Ontario, CanadaFixed prices 路 Human approvals 路 A full audit log
Every agent asks before it acts.
We design, build and run AI agents for Canadian businesses with roughly 10 to 200 staff. Your agent works in your email, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, CRM and accounting system. A person approves anything that matters, every action is logged, and you get a fixed price before work starts. Fixed prices: a free working prototype in 5 business days, then a first AI agent from $995 CAD, a standard automation from $499 CAD and optional support from $99 CAD/month.
Built with tools you can trust: n8n, Claude, OpenAI, Retell AI, Vapi, Microsoft 365 and Zapier.
"I'll build you a working prototype in 5 business days, free, no obligation."
Scott Holmes, founder
What got faster is the mechanical build work: scaffolding, integrations, wiring and testing. Understanding your workflow still takes a person's time, which is what the free audit call is for.
If one of these sounds like your week, an agent can probably take it over.
Someone opens each purchase order, reads it, and re-keys it into QuickBooks, Xero or your CRM. It's slow, and one wrong part number becomes a wrong shipment.
Fix: an operations agentLunch hour, after 5 p.m., or two lines ringing at once. Some callers leave a message. Others phone the next company on their list.
Fix: a customer agentYour estimators have moved on to the next job. Last Tuesday's quote sits in the sent folder until the customer buys somewhere else.
Fix: a customer agentSupplier price changes, customer complaints and newsletters all land in info@. Someone has to open every one to find the few that can't wait.
Fix: an operations agentWe sort agents by where the work happens: your back office or your customers. A simpler job between two apps is a standard automation.
Read incoming email and documents, pull out the details, and enter them where they belong: orders and bills into QuickBooks or Xero, leads into HubSpot. They also prepare quotes, build scheduled reports and draft replies for a person to send.
Operations agentsAnswer your phone and website chat from your own documents, qualify the enquiry, book the appointment, update the CRM and pass the conversation to a person with a summary. Voice agents run on Retell AI or Vapi.
Customer agentsOne well-known app connected to another, such as a web form into HubSpot or closed deals into QuickBooks, with one simple AI step included. Any app with a ready-made Zapier, Make or n8n connector qualifies. Each one is from $499 CAD.
See pricingNeed an agent for an ERP or a custom system, or a private model on your own hardware? That's our enterprise practice, FlowNorth.ai.
An AI agent reads a piece of incoming work, decides what needs to happen, and uses your software to do it. A chatbot only talks. A workflow only follows fixed rules.
| Chatbot | Workflow automation | AI agent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it does | Answers questions in a chat window | Moves data between apps when a set trigger fires | Reads the input, decides the next step, and uses your tools to take it |
| Messy input (a scanned PO, a rambling email) | Can read it, can't act on it | Breaks unless the data arrives in the expected format | Handles it. That's its main job |
| Takes action in your systems | Rarely | Yes, the exact steps it was given | Yes, within the permissions you set |
| Example | "What are your hours?" on a website | New web form becomes a row in a Google Sheet | Reads a supplier's PDF quote, matches parts to your catalogue and drafts a PO for approval |
| Where a person fits | Takes over when it gets stuck | Fixes it when a rule breaks | Approves anything that sends money, signs or emails a customer |
In practice, our agents sit on top of ordinary workflows. The workflow handles the fixed steps and the AI handles the reading and judgment. For the long version, read What AI agents actually do for a business.
Six steps from first call to a working agent. You see a prototype within 5 business days, and the production agent is typically live about 2 weeks after you approve the price.
On a phone or video call, we look at where the hours go and agree on the one job worth prototyping first.
One workflow or one agent, working on your tools in a test setup or on sample data. You watch it run on a video call. No obligation.
If you want it in production, you get a written scope and one fixed price. The prototype isn't charged on top.
We connect it to your live tools with the least access it needs, and you review a staging version. Typically live in about 2 weeks.
The agent starts on real work with approvals switched on. Documentation, a walkthrough and 2 weeks of support are included.
Monitoring, fixes and small changes, month to month. Cancel anytime, and you keep everything we built.
AI models get things wrong sometimes. We design every agent on the assumption that it will.
Before you sign, we show you where each piece runs: which model provider sees which data, and where it's stored.
Hosted models such as Claude and OpenAI may process data outside Canada, and we tell you which ones do. We design with PIPEDA and Quebec's Law 25 in mind.
Your agent works in the software your team already opens every morning. These are the tools we build with.
Don't see your app? If it has a ready-made connector in Zapier, Make or n8n, an agent can usually work with it. We confirm that on the audit call, before any price.
Most of what you need is already built, tested and running somewhere in our portfolio, alongside 130 n8n workflows. That's why we publish fixed prices instead of quoting from scratch. Here are three that are live right now.
Drops onto an existing Claude Code or AI-agent build and routes every tool call through one policy decision point that defaults to deny, confines file and shell access to a boundary, vets each skill for risk and prompt injection before it can run, and records every action in a hash-chained audit log. Published as an npm command-line tool with a resident, fail-closed policy daemon.
How it's built →Built for a Canadian consumer lender
Each morning sends a lender's customer screening batch to a sanctions and watch-list screening service: pulled from SharePoint, unzipped, PGP-encrypted by a small serverless microservice and uploaded by SFTP. Later it collects the results, decrypts them, flattens the XML into a readable CSV, files it in SharePoint and emails the analysts.
How it's built →Built for a wireless and telecom engineering firm
Every hour, reads incoming purchase-order emails, takes the PO and tracking numbers from the attached PDF or the email body, finds the matching completed job on the company's Monday.com board and writes the PO number. Each email is then filed as processed or failed, replacing manual lookup and typing.
How it's built →The working prototype comes first, and it's free. Production builds have fixed prices, agreed in writing before any work starts.
One workflow
One-time, fixed price
Most businesses start here
One-time, fixed price
Optional
Month to month, cancel anytime
More answers on our FAQ page.
An AI agent is software that reads incoming work, such as an email, a PDF or a phone call, decides what needs to happen, and does it in your systems. For example, it can read a purchase order, enter it in QuickBooks and draft a confirmation for a person to approve.
That isn't how we scope projects. We pick jobs your team does reluctantly, like re-keying orders or chasing quotes, so the same people spend more time on customers and judgment calls. A person still approves anything that matters.
You see a free working prototype within 5 business days of us having your sample data and test access. Once you approve the fixed price, the production agent is typically live in about 2 weeks, including a staging version you test before anything goes live. Documentation, a walkthrough and 2 weeks of support follow launch.
Not always. Hosted models such as Claude and OpenAI, and hosted workflow platforms, may process data outside Canada, and we show you which provider sees which data before you sign. We design with PIPEDA and Quebec's Law 25 in mind, give each agent only the access its job needs, and log every action. If your data must stay in Canada, or you need a private model on your own hardware, that's our enterprise practice, FlowNorth.ai.
Every project gets a fixed price in writing before work starts. Starting prices for a first agent, a standard automation and monthly support are on our pricing page. Model usage and software subscriptions are separate running costs, and we estimate them for you up front.
Book a free 30-minute agent audit by phone or video. We agree on the job worth automating first, and I'll build you a working prototype of it in 5 business days, free.
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