Chal-AI

AI and cloud transformation, delivered by senior people who have already done it.

Chal-AI helps Canadian organizations — public sector, mid-market, and SMB — plan, staff, and ship AI, Azure, and data initiatives. Delivery global; accountability local.

Founder-led  ·  Microsoft-stack specialist  ·  $20M+ delivered to clients like yours

16+ years of enterprise delivery$20M+ shipped globally100+ consultants ledPublic sector · FS · Tech & SaaS · Healthcare · Manufacturing · Telecom · Professional ServicesPMP · Azure Certified · ITIL

Three ways we help.

We do three things, deliberately, and we do them well.

Advisory

A clear plan — and a working proof.

AI Readiness, Azure Migration Planning, AI PoC Delivery, Security & Governance Audits. Time-boxed engagements that give you a clear plan, a defensible business case, and a working proof — usually in 2 to 8 weeks.

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Growth Engine

Growth Engine.

The commercial arm you rent instead of build.

For technical founders, boutique consultancies, and scaling tech and product companies who can deliver but can't systematically sell — positioning, pipeline, and close, run by a 16-year enterprise sales leader.

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Talent

Senior consultants, placed where it matters.

Senior DevOps, Cloud, Data, and AI consultants placed into your team. Vetted, security-aware, and selected for the actual scope — not a resume keyword match.

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Your first assessment may cost you nothing.

Microsoft part-funds assessments, pilots, and migrations for qualified organizations. We have run the funding motion across dozens of engagements.

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Why Chal-AI.

Senior by default.

Every engagement is led by someone who has shipped at the Director / Architect level. No juniors on the front line, ever. Behind every senior lead is an AI-assisted delivery pipeline — agents do the reading and drafting, named humans review and sign everything. How we use AI is published at /ai-use.

Built for serious buyers.

Whether you are a 40-person SaaS firm, a 1,500-person mid-market bank, or a provincial ministry — we speak your language and can pass security, procurement, and legal review.

Microsoft-stack specialist.

Azure, Fabric, Purview, Copilot, Dynamics 365, Power Platform. Deep expertise where most of our clients already live.

Selected outcomes.

Anonymized from real prior engagements. Names withheld pending client permission.

Digital Transformation

Provincial Government, Eastern Canada

Closed and delivered a CAD $2.4M multi-year transformation — the largest single engagement in the previous firm's history. Cloud migration, low-code platform, data foundation, managed services.

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Legacy Modernization

Provincial Government — 40-Year-Old Mainframe, Modernized

A 420-screen, 366K-line COBOL student-aid system disbursing $98M a year, rebuilt on Azure module by module — with every record validated in parallel against the legacy system before cutover.

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Data Platform

Atlantic Port Authority — Data Platform

From spreadsheet reporting to a governed cloud data platform — a relationship that grew from one strategy diagnostic to a $1M+ multi-year engagement.

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Assessment to Managed Services

National Real-Estate Board — Funded Assessment to Managed Services

A Microsoft-funded assessment at zero cost to the client became a $74K migration, then ongoing managed services — the full chain in one account.

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Growth Engine

Canadian Cloud & AI Services Firm — Full GTM Build

Board-approved $3M go-to-market investment case across three regions and three verticals, delivered in five months — from market sizing to a live Crown Corporation RFP response on deadline.

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AI PoC

Provincial Government — Citizen-Facing AI Chatbot

A retrieval-grounded AI chatbot proof of concept on provincial content, inside the client's own Azure tenant, with agreed success criteria — a $20K fast yes that opened a broader GenAI roadmap.

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How we work.

01

Discover

A 30-minute call to understand the outcome, constraints, and timeline.

02

Scope

A fixed-fee proposal with deliverables, stage gates, and named people.

03

Deliver

Senior practitioners on the work, weekly written status, no surprises.

04

Handover

Documentation, enablement, and a clear next step — not a dependency.

Agents do the reading. Seniors sign everything.

Our delivery pipeline uses AI agents for the labour that used to need a bench — reading code and documents at volume, drafting, testing, comparing outputs record by record. Named humans review and sign every artifact, and you choose how much AI touches your work: in the contract, not the fine print.

How we use AI

The fastest way to find out if we can help.

Book a 30-min discovery call

A 30-minute conversation. No deck, no obligation. You leave with at least one useful idea either way.

Not ready to talk? Take the 2-minute funding eligibility check and we'll tell you what Microsoft might pay for.