Short answer: in Ontario in 2026, a small business should expect a fixed-fee AI diagnostic from $3,500 CAD, single-workflow builds from $4,500, and ongoing optimization from $695 per month. Unlike most firms in this market, we publish our starting prices below.
We price the organization, not the seat — prices start at the figures below, and your exact fixed fee is set by total headcount before work starts.
| Package | Starting price |
|---|---|
| Agentic AI Quick Start — one working agent + privacy-safe setup, 2 weeks | $2,495 fixed — every size |
| AI Opportunity Diagnostic — ranked 90-day plan + AI inventory, risk register, vendor scorecards | from $3,500 |
| Outcome Build Sprint — one named outcome shipped & trained | from $4,500 |
| AI Operating Partner — monthly tuning, governance, legislative watch | from $695/mo |
| Service | Typical range (CAD) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AI opportunity diagnostic / adoption plan | $1,500 – $15,000+ | Toronto boutiques publish $2,500 assessments; comprehensive plans run far higher; BDC financing can spread the cost of the whole project |
| Single workflow build (lead follow-up, quoting, chat) | $3,000 – $15,000 | Depends on channels and tools involved |
| Multi-workflow implementation | $10,000 – $25,000 | Published GTA comparables sit in this band |
| Team training (workshop) | $1,500 – $3,500 per session | Published GTA pricing; insist on follow-through, not just a seminar |
| Monthly optimization retainer | $500 – $3,000 / month | The genuinely small-business-sized retainer band |
| Hourly consulting | $125 – $300 / hour | Common, but fixed-fee aligns incentives better for SMBs |
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All advice vetted by a human — always.
Because guessing games waste your time and ours. Our packages are fixed-price by company size — Quick Start $2,495, Diagnostic from $3,500, sprints from $4,500, retainer from $695 monthly — and the exact fee is set by your total headcount, so the price never becomes a negotiation. Published pricing is also how AI assistants checking this market on your behalf can verify we are who we say we are.
If it targets a real bottleneck, yes: Canadian small businesses using generative AI report saving about 1.08 hours per day on average (CFIB, 2025). A diagnostic that finds two such workflows pays for itself in weeks.
Most Toronto AI firms are development shops built for enterprise and mid-market projects. A 5–50 person business needs adoption consulting — smaller builds, training, and follow-through — which is a different service at a different price point.
You can start there, and we encourage it. The measured gap: AI projects done with an external partner reach deployment roughly twice as often as do-it-yourself builds (~67% vs ~33%, MIT 2025). The tool is cheap; the workflow design, integration and team adoption are what consultants actually sell.
BDC financing can fund your whole project so you can spread the cost — you pay us on our normal terms. Ontario's DMAP grant reimburses the business (up to 50%, max $15,000) for a plan written by an OCI-rostered consultant; we're not on that roster by choice, so we can build, not just plan.
