Markets you — on autopilot
Marlaio researches your business overnight and drafts next week’s posts, ads and emails before you log in — in your own local voice. You wake up to a queue ready to review. Nothing publishes until you tap approve.
For Kiwi & Aussie business
AI runs your business.
You do the fun part.
We build AI systems for New Zealand small businesses — bookings, payments, reminders, invoicing, admin. Built around how your business actually runs, not a template.
Start with a free 30 minutes →
A real conversation about what you need. No card, no obligation.
What AI does in your business
Three jobs your AI handles — so you don’t have to.
Answers your customers
An AI assistant replies to your website enquiries, messages and calls around the clock — answering the common questions, capturing leads, and taking online bookings. Stop losing customers to voicemail and slow replies.
Runs smoother
Marlaio takes the repetitive admin off your plate — scheduling, follow-ups, reminders and simple reports — so you spend less time on busywork and more on the work that pays. You stay in control.
How it works
Set up in minutes. Working by tonight.
1
Tell us your business
Just your name or website. Marlaio reads your business — what you do, your reviews, your voice.
2
We set up your AI
Marlaio learns your brand and the rules it must follow, then gets the right work ready for you.
3
It runs in the background
Drafts, replies and reminders show up done. Nothing goes out until you tap approve.
Real photos · Local voice
From your camera roll to a post that sells.
Marlaio uses your real photos and writes in your local voice — never an AI-fabricated business that doesn’t exist.
Before · your phone
“fixed a hot water cylinder in hamilton today”
Marlaio →
After · ready to post
Your van · your work
Hot water gone cold? Sorted a Hamilton family out today — same-day cylinder swap, no fuss. Need a hand? Flick us a message. 🔧
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Case study · a local riding school
From a contact form to live online bookings — in days.
A local riding school had a website with just a contact form. We set up online booking for private lessons — customers pick a time and pay up front, into the business’s own account — plus an AI assistant answering enquiries around the clock, and a private owner dashboard to view bookings and open or close lesson times. Embedded into their existing site. Live in days, not months.
0 → live
online bookings
paid
up front, their account
24/7
AI enquiries handled
days
not months to launch
The fine print that writes itself out
One careless ad claim can cost more than a year of marketing.
“Only 3 left!” when there aren’t. “Best in town” with nothing to back it. Under advertising and consumer-protection law, claims like these are the advertiser’s problem — yours. Marlaio checks every draft against these rules before you ever see it, refuses to write unbacked scarcity or invented numbers, and keeps an audit log of every check. Generic AI tools will happily write you a fine. Marlaio won’t.
New · Beta
Meet Marla, your AI co-pilot.
Marla knows your business — your reviews, your voice, your last week. Ask her anything. “What should I post this week?” “How do I stop missing calls?” “Set up online bookings on my site.”
Knows your business
Marla reads your reviews, website, and recent activity before she answers. No generic SaaS advice.
Marketing, customers & ops
From drafting posts to setting up customer replies and bookings to cutting admin — she helps across the board.
She drafts; you approve
Marla never posts, sends or books on your behalf. She drafts and sets up; you review and approve.
Chat with Marla
Included in your Marlaio plan · she drafts, you approve.
New · Image posts · Rolling out
Your photos. Your packs.
Marlaio uses real photos of your café, your van, your shopfront, your team — layered with a clean branded template. Never an AI-fabricated café that doesn’t exist, never a barista who isn’t you.
Photo upload is live now. Template-overlay rendering for generated packs is rolling out in the coming updates.
Drop photos here, or click to choose
JPG, PNG, or WEBP · up to 10 MB each
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Live · upload only
How it works
Start with a conversation, not a price list.
Every business we build for is different, so we scope the work first and quote on that. No packages, no tiers.
Custom AI builds
We build it around your business
A custom AI page, or a full AI system built around how your business actually runs — quoting, scheduling, reconciliation, whatever the bottleneck is.
- The first 30 minutes are free — a real conversation, no card, no obligation
- We scope the work in writing before we start
- You get a written quote for the whole build, so you know the number up front
- You own what we build for you once it's paid
- Stop any time — you only pay for work you've approved
We'll come back to you with a written quote.
Quotes are written, fixed and given before any work starts.
Always shipping · Always listening
Marlaio works for you today. And keeps getting sharper.
Marlaio is a working AI platform for business — drafting your marketing, answering your customers, taking bookings, refusing risky claims, learning your brand voice. We keep sharpening it: better compliance, deeper voice inference, more channels, smarter automation. The improvements that actually land come from real customer voices, not our hunches. If you’ve got an idea, a wish, or a complaint — we want to hear it. It shapes what we ship next.
Typical response within 48h, Mon–Fri NZST. AI triages; the founder reads and signs every reply.