Applied AI North

Three things we do, each at a fixed price.

Every service has a published scope, price band and timeline. If none of them fit, we’ll tell you.

AI Consulting Find where AI pays off, then build it. Roadmap, workflow automation, assistants and knowledge search. From CA$2,5002–8 weeks AI Literacy & Enablement Get your team using AI well, and safely. Hands-on workshops, follow-up support, and an adoption program. From CA$1,500Half day to 6 weeks Web Development Fast, accessible websites you own, ready for AI when you are. From CA$2,5003–8 weeks

AI Consulting

A two-week roadmap to find the work worth automating, then small, fixed-price builds: one workflow at a time, or one assistant. A person approves what the AI sends, and you own the result.

AI Roadmap

A two-week engagement that finds the work worth automating, and notes any funding programs worth checking.

See a sample roadmap for a fictional property manager.

Length
2 weeks; the half-day with your team is on site in the GTA or remote
Investment
CA$2,500, fixed
Includes
A kickoff call with leadership, one half-day shadowing your team, a review of your tools and sample documents, and a written plan with three to five scored opportunities (Do now, Do next, Not yet, Don’t), rough costs and payback, and funding programs worth checking. Then a 60-minute walkthrough. Act on it with us, another builder, or no one.
Best for
Teams who’ve heard the AI pitch from a dozen vendors and want a grounded second opinion
Not a fit if
You want something built this week. The roadmap produces a written plan; builds come after.

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More detail about the AI Roadmap

We score candidate workflows on payoff, effort, and risk, and note any funding program worth checking for each. Zero code, zero lock-in, and no follow-on required.

What happens over the two weeks

  1. Week 1 A kickoff call with leadership. We map the org and the workflows that hurt.
  2. Week 1 One half-day with the team that owns those workflows, on site or remote. We read your tools and sample documents and watch the work.
  3. Week 2 Score each opportunity on payoff, effort, risk, and adoption likelihood; estimate rough costs and payback; note any funding program worth checking.
  4. End of week 2 A 60-minute walkthrough of the written plan with your leadership.

Funding: we point to programs worth checking; we don’t administer grants, and the plan doesn’t replace a program’s own paperwork. BDC’s LIFT financing, for example, requires BDC’s own Digital Plan. See the funding guide.

Workflow Automation

One repetitive workflow, moved into a system that does the busywork, with a person approving anything that goes out.

Length
2–5 weeks
Investment
CA$2,500–9,000 per workflow, fixed · a simple workflow (one trigger, at most one AI step) from CA$2,500
Includes
One workflow, built and monitored, a run-book, a handover session, 30 days of support, the software it runs on, and the keys handed to your team. AI usage is billed to your own provider account at cost, with a hard monthly cap.
Best for
Repetitive work like CRM clean-up, inbound triage, document routing, recurring reports, and customer onboarding handoffs
Not a fit if
The workflow works fine on a spreadsheet. We won’t replace it.

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More detail about Workflow Automation

n8n, Make, or Zapier stitching email, docs, CRM, and Slack, with AI steps only where they earn it. One workflow per engagement; a second workflow is its own fixed quote.

Guardrails
Read-only by default, with a human approval step before anything is written or sent
Tools
n8nMakeZapierCustom Node / PythonWebhooksPostgres triggers

Funding: invoices are itemized so your accountant can decide whether any part counts as a capital investment under the Productivity Super-Deduction. Much of a build may simply be a regular business expense.

AI Assistants & Knowledge Search

Ask in plain language, get an answer with its source. One assistant per build: a search over your company’s documents for staff, or an assistant that answers customers on one channel, with a person approving replies.

Length
4–8 weeks
Investment
CA$7,500–15,000, fixed once scoped · internal knowledge assistant from CA$7,500 · customer-facing assistant from CA$10,000
Includes
Testing against real questions, logs, an off switch, a handover, 30 days of support, and the software it runs on. AI usage is billed to your own provider account at cost, with a hard monthly cap.
Best for
Knowledge that’s messy, spread across systems, and permission-sensitive. That’s where we earn our keep.
Not a fit if
Your docs are tidy and in one system. An off-the-shelf add-on may be all you need, and we’ll tell you so.

