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Digital Dreams is an Auckland software company building web apps, portals, integrations, AI features and websites for New Zealand businesses.

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    Auckland, New Zealand
  • Email

    info@digitaldreams.co.nz
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    027 511 3822

Outgrown your systems?

Outgrown
your
systems?tools?website?vendor?

Digital Dreams is an Auckland software company. We build the websites, portals and integrations growing businesses need, and take on engineering, cloud and AI work for enterprise teams. Fixed-scope quotes, and you own the code.

Book a free scoping call
For small businessFor enterprise teams
About Us

The engineering behind a national insurer's customer portal, now available to businesses without an in-house team.

Our team has built customer and agent portals for a New Zealand insurer, school systems used nationwide, and our own multi-tenant SaaS platform. Projects are scoped and led from Auckland, with development support from our team in Bangalore.

  • Accountable
    contact
  • Countries,
    one team
A team working together at laptops
What we do
Six ways we replace workarounds with software

Web Apps & Portals

Customer portals, staff tools and dashboards, built on the stack that suits your team. The same kind of systems our team has shipped for thousands of NZ policyholders.

  • Customer self-service
  • Staff & agent portals
  • Dashboards
  • Secure sign-in
  • Any modern stack

APIs & Integrations

Getting your systems talking: payment gateways, banking feeds, CRMs and the legacy database nobody wants to touch. We've integrated Windcave, Akahu and Oanda into production systems.

  • REST API design
  • Payment gateways
  • Banking feeds
  • CRM & ERP links
  • Data migration

Cloud & DevOps

Cloud architecture from a certified solutions architect, infrastructure as code, and deployment pipelines so releases are routine, not risky.

  • Cloud architecture
  • Infrastructure as code
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Serverless
  • Monitoring

AI & Automation

LLM features that earn their keep: document processing, internal assistants, MCP servers and Copilot Studio agents, built with tests and monitoring like any other feature.

  • Claude & OpenAI
  • Agents & assistants
  • MCP servers
  • Copilot Studio
  • Workflow automation

Business Websites

Fast, modern websites for NZ businesses, with your Google listing set up, forms that actually deliver, and ongoing care so the site stays secure and up to date.

  • New websites
  • Rebuilds
  • Headless CMS
  • SEO basics
  • Monthly care

Legacy Modernisation

Ageing applications and creaking monoliths modernised in stages, so the business keeps running while the new system takes shape underneath.

  • Framework upgrades
  • Microservices
  • Incremental rewrites
  • Database migration
  • Knowledge transfer
Where does it hurt?

Pick the problem you recognise. We'll show you what we'd build.

Right now

Orders re-typed, versions emailed around, and nobody quite trusts the numbers.

What we build

A portal or internal tool with one source of truth. The spreadsheet retires.

One source of truthSee Web Apps & Portals

A fixed-scope quote

before we write a line of code

You own the code and the domain,

and everything goes with you

One accountable contact in Auckland,

from first call to launch

How we work
From first call to production, in clear steps
Step 01
Discovery & Scope

A free call, then a written, fixed-scope quote before any work starts.

Step 02
Build & Review

Regular demos of working software, so nothing is a surprise at launch.

Step 03
Launch & Support

Code, domain and hosting handed over in your name, with support if you want it.

Developers working at their monitors

Selected

( In production )Work

Portals used by thousands of NZ policyholders, a nationwide moderation portal for Māori medium schools, and our own multi-tenant SaaS platform. Most of it was built by our lead engineer while employed by those organisations, so we show it as our team's experience, not as Digital Dreams client work.

  • Insurance
  • Education
  • SaaS
Customer self-service portal
  • Self-service
  • APIs

Taking policy changes off the phone

Insurance
Agent portal
  • Staff tools
  • Integration

One screen for every sale and service call

Insurance
Araavi SaaS platform
  • SaaS
  • Multi-tenant

Araavi: a secure home for every immigration case

SaaS
Public website rebuild
  • Headless CMS
  • Migration

Rebuilding a busy website without switching it off

Insurance
School management system
  • Education
  • Cloud

Taking school moderation online, nationwide

Education

Software thousands of New Zealanders use every day.

1000s

People Using It Daily

Portals our team built are used by thousands of NZ customers and staff every day.

