Briick at the Auckland Bootstrappers' Breakfast: how startups find the automations worth building

Rebecca Tarozzi, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Briick, is running the next Auckland Bootstrappers' Breakfast on Tuesday 25 August. The session is practical from the first minute. Bring a real business process or a pain point that eats your week, and leave with a shortlist of automations you can actually put into action. No AI theory. No endless tool lists. Work you can start the next morning.

Most founders think the first AI decision is which tool to buy. It is the wrong place to start. The first decision is which work is worth automating at all. That is what this ninety minutes covers: how to see where time leaks in a small team, how to spot the repetitive tasks that are safe to hand to software, and how to rank them so you test the right one first.

Rebecca comes at this from a product and experience-design background, so the room stays close to the actual work. You map your own process, you find the repeatable parts, and you leave with a plan rather than a reading list.

Where the time actually goes

Every startup runs on a handful of tasks that repeat. Chasing a quote that has gone quiet. Re-keying the same details from an email into a spreadsheet and then into a CRM. Answering the same three questions from every new lead. Following up after a call. None of it needs a founder's judgement. All of it takes a founder's time.

The first half of the session is about seeing that clearly. You walk through a normal week and mark the work you do the same way every time. Those are the candidates. The tasks that need a real decision stay with you. The tasks that follow a fixed set of steps are the ones a computer can carry.

Capacity comes from taking the repeatable work off the founder's desk, so the hours go back to the things only the founder can do: selling, building, and deciding.

From pain point to shortlist

Finding automatable work is the easy part. Most teams find twenty candidates in ten minutes. The harder question is which one to build first, and that is the second half of the session.

A useful automation scores on three things. How often the task repeats. How much time each run costs you. How safe it is to hand over, meaning a task where a wrong answer is easy to catch and easy to undo. A daily lead follow-up that is low-risk beats a once-a-quarter task that touches your accounts, even if the quarterly one feels more painful in the moment.

Rank your candidates that way and one or two rise to the top. You test those first, measure the time they give back, and only then move to the next. That is why the session asks you to bring one real process. A concrete example beats a general discussion every time, and you walk out with a ranked shortlist tied to your own business.

Where Briick fits

Briick builds the AI agents that do the repeatable work once you have found it. An agent that answers the same inbound questions. An agent that follows up on a lead until it books a meeting. An agent that moves details between your inbox, your spreadsheet, and your CRM so nobody re-keys anything. Each one runs a defined Briick Workflow, a fixed sequence of steps, so it does the same task the same way every time.

Sitting over the top is @Briicky, Briick's AI Chief of Staff. Instead of logging into four tools to check what happened, you ask @Briicky. It reads your calendar, finds the email, triggers a quote or an invoice, and points the other agents at the next job. You ask one place and it does the lookup. That is the through-line from the workshop: find the repeatable work, hand it to an agent, and run the lot from one place. For what that costs, see Briick pricing.

Event details

The Auckland Bootstrappers' Breakfast runs on Tuesday 25 August, 7:30am to 8:30am NZST, at GridAKL, 101 Pakenham Street West, Auckland CBD. Light breakfast and coffee are provided. The community is hosted at GridAKL, and the session is led by Briick co-founder and CPO Rebecca Tarozzi.

Seats sell quickly and the room is capped for the hands-on format. You can book your seat on the Humanitix event page. Payment plans are available with no credit checks.

For more of how Briick shows up in the room, read Briick at the Customer Show 2026.

Common questions

When and where is the Auckland Bootstrappers' Breakfast?

Tuesday 25 August, 7:30am to 8:30am NZST, at GridAKL, 101 Pakenham Street West, Auckland CBD. Light breakfast and coffee are provided.

Who is running the session?

Rebecca Tarozzi, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Briick. She works on product and helps businesses use AI and automation to cut repetitive work.

What should I bring?

One real business process or a pain point that eats your week. The session works your own example, so you leave with a shortlist tied to your business rather than general advice.

Do I need any AI experience?

No. The session skips the theory and the tool lists. You map your own work, spot the repeatable tasks, and rank what to automate first.

What is Briick?

Briick builds AI agents that run the repetitive work in a service business, booking, follow-ups, answering the same questions, and moving data between tools. @Briicky, the AI Chief of Staff, is the one you talk to to run them all.

Ready to find your own shortlist?

If you want a walk-through where these three tests get mapped to your own week and your own tools, book a demo with Briick.