AI Consultant for Vancouver and Metro Vancouver Mid-Market CEOs

AI Savvy is Vancouver-based and provides strategic AI advisory to Lower Mainland CEOs of $10M–$250M companies. Engagements include the AI Growth Audit, the 90-Day Execution Blueprint, and ongoing fractional Chief AI Officer support. In-person sessions available across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley as the home market.

Why Metro Vancouver mid-market is at an AI inflection point

British Columbia is one of Canada's two AI gravity wells, the other being the Toronto–Waterloo corridor. PacifiCan and Innovate BC reported in May 2025 that BC now hosts more than 12,000 tech companies employing over 182,000 workers — a base that has grown faster than the national average for five consecutive years. The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's July 2025 report 'Are B.C. Businesses Ready for the AI Race?' framed adoption as uneven: tech-native firms moving fast, traditional sectors still in evaluation.

Microsoft's June 2025 Canadian SMB Report put national adoption at 71%, with 90% among digital-native firms — a pattern that maps almost exactly onto the divide between downtown Vancouver tech and resource-and-services firms across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. Statistics Canada's Q3 2025 forward-looking analysis found that the majority of Canadian businesses still do not plan to use AI in the next 12 months. In BC, the winners are pulling away from the median quarter by quarter.

What makes the Vancouver market distinct is the proximity-to-decision-maker pattern: most $10M–$250M BC companies are headquartered within a 45-minute drive of downtown Vancouver, which makes in-person executive cadence operationally easy in a way it isn't in larger Canadian metros.

What we do for Vancouver companies

British Columbia-specific considerations

The regulatory layer is province-plus-federal. BC's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) governs private-sector data handling and is more prescriptive than its federal counterpart in several material areas — notably consent, cross-border transfer, and breach notification. Any AI use case touching customer data needs a PIPA-aligned data flow before it touches a model. Federally, AIDA died in committee in January 2025, leaving the regulatory landscape uneven across provinces.

For BC financial services clients — credit unions, wealth managers, and federally regulated trusts — OSFI Guideline E-23 (finalized September 11, 2025) sets the operating standard for model risk management and AI use. Vancouver Coastal and BC's growing climate-tech and life-sciences sectors operate under additional sector-specific frameworks that need to be mapped before any AI use case enters production.

The talent layer is unusually strong: UBC, SFU, and the Vector Institute–adjacent Quantum Algorithms Institute give the Lower Mainland a research bench that punches above its size. Translation to operating capacity inside mid-market companies remains the constraint — the gap is rarely engineering, almost always senior executive ownership of AI strategy.

How we work with Vancouver clients

Vancouver is the home market — Shawn Moore is based in the Lower Mainland and is available for in-person executive sessions across downtown Vancouver, the North Shore, Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey, and the Fraser Valley on a weekly cadence when engagement scope warrants it. Most BC engagements run weekly in-person plus async document review. Engagements can be invoiced in CAD or USD.

Industries we focus on in Metro Vancouver

Foundational reading before we talk

• The AI Savvy Readiness Framework — the six-pillar diagnostic used in every Vancouver engagement.
• The 90-Day AI Execution Blueprint — the four-phase methodology we run in Metro Vancouver.
• AI Consulting Cost Guide for Mid-Market CEOs (2026) — what an honest engagement should cost.