Steve Fawcett

Founder & Strategist — Te Puke Digital

Steve Fawcett is the founder of Te Puke Digital, the Bay of Plenty web, SEO and AI-infrastructure studio. He builds connected, durable digital systems — websites, search, AI tooling, hosting and media — that help local businesses and community organisations get found, build trust and grow.

Steve combines hands-on technical delivery with ecosystem-level strategy. Beyond client work, he founded and runs an interlinked network of regional and kai-resilience platforms — Kiwifruit.Capital, Kai Resilience, Te Puke Today, the Troppo grower tools and more — all under Vector Group Charitable Trust (NZ charity CC45966). That network is both a mission and a proving ground for the SEO and AI-search work the studio sells.

His focus areas:

• Web design & development (WordPress and static)
• SEO, local SEO and AI search optimisation (GEO)
• AI tooling & automation (via OSVector.ai)
• Hosting & infrastructure (Red5 Host)
• Photography, videography & media
• Regional development & food-resilience strategy

Skills & toolkit

• Web & code: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL & phpMyAdmin, WordPress, WooCommerce, Listeo & directory scripts, Eleventy/static sites, Git & GitHub, VS Code, custom web scripts, white-label solutions
• SEO, GEO & AI search: technical & local SEO, generative engine optimisation, JSON-LD schema/structured data, Core Web Vitals, llms.txt
• AI & systems: OSVector.ai, Python & Node, AI chatbots & automation, RegenOS
• Hosting, streaming & infrastructure: Red5 Host managed hosting, cPanel/WHM, DNS/Cloudflare, FTP/SFTP, caching, security, backups & care plans, plus live/video streaming infrastructure (Red5, Wowza; social/media streaming platforms incl. MediaScripts)
• Photography & video: event, portrait, tourism and aerial work; video concept, filming, editing & audio backing
• Kit: DJI drone range, Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, DJI Osmo Pocket 3, DJI wireless mics
• Creative software: Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat; Microsoft 365
• Content, marketing & strategy: blog & content writing, digital strategy, marketing, email & social, and the Google stack (Workspace, Analytics, Search Console, Ads, Business Profile)

How Steve works: Gallup CliftonStrengths — Connectedness, Empathy, Context, Positivity and Strategic. In short, a relationship-led, pattern-seeing strategist who builds interconnected, durable systems, reads both people and patterns, and leads with grounded optimism.

Steve is grounded in the Bay of Plenty and motivated by what technology can do for a region when it’s joined up well — a people-first, place-based approach to digital.

Work with Steve  ·  [email protected]  ·  027 414 4280