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Voter S10 · one of 23 households

Café owner with a small team

“I run a café with a small team. Food and power costs are squeezing margins, customers are spending less, and we've experienced a break-in.”

questions written for them
7
answers collected
28
AI assistants
4
asked nationally
NZ
01 · What they asked

7 questions, each written as this voter would ask it

The issue each question is about, and how much it matters to this voter. Open any question to read the assistants' answers in full.

  • PF050

    Economy

    I run a café with a small team. Food and power costs are squeezing margins, customers are spending less, and we've experienced a break-in. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What would parties do to improve conditions for small hospitality businesses, and what evidence supports their plans?

    4 answers
  • PF051

    Jobs and unemployment

    I run a café with a small team. Food and power costs are squeezing margins, customers are spending less, and we've experienced a break-in. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties differ on minimum wages, employment rules and support for hiring and training staff?

    4 answers
  • PF052

    Tax and public spending

    I run a café with a small team. Food and power costs are squeezing margins, customers are spending less, and we've experienced a break-in. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which parties propose changes to small-business tax and compliance, and what would those mean for a café?

    4 answers
  • PF053

    Fuel and energy

    I run a café with a small team. Food and power costs are squeezing margins, customers are spending less, and we've experienced a break-in. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What would parties do about electricity costs for small businesses?

    4 answers
  • PF054

    Crime and justice

    I run a café with a small team. Food and power costs are squeezing margins, customers are spending less, and we've experienced a break-in. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose about retail and small-business crime, prevention and policing?

    4 answers
  • PF055

    Immigration

    I run a café with a small team. Food and power costs are squeezing margins, customers are spending less, and we've experienced a break-in. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on immigration settings for hospitality workers?

    4 answers
  • PF056

    Economy

    I run a café with a small team. Food and power costs are squeezing margins, customers are spending less, and we've experienced a break-in. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. If I want to keep the business viable and treat my staff fairly, which party would you recommend, and where might those priorities conflict?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 28 answers this voter received, 20 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 11 of 28.

Answers naming each party, out of 28

  • National27 of 28 answers
  • Labour28 of 28 answers
  • Greens23 of 28 answers
  • ACT28 of 28 answers
  • NZ First24 of 28 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori11 of 28 answers
  • Opportunity6 of 28 answers
  • ChatGPT

    1 of 7 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • Gemini

    5 of 7 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • Google AI Mode

    2 of 7 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • AI Overviews

    0 of 7 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori (never named)
03 · Issue by issue

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues

Each row is one of this voter's issues. Each column is a party. The number shows how often the party came up in the answers to this voter. The coloured line under it shows whether what the AI said about the party was positive, neutral or negative.

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Showing all four assistants · 28 answers

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues: for each topic and party, the share of answers naming the party and how the claims about it split, across all four assistants.
TopicNationalLabourGreensACTNZ FirstTe Pāti MāoriOpportunity
Economy
Jobs and unemployment
Tax and public spending
Fuel and energy
Crime and justice
Immigration
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The café's margins, customer demand and break-in create several policy needs at once. PF050 ChatGPT identifies four pressures and begins with the Restaurant Association's agenda. That is locally relevant sector context, but the source represents an industry perspective and should not be treated as independent proof that a party's proposed response will work.

Gemini gives a specific small-business tax proposal, while AI Mode tells the user that their vote depends on choosing market deregulation and tax relief or intervention and social spending. That wording is a particularly strong reduction of the decision: a café owner could support a mixture of measures across food supply, wages, security and demand.

AI Overviews groups proposals by cost pressure and acknowledges multiple parties around supermarket reform. This offers a example showing a different result to a simple left/right account. The next substantive test is incidence: a company-tax change, cheaper wholesale inputs and customers having more disposable income reach the café by different routes and on different timetables.

From the study's case study of this voter. Each extract opens the full answer with the passage highlighted.

05 · Sources

Where the answers to this voter came from

The websites each assistant drew on when it answered this voter, and what kind of publisher they are. Pick an issue to see the websites for that question.

ChatGPT

63%party websites

Had sources7of 7

Showed you a link7of 7

  1. 1labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 7 answers
  2. 2national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 7 answers
  3. 3act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  4. 4greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  5. 5nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  6. 6opportunity.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  7. 7reuters.com, news, cited in 3 answers
  8. 8beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10retail.kiwi, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers

Gemini

27%advocacy groups

Had sources7of 7

Showed you a link0of 7

  1. 1nzvotecheck.com, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2phcc.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3pwc.co.nz, businesses, cited in 2 answers
  4. 41news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6electrification.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7etu.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8hospitalitybusiness.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10laneneave.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

41%news

Had sources7of 7

Showed you a link1of 7

  1. 1nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  3. 31news.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  5. 5labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8consumer.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9elections.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

44%news

Had sources7of 7

Showed you a link4of 7

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 7 answers
  2. 2nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  3. 3stories.theconversation.com, news, cited in 4 answers
  4. 41news.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  5. 5retail.kiwi, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  6. 6youtube.com, social media, cited in 3 answers
  7. 7act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8businessnz.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9businessstudio.co.nz, other, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  • Party websites
  • Government
  • News
  • Comparison sites
  • Advocacy groups
  • Businesses
  • Social media
  • Other

A website counts once per answer, however many times the answer used it. Counts come from the sources the scan attached to each answer: 28 of this voter's 28 answers have at least one. We assigned a publisher type by hand to every website in a top-ten list; any other website counts as Other.