Claude training by industry
Training works best when the examples come from your own sector. These are the uses we start with, and the care each industry needs.
Where New Zealand’s jobs are
Ten industry groups, built from Stats NZ’s ANZSIC06 divisions. Each industry page shows the towns and regions where it employs the most people, and the uses and guardrails we train on.
Share of paid employees by industry group, New Zealand, February 2025
| Industry group | Chart | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Professional services | 18.5% | |
| Retail | 14.3% | |
| Health | 12.0% | |
| Manufacturing | 9.4% | |
| Tourism and hospitality | 9.2% | |
| Construction and trades | 9.0% | |
| Education | 8.5% | |
| Government | 6.4% | |
| Farming and horticulture | 4.8% | |
| Transport and logistics | 4.2% |
Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.
Ten industry groups
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Farming, horticulture and forestry
Growers, farm managers and orchard businesses carry a lot of paperwork: compliance plans, spray diaries, contracts and seasonal staff documents. Claude is useful for the reading and writing side of that work.
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Manufacturing and food processing
Manufacturers and food processors run on procedures, specifications and quality records. Claude handles long technical documents well, which suits this work.
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Construction and trades
Builders and trades businesses lose evenings to quotes, variations and health and safety paperwork. Claude takes on the first draft so the evening is shorter.
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Retail and wholesale
Independent retailers and wholesalers wear every hat: buyer, marketer, customer service and bookkeeper. Claude helps most with writing and with making sense of supplier paperwork.
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Tourism and hospitality
Operators, accommodation providers and hospitality businesses write constantly: listings, itineraries, replies to guests and staff rosters. Claude speeds up the writing and keeps the voice consistent.
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Transport and logistics
Transport and logistics businesses deal with contracts, compliance and a steady stream of exceptions. Claude is useful for reading, summarising and writing about them.
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Professional services, finance and property
Accountants, lawyers, consultants, property managers and IT firms sell expertise that ends up in documents. This is Claude’s strongest ground.
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Health and social services
Health and social service providers carry a heavy documentation load and hold sensitive information. Claude can help with the non-clinical writing, carefully.
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Education and training
Schools, early learning centres, PTEs and tertiary providers use Claude for planning, resources and administration. Teaching staff need a clear line between helping and doing the learning.
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Government and public services
Councils and public agencies deal with long documents, submissions and plain-language requirements, and they have to get privacy and records right.
Train your team
- You tell us about the teamSize, where you are, the documents people work with, and what you would like to change.
- We suggest a course and formatBy email, with a few questions about the tasks and documents you want to train on.
- People practise on real workOn-site or remote. Everyone leaves with Claude set up for tasks they do every week.
- In person
- Remote
- Half-day workshop
- Full-day workshop
- Team rollout
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Enquire
Tell us about your team. We reply by email with a suggested course and format.