For a consultancy under 20 staff, one process, lead follow-up or a compliance-report flow, is a fixed $4,000 to $8,000 build on Microsoft 365 you already pay for, no premium licence unless the flow touches a paid connector.
Engineering consultancies with under 20 staff, on Microsoft 365, wanting an internal tool or a workflow fixed without hiring a developer. This page is the numbers and the price; the three specific builds worth doing first, lead follow-up, compliance document automation, and an internal paperwork tool, are covered in full in Power Platform for a small NZ engineering consultancy. Most of this work is scoped on one call, priced flat before anything starts, and built remotely, so a practice anywhere in New Zealand gets the same process as one in Christchurch. See who Kove is for and who it is not for the wider fit.
From the NZ small business software census, Kove's observed-signal tables on 5,357 NZ firms with a website on file, collected June to September 2026:
| Signal | Firms identified | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Website platform | 145 engineering consultancies | WordPress 68%, other platforms 32% |
WordPress runs more than two-thirds of the engineering consultancy websites Kove has a signal for, on par with the wider trades and professional services base in the census. The licensing point that actually decides a build's cost is separate from the website platform: every Microsoft 365 Business plan already carries the seeded Power Platform rights a lead-follow-up or document flow runs on, at no extra cost, until the build touches full Dataverse or a premium connector. A consultancy that licenses every engineer for Power Apps Premium because a bench of consultants suggested Dataverse has usually bought a database it does not need; most builds this size never touch it.
A flow that follows up automatically after a viewing or a site visit, on a schedule you set, so a prospect never falls through the cracks between the first call and the proposal. Detail in following up leads without it feeling like spam.
A flow that watches your contact form and inbox, acknowledges the enquiry immediately, and routes it to the right person so nothing sits until tomorrow. Detail in answering website enquiries the same day.
Usually only if it cannot take a proper enquiry, reads badly on a phone, or was never told to Google that the practice exists. Detail in is my business website outdated.
Rarely, for a firm under 20 staff. Project data lives in the practice's project management tool; the Power Platform builds are workflows around it, which SharePoint lists and Power Automate handle without Dataverse's NZ$32.40 per user licence.
A flow that pulls the standard fields, site, client, inspection date, sign-off, into a Word template automatically, so the report is drafted, not typed from scratch each time. It is a single-process build, $4,000 to $8,000, detailed with two more consultancy builds in Power Platform for a small NZ engineering consultancy.
If your project management tool already does scheduling, budgets and document control well, do not rebuild any of that as a Power App. That duplicates a licence you already pay for and adds a second system nobody maintains. Power Platform earns its price on the workflow gaps around the project tool, chasing a follow-up, generating a compliance document, routing an approval, not as a replacement for the tool itself. If the honest answer is a cheaper subscription, that is what you hear on the call, and if the real problem is that the practice tool itself has been outgrown, that is a bigger decision than any of the builds here, and a different conversation.
Every price is fixed and agreed before I start, with nothing added later for scope you did not ask for. Full tier detail on the services page, and the three builds worth doing first in Power Platform for a small NZ engineering consultancy.
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