a losing strategy. The workbench is the model - Claude first, but the principle holds whichever platform wins.

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Implementation moats matter more than wrapper moats.

Integration, governance and trust are the durable layers.

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Production beats demo.

One workflow running safely in production is worth ten polished pilots.

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ANZ deserves a serious local partner.

Local insurers and FS organisations should not be left waiting for a US vendor's roadmap.

Get in touch

Talk to Airclerk.

A 30-minute conversation is the best way to find out whether the Readiness Sprint is the right starting point for your organisation.

05 / Common questions

Common questions.

01Who founded Airclerk?

Airclerk was founded by Dan Fowlie (co-founder and CEO), with co-founders and technical implementation specialists Matt Wratt and Ed Groenendaal. The three worked together for years at Trineo, one of New Zealand's most successful cloud-platform implementation partners through the SaaS wave, acquired in 2021.

02Is Airclerk's team new to implementing technology in regulated firms?

No. The founding team shipped more than one hundred projects together at Trineo during the Salesforce wave, for organisations from 3 staff to 20,000 — across insurance, wealth management, retail and other sectors. That experience is why Airclerk treats the human side — change management, operating model and governance — as the hard part, not the technology.

03Does Airclerk only work with insurance companies?

Insurance — brokers, insurers and MGAs — is our strongest practice, but we work across regulated financial and professional services, including wealth management and financial advice. We also partner with early adopters in banking, lending and accounting firms, where the same disciplines apply.

04Why did Airclerk move from building software to implementing Claude?

Airclerk began by building AI workflow software for insurance. Six months in, it was clear the application layer was about to be absorbed by the frontier platforms — so we refocused on the implementation layer beneath them: the workflows, governance and assurance that make Claude stick in a regulated firm.