AI Systems for Industrial Companies
AI Systems forIndustrial Companies.
I build working AI systems for Northern Ontario contractors, fabricators and manufacturers: the lead that gets answered at 9 pm, the quote that takes an hour instead of three days, the numbers you can read on the first of the month instead of the fifteenth.
This is for owner-operators running $2M to $50M businesses who have a process worth improving and data worth using. It is not AI for its own sake. If a spreadsheet and a phone call already work, I will tell you that on the first call.
North Bay based · Eligible work is 50% fundable under Ignite AI
The Problem
Three Places the Day Leaks.
Every industrial company I work with loses time in the same three places. None of them are a people problem.
Leads Arrive as a Name and a Number
The enquiry says almost nothing. Someone has to call back and ask what the buyer wants to build, how big, on whose land and when, before anyone knows whether it is a real project. Evening and weekend enquiries wait until morning, and by then a competitor has answered.
Quotes Take Days
The estimate sits behind one person who already has a full week. The buyer who wanted a number on Tuesday gets it on Friday, if they are still waiting. The work is not hard, it is just queued behind everything else.
Nobody Knows What the Numbers Mean Until Month End
Job data is in one system, leads in another, ad spend in a third. By the time anyone assembles a picture, the month is over and the decision it would have changed has already been made.
What I Build
Five Systems That Earn Their Keep.
Each one is a fixed-scope project. The tag under each is the Ignite AI eligible-project category it falls under, in IION's own wording, so you can see how the work maps to the funding before you apply.
Lead Intake and Follow-Up
A website assistant that answers buyer questions and asks the qualifying ones back, writes the lead into your CRM with consent recorded, follows up by SMS, and texts back missed calls. The first conversation happens whether or not anyone is at a desk.
Ignite AI category: Marketing automation. Chatbot as part of a sales or customer funnel.
Quoting and Estimating Assistant
Specs or photos go in, a draft estimate comes out of your own price book. A person reviews and adjusts every quote before it goes to the customer. It removes the blank page, not the estimator.
Ignite AI category: Integration of AI software into an existing product or service.
Operating Dashboard with AI Summaries
Jobs, CRM, ad platforms and analytics in one place, with a monthly operating review written in plain language and alerts when a number moves in a way it should not. You stop waiting for month end to find out.
Ignite AI category: AI tools to improve internal operations, efficiency and decision making.
Back-Office Document Automation
Invoice and purchase order extraction, reports drafted from structured inputs, scheduling that stops living in one person’s head. The paperwork that eats an admin day a week.
Ignite AI category: AI-driven process automation.
Product Visualization
Configurator-to-render pipelines for manufacturers and builders, so a buyer sees their building, their layout or their finish instead of a generic photo of someone else’s job.
Ignite AI category: AI-enabled prototypes and solutions.
Proof
Running in Production.
SteelBuilt Corp.
AI Lead Intake & SMS Qualification
Enquiries used to land in Zoho CRM as a name and a phone number, and someone had to call back before anyone knew whether it was a real project. Now an assistant on the website asks the qualifying questions, an SMS conversation confirms the details, and the lead arrives with structure type, size, timeline and consent to contact already on the record.
The first call starts with what the buyer wants to build instead of who they are.
Dashboard screenshot
Operating Dashboard
Monthly Review, Written by the System
Jobs, CRM, ad platforms and analytics pulled into one view, with a monthly operating review written in plain language and sent to the owner. Clients on the Growth Engine plan get this today. It is the same pipeline I build as a standalone implementation.
The Process
From First Call to Handover.
Five steps, in this order. The middle three line up with how the Ignite AI program works, so funding and delivery run on the same track.
Fit Call
Twenty minutes, free. You tell me where the day leaks. I tell you whether AI is the answer, whether your data is ready, and whether the project is likely to fit a funding stream. If the honest answer is "fix the website first", you get that answer.
Scoping
Six to eight weeks. I map sales, quoting, scheduling and reporting, review what your data can actually support, score four or five use cases by payoff versus effort, and hand you a roadmap and an implementation quote. Designed to fit the Catalyst advisory stream.
Quote and Application
You take the implementation quote into your grant application. I supply what a vendor is supposed to supply: scope, price, timeline and category. IION decides. Applications go in before costs are incurred, so this step happens before I start building.
