Burnaby, BC · Greater Vancouver
AI consulting for Burnaby businesses
Burnaby's tech companies often lead their own AI adoption. For distributors, manufacturers, contractors and service firms, the practical gains usually sit in the back office: order entry, quoting, customer email and internal documentation. We help find the tasks worth automating, connect AI tools to the systems you already use with proper access controls, and train staff so the tools actually get used.
Burnaby
Where AI helps Burnaby businesses
- Turning emailed purchase orders into draft sales orders for staff to review
- Answering product and availability questions from your own catalogues and spec sheets
- Sorting incoming customer email by request type and routing it to the right person
- Searching procedures, safety documents and equipment manuals so floor staff get quick answers
Business districts
- Metrotown
- Brentwood
- Lougheed
- Edmonds
- Big Bend & Glenlyon Business Park
- Lake City & Production Way
- Still Creek
- Hastings Street & the Heights
Local business landscape
Burnaby combines town-centre offices with a large base of industrial and business-park land. Professional firms, tech companies and larger employers take office space around Metrotown and the city's other town centres, close to SkyTrain. Business parks in Big Bend, Lake City, Still Creek and along Production Way house warehousing, distribution, light manufacturing and technology firms, and several film studios operate in the city. SFU on Burnaby Mountain and BCIT's Burnaby campus supply graduates, co-op students and research partners, while shops and restaurants line Kingsway, Hastings Street in the Heights and each town centre.
Scope
What ai consulting includes
Every engagement in Burnaby is scoped to the business. Most include:
Strategy
- AI readiness assessment
- Use-case workshops with your team
- Tool selection across Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and specialist apps
- A written AI-use policy
- Time-saved tracking for each workflow
Implementation
- Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness and rollout
- File permission and data clean-up before rollout
- Workflow automation with Power Automate, Zapier, Make or n8n
- Assistants that answer from your own documents
- Website chatbots grounded in your content
Adoption
- Hands-on staff training
- Prompt libraries for your common tasks
- Pilot groups and feedback loops
- Privacy and security review
- Ongoing tuning as tools change
Greater Vancouver
Workshops in person, rollout without disruption
Use-case workshops and training work best in the room with your team, so we run them on site across Greater Vancouver. Configuration, automation builds and follow-up happen remotely, in small steps that don't interrupt the working day.
Process
How it works
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Discovery
Short interviews and a workflow review to find the tasks where AI can save real time.
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Readiness & policy
Permissions, data and security checks, plus an AI-use policy, before any tool touches business data.
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Pilot
A small group tests the chosen tools and automations on real work, and we measure the results.
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Roll out & measure
Training, rollout to the wider team and follow-up on hours saved and what to tackle next.
Pricing
How pricing works
AI work is scoped in writing in stages — usually an assessment first, then implementation priced by what's being built. Tool subscriptions such as Copilot or ChatGPT are separate costs paid to the vendor.
Read AI consulting for small businesses for what drives cost and how to measure return.
- Number of people and workflows involved
- Tools and systems to connect
- Data clean-up and permissions work
- Custom assistants or chatbots
- Training and change management
FAQ
AI Consulting in Burnaby: questions
Do you support Burnaby's industrial areas as well as its office buildings?
Yes. We work with office teams around Metrotown, Brentwood and Lougheed, and with warehouses, workshops and studios in areas such as Big Bend, Lake City and Still Creek. Remote support covers most day-to-day requests, and visits are booked for network, Wi-Fi and hardware work that has to be done on site.
Can AI tools work with our existing accounting or inventory software?
Often, yes, through built-in AI features, a direct integration or an automation tool that passes data between systems. The first step is checking what your software supports and where your data lives. From there, we pilot a single workflow, such as purchase order entry, with a person reviewing results before anything is posted.
What does an AI consultant actually do?
An AI consultant finds the tasks where AI can save time, chooses and configures the right tools, makes sure data and permissions are safe, builds automations or assistants and trains staff. The goal is measurable hours saved — not a demo that never gets used.
How much does AI consulting cost?
It depends on scope. A readiness assessment and use-case workshop is a small, fixed piece of work; building automations or a custom assistant costs more; and tool subscriptions are billed by the vendor per user. We scope each stage in writing so you can stop after any of them.
Is our data safe with Microsoft 365 Copilot or ChatGPT?
Business plans from the major providers commit not to train their models on your data, which is an important difference from personal accounts. The bigger risk is access: Copilot can surface anything a user already has permission to open, so we review file sharing and permissions before rollout.
Will AI replace our staff?
For most small businesses, AI takes over tasks rather than jobs: first drafts, data entry, summaries and routine replies. The time saved usually goes back into client work, sales or the backlog nobody gets to — which is why we measure results in hours returned to the team.
Do we need perfect data before starting with AI?
No, but some tidying helps. For tools like Copilot, clean file permissions matter more than perfect data. For automation, a consistent process matters more than a new tool — automating a messy process just produces mess faster. An assessment shows what needs fixing first.
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Guides
Guides for business owners
AI
AI Consulting for Small Businesses: Costs, Use Cases and Where to Start
What AI consultants do, how engagements are priced, what Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude business plans cost, privacy rules in B.C. and a first-30-days plan.
Cloud
Microsoft 365 Migration Checklist for Small Businesses
A Microsoft 365 migration checklist for small businesses: migration types, Canadian licence prices, DNS and cutover steps, security settings, timelines and costs.
Security
Cybersecurity Checklist for Small Businesses in BC
A cybersecurity checklist for BC small businesses built on the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security’s baseline controls, plus what PIPA and PIPEDA require after a breach.
Get in touch
Talk to us about ai consulting in Burnaby
Tell us about your business and what you need from technology. We reply within one business day.
- 01
Tell us what's going on
Send the form or call. A rough idea of your team size and current setup helps us come prepared.
- 02
A 30-minute conversation
We ask about your people, systems and goals, and flag anything urgent we notice along the way.
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A written proposal
Clear scope, a plain-English plan and pricing laid out line by line. Nothing starts until you approve it.