bowlingguide.nz uses artificial intelligence (AI) as a support tool in its editorial work. AI helps us research and draft, but a person reads, checks and edits every page before it is published. This policy explains where AI fits into our process and where it doesn’t.
Last updated: October 2026.
How we use AI
We use AI tools, including Claude, an AI assistant developed by Anthropic. In practice, AI helps us with three tasks.
- Research. AI helps us gather and sort background material on a venue, a club, a rule or an organisation.
- Structure. AI helps us plan a guide so that it answers the questions readers are most likely to ask, in a sensible order.
- First drafts. AI can produce a first draft that our editor then rewrites, corrects and completes.
AI is never the last step. Nothing on the site is published straight from an AI tool.
Our human editing
Once a draft exists, the real editorial work begins. Our editor goes through each page and:
- checks facts against primary sources, such as a venue’s or club’s own website, Bowls New Zealand, Tenpin Bowling New Zealand and the published laws of each sport
- corrects errors and removes anything that can’t be confirmed
- makes sure lawn bowls and ten-pin bowling are never mixed up, since the two sports use different terms, equipment and governing bodies
- rewrites unclear passages and explains technical terms in plain language
- adds New Zealand context that a general draft would miss
- confirms that the wording is our own and not copied from another site
What AI gets wrong
AI tools can state things confidently that turn out to be untrue. With bowling, the usual risks are out-of-date venue names, wrong lane or green counts, closed venues listed as open, and rules borrowed from the wrong code. This is exactly why every detail is checked by a person.
Why we are open about it
We think readers have a right to know how the content they rely on is made. Being open about AI lets you judge our guides with full information.
It also keeps us honest. Search engines such as Google reward content that is helpful and reliable, whether or not AI was involved in producing it. Our aim is to meet that standard on every page.
Fact-checking and responsibility
A human editor is responsible for everything published on bowlingguide.nz. Using AI doesn’t change that responsibility or move it to a tool.
Bowling venues and clubs change often. Centres are renamed or sold, clubs merge, and opening hours and prices move. When we learn that a detail has changed, we update the page.
Our content is general information
Our guides are general information for readers in New Zealand. They are not professional advice, and they are not a substitute for a governing body’s official ruling on the laws of a sport.
Details such as prices, opening hours, age restrictions and booking rules are set by each venue or club and can change without notice. Always confirm them with the venue or club before you go.
Found an error?
If you spot a mistake or an out-of-date detail, please tell us through our contact page. A link to the page concerned helps us correct it quickly.
You can read more about who we are on our about us page, and about the conditions for using the site in our terms of use.