Every engagement is a fixed price agreed in writing before kickoff — and structured, where eligible, to qualify for federal productivity funding. The bands below are real: the bottom of each is a well-scoped project, the top is a mid-market client with more integrations and stakeholders. No hourly. No “contact us” games.
All amounts CAD · HST extra · Wire / e-transfer / cheque
The published prices below don’t change. What changes is how the engagement is structured: we itemize and sequence the work so that, where a client is eligible, it can be put toward federal productivity offsets. We architect for funding eligibility — the application stays with you and your advisors. Programs and figures are illustrative and subject to current terms.
The Assessment is built to double as the evidence base for a funding case — prioritized ROI projections and risk-mitigation outlines that may support applications to programs such as BDC LIFT or a Global Innovation Cluster . Zero code, zero liability, the on-ramp that feeds everything else.
Grant-ready
Bounded workflow automation is delivered with line-itemized invoicing so your accountant can assess it against the Productivity Super-Deduction — accelerated expensing for qualifying productivity assets . We structure the deliverable; your CPA confirms the treatment.
Written off via Super-Deduction
AI-literacy workshops are delivered so that eligible employers may pursue the Canada-Ontario Job Grant (COJG), which may cover up to ~83% of training cost — up to roughly CA$10,000 per employee, subject to current program terms . We provide the documentation; the application is filed by you.
Subsidized via COJG
Applied AI North is not a grant administrator or tax advisor. We architect engagements for funding eligibility and supply the documentation a funder or CPA needs — eligibility, amounts, and program availability depend on your circumstances and current government terms, and are confirmed by you and your advisors. Every figure on this page is illustrative and flagged for verification.
Grant-ready roadmap
The right answer before you build the wrong thing — and the grant-ready roadmap that can anchor a funding case. One week with your team tells you which AI projects will pay you back, which ones to skip, and how the work is sequenced so it can be financed.
14-day out clause. If it’s not the right fit in the first two weeks, you can cancel for a full refund minus the time already worked at standard rates. We’ve used it twice in three years.
No follow-up email loops. A 30-minute call, then a scope and price by the next morning.
Pick the shape that fits your problem. We build bounded, deterministic, human-in-the-loop systems — Level 1–2 assistive by design, not by default. Bounded workflow automation is the execution centerpiece. Every build ends with code in your repo, a runbook your team can edit, and 30 days of post-handoff support. No proprietary glue. No vendor lock-in.
Best for: Operations teams with a recurring task that eats 2–3 hours a day
Written off via Super-Deduction
Best for: Teams that need a large share of inbound triaged and drafted with a human in the loop, or internal Q&A over your documents
Best for: Companies building a sovereign-hosted product surface architected to integrate bounded automations later — concierge chat, semantic search
Best for: Teams losing hours a week hunting through scattered, permission-sensitive docs across many systems
Built for data residency & access control
Best for: Operators who need a real, custom site without a four-month agency cycle — sovereign-hosted, ready for bounded automations later
Best for: Teams layering governance onto an existing or planned system — built for AIDA readiness, not certification
API and infrastructure costs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Supabase, Vercel) are billed to your accounts in your name — not marked up through us. We estimate and cap them in every proposal.
Defensive AI literacy for the people doing the work, not the people writing the policy — pro-worker, PIPEDA-safe prompting, and where to distrust the model. We bring a laptop, your team brings their actual tasks, and everyone leaves with three things they can use on Monday. Delivered so eligible employers can pursue COJG training-cost subsidy.
Subsidized via COJG
Best for: Teams with no hands-on AI experience who need a practical introduction to the tools they already have
Subsidized via COJG
Best for: Teams ready to build 2–3 working workflows together in the room — not just learn, but ship something by 5 pm
Most clients chain two or three engagements over six to nine months. These are the sequences we see most often, with approximate total investment. Every path starts with an Assessment — it’s the cheapest way to avoid building the wrong thing.
Half on the day the contract is signed, half on the day of handoff. We don’t bill hourly because the goal isn’t to spend hours — it’s to ship the thing. If a project goes over scope, that’s our problem. If you want to expand scope, we write a new fixed-price addendum.
Plain answers. If yours isn’t here, just ask on the intro call.
Hourly aligns our incentives with billing more hours, not finishing the work. Fixed price aligns us with shipping. If we’re slow, that’s our problem — not yours.
We write an addendum: new scope, new price, new dates. You sign it or we deliver the original scope. No surprise invoices, ever.
No. Anthropic, OpenAI, Supabase, Vercel, and similar costs are billed to your accounts, in your name. We estimate them in the proposal and set hard ceilings inside the agent so you don’t get a surprise invoice from a cloud provider.
Yes. Most builds run remote. On-site visits for assessments and training workshops are GTA by default; travel outside GTA is discussed at scoping and billed separately at cost.
No. We charge cash for cash work. If you’d like to discuss an advisor relationship after the engagement closes, that’s a separate conversation.
We architect engagements to be eligible and supply the documentation a funder or CPA needs — itemized invoicing, ROI projections, training records. Whether you qualify depends on your circumstances and current program terms. Eligible training may, for example, be supported by the Canada-Ontario Job Grant (COJG, up to ~83% of cost, subject to terms), and qualifying automation may be assessed against the Productivity Super-Deduction. We are not a grant administrator or tax advisor; the application is filed by you and your advisors.
We architect for Canadian data residency. Systems are deployable on Canadian cloud regions (e.g. AWS Canada Central) and Canadian foundation models (e.g. Cohere), so proprietary data and IP can stay onshore — aligned with PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, and AIDA readiness. A DPA is signed before any data moves, on every engagement.
Within the first 14 days of any engagement, you can cancel for any reason and receive the deposit back, minus the time already worked at standard rates. After that, we’re building the agreed scope. That clause has been used twice in three years.
A thirty-minute call. We read your brief before we meet. If it’s not the right fit, we’ll say so and point you toward someone better. If it is, you’ll have a scope and a price by the next morning.
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