Params

For government agencies in Aotearoa New Zealand

Bespoke software, built by people who've done it before.

Params is a small technology shop, not a big agency — founded by engineers with a combined decades of experience, from early-stage startups through to global technology leaders like Xero and SiteMinder. That experience now goes into custom web, desktop, and mobile software for New Zealand government agencies, including migrating and upgrading the legacy systems it replaces.

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Schedule 1Services

  1. 1.1

    Custom software

    Web, desktop, and mobile applications, built from scratch or layered onto the systems and integrations you already rely on — case management tools, licensing and registration systems, internal reporting and workflow tools — built to match how the agency actually works rather than the other way round.

  2. 1.2

    AI and agentic solutions

    Applied AI built into real workflows — document and case processing, decision support, agentic automation — scoped and delivered with the same privacy, security, and handover standards as everything else we build.

  3. 1.3

    Legacy data migration

    Moving and upgrading data out of old government systems — without losing history, breaking downstream reporting, or stopping day-to-day operations while it happens.

  4. 1.4

    Systems integration

    Connecting existing agency systems, and third-party or all-of-government platforms, so information moves between them without manual re-entry or duplicate records.

  5. 1.5

    Legacy modernisation

    Replacing or extending ageing applications incrementally, so the system keeps working while it changes — without a disruptive rebuild or a loss of institutional knowledge.

  6. 1.6

    Ongoing support

    Fixes, changes, and maintenance handled directly by the team that built the system, not handed off to a ticketing queue or a different team next quarter.

Schedule 2Approach

  1. 2.1

    Senior by default

    Every engineer on a Params project has built and shipped production software before — at early-stage startups and at scale at companies like Xero and SiteMinder. No graduate hires learning on your project, no subcontracted offshore chain.

  2. 2.2

    Built for handover

    Plain code, clear documentation, and no dependence on any one person's memory — your own team can pick up the system if Params isn't in the room.

  3. 2.3

    Standards taken seriously

    The Privacy Act 2020, the New Zealand Information Security Manual, and the Web Accessibility Standard sit alongside the international privacy and data-protection regimes, like GDPR, our team has already built to — treated as requirements, not an afterthought at sign-off.

  4. 2.4

    Right-sized delivery

    Small systems scoped and shipped in weeks, not stretched into a multi-year programme they never needed to be.

Contact

Params

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Based in Auckland — working with agencies across New Zealand.