ai automation & skills

ai that gives your team their time back.

Not prompts in a drive. Reusable tools you own, built around the parts of your business that waste your people's hours, designed and tested by a studio that's shipped digital products for twenty years.

the honest part

you're not behind on ai. you're behind on translation.

Most Canadian businesses we talk to feel the same four things at once: you know AI matters, you can't quite see where it fits your business, you don't have the people to build it, and you assume it's going to be expensive. None of that is an enthusiasm problem. It's a translation problem, and it's the one we're actually good at solving.

where does it even fit?

The use cases all sound generic. Nobody shows you the version that maps to your work, your team, your week.

who would build it?

You don't have an AI person on staff, and you shouldn't have to hire one to get started.

isn't this expensive?

The enterprise quotes are scary. The cheap chatbot shops rent you something shallow. The middle is empty.

the difference

infrastructure, not prompts.

Most AI help a business gets is a Google Doc full of prompts. Everyone re-types the same instructions, new hires ask which one to use, and when someone leaves, the knowledge leaves with them. You got AI access. You never built AI capability. We build the other thing: reusable Skills, tools, and integrations that become part of how your business runs. Owned by you, documented, tested, improving over time.

design.

We start by understanding the actual workflow and the humans in it, not by reaching for a shiny model. That is twenty years of UX discipline pointed at the question of where your team really loses hours.

build.

Real engineering: custom Skills, connectors into your CRM and data, automation you can self-host. The capability ends up owned by you and durable, not rented from a tool you pay forever.

test.

The part nobody else talks about. AI systems drift and hallucinate, so we validate, monitor, and check before anything ships. If it hasn't been tested, it isn't finished.

what a "skill" actually is

A proposal-drafting Skill that knows your pricing, your tone, and your past wins, and that any team member can run in thirty seconds. Not a prompt someone has to remember. A tested tool that lives in your business and gets better over time.

what we build

four ways in. one of them is free.

Productized and scoped, so you know exactly what you get. Most teams start with the audit.

ai opportunity report

free

See your own concrete AI opportunities in two minutes.

  • 3 to 5 opportunities specific to your business
  • Rough time-saved estimates
  • A recommended starting point
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ai opportunity audit

start here

A prioritised roadmap of the highest-ROI automations for your team.

  • We map your real workflows with you
  • We quantify the payback on each opportunity
  • You get a prioritised build roadmap
  • Credited toward a build if you proceed
1 to 2 weeksbook the audit

first skill

build

One high-value reusable Skill, designed, built, and tested end to end.

  • A single workflow, done properly
  • Owned by you and documented
  • Tested before it ships
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operations system

flagship

A connected set of Skills and integrations that overhauls a whole function.

  • Multiple Skills working together
  • Connectors into your CRM and data
  • Self-hostable where data residency matters
  • Ongoing stewardship available
scoped per engagementscope a system

Prefer to train your own team? We run half-day enablement workshops on the Skills we build. No lock-in on anything we deliver.

proof of imagination

here's what it looks like for a business like yours.

Each one is a real time-drain, the owned tool we would build for it, and the time it gives back.

Lead triage

A Skill that reads inbound enquiries, scores them, and routes the good ones to a human with a draft reply ready.

hours of inbox sorting a week

Proposal & quote drafting

A proposal Skill that knows your pricing, tone, and past wins, and produces a structurally complete first draft in under a minute.

a senior person’s afternoon, per proposal

Support-ticket summarisation

A tool that summarises and tags every ticket, surfaces the recurring issues, and drafts replies to the common ones.

faster responses, fewer repeat tickets

Content repurposing

A Skill that turns one long asset into the week of posts, emails, and clips you keep meaning to make, in your voice.

a content backlog that finally moves

Meeting notes to CRM

An integration that turns call recordings into clean notes and updates the right CRM fields automatically.

no more end-of-day admin

Invoice & admin processing

A tested automation that reads documents, extracts the fields that matter, and files them where they belong.

hours of manual data entry a week

the free part

see your own ai opportunities.

Tell us a little about your business and the tasks that eat your week. In about two minutes you'll get a personalised report of concrete AI opportunities, with rough time-saved estimates. No sales call required.

step 1 of 3

about your business

about two minutes · no sales call required

why trust us with this

twenty years of shipping, not a chatbot reseller.

We've designed and built digital products for two decades, for clients who don't accept hand-wavy work. The same design, build, test discipline goes into the AI capability we build for you.

trusted by

arcteryx
Arc'teryx
TELUS
Nevro
BCLC
SAP
Motorola

your data, your environment

Canadian, and built that way on purpose. Where data residency matters, we build to keep your data in your own environment, PIPEDA-aware from the start. That is harder to say for a chatbot shop reselling someone else’s rented tools.

before you ask

the questions everyone has.

The enterprise quotes are. We deliberately price for small and mid-sized businesses, and the path in is low-risk on purpose: the report is free, and the audit is a fixed, modest cost that gets credited toward a build if you go ahead. You find out what's worth doing before you commit to building it.

find out where ai actually fits your business.

Two minutes, a real report, no sales call. It's the easiest way to see what this could do for your team.

design. build. test.

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