A practical five-step path from idea to operations for Canadian businesses adopting AI.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Adopting AI does not have to be chaotic. A simple five-step path takes a Canadian business from idea to running system without over-investing up front.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| 1. Find | Identify a high-value, repeatable problem |
| 2. Scope | Define the use case + a measurable baseline |
| 3. Pilot | Build small, human-in-the-loop |
| 4. Evaluate | Measure against the baseline |
| 5. Scale | Expand what worked |
The five steps
- Find a high-value, repeatable, text- or data-heavy problem. 2) Scope it into one use case with a measurable baseline. 3) Pilot a small build with a human in the loop. 4) Evaluate against the baseline. 5) Scale what worked. The discipline is doing one thing well before expanding.
Why this order works
It avoids the two common failures: boiling the ocean (too broad to deliver) and buying technology before a use case. Each step de-risks the next.
Canadian considerations
Fold in privacy (PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25) and, for Quebec customers, Bill 96 from step two, and decide residency early. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer a Canadian managed region. For data that must stay in Canada, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside a Canadian cloud region such as AWS Canada (Montréal/Calgary), Azure (Toronto/Quebec City) or Google Cloud (Montréal), or running models locally on-device.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Canadian businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.