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More detail about AI Assistants & Knowledge Search
Two shapes
Internal knowledge assistant: answers staff questions from your documents (handbooks, contracts, tickets, scanned PDFs), read-only, with cited sources
Customer-facing assistant: one channel (website chat or email drafts), answers only from approved content, and a person approves anything that isn’t a simple factual answer
The hard part we own
Permissions. The index honours your access rules at query time, so nobody sees a document they couldn’t already open. Get this wrong and you’ve built a data-leak machine.
Stack
ClaudeGPTpgvector / SupabaseQdrantAzure AI SearchRerankingDocument-level access controlEval harness

Can run on Canadian cloud regions where your data calls for it, and follows your existing access rules.

Guardrails included in every build

Every automation and assistant ships with the same safety basics, at no extra cost. There’s no separate review to buy.

Read-only
By default, it can look things up but can’t change or send anything on its own
Approval
A person approves every action, and any reply that isn’t a plain answer from content you’ve approved
Logs
A readable record of what it did, so you can check its work
Off switch
A real control to cut its access and go back to doing the work by hand
Your data
A short note on where your data lives and moves, so you can check it against PIPEDA and, in Quebec, Law 25

How we build AI safely, in plain words: the risk & compliance guide.

AI Literacy & Enablement

Workshops built on your team’s real work, with a 30-day follow-up check-in included, then monthly office hours or a six-week program if you want it to stick.

Team Workshops

For the people doing the work: your team brings their actual tasks and leaves with prompting habits, a sense of where AI fails, and privacy-safe practices they can use on Monday.

Length
Half day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours), up to 15 people, on site in the GTA or remote
Investment
CA$1,500 half day · CA$2,750 full day
Includes
A prep call, the session on your team’s own tasks, a written field guide, three workflow templates, and a 30-day follow-up check-in
Best for
Operations, sales, legal, and finance teams of up to 15 curious, non-technical people. Larger teams get two sessions.
Not a fit if
You’re training engineers. This is for non-technical professionals.

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More detail about Team Workshops
Before
A 20-minute call with your team lead, so the session runs on your team’s real tasks
Take home
A short written field guide and three workflow templates
30-day follow-up
One live check-in about a month after the session, to fix what didn’t stick
Funding
Ontario’s job grant only funds training from colleges, career colleges and similar accredited providers, so our workshops don’t qualify.

Curriculum (full day)

  1. What these tools actually do, in 20 minutes
  2. Prompting workshop with your own real tasks
  3. Where AI fails, and how to spot it: defensive prompting, and treating outside text as data, not instructions
  4. Building three small workflows you’ll use next week
  5. Privacy, security, and what to do with client data, PIPEDA-safe by habit

After the workshop

Skills from a single day fade unless people keep using them. The follow-up is included; after that, pick the level of support that matches where your team is.

  • Habits are forming and you want light support: AI Office Hours, a monthly live clinic and a template library we keep current.
  • You want it to stick across the company: the Enablement Program trains internal champions and measures real use.
  • The use-case list has work worth automating: the AI Roadmap scores it and turns it into a plan.

AI Office Hours

Light, steady support after a workshop: once a month your people bring the tasks they’re stuck on and we work through them live.

Length
One 60-minute live clinic a month, remote
Investment
CA$750/month, month to month
Includes
The live clinic, open to everyone who attended, email questions between sessions, and a shared prompt and template library we update as the tools change
Best for
Teams that finished a workshop and want a regular place to get unstuck, without a bigger program
Not a fit if
You need AI use to stick across the whole company. That’s the Enablement Program.

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More detail about AI Office Hours

The point is that the habits from the workshop keep growing instead of fading. It runs month to month, and you can stop before any month starts. You’ll know within a quarter whether you still need it.

Enablement Program

Six weeks focused on adoption, not implementation, so the day we leave looks like the day after.

