AI, ecommerce, virtual CTO

Tailored software that pays for itself.

Senior engineers help SMEs put hours back into the week, grow online revenue, and make confident technology decisions, on a weekly subscription.

91%
of SMBs using AI see measurable gains
30-50%
productivity boost from automation
40-60
hours saved per team, per month
Damien Knox, Founder
Charles Nicolson, Founder
Damien Knox
Founder

Trusted by NZ and AU companies.

JDM Manuals

English-translated owner manuals for Japanese import vehicles, covering popular models from Toyota, Nissan, Suzuki, and more.

Precision Air

Precision Air Certification provides IANZ accredited testing, validation, and decontamination services for biological safety cabinets and clean rooms. Trusted by laboratories and research facilities across the country to keep critical environments safe and compliant.

Vertical Logistics

A Kiwi-owned boutique logistics company offering personalised freight solutions from domestic courier to international air and ocean freight, all with a personal touch and transparent pricing.

Synbioshield

Chemical-free cleaning products powered by natural probiotics and prebiotics, backed by 18 years of scientific research and safe for homes, children, pets, and the planet.

Timber Smart

End-to-end software solutions purpose-built for the timber supply chain, from log management and sawmilling through to trading and retail.

My Cyber Guard

A consumer-focused cyber security service protecting individuals, families, and small businesses from online scams, identity theft, and financial fraud.

OneRoom

A fully managed funeral streaming platform that lets funeral directors broadcast and record services without any technical involvement, so they can stay focused on the people that matter.

Business Boost

Bookkeeping and business advisory services for small and growing businesses, helping owners stay on top of their finances and make better decisions, without the headache.

Sole Street

An online sneaker and streetwear retailer carrying premium and hard-to-find kicks from Nike, Jordan, Adidas, and more, across men's, women's, and kids' sizing.

The Media Joint

A Sydney-based media production and AV company offering studio hire, video production, live streaming, and end-to-end audiovisual solutions for events, venues, and businesses.

Three ways we put time and money back in the business.

AI is the lever we reach for first because it pays back fastest. Custom ecommerce is where stores stop bleeding margin to plugins. A virtual CTO is what keeps the rest of the tech making money instead of losing it.

Hours back, every week

AI-led automations, live dashboards, and custom assistants take the repetitive work off your team so they can spend time on what actually moves the business. Most clients see the hours back inside 30 to 60 days.

Where AI pays off →

More online revenue, less plugin tax

Custom Shopify apps, subscription mechanics, and fulfilment automation shaped to how your store actually runs. Built for stores that have outgrown the off-the-shelf plugin stack.

Beyond plugins →

Confident tech decisions

A senior engineer at your side for architecture calls, vendor reviews, hiring, and the quarterly roadmap. Stop guessing on the big technology choices, stop overpaying on the small ones.

Virtual CTO on retainer →

Most small businesses are duct-taped together with software.

If any of these sound familiar, your stack is leaking time and money you could be putting back into the business. Each one is something we routinely fix with AI, custom ecommerce work, or a senior tech voice in the room.

$1,000s per month in subscriptions

Twelve different SaaS tools, each charging per seat, per month, and none of them quite right. The bills only ever go up.

Tools that don’t fit

Your workflow is wrapped around someone else’s product. You’re paying to use a system instead of running yours.

Manual workarounds everywhere

Copy-paste between systems, weekly CSV exports, hand-built spreadsheets. Quiet hours of human glue holding it all together.

Slow developer access

Internal devs are booked for months. Agencies want a six-figure scope. A simple change becomes a quarter-long project.

AI overwhelm

Twenty new AI products a week, every vendor promising the same thing. You need someone independent who’ll tell you what’s actually worth your time.

Data without insight

You’re sitting on a goldmine of data spread across tools. Pulling a single useful number takes a week.

From strategy to working software, by senior engineers.

No multi-month discovery phase. No army of juniors. Three steps and a small team that does the thinking and the building.

01

Free strategy session

30 minutes with a senior engineer. We map your top time and money leaks, and where AI, custom ecommerce, or a fractional CTO would pay back first. You leave with at least one concrete idea you can act on this week.

02

We design and build

Senior engineers scope, design, and ship, usually within weeks, not quarters. No waiting in a roadmap queue, no junior hand-offs, no fixed-bid surprises.

03

Run and improve

We stay engaged. We watch how the software is used, tune what isn’t quite landing, and keep finding new places to save you time. We don’t ghost you after launch.

Software that pays for itself, across all three pillars.

Two patterns per pillar that we keep shipping. Each one replaces something that was not working: a subscription, a missing capability, or a six-figure hire.

Quiet the weekly busywork

AI-driven workflow automations move data, chase follow-ups, and run reports in the background while your team focuses on what only humans can do.

AI · replaces Zapier and spreadsheet glue →

Decisions in minutes, not Mondays

One live screen with the numbers you actually care about, drawn from every system you already use, with AI surfacing what changed and why.

AI · replaces weekly CSV reports →

Store revenue that scales past plugins

Custom Shopify storefront logic, product bundlers, and admin tooling shaped to how your store actually operates. No bolted-on plugin stack.

