Built on the shop floor. Made for every business.
Built on experience creating custom training platforms for New Zealand businesses, Upskill helps supermarkets, orchards and packhouses onboard staff, track compliance and stay audit-ready.
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Before Upskill, I spent two years building custom training platforms for businesses, replacing paper inductions with training filmed using their own staff. I drew on my background in IT and video production to do both: build the software and film the training.
Every business I worked with had the same problems: paper forms, spreadsheets, and no easy way to know who had completed their training. Custom software solved it, but it’s expensive and slow to build. I wanted every business to get the same result without the custom price tag.
So I built Upskill. We finished the first version in February 2023, the night before Cyclone Gabrielle hit Hawke’s Bay. It started with inductions and has grown every year since. Today it covers onboarding, inductions, SOPs, hazard registers, incidents and certifications, and PAK'nSAVE Tamatea runs on it.
I still work directly with every customer, from setting up your first inductions to filming your training videos. Upskill was built on the shop floor, and that's where it stays.
From custom builds to one platform for everyone.
Training platforms built for Hawke’s Bay businesses, replacing paper inductions with training filmed using their own staff.
The first version launches in February with staff inductions. Group training expands later that year.
Equipment tracking arrives, and work begins on hazard registers and SOPs.
Hazard registers, SOPs and incident reporting join onboarding, inductions and certifications.
Compliance software should be built with the people who do the job.
“Our new workers now see our own staff demonstrating the required tasks, the real people they'll be working alongside in the orchard. … It's made our induction system super easy and highly effective.”
Want to see it in action?
Book a 20-minute demo and we'll walk you through it.