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AI consulting and custom AI development services
Published April 9, 2026. Covers how I scope AI products, automation systems, and production-ready workflows for growing businesses.
View cited pageAI Consulting in Calgary, Alberta
Calgary AI work often has a practical flavour: document classification, quoting workflows, operations dashboards, and assistants that support teams already dealing with complicated back-office work. The win condition is clearer throughput and fewer manual handoffs, not an impressive demo.
Calgary has a strong base of energy, logistics, construction, and B2B service companies, alongside a growing startup scene. Projects from Calgary usually care less about hype and more about operational leverage — software that removes manual work, improves reporting, and supports real field teams.
Updated April 11, 2026Calgary Metropolitan RegionRemote-first
1.4M populationCanada
Industries I work with in Calgary
Energy and industrial servicesLogisticsConstructionProfessional servicesSaaS
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View cited pageWhat's included
Problem framing and opportunity mapping against business goals
Model selection: open-source vs. hosted, quality vs. cost trade-offs
Prompt design, evaluation loops, and guardrails
Retrieval, memory, and tool-use architecture (RAG, function calling)
Production engineering: APIs, auth, rate limits, observability, cost control
Handover and documentation so your team can own the system
How engagements run
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Discovery call
Short, free call to understand the problem, success metrics, constraints, and existing systems. You leave with a direction regardless of whether we work together.
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Scoped proposal
A fixed-scope proposal with concrete deliverables, a timeline, and a pricing structure that matches the risk profile of the work.
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Prototype
Small, working prototype in days — the goal is to prove the approach, catch hidden blockers early, and validate the value with real data.
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Production build
Harden the prototype into a production system: APIs, evaluation, monitoring, error handling, and security hardening.
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Handover
Documentation, runbooks, and a walk-through for your team. Optional retainer for ongoing support, model updates, and feature work.
FAQs — AI Consulting in Calgary
Do you work with Calgary-based businesses?
Yes. I take on ai consulting engagements with clients in Calgary and across the Calgary Metropolitan Region. Most work runs remote-first with in-person touchpoints where useful, and I'm used to the Alberta business environment.
What Calgary teams usually hire you for ai consulting?
Calgary work in this service area usually comes from energy and industrial services, logistics, construction teams that need a senior partner to scope the work clearly and ship it without adding process overhead.
Do you only cover Calgary, or the wider Calgary Metropolitan Region?
The work is scoped around Calgary, but delivery usually extends across the wider Calgary Metropolitan Region, including Edmonton and remote-first teams that need the same service.
What kinds of AI projects do you take on?
Custom AI products, internal automations, AI assistants and copilots, document and knowledge workflows, AI-powered search and RAG systems, and AI features embedded in existing SaaS products. I work on both new builds and retrofits.
Do you build with open-source models or hosted APIs?
Both. The choice depends on quality, latency, cost, data residency, and operational complexity. I will recommend the option that best fits the problem, not a model family I am loyal to.
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