About

Toby Bell-Ramsay, AI consultant and systems engineer, beside the AcesForge Systems Engineering panel, Christchurch

Toby Bell-Ramsay

Founder, AcesForge

Building AI since before ChatGPT existed, from teenage computer-vision experiments to a production voice platform.

  • Computer vision and facial recognition since his teens, years before large language models existed
  • 4.5+ years and counting at Tait Communications, building reliability-critical radio communications systems
  • Steven Bly Award for Most Outstanding Product or Solution Development, 2025, for reducing RF production test time from ~30 to ~9 minutes at Tait, avoiding ~$1.3M in additional test equipment — see the post
  • Accepted into the Google for Startups Cloud Program, 2026 — see the post
  • YES Program Innovation Award (2018/19) and BP Business Competition, Linwood High School (2017) — self-originated product ideas, high school
  • Runner-up, Annual National NZDE Student Project Poster Competition, Ara Institute of Canterbury, July 2022
  • Founded and runs AliceHQ.AI, a voice AI platform designed and built end to end
  • AcesForge applies the same discipline to software and hardware evidence for NZ businesses

What AcesForge does

Custom software

Web apps, internal tools, and integrations built to production standard. Fixed-scope or T&M with a soft cap. Shipped on reliable infrastructure.

Hardware evidence engineering

Bench testing and characterisation work for NZ hardware founders. Packaged for patent submission, investor validation, or certification prep.

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