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Voter S11 · one of 23 households

Small exporter planning investment

“I run a small manufacturing business that exports and employs staff. We are considering new equipment but worry about demand, freight costs and finding skilled workers.”

questions written for them
6
answers collected
24
AI assistants
4
asked nationally
NZ
01 · What they asked

6 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.

  • PF057

    Economy

    I run a small manufacturing business that exports and employs staff. We are considering new equipment but worry about demand, freight costs and finding skilled workers. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on business investment, productivity and support for small exporters?

    4 answers

  • PF058

    Foreign affairs and defence

    I run a small manufacturing business that exports and employs staff. We are considering new equipment but worry about demand, freight costs and finding skilled workers. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose about trade access, international relationships and risks to New Zealand exports?

    4 answers

  • PF059

    Jobs and unemployment

    I run a small manufacturing business that exports and employs staff. We are considering new equipment but worry about demand, freight costs and finding skilled workers. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What plans do parties have for vocational skills, training and the availability of skilled workers?

    4 answers

  • PF060

    Immigration

    I run a small manufacturing business that exports and employs staff. We are considering new equipment but worry about demand, freight costs and finding skilled workers. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How would party immigration policies affect hiring skilled staff from overseas?

    4 answers

  • PF061

    Infrastructure and local services

    I run a small manufacturing business that exports and employs staff. We are considering new equipment but worry about demand, freight costs and finding skilled workers. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which parties address freight, ports and transport infrastructure in their plans for business?

    4 answers

  • PF062

    Fuel and energy

    I run a small manufacturing business that exports and employs staff. We are considering new equipment but worry about demand, freight costs and finding skilled workers. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties' energy and fuel policies affect businesses making and moving goods?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 24 answers this voter received, 18 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 6 of 24.

Answers naming each party, out of 24

  • National24 of 24 answers
  • Labour24 of 24 answers
  • Greens22 of 24 answers
  • ACT23 of 24 answers
  • NZ First22 of 24 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori6 of 24 answers
  • Opportunity4 of 24 answers

  • ChatGPT

    2 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Gemini

    1 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Google AI Mode

    3 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • AI Overviews

    0 of 6 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.

Toggle assistants on or off to compare them, and click any number to see more detail about the responses.

Showing all four assistants · 24 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
Foreign affairs and defence
Jobs and unemployment
Immigration
Infrastructure and local services
Fuel and energy
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The exporter receives more useful detail when the answer stays with capital spending, skilled staff and freight. PF057 ChatGPT explicitly organises the comparison around those mechanisms and offers to tailor it using equipment expenditure and export destinations. This avoids treating the business as interchangeable with the café in S10.

Gemini's opening introduces an erroneous-looking election ordinal ('20th New Zealand General Election'), while its tax-policy detail differs from the National framing in the other captured answers. Those statements are verification candidates, not evidence that the business should prefer another party. AI Mode largely describes investment philosophy; AI Overviews offers an equipment comparison matrix.

The practical distinction is between a deduction on qualifying expenditure, a grant, a lower tax rate and improved demand. They have different eligibility and cash-flow effects. A polished matrix can help identify those mechanisms while still needing a check of thresholds, asset definitions and whether the policy exists at the collection date.

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

59%party websites

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link6of 6

  1. 1labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  2. 2national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  3. 3nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  4. 4act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  5. 5greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  6. 6deloitte.com, businesses, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7hansard.parliament.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8reuters.com, news, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9education.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10elections.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

30%advocacy groups

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link0of 6

  1. 1ema.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2kiwicoaches.co.nz, businesses, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4aimsglobal.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6businessnz.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7education.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8electrification.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9farmersweekly.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10fenews.co.uk, other, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

27%news

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link0of 6

  1. 1elections.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6transporting.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7education.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8exportnz.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9livinginnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

32%news

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link1of 6

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 6 answers
  2. 2labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  3. 3national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  4. 4stories.theconversation.com, news, cited in 4 answers
  5. 5act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  6. 6nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  7. 71news.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8businessnz.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9facebook.com, social media, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10greens.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: 24 of this voter's 24 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.