Ecommerce · replaces bloated plugin stacks →

Subscriptions that do not churn

Recurring-revenue mechanics tuned to your product: flexible plans, pause and skip, churn recovery flows, dunning. The Wonky Box stack, generalised.

Ecommerce · replaces off-the-shelf subscription SaaS →

Senior judgement on the big calls

An independent senior engineer reads your stack, contracts, and roadmap, and tells you what is sound, what is bleeding cash, and what should change first.

Virtual CTO · replaces hiring an architect →

A CTO without the salary

Quarterly roadmap, vendor scrutiny, hiring scorecards, and sit-in on leadership calls. Strategic guidance compounding week after week.

Virtual CTO · replaces a full-time CTO salary →

Not sure where to start?

Book a free 30-minute strategy session. We map where AI, ecommerce, or senior tech leadership would pay back first for your business.

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Real results for real businesses.

How we cut fulfilment time by 40% for a food delivery company.

It started with a free strategy session. We mapped where three SaaS bills, a hand-built spreadsheet, and a daily ops meeting were quietly costing them a full FTE. We then designed and built one AI-driven subscription-management and predictive-fulfilment platform that replaced all of it inside a quarter.

40%faster fulfilment
25%better retention
30 hrssaved weekly
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Cloud services we built and run.

Publicly available products designed, built, and operated by RightTech on the same stack we use for client work. Sign up today, or talk to us about something similar for your business.

NanoPIM

An AI-powered PIM and DAM platform that centralises product data, enriches it for every sales channel, and syncs to Shopify, Amazon, and beyond, without the enterprise price tag.

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BlitzBoost

A no-code website performance platform that boosts PageSpeed scores, lifts SEO rankings, and cuts load times by up to 70%, compatible with Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, and more.

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WebSiteMon

A visual website monitoring tool that takes automatic screenshots of your key pages and sends instant alerts the moment something looks wrong, no technical expertise required.

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Engineering we give back.

Small tools we built for ourselves and open-sourced. Real, maintained code. Useful evidence that we know how to ship software people actually use.

Cronishe

Cronishe is an advanced cron replacement system with a modern web interface, real-time log capture, timezone support, and webhook notifications.

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Flycatcher

FlyCatcher - Deno TypeScript honeypot in Docker. Monitors 20+ common ports (SSH, HTTP, databases), sends real-time webhook notifications on intrusion attempts + hourly health checks.

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MD2PDF

Convert Markdown files to PDF with customizable styling. No external dependencies required - works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Musicorganiser

A Windows desktop application for managing and playing music files, built with C# WPF and .NET 8.

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VideoSorter

A Windows desktop application for browsing, previewing, and managing video files.

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Shareque

Secure sharing of text snippets and files with end-to-end encryption, invite-only access, and 2FA.

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Pgbak

PostgreSQL backup automation tool with Backblaze B2 cloud storage integration.

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Compared to the usual options.

There are other ways to fix your software stack. Here’s the honest trade-off against each one.

Hiring developers

  • 3-6 months to recruit
  • Six-figure salaries plus overhead
  • Onboarding before any output
  • Single point of failure

Using agencies

  • Long scoping cycles
  • Fixed-bid surprises
  • Junior hands on your account
  • Goodbye after launch

DIY with AI

  • Demos that don’t ship
  • Brittle prompts and prototypes
  • No production hardening
  • Security guesswork

Using RightTech

  • Senior engineers from day one
  • Strategy and build, one team
  • Weekly subscription, no surprises
  • Ships within weeks, not quarters
  • We stay engaged after launch

What we’re thinking about

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Most clients replace their subscription costs within weeks.

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The team at RightTech understood everything we wanted to accomplish and created exactly what we needed! They were professional and exceptionally efficient. They are the most knowledgeable and reliable team I've worked with in the industry. They get a big thumbs up from us!
​Laura Brown
Owner
RightTech have been an absolute dream to work with. Both Charles and Damien have been exceptional to work alongside. They are professional, communicative and will crack on and get the job done! We have worked on a project with the team over the last few months which is now up and running and we couldn’t be happier. The tech has been a game changer for our business. We spoke to many developers in our research phase, none of which gave off the impression we got from the RightTech bunch. We will continue to work together moving forward and would advise anyone who is stuck with any tech-related issue to get in touch, they will solve all your problems.
​Angus Simms
​Angus Simms
co-founder
I've been working with the team at Right Tech for many years. They are extremely helpful and always go the extra mile. They have a profound technical knowledge and are good at solving any problem thrown at them. I'd recommend them for any IT related tasks!
Maria West
Maria West
Head of Marketing
I have worked with the Right Tech team in various businesses over several years. Charles and Damien and their team are not only conscientious hard-workers, they continue to produce common-sense solutions to the challenges we put before them. The IT world has changed considerably over my career and there is no right and wrong way to produce software. What Right Tech consistently achieve is a solution that meets our needs within the agreed budget. If you are thinking of engaging Right Tech for a project I would be happy to discuss my experiences.
​Kevin Martin
​Kevin Martin
​Director

Let’s find where you’d see the fastest payback.

Book a free 30-minute strategy session. No obligation, no pitch. An honest read on whether AI, custom ecommerce, or senior tech leadership would move the needle first for you.