AI Tools Assessment: Identifies 5+ hours a week in real opportunities, or it's free.
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Your competitors aren’t smarter than you.They just started first.
I’m an AI consultant for small businesses in the BC Interior. Find your industry below and see the one thing that’s most likely costing you time right now, and what fixes it.
Trades & Home Services
Job scheduling, chasing quotes, and catching up on invoicing after the actual work is done.
Scheduling, quoting, and missed-call follow-up, matched to your trade.
Manufacturing
Production scheduling, inventory, and the paperwork trailing every order pull you off the floor.
Demand forecasting, and a spec sheet turned into a quote in minutes.
Professional Services
Research, memos, and client emails that follow the same patterns every single time.
First drafts handled, with a usage policy that keeps it safe for clients.
Real Estate & Property
Listings, social posts, and client emails eating the time you should spend with buyers.
Drafts in your voice, with a verified-data step and a review built in.
Retail
Inventory, the same customer questions, and marketing content competing for the same hours.
Reordering, repeat questions, and social drafts off your plate.
Health & Wellness
Insurance verification, claims denials, and staffing gaps eating into your margins.
Privacy-aware admin: reminders, intake, and billing follow-up.
Hospitality & Food Service
You can’t find enough staff, and scheduling the crew you do have is a weekly headache.
Scheduling and forecasting built for a thin crew, plus review responses.
Based in the BC Interior. Serving organizations across Canada. Running an organization instead?
You know you should be using AI. You just don’t know where to start.
You’ve seen the headlines, and maybe you’ve tried ChatGPT once or twice. But knowing AI matters and actually having it save you time in your business are two very different things, and that gap is where most owners get stuck. Only 27% of small businesses feel confident using AI effectively, compared to 82% of mid-sized firms. The tools are everywhere. Knowing which one fixes your specific problem, and getting it working, is the missing piece.
That’s where I come in. Find where your business fits below.
27%
- Small biz
- Mid-sized
Only 27% of small businesses feel confident using AI effectively, compared to 82% of mid-sized firms. The tools are already everywhere. Confidence is not.
Small business owner? Here’s where AI can help.
Trades & Home Services
You’re losing hours every week to job scheduling, chasing quotes, and catching up on invoicing, on top of the actual work. Half the trades around you already use AI for some of this. The right scheduling, quoting, and missed-call follow-up tools, matched to your trade, can hand most of those hours back.
Manufacturing
Production scheduling, inventory, quoting custom jobs, and the paperwork trailing every order pull you off the floor. AI can forecast demand, turn a spec sheet into a quote in minutes, and keep inventory and order tracking up to date, so more of your day goes to actually building.
Professional Services
Your team spends hours every week on research, memos, and client emails that follow the same patterns every time. AI can take the first draft of that repetitive work, with a simple usage policy that keeps it consistent and safe to put in front of clients.
Real Estate & Property
Listings, social posts, and client emails eat into the time you should be spending with buyers and sellers. AI can draft all of it in your voice, with a verified-data step and a review built in, so what goes out stays accurate and compliant.
Retail
Inventory, customer questions, and marketing content all compete for the same few hours in your day. Off-the-shelf AI tools can take the repetitive parts, reordering, answering the same questions, drafting social posts, so your time goes back onto the floor instead of the back office.
Health & Wellness practices
Insurance verification, claims denials, and staffing gaps eat into your margins faster than you can keep up. Privacy-aware AI can take on the admin load, reminders, intake, billing follow-up, chosen to fit Canadian health-privacy rules, and never touching the patient relationship.
Hospitality & Food Service
You can’t find enough staff, and scheduling the crew you do have is a weekly headache. A scheduling and forecasting tool built around the reality of a thin crew, plus AI help for review responses and promo content, means your evenings stop going to it.
Not your exact industry? Take the free AI Readiness Assessment and find your version of this. Take the Free AI Readiness Assessment
Where this starts
Whichever of these is you, the first step is free.
- Free, self-serve
AI Readiness Assessment
A quick self-serve check of where you stand and your best first move. A few minutes, an instant read, no call.
- Free, personal
Mini-Assessment
Prefer to talk it through? A 15-minute call where I hand you one specific tool for your biggest bottleneck.
- $999Goes deeper
AI Tools Assessment
3 to 7 tools matched to how your business runs, backed by a guarantee: it identifies 5+ hours a week in real opportunities, or it’s free.
Whatever you run, the problem underneath is the same
The industries look different. The problem doesn’t: too many hours going to repetitive work, and no clear read on where AI could actually help. That’s the same whether you’re in the BC Interior or anywhere else in Canada, and whether you run a job site or a front desk. It’s why the industry you’re in matters less than you might think, and why “this probably doesn’t apply to my business” almost never turns out to be true.
What a week usually looks like before we start
Typical hours per week going to repetitive admin in the businesses I sit down with. Yours will be its own number. The Assessment finds it.
Running an organization? Here’s where AI can help.
I’m not the right fit for everyone, and that’s intentional. I work best with organizations that want practical results, not a lengthy consulting engagement that goes nowhere. What you need, governance, compliance, and staff training that actually sticks, is available across Canada, not only the BC Interior.
AI solutions for organizations
| Who | Where it hurts | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Band offices & Indigenous organizations | Grant reporting, housing waitlists, and admin that never seems to shrink | More time for community, less time on paperwork |
| Non-profits & charities | Understaffed and overwhelmed with admin no one has time for | More done with the team you already have |
| Healthcare & social services | Privacy concerns have kept you from adopting AI at all | Compliant AI tools your team will actually use |
| Local government & public sector | Pressure to modernize, on a budget that doesn’t stretch to enterprise tools | Practical AI without the enterprise price tag |
Not sure which one fits? Start with Explore Strategy & Governance for compliance and oversight, or Explore Training & Workshops to get your team using AI consistently. I’ll help you figure out which one you need.
Simple by design
Three steps. Plain language the whole way through.
Step 01
1. Find the one thing
I start with a conversation about how your business or organization actually works: where time gets lost, where errors happen, what your team dreads on Monday morning. From that, I find your best first move.
Step 02
2. Build it properly
I help you put AI in place so it’s safe, compliant, and actually used by your team, not demoed once and forgotten.
Step 03
3. Grow from there
Once one thing is working, the next step gets easier. I stay on as an ongoing advisor, or hand off a system your team can run on its own.
FAQ
Still unsure? Ask me directly on your free Mini-Assessment call.
My industry isn’t on your list. Can you still help?
Almost certainly. The list above is where I see the same problems most often, not a limit. The work is the same underneath: find the task eating your time, match it to the right tool, and set it up so it holds. Book the free Mini-Assessment and we’ll find your version of it.
I’m a really small operation, just me and a couple of others. Is this worth it?
Yes, and in many ways more than for a larger company. You don’t have layers to work through, so when you automate one task, you feel it immediately, this week, not next quarter.
How do you know what actually works in my specific industry?
I start by learning how your business runs, then match that to tools I’ve researched and tested against real use. AI for small business is new enough that no one has it fully mapped, so I stay close to what’s actually working and bring you a specific answer for your situation.
Not sure where your business fits?
Start free. Take the AI Readiness Assessment for a quick read on where you stand, or book a 15-minute Mini-Assessment call where I look at how your business works and help you find your best first AI move. No pitch. No pressure.
- 15 minutes, no obligation
- An honest answer on fit
- One free tool recommendation
No pitch. No pressure. Just a useful next step.