I bought a New Zealand software company in 1993 and have run it ever since. Primesoft has traded since 1982 and worked with clients across New Zealand.
I am not a programmer and never have been. My job is to work out what a system has to do, and to hand that to the people who build it. Since early 2026, the people have been models.
I’ve spent 33 years between the need and the coder. Now the coder is a model.
Owning rather than renting
Primesoft owns its infrastructure rather than renting it, down to the address space it runs on.
We run our own datacentre instead of buying cloud. We hold our own block of
internet address space — 202.36.227.0/24, delegated by APNIC in
March 2001 and marked portable, which means it belongs to Primesoft rather than to
any internet provider.
On that hardware runs an OpenStack cloud, and on the cloud a retrieval platform holding more than 700,000 documents drawn from 34 sources, searchable by meaning and by text together.
That is a thirty-year habit of owning the thing rather than renting it.
It matters more now than it did when we started. The capable open-source AI systems are permissively licensed and made to be self-hosted. Running real intelligence on your own hardware, under your own ownership, inside your own jurisdiction, is no longer a question of whether it can be done. It is a question of who ends up owning it.
New Zealand can run its own intelligence, on its own hardware, today. I have the hardware.