// ENTERPRISE AI · CANADA

Enterprise AI, engineered for outcomes.

We help Canadian leadership teams turn AI from a strategic priority into measurable margin. Senior leaders run every engagement, we deliver in English and French, and we are federal procurement-ready.

Book a discovery call // 30 MIN · EN OR FR · NO PITCH DECK
// SECTORS Manufacturing & industrial · Distribution & wholesale · Federal departments & prime contractors
// 01 · THE NUMBER

AI is moving from pilot to P&L.

In a controlled study with 758 consultants, BCG and Harvard Business School found knowledge workers using GPT-4 completed tasks 25% faster, produced 40% higher-quality output, and finished 12% more work. Junior consultants gained 43%.

0% FASTER ON TASKS 0% HIGHER QUALITY 0% LIFT FOR JUNIORS // BASELINE: WORKERS WITHOUT AI ACCESS

Field experiment, n=758. Dell’Acqua et al., HBS Working Paper 24-013.

Leading firms are translating those gains into shipped AI-first products, cost out of shared services, and operations rebuilt around intelligent workflows.

The companies that move now will define their industries. The companies that wait will be acquired by them.

// 02 · WHAT WE DELIVER

Five capabilities. One engagement model.

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01

Enterprise AI strategy and roadmap

We build a board-ready plan grounded in your P&L, your competitive position, and your operational reality.

02

AI-powered operations

We embed AI into the workflows that move the P&L: quoting, customer service, supply chain, finance, reporting, customer engagement.

03

Responsible AI governance

We build governance frameworks aligned to Bill C-27, the EU AI Act, and emerging Canadian federal standards. Compliance is built in from day one.

04

AI center of excellence

We stand up the internal capability, talent model, and operating cadence so the work compounds long after our engagement ends.

05

Workforce enablement

Our reskilling programs bring your people with you. Adoption is where most AI programs fail, so we design every engagement to ship adoption alongside the technology.

// 03 · WHY THRIVEAI

The leadership that scopes the work delivers the work.

ThriveAI is led by a founder with two successful exits, alongside a senior industrial engineer with deep digital transformation and program management credentials. Senior people stay on every engagement, end to end.

Derik Lawlis, founder of ThriveAI
// DERIK LAWLIS · FOUNDER

Bilingual by design

We deliver in full English and French across strategy, build, and change management. The practice is purpose-built for the National Capital Region, Quebec, and bilingual enterprises.

Federal procurement-ready

Our practice is aligned to TBIPS and SBIPS, and we bid and deliver federal mandates to standard.

Outcome-anchored engagements

We work fixed-price with deliverables defined upfront. Performance pricing is available, with a portion of fees tied to realized impact where appropriate.

Ecosystem depth

We deploy on Claude, GPT, Gemini, and open-weights models. We pick the technology that fits the problem.

We design every engagement to ship adoption alongside the technology.
// THRIVEAI OPERATING PRINCIPLE
// 04 · HOW WE ENGAGE

Three engagement modes. Fixed-price entry.

Every relationship begins with a six-week assessment. From there, we operate in the mode that fits the work: monthly leadership, multi-quarter build, or both.

01 / AI Modernization Assessment // SIX-WEEK FIXED ENGAGEMENT W1 INTAKE W2 INVENTORY W3 ROADMAP W4 GOVERNANCE W5 PILOT BUILD W6 SHIPPED 02 / Fractional AI Leadership // CONTINUOUS MONTHLY RETAINER M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6+
01 · ASSESSMENT

AI Modernization Assessment

We run a fixed-price six-week engagement that produces a workflow inventory, a value-ranked roadmap, a governance baseline, and a shipped pilot. The pilot becomes the foundation for everything that follows.

02 · FRACTIONAL

Fractional AI Leadership

We work as a monthly retainer that gives you executive-grade AI ownership without the cost of a full-time hire. We own delivery and governance while your leadership team focuses on the business.

03 · BUILD

Enterprise Build Programs

We run multi-quarter engagements that rebuild a function or business unit end-to-end.

// START THE CONVERSATION

Thirty minutes. Discovery, on the record.

We’ll discuss your priorities, the operational outcomes that matter most, and where AI moves the P&L first.

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