Autohive Review: The New Zealand AI Agent Platform Making Inroads with Small Business Teams

Autohive is a New Zealand-built platform that lets non-technical business teams create and run AI agents (automated workflows that handle repetitive tasks like weekly reporting, document drafts, lead research, and data formatting) without writing a line of code.

It is not an Australian company. It’s incorporated in New Zealand (Autohive AI Limited, NZ Company #9406828), governed by NZ law, and priced in USD. Australian businesses can use it without any issues, but AU-focused readers should know what they’re signing up with before they commit.

The product is well-made, the pricing model is different from most competitors in a way that matters, and the founding story is interesting.

Where it came from

John-Daniel Trask and Lana Vaughan are the co-founders of Autohive. Trask is also the CEO of Raygun, a Wellington-based error monitoring SaaS that’s been a fixture in the NZ and AU developer community for years. In 2023, Trask started seeing AI as something bigger than another tech trend , a profound change to how software teams could work. So he started building tools internally at Raygun: not just one-off ChatGPT prompts, but repeatable, scheduled, connected workflows that the whole team could use.

By 2024, those internal tools had become something worth shipping. Autohive spun out as a fully independent entity (it started under the Raygun umbrella but has since been established as a standalone business). Trask pushed it beyond Raygun’s existing customer base from the start.

The current customer base skews heavily toward New Zealand, consistent with how Raygun grew. Raygun’s customer base is more than 90% global now, but it started the same way. Trask knows what a NZ-first, then global trajectory looks like.

What it actually does

Autohive sits between two things most people already use: AI chat tools like ChatGPT, and automation tools like Zapier or Make. It’s not a chatbot. It’s an agent builder.

You describe what you want an agent to do. Autohive builds it, connects it to your existing tools, and runs it on a schedule. The agent then executes without you having to prompt it each time: pulling data, generating output, posting to Slack, updating a spreadsheet.

A few concrete examples from the platform’s use cases:

• A weekly operations report that pulls from your tools, writes a summary, and emails it to your team every Monday
• A LinkedIn post generator that runs on your brand voice and a content calendar you feed it
• A lead enrichment agent that takes a list of company names and fills in contacts, firmographics, and context
• A finance reconciliation workflow that matches transactions and flags anomalies

The platform supports Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), and Grok (xAI). You’re not locked into one model. You can use different LLMs for different agents, or combine them in a multi-agent workflow where one agent’s output feeds into another’s input.

There are 140+ integrations: Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft 365, HubSpot, Asana, Notion, GitHub, Trello, ClickUp, and more. In May 2026, they added MCP (Model Context Protocol) support, which means you can connect external MCP servers as integrations too.

The marketplace

In January 2026, Autohive launched a marketplace of pre-built agents. Anyone can browse, install, and use agents built by Autohive or third-party creators. And if you build something useful, you can publish it.

This matters for small business teams that don’t want to build from scratch. The marketplace has agents for review response management, hospitality promotions planning, HR recruitment, and more. It’s early. The catalogue is not enormous yet, but it gives non-technical teams a starting point.

Pricing (in USD and AUD equivalent)

All pricing is in USD. There’s no AUD option.

The free tier has usage limits (350,000 AI credits per month, per the pricing page), which is enough to evaluate the platform but not to run it seriously.

The key pricing point: every plan includes unlimited seats. You pay for usage and token costs, not per user. For a team of ten, that changes the math compared to tools like Lindy.ai or Microsoft Copilot, which charge per person. At Team plan, around $724/month AUD covers your whole team rather than just a few licensed users.

Autohive also offers credit budgeting controls: you can cap how much individual agents spend per month. Useful for any business that’s burned money on runaway API costs before.

Security and compliance

Autohive is GDPR and CCPA compliant, holds CASA (Google) certification, and is HIPAA-capable. SOC 2 Type II is effectively complete, the observation period is done and the auditors are in final sign-off. Given that Autohive agents often connect to internal business tools and process real company data, the security posture matters. Check the Trust Center if compliance requirements are part of your evaluation.

Who is it for?

Autohive targets SMB and mid-market teams who want to run AI workflows without a developer. The ideal user is a team of 5–50 people, using standard SaaS tools, with repetitive reporting or operational tasks eating up time.

It’s probably not right for teams who just want a better ChatGPT interface. It requires some setup thinking. You have to articulate what you want an agent to do, connect it to the right tools, and test it. That’s less than coding, but it’s not zero effort.

It’s also not a fit yet for businesses that need AUD invoicing, Australian data residency, or local support. None of those exist yet.

AU market context

No AU office, no AUD pricing, no AU-specific case studies yet. The current customer base is predominantly NZ-based , but that’s not quite the same as being far away. NZ and AU share the same timezone band, and when you contact Autohive support, you’re talking to the people who actually build and run the product, not a regional sales office. That’s a different kind of proximity.

The closest Australian competitor in the same space is Relevance AI, which is Sydney-based, has AU-specific positioning, and has raised external funding. If AU data residency or AUD pricing is a hard requirement, Relevance AI is probably the first call.

For businesses that don’t have those requirements (and many don’t), Autohive is fully accessible from Australia. The NZ-AU tech market has always had strong crossover. Autohive is actively looking beyond NZ now.

Honest assessment

Autohive is a solid product built by someone who knows how to build and sell SaaS in this region. The unlimited-seat model is a real differentiator, not just a marketing angle. It changes the math for team-wide AI adoption. The marketplace gives it a distribution angle that most competitors don’t have yet.

The current customer base is still mostly NZ, and there’s no AU-specific support, AUD pricing, or local case studies to point to. That’s not a red flag. It’s just where they are right now. If you’re in Australia and want to evaluate it, the free tier is a reasonable starting point.

For the SmallBizAI.au audience: worth knowing about, accessible to use, but not specifically built for you yet.

Sources

• Autohive homepage (June 2026)
• Pricing page
• Terms of Service, legal entity (Autohive AI Limited, NZ #9406828) confirmed
• Privacy Policy
• Security page
• Careers page
• Autohive NZ page
• Autohive Marketplace
• Blog
• NZ Companies Office: Company #9406828 (Autohive AI Limited)

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