AI consulting that gets actually used.
AI consulting in Vancouver and across Canada. Most AI projects ship a dashboard nobody opens. We build systems your team will use on Monday morning, and train them so it sticks. Strategy, automation, workshops, and roadmaps grounded in your specific workflows. Team training may qualify for the B.C. Employer Training Grant.
- Best for
- Operators & founders, post-PMF
- Format
- Project, retainer, or workshop
- Range
- $2.5K – $50K+
- Timeline
- 2 – 12 weeks typical
- Grants
- BCETG eligible (team training)
Three pillars. One ladder.
Every engagement starts with discovery, even short ones. Workshops shape thinking. Builds put it in your hands. We rarely skip steps, but we tailor the depth.
Assess & map.
Half a day to a few weeks of looking at your workflows, tools, and team. The output is a written plan: where AI helps, where it does not, and the smallest first move with the biggest leverage.
- i.AI Readiness Assessment$2.5K
- ii.Workflow Audit$1.5K
- iii.AI Strategy & Roadmap$5K+
- iv.Tool Stack Recommendationincl.
Train the team.
Half-day or full-day hands-on sessions that turn your team from AI-curious to AI-capable. Real tools, real prompts, real workflows from your business. They leave with playbooks they will use that week.
- i.AI Foundations Workshop$2.5K
- ii.Prompt & Tool Workshop$3.5K
- iii.Team Training Series$8K+
- iv.1:1 Founder Coaching$350/session
Ship the system.
The thing that earns us back. Real automation, integrated into your existing tools, owned by your team. Not a demo. Not a proof of concept that lives on a laptop. Something running on Monday.
- i.AI Automation Build$5K – 25K
- ii.Custom GPT / Agent$3K – 12K
- iii.AI Marketing System$8K+
- iv.Internal Tool / Dashboard$10K+
Two-week builds. $2.5K to $6K.
Tactical work we routinely ship in two to three weeks for SMBs and operators in Vancouver and across Canada. Stack-agnostic — we work with whichever AI model and automation platform fits the job: ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for the model layer; Make.com, n8n, or Zapier for the wiring.
Custom GPT or Claude Project
Trained on your documents and tone. Drafts proposals, answers staff questions, summarizes meetings — built around your voice and your stack.
CRM automation
AI layer over your sales pipeline. Auto-summarize calls, draft follow-ups, score leads, populate fields. Plugs into the CRM you already use.
Marketing automation
AI-powered content workflows, campaign briefs, ad copy generation, and A/B-test analysis — wired into the platforms you already pay for.
Email triage & response
AI-drafted replies for common inbound, auto-tagged inbox, and escalation rules for the 10% that need human eyes. Scales support without scaling team.
Reporting dashboards
Pull from Stripe, GA4, your CRM, and your billing system. Weekly AI-summarized digest delivered Monday morning. Decisions move faster.
Slack or Notion AI assistant
Team-facing AI that knows your docs and conventions. Onboarding answers, policy lookups, project summaries — without your team learning prompts.
From shadow to shipped.
A standard mid-size build. Smaller engagements compress this. Larger ones extend the build phase, not the framing.
Free call
30 minutes. We learn your business and tell you straight whether AI is the right next move.
Shadow & map
We sit beside the actual work. Workflow audit, tool inventory, stakeholder interviews. The map of where AI fits and where it does not.
Pick the leverage
Written plan and scope. The smallest move with the biggest leverage, named. We point at exactly one thing to ship first.
Ship in production
Built into your real stack — not a sandbox. Shipped, tested, in your hands. Iteration based on use, not opinion.
Train & hand off
Playbooks, recordings, and a workshop so your team owns it. Optional retainer for ongoing tuning and the next build.
Before and after.
A few representative engagements. Names anonymized, numbers honest.
Law firm with a proposal bottleneck
Shopify store drowning in support email
Operations team stitching reports by hand
Honest ranges.
Three common shapes. The actual quote depends on scope, complexity, and what already exists in your stack. We tell you the number on the first call.
AI Assessment
For teams who want a clear plan before they spend serious money.
- ✓ Workflow & tool audit
- ✓ AI readiness scoring
- ✓ Written 12-page plan
- ✓ Prioritized opportunity list
- ✓ 1-hour walkthrough
AI Automation
For teams ready to ship a system that saves real hours every week.
- ✓ Discovery & scope
- ✓ Custom GPT, agent, or workflow
- ✓ Integration with existing tools
- ✓ Team training & playbooks
- ✓ 30 days of post-launch support
Fractional AI Lead
For teams who need a partner across multiple builds and quarters.
- ✓ Embedded as fractional AI lead
- ✓ Slack or email channel
- ✓ Monthly review & roadmap
- ✓ Priority on new builds
- ✓ Quarterly workshops included
We do not just know AI.
Build, not just advise
Most consultants deliver decks. We deliver working systems, trained teams, and measurable results.
Tailored, not templated
Every engagement starts with your specific workflows, your tools, your pain points. Nothing off the shelf.
Senior on every call
You work with the operator the whole way through. No junior account managers, no handoffs.
Honest about limits
If AI is not the right tool for your problem, we tell you. Some bottlenecks are fixed by hiring, not automating.
Things teams actually ask.
One to three weeks for an AI assessment, depending on scope: a focused single-workflow audit takes about a week; a comprehensive multi-department audit runs two to three weeks. Workshops range from a half-day session to a multi-week program. Automation builds typically run four to eight weeks. Strategy and multi-quarter programs run longer. Every engagement starts with the same free 30-minute scoping call.
No. About half the teams we work with have never paid for an AI tool. We work with you regardless of where you are starting. If you do have tools in place (ChatGPT, Copilot, Notion AI, custom GPTs), we audit how they are being used and whether they are earning their seats. If you do not, we point at the smallest first move with the biggest leverage.
Assessment maps where AI fits in your business and produces a written roadmap (1–3 weeks, $1.5K–$5K). Workshop is hands-on training for your team using your real tools (half-day to multi-session, $1.5K–$10K). Automation is custom builds — GPTs, integrations, workflow systems we ship for you (4–8 weeks, $5K–$25K). Strategy is the multi-quarter plan with priorities, governance, and budget for larger programs ($5K–$25K+). Most teams start with an assessment to figure out which path fits.
Real ranges, not tiers. Assessments run $1,500–$5,000. Workshops run $1,500–$10,000. Automation builds run $5,000–$25,000 depending on integrations. Strategy and multi-quarter programs run $5,000–$25,000+. Retainers, when they make sense, run $2,000–$10,000 per month. The first call scopes the right shape; we do not anchor pricing until we understand the work.
Team training may qualify for the B.C. Employer Training Grant, which reimburses up to 80% of eligible training costs, and R&D-heavy builds may qualify for NRC IRAP or SR&ED. We can flag the programs that might fit your scope; final eligibility is determined by the program itself. We do not write the application. Bring it up on the discovery call and we will tell you which programs might apply to your scope.
Discovery call is free. After that: scoping, agreement, kickoff, and a shared workspace. We work in milestones with weekly check-ins, so you see drafts before anything ships. After delivery, you get 30 days of post-launch support to catch issues. Many clients move to a monthly retainer for ongoing optimization, but there is no obligation to continue. The deliverables are yours either way.
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