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AI advice from people who ship it.

Most AI consulting ends at a slide deck. Ours ends at a costed workflow inventory, a scored shortlist, and a 90-day roadmap we are willing to build against.

BDC

Preferred vendor

A preferred AI vendor for Business Development Bank of Canada advisory clients.

LIFT lends Canadian businesses $25,000 to $5M to adopt AI, and the technology has to come from a Canadian supplier. We are one.

How LIFT works
50+
Hours a week our own AI agents save our team, our estimate
2
Weeks from kickoff to a costed 90-day roadmap
$7.5K
Fixed price for the AI Opportunity Audit, published

Overview

Where AI pays back, and where it does not.

AI consulting has a credibility problem, and it is deserved. The standard engagement produces a maturity model, a list of use cases copied from a vendor deck, and no number anyone can be held to. Six months later nothing has shipped and the budget is gone.

We start from the work instead of from the technology. What does your team actually do, how many hours does each of those things cost, how often does it go wrong, and how bad is it when it does. Only then do we ask which of them a model can do well enough today, because that question is meaningless without the first four answers.

The output is a costed inventory, a scored shortlist, a payback estimate for the top candidate with its assumptions written down beside it, and a 90-day sequence. It regularly recommends buying a tool, or doing nothing in a given area yet. That is the point: a roadmap that only ever says build is a sales document.

We can advise on this because we run it. Our own agency is operated by an agent fleet in production, and we publish both what it saves us and what has broken. If you already know what you want built, our AI agent development line takes one bounded workflow at a fixed price, and AI workflow automation is the operations layer that runs it afterwards.

We serve the US and Canada from downtown Vancouver. If you are local, the Vancouver page covers in-person kickoffs and how we build under PIPEDA and BC PIPA. Canadian companies funding this work should read how the BDC LIFT program works.

Everything is published: the audit, the pilot build and the retainer are all listed on the pricing page.

How it works

From guesswork to a costed plan.

01

Inventory

We map the work your team actually does, by hours and by cost, before naming a single tool.

02

Score

Each workflow is scored on volume, cost, error rate and how reversible a mistake would be.

03

Prove

One candidate gets a real payback estimate with the assumptions written down beside it.

04

Roadmap

A 90-day sequence: what to build first, what to buy, and what to leave alone on purpose.

05

Govern

Access scope, approval gates, audit trail and the kill threshold agreed before anything ships.

Questions

AI consulting, answered.

What does an AI consultant actually deliver?
A decision you can act on. In our case that is a workflow inventory costed in hours, a scored shortlist of what AI can do well today, a payback estimate for the top candidate with its assumptions written beside it, and a 90-day roadmap naming what to build, what to buy and what to leave alone. Two weeks, a fixed $7.5K, and it stands on its own whether or not you hire us to build anything.
How is this different from your automation and agent pages?
This page ends at a decision. AI agent development is the build line, one bounded workflow at a fixed price with a kill threshold. AI workflow automation is the operations layer that runs and maintains them. If you already know what you want built, skip the consulting and go straight to one of those.
Do you only recommend things you can sell us?
The roadmap regularly says buy the off-the-shelf tool, or do nothing here yet. We would rather lose the build than put an agent on a workflow that does not carry enough volume to pay for its own maintenance. The audit is priced so it is worth doing on its own.
What makes you qualified to advise on this?
We run the thing we are advising on. Our own agency is operated by an agent fleet in production, with published numbers for what it saves us and published write-ups of what has broken. We would rather point at that than at a certification.
What does AI consulting cost?
The AI Opportunity Audit is $7.5K fixed over two weeks. If it leads to a build, pilot builds are $25K to $60K fixed and production support starts at $8K per month. Every figure is on the pricing page.

What we do

Named work, not vague scope.

Every line item opens into the artifact you receive, the typical duration, and the role that delivers it.

Discovery

  • Workflow inventory
    Artifact
    Every recurring workflow named, with volume, hours and who currently owns it
    Typical duration
    1 week
    Delivered by
    Automation lead
  • Cost-of-work model
    Artifact
    Loaded hourly cost applied to the inventory, so each workflow carries a dollar figure
    Typical duration
    2 to 3 days
    Delivered by
    Analytics lead
  • Systems and data map
    Artifact
    What each workflow reads and writes, and which of those systems has a usable API
    Typical duration
    2 to 3 days
    Delivered by
    Solutions architect
  • Stakeholder interviews
    Artifact
    Notes and a named-blocker list from the people who actually do the work
    Typical duration
    3 to 5 sessions
    Delivered by
    Automation lead

Assessment

  • Automatability scoring
    Artifact
    Each workflow scored on volume, cost, error rate and reversibility, with the rubric published
    Typical duration
    3 to 4 days
    Delivered by
    Automation lead
  • Build, buy or leave call
    Artifact
    A written recommendation per shortlisted workflow, including the ones we say to leave alone
    Typical duration
    2 days
    Delivered by
    Solutions architect
  • Payback estimate
    Artifact
    Hours saved, run cost and break-even month for the top candidate, assumptions listed beside it
    Typical duration
    2 days
    Delivered by
    Analytics lead
  • Risk and control review
    Artifact
    Where a mistake would be irreversible, and the approval gate that prevents it
    Typical duration
    2 days
    Delivered by
    Solutions architect

Roadmap

  • 90-day sequence
    Artifact
    What ships first, second and third, with the dependency that orders them
    Typical duration
    2 days
    Delivered by
    Automation lead
  • Success metric and kill threshold
    Artifact
    The number each build is judged on and the point at which it gets switched off
    Typical duration
    1 day
    Delivered by
    Automation lead
  • Governance model
    Artifact
    Access scope, approval gates, audit trail and who reviews what, per workflow
    Typical duration
    2 days
    Delivered by
    Solutions architect
  • Executive readout
    Artifact
    A working session walking the inventory, the scoring and the roadmap, recorded
    Typical duration
    90 minutes
    Delivered by
    Automation lead

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AI Opportunity Audit $7.5K fixed. Pilot builds $25K to $60K. Production from $8K per month

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Talk to the AI team

Tell us what your team spends the most hours on and we reply within 24 hours with whether AI is the right answer, what it would take, and the honest payback math.

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Two weeks, a fixed price, and a roadmap that stands on its own whether or not you build with us.

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