Atlantic Canadian Applied AI

Enterprise AI that improves real work.

The AI Guys designs and deploys practical AI systems for organizations that need to modernize documents, data, decisions, and workflows without building a large internal AI team.

Founder-led delivery across enterprise AI, data science, data engineering, automation, optimization, and decision intelligence.

Diagram showing documents and enterprise data passing through AI, validation, human review, and operational action.
  • 01 AI agents
  • 02 Document intelligence
  • 03 Data engineering
  • 04 Workflow automation
  • 05 Decision systems
  • 06 AI governance

From opportunity to production

The model is only one part of the system.

Useful enterprise AI depends on trusted data, reliable integrations, explicit business rules, appropriate human oversight, and a workflow people can actually adopt.

We design the full operating system around the AI component, from opportunity assessment and architecture through implementation, evaluation, and operational handoff.

Capabilities

What we build

Practical systems designed around the way information, decisions, and work move through an organization.

  1. 01

    AI Strategy and Opportunity Assessment

    Identify high-value use cases, assess data and organizational readiness, estimate expected value, and define a practical implementation roadmap.

  2. 02

    Enterprise Agents and Knowledge Systems

    Build governed assistants that retrieve trusted organizational knowledge, explain procedures, coordinate tools, and help employees determine the appropriate next action.

  3. 03

    Intelligent Document Processing

    Extract, classify, validate, and route information from invoices, forms, shipping records, contracts, and other document-heavy workflows.

  4. 04

    Data and AI Engineering

    Connect models with APIs, cloud platforms, data pipelines, semantic models, databases, and the systems where operational work already happens.

  5. 05

    Decision Intelligence

    Apply forecasting, optimization, simulation, economic modelling, and machine learning to resource allocation and complex operational decisions.

  6. 06

    Governance and Operationalization

    Establish evaluation, controls, human review, security boundaries, monitoring, and support practices required for responsible production use.

Selected founder delivery experience

Real systems. Real operational constraints.

Our founders have led and delivered applied AI, analytics, automation, and decision systems in enterprise and consulting environments. Organizational details are generalized where appropriate.

Product Data Intelligence

30,000 products · 1.5M attribute records

An AI-assisted product-data workflow combining model recommendations, deterministic validation, confidence thresholds, and human review.

View the Product Data Intelligence project

Financial and Operational Intelligence

Enterprise data · high-volume records

Natural-language access to financial and operational information built on ERP integrations, document extraction, modern data pipelines, and governed AI summaries.

View the Financial and Operational Intelligence project

How we work

Start with the business decision, not the model.

  1. Define the operational problem

    Clarify the workflow, users, constraints, desired decision, and measurable outcome.

  2. Assess feasibility and value

    Evaluate data, integrations, risk, implementation effort, expected return, and whether AI is the appropriate method.

  3. Build and evaluate

    Develop a focused solution with explicit quality criteria, deterministic controls, and human review where consequences matter.

  4. Operationalize

    Integrate the system, support adoption, monitor performance, and improve it using real operational evidence.

Technology in context

Built for real enterprise environments

We select technology based on the operational problem, existing architecture, cost, control requirements, and long-term supportability.

  • Microsoft ecosystem

    Substantial experience across Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI services, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and Power BI.

  • Data and integration

    APIs, Python, SQL, semantic models, databases, pipelines, and cloud data platforms connected to operational systems.

  • Controls and evaluation

    Permissions, deterministic validation, quality thresholds, human review, monitoring, and source-of-truth checks.

  • Supportable architecture

    Technology choices grounded in maintainability, cost, security boundaries, adoption, and the client’s existing environment.

The team

Founder-led by practitioners who build.

The AI Guys combines enterprise AI strategy, applied data science, economics, data engineering, system integration, and quantitative decision modelling. Senior practitioners remain directly involved from discovery through delivery.

Michael Simpson

Enterprise AI and Data Science

Applied AI, data science, economics, optimization, simulation, and decision-support leadership.

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Logan Stackhouse

Data Engineering and AI Systems

Data pipelines, cloud architecture, APIs, databases, integration, automation, and production foundations.

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Have an operational problem that may be suitable for AI?

Tell us about the process, document workload, data challenge, or decision you are trying to improve. We will help determine whether AI is appropriate and what a practical first step could look like.