Michif AI Partners · Vancouver, BC
Canadian businesses are sitting on an AI opportunity they can't quite reach. We close that gap — with clear strategy, real implementation, and a guide who has built enterprise AI systems at scale.
Every week brings a new tool, a new headline, a new promise. Your competitors are experimenting. Your board is asking questions. And somewhere in the middle of all that noise, your business is waiting for something real — not another pilot that goes nowhere, not another consultant who arrives with a framework and leaves with a cheque.
We help you find the two or three places where AI will actually move the needle for your organization. Then we build it, test it, measure it, and hand it to your team in a form they can run without us.
No jargon. No shelfware. No dependency on us for results to stick.
Whether you run a $3M trades company or a $300M distributor, the process starts the same way — with one honest conversation about where AI can genuinely help.
From a $3M professional services firm to a $300M distributor — if you have a real operational problem and the will to fix it, we can help. Small businesses get our AI Quick Start. Growing mid-market companies get the full suite. Every engagement is fixed-price, so you know the cost before we start.
Michif AI Partners is registered on the Indigenous Business Directory and eligible for PSIB procurement set-asides. Federal departments and agencies can engage us directly through Indigenous procurement channels — no competitive tender required for qualifying work.
First Nations bands, Métis governance bodies, Indigenous health authorities, and economic development corporations. We understand your data sovereignty requirements and design every solution around OCAP® principles. Your data stays yours — on Canadian infrastructure, under your governance. Always.
Most Canadian businesses are already deep into AWS, Azure, Atlassian, and Microsoft 365. We don't ask you to leave them. We show you how to configure them so Canadian data stays on Canadian infrastructure — and where that isn't possible, we design the data flow so only safe, minimized information crosses the border.
Amazon Web Services Canadian regions
ca-central-1 (Montreal) and ca-west-1 (Calgary) for compute, storage, and AI services. We configure Service Control Policies that prevent data from leaving Canada, and set S3 bucket region locks and RDS instances to Canadian regions by default.
Microsoft Azure + M365 Canadian regions
Canada Central (Toronto) and Canada East (Quebec City). We verify M365 tenant data residency configuration — many Canadian organizations are unknowingly running on US-region tenants. Azure OpenAI and Copilot data residency follows M365 tenant settings we help configure correctly.
Atlassian + Rovo Configuration matters
Atlassian offers data residency options for Jira and Confluence. Rovo AI reads your internal documents — we scope exactly what it can access, review Atlassian's DPA for PIPEDA compliance, and produce a clear acceptable-use policy for your team before Rovo touches anything.
AI APIs — Claude, OpenAI Data design first
These process data on US infrastructure. Our approach: design every prompt and integration so PII and sensitive data never enters the request. AI reasoning happens on de-identified or non-sensitive content only. We document the acceptable boundary clearly so your team always knows what's in bounds.
Every engagement we deliver includes a Data Sovereignty Snapshot — a one-page map of where your data lives, what's configured correctly, and what needs to change. It's yours to keep on file for PIPEDA and Bill C-27 compliance purposes.
Every engagement is fixed-price — you know the full cost before we start. No billable-hour surprises. Here are the five ways we work together.
AI Quick Start
One real AI win in four weeks. We find your highest-value opportunity, build and test the solution in your actual environment, configure your tools for Canadian data sovereignty, and train your team to run it without us. The fastest way to see what AI can do for your business — and the foundation of everything we learn together.
A structured diagnostic across five dimensions of your organization — including a full data sovereignty audit. You receive a ranked shortlist of AI opportunities, a 12-month implementation roadmap, and an executive presentation ready for your board. The foundation everything else builds on.
We take your top two or three opportunities and make them real. Working systems. Trained teams. Measured results. At the end of 90 days you know exactly what AI has delivered — and your people know how to keep running it without us in the room.
For organizations ready to build AI into how they operate across departments. Includes team training, internal AI champion development, governance and policy frameworks, and quarterly business reviews. AI becomes a permanent capability, not a project that ends when we leave.
Your senior AI voice in the room — without the full-time hire. Monthly strategy sessions, tool evaluation, executive communication on AI, and a trusted advisor who stays ahead of the landscape so you don't have to. One to two days a month. All the strategic value.
A few things that make this different from the next AI firm that lands in your inbox.
Our founder spent 20 years in large enterprise environments, including serving as Product Owner for a platform responsible for $1.9 billion in annual revenue. We don't theorize about what works inside complex organizations. We've lived it — and we know where AI gets blocked, championed, and scaled.
You don't need to leave AWS, Azure, Atlassian, or Microsoft 365. You need someone who knows how to configure them correctly. We set Canadian data residency on every tool we touch, design data flows that keep PII off US infrastructure, and leave you with written evidence of due diligence — not just a verbal assurance.
Most AI firms speak one language fluently: technical. We speak two. We translate the real possibilities of AI into the language of boards, CFOs, and operations teams — and translate business requirements into systems that function in the real world. The gap between those languages is where most AI projects fail.
As a Red River Métis-owned business registered on the Indigenous Business Directory, Michif AI Partners is eligible for PSIB procurement set-asides. Federal departments and government-adjacent organizations can engage us directly through Indigenous channels — streamlining the path to trusted AI expertise.
"The Métis were the translators. When two worlds met and had no shared language, it was the Métis who made everything possible — not because we belonged entirely to one world or another, but because we could move between them."
That history lives in the name of this company, and in the work we do every day. I walk into boardrooms and help CEOs understand what AI can and cannot actually do for their business. I sit with Indigenous governance bodies and help them own and control their data in an AI-powered world. The technology changes. The need for a trusted translator doesn't.
I spent 20 years building enterprise technology at scale — product ownership, agile team leadership, automation, and AI implementation across organizations responsible for billions in revenue. I started Michif AI Partners because the most powerful technology in the world is only as valuable as the people who can actually use it.
We are proudly Red River Métis, registered with the Métis Nation BC, and committed to building something worth handing to the next generation.
Not a pitch. Not a 60-slide deck. A 30-minute conversation about where your organization is, what AI could realistically do for you, and whether we're the right fit to help. No obligation — just clarity.