A consulting firm built the way modern operators actually need.
SAZ pairs senior strategy partners with embedded delivery teams — engineers, designers, and operators — so engagements move from advisory into shipped outcomes. We were built to be the firm we wanted to hire.
Help Canadian operators win the AI decade.
The next decade of business will be decided by operators who pair sharp strategy with the discipline to ship — and the courage to embed AI inside their core workflows. SAZ exists to be the partner those operators want at the table.
We work with founders, CEOs, owners, executives, and boards across Canada to compound their advantages: market position, customer experience, operating leverage, and AI productivity. Where most firms stop at the slide deck, we ship the systems and the operating cadence required to make the strategy real.
We’re headquartered in Vancouver, with active engagements in every major Canadian market and several cross-border programs. We are senior, technical, and obsessive about execution.
I built SAZ to be the firm I wanted to hire as an operator — senior partners who actually ship, with the discipline to embed AI inside the workflows that move the business.
Why this firm
needed to exist.
The convictions behind SAZ — straight from the founder.
Strategy that ships
A decade as a founder and operator across technology, real estate, infrastructure, and home services taught me one thing: the firms that win are the ones that translate strategy into shipped systems. SAZ is built around that conviction.
AI as core infrastructure
AI is the highest-leverage technology of the decade, and most operators are leaving it on the table because they've been pitched theatre instead of architecture. SAZ ships production AI systems — with governance, evals, and on-call coverage — so the leverage compounds.
Senior all the way down
Every engagement is led by a senior partner who stays hands-on through delivery. There is no bait-and-switch to juniors. There is no slide-deck handoff. The work that decides the next decade of a business is too important to delegate.
Confidential, conflicted only to outcomes
NDA-bound by default. Aligned to your outcomes, even when it costs us the next phase. Trust is the product.
How we work, in six principles.
These shape every engagement — pricing, scoping, hiring, partnering, and shipping.
Outcomes, not deliverables
Every engagement defines the business outcome — revenue, margin, throughput, NPS — and is measured against it.
Senior all the way down
Senior partners stay involved through delivery. No bait-and-switch to juniors after the sale.
Strategy plus engineering
Strategy without engineering ships a deck. Engineering without strategy ships waste. We do both, together.
Trust is the product
Confidential by default. Aligned to your interests, even when it costs us the next phase.
Choose convergence over churn
We commit to clarity and decisions, not infinite optionality. Speed compounds.
Compound, don't consult
Every engagement leaves a system, a cadence, and the documentation to compound after we hand off.
Founded and led by Ali Sedighi.
Every engagement is led by a senior partner. Today, that bench is anchored by SAZ’s founder.
Ali founded SAZ to build the firm he wanted to hire as an operator — strategic, technical, and ruthless about execution. Over a decade as a founder, operator, and advisor across technology, real estate, infrastructure, and home services, he has built and scaled multiple businesses across Canada and led senior engagements for operators from venture-backed startups to nine-figure enterprise groups.
Engagements run with direct founder involvement.
Ali leads scoping on every engagement and remains accountable through delivery. SAZ does not delegate the work that decides the next decade of a business.
The SAZ practice.
Want to know if SAZ is the right partner?
One confidential conversation with the founder will tell us both.