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AI Consulting

AI advice from people who ship it.

Decide which work is worth automating before you commission a build. We assess your workflows, estimate costs and payback, and deliver a 90-day plan you can use with us or another provider.

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Strataigize Marketing$160K+Founder-estimated annual cost of two avoided hiresRead the case study →

BDC

Preferred vendor

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

LIFT’s digital transformation and AI stream offers eligible Canadian businesses $25,000 to $2M in financing. Technology must come from a Canadian supplier or integrator. We are one.

How LIFT works

50+

Hours a week our own AI agents save our team, our estimate

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.

We start with the work your team repeats: the steps, time, cost and errors. Those facts help us compare a custom build with an existing tool or a process change.

You receive a workflow inventory, a ranked shortlist, a payback estimate with its assumptions, and a 90-day roadmap. The recommendation can be to buy an existing tool or leave a workflow unchanged.

We run our own agency on the same AI and automation we deploy for you.
AI agent development builds one workflow at a fixed price.
AI workflow automation runs it after.
Eleven systems, each with its steps.

Vancouver. BDC LIFT.

How it works

From guesswork to a costed plan.

Inventory

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

Score

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

Prove

One candidate gets a payback estimate with the assumptions written beside it, so you can judge the cost and the uncertainty.

Roadmap

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

Govern

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

Case studies

AI advice, tested on ourselves first.

Strataigize Marketing

How Our Marketing Agency Uses AI Agents to Automate Busywork

40+ Estimated client tasks queued monthly7 days A week of industry news, read in minutes daily

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Strataigize Marketing

AI Agents for Business: Our Agency's AI Operations Agent

3 to 25 min New client onboarded, signed contract to live project24/7 Unsupervised coverage, nights and weekends included

Read the case study →

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Questions

AI consulting, answered.

What does an AI consultant 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?

Our internal agents handle research, reporting, task creation and operational coordination. The published case studies describe that work and label our time-saving estimates. They show our own experience, not a forecast of your results.

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

Every piece of work, named.

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

Discovery

Workflow inventory
Artifact
Inventory of the workflows in scope, with volume, time estimates and current owners
Typical duration
1 week
Delivered by
Automation lead
Cost-of-work model
Artifact
Workflow cost model with hourly rates, time estimates and assumptions shown
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 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
Risk register identifying consequential actions and the proposed approval controls
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