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Putti Your local developers building the best of tech for partners.

With Putti you can create and manage your own mobile responsive website and app all in the same place. Quick, easy to use and packed full of features, let Putti help you reach and engage your audience in a way you never thought possible.

Long weekend, first Monday of June, a whole country taking the day off. Happy King's Birthday, Aotearoa. Make the most o...
01/06/2026

Long weekend, first Monday of June, a whole country taking the day off.

Happy King's Birthday, Aotearoa. Make the most of it!

Some leaders command a room with authority. Others draw people in with something harder to define - a kind of gravity th...
29/05/2026

Some leaders command a room with authority. Others draw people in with something harder to define - a kind of gravity that makes you want to be in their corner. Bruce is the second kind.

Meet Bruce, CEO of Putti.

Bruce has lived a life most people only read about. From Oceania to Asia to Africa 🌍, he's spent decades immersed in wildly different cultures, business environments, and ways of thinking. That's not just a fun fact - it's his superpower. When he sits down with a partner or a customer, he doesn't bring a single lens. He brings many, and he knows exactly which one to use.

But don't let the worldly wisdom fool you - Bruce is also built differently. Literally.

A former basketball player 🏀 who still moves with that athlete's mindset, Bruce has racked up a combined nearly 500kg across deadlift, bench press, and squat. The same discipline that built that in the gym is the same discipline he brings to the business- showing up, doing the work, and carrying the weight so others don't have to.

What makes him stand out as a CEO isn't just the vision. It's the way he holds the room. Generous with his time, quick with a laugh, and genuinely committed to listening before he speaks - Bruce creates the kind of environment where bold ideas don't feel risky. They feel welcome.

That matters more than most people realise. When a leader isn't afraid to venture into the unknown, the whole team moves with more confidence.

We're proud to have Bruce leading Putti - and setting the tone for everything we build together.

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Connect with Bruce and arrange a coffee meet up, or drop by the office to meet the team!

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Proud to be a sponsor of Take a Breath Week this year. Sleep is one of those things that sounds simple until you're star...
28/05/2026

Proud to be a sponsor of Take a Breath Week this year.

Sleep is one of those things that sounds simple until you're staring at the ceiling at 2am wondering why your brain has decided now is the perfect time to replay every awkward moment from 2011. Turns out, the answer might be simpler than you think: it starts with how you breathe.

Take a Breath's Sleep Week runs 25-31 May, and they've put together a solid lineup of free webinars, a live panel event in Parnell, and a 7-Day Sleep Challenge backed by actual science. Worth a look if your team could use a reset.

Check out the details at takeabreath.world/take-a-breath-week

18/05/2026

"Your idea makes perfect sense to you. That doesn't mean it makes sense to your developer."

There's a reason great software teams have someone who sits between the business owner and the dev team. An entrepreneur's vision and a developer's logical approach to building that vision are two genuinely different things.

The role of a good product consultant is to listen deeply, understand both worlds, and translate one into the other without anything getting lost.

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More about John's experience in the full video here: https://youtu.be/8pjYha8yEOA

14/05/2026

"Changing things in code is expensive. Changing them in Figma is cheap."

This is one of the most valuable things a business owner building an app can hear. The earlier you catch a mistake in the design and requirements phase, the cheaper it is to fix. Once developers are deep in the code, every change costs you time, money, and momentum.

Get your product definition right before a single line of code gets written. That's not over-engineering. That's just how good software gets made.

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Watch John's full episode here: https://youtu.be/8pjYha8yEOA

Most people approach automation from a personal efficiency angle: "I want to spend less time on repetitive tasks." That’...
12/05/2026

Most people approach automation from a personal efficiency angle:

"I want to spend less time on repetitive tasks."

That’s a reasonable motivation, but it’s a narrow one. The stronger case for automation is organisational PREDICTABILITY.

The question worth asking isn’t ‘how do I make my job easier?’ It’s ‘how do I build a system that works correctly regardless of who’s doing this job next month?’ In environments where team members change – and most do – that distinction is enormous.

That framing changes what you automate and why. Onboarding notifications, date-triggered tasks, performance data routing, scheduled reports. These aren’t just convenient to automate, they’re genuinely better handled by a system than by a person remembering to do them.

Rangitoto has been watching us solve tech problems since day one. 😉
08/05/2026

Rangitoto has been watching us solve tech problems since day one. 😉

The AI space right now feels a lot like the app store gold rush of 2012. Everyone's shipping something. Half of it shoul...
05/05/2026

The AI space right now feels a lot like the app store gold rush of 2012. Everyone's shipping something. Half of it shouldn't have shipped.

No-code tools are part of that story too. They have their place. Prototypes, internal dashboards, testing an idea before real money goes in.

We put together a simple decision flow for exactly that question, because it genuinely depends on what you're building and who's going to be using it.

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Too many founders treat no-code as a permanent foundation, then wonder why things collapse under load or why their provider just tripled their pricing overnight.

The deeper issue is a culture that treats launching fast as a virtue and due diligence as optional. We've watched "AI-powered" apps go to real users with no threat modelling, no security review, and no serious thought given to what happens when the model gets something badly wrong. And they do get things badly wrong.

The technology is not the problem. The rush is.

It has always been important to know what you are building before you decide how to build it. Know who is going to be on the other end of it. And ask yourself what happens when it fails, because it will, and someone will be there when it does.

We'd rather build fewer things properly than ship fast and clean up the mess later.
That's always been the Putti way, long before AI was in every pitch deck.

We've been rescuing projects for the last 15 years. Check our work here puttiapps.com/project-rescue

Bruce (our MD) and Jay (our Head of Design & Marketing) in the AI and Creativity Summit 2026, getting stuck into what AI...
05/05/2026

Bruce (our MD) and Jay (our Head of Design & Marketing) in the AI and Creativity Summit 2026, getting stuck into what AI means for news, creativity, and truth both here in Aotearoa and around the world.

The conversations were honest, sometimes even a bit uncomfortable. But that’s where real progress happens. You could feel the urgency in the room, and it was energising to be surrounded by people who genuinely care.

It was a gathering of sharp minds and hands-on practitioners, all wrestling with the big questions about where we’re at and where we’re heading.

How do we keep journalism strong? Who owns our stories and culture? Can creativity and AI actually work together?

No simple answers, but the right people are asking the right questions. We left feeling inspired, a bit challenged, and more certain than ever that these conversations count.

Way back when, someone had a crack at an idea over lunch: what if we called it "Launch Time"?You know, because lunch and...
01/05/2026

Way back when, someone had a crack at an idea over lunch: what if we called it "Launch Time"?
You know, because lunch and because we launch apps. 🤷

The first episode was as MVP as it gets: Bruce and Tom, a table full of snacks, a camera pointed in the right direction, and absolutely no clue what it'd grow into. But it grew.

10 episodes later, good conversations happened, apps got launched, people got to share their stories and experience. Somehow, this seemingly little idea turned into something we're genuinely proud of.

Now we're about to launch our 11th episode. 🏆

To everyone who's ever been part of an episode, cheers to ya. You're the reason it never felt like work. Happy Labor Day.

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