24/7

Live in Production

Insurance, education and our own SaaS: systems that run around the clock, not demos.

0

Lock-in

Code, domain and hosting sit in your business's name. If you ever move on, everything goes with you.

Industries

Industries we've actually shipped in

We won't claim every sector. These are the ones where our team has built real systems.

What gets hard
  • Policy systems nobody wants to touch
  • Payment and banking integrations
  • Customers who expect to self-serve
  • Audit and compliance trails
What we build
  • Customer self-service portals
  • Agent and broker tools
  • Payment and bank-feed integrations
  • Staged moves off legacy platforms

Our lead engineer built the customer and agent portals behind a national NZ insurer, used every day by policyholders and sales teams.

What gets hard
  • Student records spread across systems
  • Reporting to the Ministry
  • Admin that eats into teaching time
  • Tight budgets
What we build
  • Student management systems
  • Moderation and assessment portals
  • Admin automation
  • Reporting dashboards

Our lead engineer co-built a student management system for NZ schools and a moderation portal used by Māori medium schools nationwide.

What gets hard
  • Multi-tenant architecture
  • Shipping fast without a rewrite later
  • Privacy Act obligations
  • Cloud bills at small scale
What we build
  • First versions scoped to budget
  • Multi-tenant platforms
  • Subscriptions and billing
  • Privacy built in from day one

We built and launched our own multi-tenant SaaS, Araavi, so we've made the architecture mistakes on our own budget instead of yours.

What gets hard
  • Client and case management
  • Document-heavy workflows
  • Regulatory record-keeping
  • Manual admin
What we build
  • Client management systems
  • Document automation
  • Compliance workflows
  • Client-facing portals

Araavi, our own platform, serves NZ immigration advisers, one of the country's more tightly regulated professions.

What gets hard
  • Device and sensor data
  • Little visibility of the production floor
  • Quality control
  • Older plant systems
What we build
  • Production monitoring
  • IoT data pipelines
  • Quality assurance tools
  • Plant system integrations

Our lead engineer has built software for a manufacturing IoT startup: production monitoring, device data, and the systems that make sense of both.

Working in a different industry? Most of what makes a software project succeed carries across sectors. Tell us what you're building

Credentials
Certified on the platforms we build on

Microsoft-certified in Azure architecture and Azure AI

Microsoft Certified

  • Microsoft

    Azure Solutions Architect Expert

    Microsoft Certified (AZ-303, AZ-304)

    Expert
  • Microsoft

    Azure AI Engineer Associate

    Microsoft Certified (AI-102)

    Associate
  • Microsoft

    Microsoft for Startups

    Founder programme acceptance for our SaaS product, Araavi

    Startups
Common Questions
Before you
spend a dollar

Fixed quotes, code ownership and who you'll actually deal with: the questions small businesses and enterprise teams ask us before starting. Anything else, ask us directly.

Book a free scoping call

Websites, customer portals, APIs and system integrations, cloud infrastructure, and AI features. Small businesses come to us when they've outgrown spreadsheets or off-the-shelf tools; larger organisations bring us in for engineering, cloud and AI work.

It depends on scope, so every project starts with a free call and a written, fixed-scope quote before any work begins. If an existing product would solve your problem for a monthly fee, we'll tell you before you spend money on custom software.

Yes. We start with a review of what you have, then rebuild in stages where needed so your business keeps running throughout. We've moved busy public websites off legacy platforms without taking them offline.

Whatever fits. We pick the stack that suits your team, budget and existing systems, not the one we happen to like, and we're happy to work in what you already run. Whatever we choose, it's documented and yours.

You do. Your domain, hosting and code are in your business's name, and you get full access. If you ever move on, everything goes with you.

Yes. We take on engineering, cloud and AI work for enterprise teams, from a defined project to ongoing support alongside your developers. Our lead engineer built customer and agent portals for a national insurer and is Microsoft-certified as an Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Azure AI Engineer.

Projects are scoped, architected and led from Auckland, with development support from our team in Bangalore, India. You always have one accountable contact in New Zealand.

Insights
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DigitalDreams

Web apps, portals, integrations, AI features and websites for New Zealand businesses.

Auckland,
New Zealand

info@digitaldreams.co.nz

027 511 3822

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