Claiming Our Place in the AI Landscape
Last weekend, Pacific Group AI founder Tayla Beddoes flew to Sydney at the invitation of Liam Ottley and Josh Brown to attend an AAA Accelerator event, an exclusive gathering for AI agency from around the world.
Liam, the creator of the AI Automation Agency model and founder of Morningside AI, has become one of the most recognised names in the industry. He’s also the number 1 AI educator on YouTube, with more than 670,000 subscribers, and has built a suite of automation companies designed to help businesses use AI to work smarter. Josh Brown, co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of Morningside AI, leads the strategic and operational side of their global agency work.
The event brought together over 200 founders, innovators, and leaders, all working to refine how AI and automation are shaping industries across the world.
As the founder of Pacific Group AI, formerly TaysMedia AI, the first AI automation agency in the Cook Islands and the only one of its kind in the Pacific region, Tayla didn’t attend to spectate but to collaborate, to connect with the best in the business, and to ensure that as AI continues to evolve globally, our region evolves with it.
Through membership in Liam’s AAA community, Pacific Group AI has access to tested systems, proven frameworks, and world-class training that have helped agencies across the world grow and scale using AI. The Morningside AI team has spent years refining what works. Tayla and Pacific Group AI being part of that network means bringing to the country and wider region methods that are tried, trusted, and already delivering results elsewhere.
Of course, the Pacific faces its own realities. There is a clear technology gap between our region and larger markets. Infrastructure, access, and digital literacy remain hurdles. But as Tayla sees it, that gap also represents one of our greatest opportunities… the chance to design and apply AI in a way that reflects our Pacific values, and in a way that works for us.
The mission at Pacific Group AI is to blend ancestral intelligence with artificial intelligence to transform teams across the Pacific. To help them reimagine how they operate, communicate, and grow. Our work is not about replacing people; it’s about building systems that allow them to do more of what matters.
Already, we’re seeing progress. In the Cook Islands and across the region, businesses are beginning to embrace AI as a practical tool - one that goes beyond just ChatGPT. One that improves decision-making, streamlines operations, reduces operational costs, and creates more time for strategic tasks, for human connection and creativity. These solutions aren’t imported. They’re being built by a local agency that understands both the technology and the Pacific pulse.
Pacific Group AI’s anchor in global networks like AAA doesn’t detach them from the Pacific, it strengthens them. It connects Cook Islands innovation to global best practice and ensures our region is not left behind, but equipped to lead in our own way.
As a Cook Islander with Fijian, Samoan, and Tahitian roots, Tayla sees artificial intelligence not as a cold or foreign technology, but as a vaka - a vessel to help us navigate the modern world with the same wisdom and foresight our ancestors once used to navigate the ocean.
We don’t need our solutions flown in. They’re already being built here - by Pacific people, for Pacific people.
At Pacific Group AI, we’re doing that work every day: methodically, locally, and globally. The opportunity before us is not simply to catch up, but to define how technology serves culture, community, and identity - the Pacific way.
Pictured: Pacific Group AI founder Tayla Beddoes, with Liam Ottley, founder and CEO of Morningside AI, creator of the AI Automation Agency model, number 1 AI education on YouTube, and host of the event.
