AI consulting and AI services in Vancouver, BC

This is the most common situation in Vancouver offices right now. People use AI individually, on their own accounts, for whatever they think of, so the gains are real but invisible, uneven, and sometimes risky because client data ends up in personal tools. Nothing changes at the team level because no workflow was redesigned, nobody measured a baseline, and there is no shared policy on what is allowed. The fix is an AI assessment: pick the two or three workflows where hours are actually lost, measure them, move them onto approved tools, train the people who run them, and report the before and after to leadership.

It depends on scope. A Quick Check ($1,500 flat) answers one workflow or one question in about a week. A Readiness Assessment ($3,500 flat) covers a single team or business unit of up to 25 people, with stakeholder interviews, a tool and gap review, the top five opportunities, and a 90-day roadmap. A Strategic Assessment (from $12,500) covers cross-functional work for organizations of up to 200 people, with process mapping across teams and a 12-month roadmap. Larger or regulated organizations are scoped individually. Interviews and workflow mapping can happen in person at your Vancouver office.

Yes, starting with whether you need one. A chatbot earns its place when customers ask the same questions repeatedly and the answers live in documents you control: booking rules, service areas, policies, product details. It does damage when it guesses. Chatbot consulting covers the use case, which answers it may and may not give, where it hands off to a person, and how it is tested before launch. Where your customers write in Chinese, Punjabi, or other languages, a multilingual assistant can be configured, with its approved answers produced through AI-assisted translation and professional human review arranged on request before it goes live.

Yes. We sign NDAs, complete vendor and security questionnaires, and build inside your own tenant and accounts (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, your CRM, your approved AI tools) rather than routing your data through ours. Designs are data-minimising by default: only the data a workflow needs, with access your IT team controls. We do not hold certifications such as SOC 2, so we work within your security requirements rather than claiming certifications we do not have.

One senior consultant leads the engagement and does the assessment, design, and build work personally, with a small bench of trusted specialists for extra volume. Engagements are staged, assessment, then a pilot in one team, then rollout, so scope always matches capacity and you see results before committing further. For a very large enterprise-wide transformation spanning many business units at once, a large consulting firm may be the better fit, and we will tell you that on the first call.

We design with privacy in mind from the start: mapping what personal information a workflow touches, keeping it inside systems you already control, and choosing tools and settings that match your internal policies. B.C. organizations have obligations under provincial and federal privacy law, and those questions belong with your privacy officer or legal counsel. We give them a clear description of the design to review. We do not provide legal advice or promise compliance.

Mostly the ones you already pay for or have approved: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Workspace with Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude business plans, and automation platforms that connect to your existing systems. We are not resellers and have no commission on any tool, so recommendations are based on fit, security review, and cost.

Sometimes. The Canada Digital Adoption Program is closed. As of October 2026 the main routes are BDC LIFT, which pairs advisory support with financing (its AI and digital track is for Canadian businesses with at least $1M in annual revenue), and the B.C. Employer Training Grant, which for 2026/27 can cover 80 percent of eligible third-party training costs, up to $10,000 per employee, according to WorkBC. Each program sets its own eligibility and decides applications. We can flag what may fit, but we do not write grant applications.

Usually within one to two weeks of a discovery call, subject to your onboarding process. Because we are based in Vancouver, kickoff and workflow mapping sessions can happen in person at your office downtown, on Broadway, in Mount Pleasant, or elsewhere in Metro Vancouver.

Yes. The North Shore is part of the same in-person service area, so AI consulting in North Vancouver or AI services in West Vancouver work the same way as in the city: workshops and workflow mapping on site, build work done remotely in between. The North Vancouver AI consulting page covers that market in more detail.

Yes. Strong product engineering teams often do not have the bandwidth to evaluate AI tools for finance, sales, support, or operations, or to train non-technical staff. We handle the internal side so your engineers can keep shipping product, and we hand over documentation they can maintain.

Yes, when creative AI services are aimed at the admin around the craft rather than the craft itself: bids, schedules, vendor paperwork, research, transcription, and reporting. Studios also need clear rules about rights, likeness, and client confidentiality before anyone uses generative tools on production material, so a use policy is usually part of the first engagement.