Length
6 weeks
Investment
CA$4,000, fixed
Includes
A kickoff with your team lead, weekly 45-minute check-ins, one or two internal champions trained to carry it after we leave, usage reviews at weeks 3 and 6, and a one-page rollout guide
Best for
Teams that need AI use to stick across the company, after a workshop showed what’s possible or after a system was built and nobody’s using it
Not a fit if
You need a system built. That’s AI Consulting.

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More detail about the Enablement Program

This is the work that decides whether AI becomes the way work gets done or sits idle next to a Slack channel of complaints. The outcome we aim for is a measurable shift in daily use, not slide-deck testimonials.

Three failure modes we fix

  • Pilot purgatory. Something works on day one and nobody touches it on day thirty. We find the friction and remove it.
  • The leadership-vs-line gap. Executives think it’s adopted; the people doing the work disagree. We close the loop with measurement.
  • The trust deficit. The tool is right but the team doesn’t believe it. We rebuild trust through visibility, approval steps, and override controls.

Web Development

Real design, real copy, real code, in your repo and on your domain. Starter is a clean site of up to five pages; Business adds more pages, a simple design system and a CMS, or a small web app.

Starter Website

A real website in three to four weeks, without a four-month agency cycle.

Length
3–4 weeks, end to end
Investment
CA$2,500–5,000, fixed
Includes
Up to 5 pages, brand-aligned design, hand-written copy, responsive build, basic SEO, deployment, analytics, and 30 days of changes. Photography isn’t offered; we work with photos you supply.
Best for
Small businesses, professional services, and operators who need a real website, fast
Not a fit if
You want a themed template, a page builder, or hosting you can’t leave. The site is yours, in your repo, on your domain.

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More detail about the Starter Website

The savings come from how we build, not from cutting corners on what you get. We use AI internally to compress the slow parts (first-draft layouts, copy variations, component scaffolding), then we edit, direct, and ship every page with care. No bloat, no six-month discovery.

How the build runs

  1. Week 1 Strategy call, brand audit, sitemap, copy outline.
  2. Week 2 First full pass: design, copy, and working pages. Review.
  3. Week 3 Second pass, polish, mobile, edge cases, copy edits.
  4. Weeks 3–4 Deployment, analytics, handoff, content training.
Stack
Next.jsAstroTailwindCMS-optionalVercel / CloudflareCanadian hosting available

Business Website

A larger marketing site with a simple design system and a CMS your team can run, or a small web app such as a client portal, intake form or booking tool.

Length
5–8 weeks
Investment
CA$6,000–12,000, fixed · a small web app (client portal, intake or booking tool) up to CA$15,000
Includes
Up to 12 pages, a simple design system, a CMS or blog your team can update, deployment, analytics, training, and 30 days of changes. Photography isn’t offered; we work with photos you supply.
Best for
Businesses that want room to add knowledge search, a customer assistant, or lead qualification later, without a rebuild
Not a fit if
You need a clean site of a few pages, fast. The Starter Website is the better fit.

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More detail about the Business Website
Accessibility
Semantic HTML and ARIA labels, built to target WCAG 2.1 AA
Add AI later
Room to add AI features later instead of bolting them on
Stack
Next.jsAstroSanity / PayloadTailwindAWS Canada CentralVercel / Cloudflare

Built to target WCAG 2.1 AA.

Three common paths

You can combine services over a few months. These are common ways to do it. Figures are illustrative; every engagement is quoted on its own.

Start with your team

Team Workshop → AI Roadmap → Workflow Automation

~CA$10,000~8–10 weeks

New website, AI later

Starter Website now → a knowledge assistant when you’re ready

~CA$13,000~3–4 months, two phases

Put an assistant to work

AI Roadmap → AI Assistant → Enablement Program

~CA$18,500~4 months

Want the background first? Read the funding guide or the risk & compliance guide.

Not sure which one fits?

Tell us what’s taking too long and we’ll point you to the right one, or tell you if none of them do.

It’s a free 30-minute call. We read your note before we meet, and if it’s a fit you’ll have a scope and a price by the next morning.

We reply within one business day. No sales spam. Cancel any time and pay only for work delivered.

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