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13.6% of Otago employees work in professional services

Claude for evidence and drafting in Otago firms

Professional work needs an answer that survives review. Practise giving Claude the right references, identifying uncertainty and turning a rough analysis into a document another adviser can inspect.

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Employees in professional services
17,202Otago, February 2025
Share of Otago employees
13.6%8 of 16 regions
Share across New Zealand
18.4%all regions, February 2025
Location quotient
0.74×less concentrated than nationally

Professional services in Otago

Polson Higgs describes accounting and business advisory work across Dunedin and the wider southern region. Anderson Lloyd lists legal offices in Dunedin and Queenstown. These are local anchors for a broad professional-services sector; their published profiles do not establish that either firm uses Claude.1,2

The workshop begins with a fictional engagement, a public background document and a cleared house-style guide. A generic Queenstown advisory team might need a proposal that defines scope and excludes unconfirmed assumptions. Staff learn to ask for evidence and open questions before they ask for polished prose.

Paid employees in professional services went from 17,512 in February 2020 to 17,202 in February 2025 (−1.8%).

Share of paid employees in professional services, by region

Share of employees in professional services by region, Otago highlighted
RegionChartShareNZ×
Auckland 24.1% 18.4% 1.3×
Wellington 21.9% 18.4% 1.2×
Canterbury 17.4% 18.4% 0.9×
Nelson 15.5% 18.4% 0.8×
Bay of Plenty 14.9% 18.4% 0.8×
Hawke's Bay 14.0% 18.4% 0.8×
Waikato 13.9% 18.4% 0.8×
Otago (this page) 13.6% 18.4% 0.7×
Taranaki 12.5% 18.4% 0.7×
Tasman 11.3% 18.4% 0.6×
Gisborne 11.0% 18.4% 0.6×
Marlborough 10.6% 18.4% 0.6×
Manawatū-Whanganui 9.9% 18.4% 0.5×
Northland 9.8% 18.4% 0.5×
Southland 8.8% 18.4% 0.5×
West Coast 7.8% 18.4% 0.4×

Paid employees at business locations in the region, February 2025. The tick marks the national share. × is the regional share divided by the national share.

Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.

What professional services covers in Otago

Divisions in professional services, Otago
DivisionChartEmployeesShareNZ×
Media and telecoms 1,102 0.9% 1.3% 0.7×
Finance and insurance 1,573 1.2% 2.8% 0.5×
Property and rental 2,169 1.7% 1.5% 1.1×
Professional services 6,750 5.3% 8.3% 0.7×
Admin and support services 5,608 4.4% 4.6% 1.0×

ANZSIC06 divisions in this industry group: share of the region's paid employees, against New Zealand.

Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.

Local context

  • The New Zealand Law Society's AI guidance brings a relevant professional standard to the legal examples. Use it to frame review and confidentiality questions, while accountants, property advisers and technical consultants apply their own professional rules.33

Organisations are named for local context only. No relationship with them is implied.

Towns in Otago

Each town page has its own figures and local brief.

Or see Claude training across Otago.

Where Claude helps professional services teams

  • Build an engagement reference Project

    Project knowledge can contain the files and instructions relevant to a recurring assignment. Practise organising a fictional engagement brief, approved service descriptions and writing guidance. Ask Claude to identify a source for each proposed deliverable. The engagement lead checks that the draft does not widen the scope or imply an agreement the fictional client has not made.5

    • Engagement manager
    • Claude Projects

  • Compare a report with its evidence

    Use a long document exercise to challenge a draft report against the supplied reference pack. Request a list of unsupported statements and passages that need qualification. Limit the task to the files provided in the session. A reviewer then traces each issue back to the original document, including tables and appendices that a fluent summary might overlook.5

    • Senior adviser
    • Long documents and Project files

  • Edit a decision table as an artifact

    Artifacts can display an editable document or small interactive tool. Create a draft comparison of service options using assumptions supplied by the participants. Separate quoted source information from the team's own judgement. Ask a colleague to test whether an empty input produces an obvious warning, and remove any visual treatment that makes an unverified estimate look settled.6

    • Practice operations lead
    • Claude artifacts

  • Inspect a reporting utility with Claude Code

    For the technical group, use Claude Code to examine an isolated internal utility with synthetic data. A suitable exercise is adding validation for a missing report period. The tool can inspect and edit code, but the developer still reviews the change, runs meaningful tests and checks the resulting output. Keep credentials and live client systems outside the training repository.7

    • Developer or technical consultant
    • Claude Code

Check a fictional engagement proposal

  1. Gather the approved brief and service references.
  2. Identify the scope decisions that need a human answer.
  3. Ask Claude to draft only the supported proposal sections.
  4. Review assumptions and exclusions with the engagement owner.
  5. Keep the approved version and its evidence in the normal matter file.

Courses

  1. 1Introductory

    Claude foundations workshop

    A hands-on first session for the whole team: prompts with real context, Projects, files, artifacts and the habit of checking answers.

  2. 2Advanced

    Claude Code and MCP for developers

    For developers and technical leads: agentic coding with Claude Code, team settings and permissions, building an MCP server, and the Claude API.

Professional services in other regions

Other industries in Otago

See Claude for professional services, finance and property across New Zealand, or all training in Otago.

Professional services in Otago: questions

Can non-technical advisers join the session?

The document exercises suit people who read and write for their work. They do not require coding experience. Developers can take the utility exercise as a separate track, while other participants concentrate on evidence, drafting and review.

Should we bring a real client matter?

Begin with a fictional scenario or a public document that has been cleared for use. Your practice must make the later decision about client material. A sample should preserve the document problem without exposing identities, advice or commercially sensitive terms.

Will Claude verify legal authorities for us?

Use the legal example to practise locating unsupported claims, then verify authorities through the sources your practice trusts. The Law Society identifies professional risks in generated material. The responsible lawyer remains the reviewer of any legal analysis.3

Can the workshop run at our Otago office?

We can bring the session to your firm in Otago. Remote delivery and public workshop days can also suit smaller groups. Include the person who controls your approved documents so participants can learn a process they can maintain.

Train your professional services team in Otago

  1. You tell us about the teamSize, where you are, the documents people work with, and what you would like to change.
  2. We suggest a course and formatBy email, with a few questions about the tasks and documents you want to train on.
  3. 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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Sources

Written 6 October 2026. Employment figures come from Stats NZ Business Demography Statistics.