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Why Canadian AI teams need Forward Deployed Engineers
By StarApple AI Editorial Desk
Free tools
Work out where you stand before you spend.
Five tools covering the questions Canadian organisations ask us first: are we ready, what will it cost, does the team understand it, where are the governance gaps, and which use case goes first. Each runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, and no result is held back for an email address.
What each one does
The five tools.
AI Readiness Score
Twelve statements across data, workflow, people and governance. Scores each dimension separately, so you can see which one is holding the others back.
4 minutes TOOL 02AI Cost and Payback Estimator
Put in your own seat count, licence price and loaded hourly cost. It shows the annual spend, the time value, the payback month, and the full arithmetic behind each.
3 minutes TOOL 03AI Literacy Check
Ten questions on how these systems actually behave. Every answer is explained, whether you get it right or wrong, so the check doubles as a short lesson.
5 minutes TOOL 04Governance Gap Check
Fourteen controls mapped to PIPEDA, Law 25, the Algorithmic Impact Assessment, OSFI E-23 and B-13, and ISO/IEC 42001. Returns your gaps in the order we would close them.
6 minutes TOOL 05Use Case Scorer
Score up to six candidate projects on value, data readiness, feasibility and risk. Ranks them and tells you which to build now, which to pilot, and which to leave.
5 minutesWriting
What we publish.
StarApple AI publishes its research and frameworks on the main site, covering AI policy, adoption, safety and the economics of deployment. The Canadian notes will collect here as they are written.
Agentic colonization: retain authority when buying AI capability
Retain decision authority when buying AI capability. A practical Canadian governance note on permissions, cultural representation and supplier exits.
StarApple AI research and articles
Policy analysis, adoption studies, sector briefs, and the proprietary frameworks we use in diagnosis.
The Canadian instruments we work to
PIPEDA, Law 25, the Treasury Board directive and its Algorithmic Impact Assessment, OSFI E-23 and B-13, and ISO/IEC 42001.
What each service delivers
Why organisations start with each of the seven, everything you receive, and how long it runs.
The Canadian brief
One letter a month, on what changed in Canadian AI rules.
What moved at OSFI, the Treasury Board and the privacy commissioners, what it cost organisations here, and which of these tools we rebuilt because of it. One send a month, and one click to leave.
After the tools
Bring us the result and we will read it with you.
A scoping call runs thirty minutes at no charge. If you have a score or a gap list from one of the tools above, paste it in and we will start from there.