The shed and the science.

Who's behind it

Hi, I'm Rebecca, the public face of GetSome.Tips. The “we” on this site is me and my partner Phil. Between us we've spent something like fifty years in IT — he's been at it for over thirty and currently spends his days working with cutting-edge AI models for large global enterprise companies; I've spent the last twenty or so in IT consulting and am currently a Principal at one of New Zealand's leading consultancies.

Our day jobs have nothing to do with horse racing. What they do give us is a front-row seat to how modern AI is being used in serious, high-stakes settings — the kind of work where “close enough” doesn't cut it and every decision has to be defensible against the data. GetSome.Tips is what happens when you take that mindset and point it at something we genuinely love doing on a Saturday: picking horses.

This is also our own punting tool. Every plan we publish, we run through our own TAB accounts. We're not selling tips we wouldn't put real money on ourselves.

That's the whole pitch: take the curiosity of two long-time punters, add the engineering discipline that says every bet the method recommends has to be sitting in a database with the result logged next to it — wins, losses, the lot — and put it in front of you on a Saturday morning. No cherry-picking, no story-telling.

How the AI actually works

In plain English: every Friday night, an AI reads every race on the New Zealand Saturday card. It looks at the same things a sharp old hand would — recent sectional times, going preferences, jockey form, the gate, weight changes, the form of the trainer. The difference is it does it for every horse in every race in a few minutes, and it never gets tired or lazy on race seven.

Then on Saturday morning, when you tell us how much you've got and how brave you're feeling, a second piece of code (no AI here, just steady rules) builds a plan from those analyses. Same inputs, same plan, every time. No magic. No spin.

The hard part is the implementation

Most people now know AI is genuinely useful. What's less obvious is how much careful work sits between “ask a chatbot” and a tip you can put real money behind: choosing the right data sources, getting them in clean, structuring the prompt so the model thinks about a race the way an experienced tipster does, having a second model sanity-check the first, and grading every selection against the actual result so the method gets sharper over time. That engineering is our day job. We've built that pipeline so you don't have to. You just open the app on Saturday morning.

The two AIs that do the heavy lifting on every Saturday card have names, voices and the occasional opinion. Meet Claudia and Samantha →

The track record

Every bet we've ever recommended is recorded. We publish the running tally and the strike rate. See the full audit here. If we have a bad Saturday, we'll tell you on the Sunday. That's the deal.

Who it's for

Kiwis who already enjoy a Saturday punt and want a smarter read before they place their own bets. If you want a suggested plan, we'll give you one. If you're a seasoned punter with your own view, use our picks to check whether the data agrees with you, or whether we've spotted something worth adding to your trifecta, quaddie or multi. We're not trying to turn you into a professional gambler. We're trying to make your weekend a bit more interesting, and on a good day, give you something to crow about at the pub.

Why we charge

We know a good tip can get forwarded to a mate. That is part of racing culture, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The reason we ask people to subscribe is simpler: the AI calls cost money, the site costs money, and the method only improves if we can keep running it, grading it, and tuning it properly.

We do not need a huge audience. We need enough subscribers to cover the tokens, hosting, and a bit of the weekend work that keeps the analysis useful. If you get value from the read, your support keeps it alive.