Build Inside Six Months
Fixed scope, fixed price, delivered inside the grant completion window. You see working pieces as they go in rather than a reveal at the end, and anything a customer will see gets a human review before it goes live.
Handover and Training
Accounts in your name, documentation of what the system does and where the data goes, and a session with the people who use it daily. You own it. Keeping me on afterward is a separate decision.
Investment
Two Ways to Start.
Both prices are published. Both are fixed scope. Third-party model and software costs pass through at cost, in your accounts, with no markup from me.
AI Opportunity Scoping
Find out what is worth building
one-time · six to eight weeks
Process mapping of sales, quoting, scheduling and reporting
Data readiness review: CRM, analytics, job data, price books
Four or five use cases scored by payoff versus effort
A roadmap with timelines, resources and measurable targets
An implementation quote that can go straight into a grant application
Funding Fit
Designed to fit the Ignite AI Catalyst advisory stream, which reimburses up to $10,000 after completion for eligible companies.
AI Implementation
Build the thing and put it to work
fixed scope · delivered inside six months
One of the five project types above, built against a fixed scope
Integrated with the CRM, phone system and tools you already run
Human review on anything your customer sees
Documentation of what the system does and where the data goes
Handover and training, with every account in your name
Not included: your model and software subscriptions, hardware, and anything outside the written scope. Those are quoted separately or billed at cost.
Funding Fit
Designed to fit the Ignite AI grant stream, which covers 50% of eligible third-party costs up to $20,000 for eligible companies.
Capacity: 2 concurrent implementation projects
Funding
Half the Bill, in Plain Numbers.
Ignite AI is run by IION for for-profit companies registered in Nipissing, Timiskaming, Parry Sound and Muskoka. If your company and your project are eligible, the math is simple.
A $40,000 implementation
costs you $20,000
You pay the invoice in full, then claim 50% back up to $20,000.
A $10,000 scoping engagement
costs you $0
The Catalyst advisory stream reimburses up to $10,000 after completion.
HST
paid up front
You pay it with the invoice and recover it as an input tax credit.
Eligibility is IION's call, not mine. Intakes are reviewed monthly and the program rules change, so confirm current details directly with IION. I wrote a plain-language walkthrough of what the program covers, who qualifies and how the process runs.
Stealth Digital is not affiliated with IION. Program details change; confirm eligibility and current intakes with IION.
How I Work With AI
Rules I Do Not Bend.
A Person Reviews What Your Customer Sees
Drafts, estimates and summaries get human review before they leave your business. The system removes the blank page and the waiting. It does not get the last word.
You Own the System and the Data
Code, prompts, configuration and accounts are yours, in your name wherever the provider allows it. No licence fee to keep using what I built, no hostage situation if you want to take it elsewhere.
Model Costs Pass Through at Cost
Third-party model and software costs are billed to you at what they cost, on your own accounts where possible. You can see the meter. I do not resell tokens.
The Data Flow Is Written Down
What is collected, which provider processes it, where it is stored and how long it is kept, documented and handed over. I have written AI-use and data-flow documentation for SaaS clients and I do the same on every implementation.
Honest Filter
Three Reasons to Call Someone Else.
You Need a Large Systems Integrator
If you are outside Northern Ontario and the job needs a team, a procurement process and an account manager, I am the wrong size. I build for owner-operators who want to talk to the person doing the work.
You Want AI to Replace Your People
I build systems that make a small team faster, not smaller. If the goal is a headcount reduction, we will disagree in week one and you will have paid for the argument.
You Have No Data and No Process Yet
AI needs something to work with. If leads are not tracked, prices are not written down and the website does not answer questions, start there. It is cheaper, it works, and it is the foundation the AI needs anyway.
Not sure which of these is you? Start with the website work and we will talk about AI when there is something to automate.
Common Questions
Straight Answers.
Is There Anything Here Worth Automating?
Twenty minutes on the phone is usually enough to know. I will tell you what I would build, roughly what it costs, and whether it looks fundable. If the answer is nothing, you get that answer too.
Stealth Digital is not affiliated with IION. Program details change; confirm eligibility and current intakes with IION.