AI consulting
built for production, not pilots.
SAZ is Canada's senior AI consulting firm. We ship production AI systems for operators in regulated industries — and run them after the launch.
What we actually do here.
Most AI work in Canada is stuck in pilot purgatory. Demos look great. Production stalls. Governance falls apart. SAZ exists to be the firm that gets AI into production — and keeps it there.
Our practice runs the full arc of enterprise AI: opportunity mapping ranked by economic value, governance and risk baselines aligned to your industry, model and architecture selection, build and integration on your stack, evaluation and observability for production, and ongoing on-call operation as you scale.
We have shipped AI systems for healthcare operators under PHIPA, financial services firms under OSC and OSFI, law firms within law society guidelines, and government clients under provincial procurement constraints. We are model-agnostic — Claude, OpenAI, open-weight, private fine-tunes — picked for the use case.
What you should expect.
Every engagement is scoped to deliver specific outcomes, not deliverables.
- A ranked, sized portfolio of AI opportunities across your business
- A data, governance, and risk baseline appropriate to your industry
- A 12-month AI roadmap with build, buy, and partner decisions
- Production-grade AI systems shipped on your stack
- Monitoring, evals, and on-call coverage
- A team enabled to extend the practice without us
The structure of the work.
A repeatable structure that lets us deliver complex programs without losing momentum.
Workflow-level mapping of where AI replaces, augments, or accelerates work — with economic value, risk, and dependencies modeled.
Policy, controls, evals, and approvals appropriate to your industry. PIPEDA, PHIPA, OSC, OSFI, law society, and government frameworks all supported.
Data, model, retrieval, and infrastructure design — pragmatic, defensible, and built to evolve.
Production deployment in 8–12 weeks for the first build. Integrated, evaluated, monitored, and supported.
Monitoring, evaluation, governance, and on-call coverage. AI in production deserves the same operational rigor as any critical system.
Roll out the rest of the portfolio with the team. Capability transfer is the final deliverable.
How operators typically engage SAZ on this.
Common questions from buyers.
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