§ 00Applied AI North

Sovereign, pro-worker AI systems for Canadian businesses.

We build secure, human-in-the-loop automations that get used — not demos that die in a Slack channel. Sovereign by design, aligned with Canada’s Voluntary Code of Conduct, and engineered to qualify for federal productivity funding.

Aligned with Canada’s Voluntary Code of Conduct on AI Built for Canadian data residency Mapped to Global Innovation Cluster & SME funding
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§ 01Two ways in

Where are you standing?

Two starting points, one practice. Pick the one that sounds like your week — the work runs the same loop: assess, automate, train, paid for by funding or written off as productivity spend.

Practical AIClaude SonnetGPT-5Gemini 2.5 ProCopilot Context EngineeringPrompt EngineeringRAGAgentic AIWorkflow Optimization Human judgementAI LiteracyAI UpskillingSensitive Data n8n · Make · ZapierSalesforce · HubSpotPIPEDA-awareBuilt in Toronto Practical AIClaude SonnetGPT-5Gemini 2.5 ProCopilot Context EngineeringPrompt EngineeringRAGAgentic AIWorkflow Optimization Human judgementAI LiteracyAI UpskillingSensitive Data n8n · Make · ZapierSalesforce · HubSpotPIPEDA-awareBuilt in Toronto
What we build with
ClaudeGPT-5Gemini 2.5 Pron8nMakeLangGraphVercel AI SDKpgvectorSupabaseNext.js

Vendor-neutral by default. We use the tool that fits the job, not the one we resell — because we don’t resell any. Our full compliance posture lives on the risk & compliance track

§ 02Watch a system run

We build the kind of AI that earns its rent.

A triage agent pulls work off a queue, classifies it, scores its own confidence, and routes the edge cases to a human. Loops every minute or so. The code lives in your repo, not ours — your team can read it, change it, and run it without us.

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~$ agent run intake-triage-v3 [ok] connected: supabase, pgvector, claude-sonnet-4.5 [ok] eval set loaded · 1,200 historical examples [ok] confidence floor: 0.86 · human-review at 1.00   [warn] field edge_case_07 always routes to human [warn] field ambiguous_12 always routes to human   [ok] ready · awaiting inbound documents
Avg time per doc
87s
Field accuracy
94%

An illustrative system, the same shape we ship. We hand over the repo, the eval set, the runbook, and the named owner on your side. How a project runs


§ 03What we do

One flywheel: assess, automate, train. Built to be funded.

One on-ramp, then a tight loop — each engagement ships with a scope, price, calendar, and named outcome. No six-month discovery, no hand-off to juniors after the sales call.

All services and pricing


§ 04Shapes we ship

The shape of a system we ship.

We don’t publish client case studies — most work is internal or under NDA. Here is one illustrative pattern, the same shape we build. If it resembles a problem on your desk, that’s the conversation to start.

structured-extraction · illustrative Queue Review Audit
intake_2841 · standard · 12 pages extracted 87s · 38/38 fields
SubmitterField 010.99
Amount$2,840.000.98
Term12 months0.99
Effective2026-08-010.99
Variationindexed +1.5%0.94
Edge clauseSee section 14(c)human
Add-ons1 unit · included0.96
Hold-back$2,840 deferredhuman
SHAPE 01   Structured extraction  ·  4–6 weeks

Pull structured data out of long, messy documents.

The workhorse pattern. Replace a multi-hour manual review with a 90-second extraction agent that scores its own confidence and routes the edge cases to a human. Evaluated against your real historical documents before it touches production.

Typical accuracy
93–96%
Time / doc
~90s
Human review
5–12%
Claude Sonnet 4.5 pgvector Eval harness Human-in-the-loop

Ranges are typical of real builds, measured against each client’s own historical data before launch. The screen above is an illustrative mockup, not a specific client.


§ 05How a project runs

Six phases. Six weeks. No surprises.

The shape of a typical Chatbots & Agents engagement. Assessments and integrations follow the same rhythm at different lengths. We publish the calendar before kickoff, so there is no mystery about what happens when.

Full approach

Week 1
Assess

On site with the team. Watch the work happen. Decide what is worth building.

Week 2
Shape

Write the evals before the agent. Ground truth from your real historical data.

Week 3
Build

First working pass. Crude but end-to-end. Shows where it fails, which is the useful part.

Week 4
Harden

Tool calls, retries, cost ceilings, observability. Where most pilots quietly stop.

Week 5
Pilot

Live with two or three people. Watch what happens when a real human gets bored.

Week 6
Adopt

Runbook, evals you can rerun, named owner on your side, 30 days of support included.

§ 06How we work

A partner, not a vendor.

We don’t sell capabilities. We sell better ways of working — then we hand them to the people doing the work, with the team that can run it without us.

Engagement

Fixed scope and price, a named outcome, and a calendar agreed before kickoff.

Ownership

Code in your repo, prompts in your docs, evals you can re-run. No proprietary glue.

Enablement

Every build ends with a workshop where one of your people runs the system live.

What we say no to

Ten-week discovery phases that end in a PDF. Anything we’d need to subcontract to deliver well.


§ 07Sovereign Security Stack

Four layers of bounded defense.

Every system sits inside the same four-layer posture. The full stack — mapped to the Voluntary Code and the federal Guide on Agentic AI — lives on the compliance track.

01 · Sovereign Compute

Canadian data residency. Onshore by design.

02 · Bounded Autonomy

Level 1–2, read-only by default.

03 · Human-in-the-Loop

An approval gate before anything ships.

04 · Recoverability

Immutable logs and a literal kill switch.


§ 08What we keep seeing

Three quiet failure modes. We name them on purpose.

01
Access without fluency

Everyone has a license. Almost no one is fluent.

A Copilot or ChatGPT seat on every desk and a small bump in productivity to show for it. The fix is rarely a better tool. It’s teaching the team how to use the one they already have, on the work they actually do.
02
Pilots without production

A graveyard of demos. Nothing in the workflow.

A great-looking proof of concept on a sales-call screenshare that never made it past one Slack channel. The hardening, observability, and adoption work — the part where it earns its rent — was never scoped.
03
Systems without owners

A workflow that breaks when one person leaves.

An automation living in a private workspace, a prompt in a Notion doc only one person can find, a vendor-built agent no one inside the company can change. We won’t leave one behind.
§ 09Start a project

Tell us the thing that’s taking too long.

A thirty-minute call. We read your brief before we meet, then map the build to the funding that pays for it and the compliance posture it needs. If it is not the right fit, we will say so and point you toward someone better. If it is, you will have a scope and a price by the next morning.

Map Your AI Funding & Compliance Strategy hello@appliedainorth.com

We reply within one business day. No sales spam, and a 14-day out clause on every engagement.