PRACTICAL AI FOR ALBERTA BUSINESSES
We help independent local businesses automate the mundane, level the playing field against the giants, and get home to their families.
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Big corporations have $100,000 AI budgets. You have 24 hours in a day!
The Admin Trap: You are spending 15 hours a week doing manual quoting, invoicing, and data entry instead of growing the business.
The Speed Gap: A customer messages you at 8:00 PM; a big competitor’s automated system captures them by 8:01 PM while you're putting your kids to bed.
The "Hype" Paralysis: You know you should be using AI, but you don't have the time to figure out which tools are real and which are garbage.
Who is AI’84?
From Outback Robots to Alberta Business.
I’m not a 22-year-old tech bro. My background isn't in Silicon Valley—it’s in heavy industry.
Before coming to Alberta, I spent nearly a decade and a half in the Australian electrical field faultfinding, fixing, and managing multimillion-dollar robotic systems and industrial plants. I cut my teeth running automation for 11 years at the Mossman Sugar Mill in North Queensland, followed by 3 years managing critical systems in a remote outback copper mine.
For the last several years, I've brought that same industrial instrumentation expertise to complex Alberta systems.
AI is no different. It isn’t 'magic'—it is just digital instrumentation.
We look at your business the same way I looked at an outback mine facility: we find the high-pressure bottlenecks, wire the right software components together safely, and make sure the whole system doesn't blow a fuse.
// Nick Sherston, Co-Founder
From Human Truth to Ethical Tech.
I don’t have a philosophy degree from an Ivy League school. My background isn't sitting on high-tech corporate ethics boards—it’s rooted entirely in the real world.
My path has been guided by intuition rather than a standard institutional roadmap. I walked away from the traditional university track early on because no syllabus could accommodate my absolute priority: family first. From managing operations in the Australian transport industry to teaching dance and pivoting to full-time motherhood and homeschooling, my life has been a hands-on study of human dynamics, empathy, and community. Since my youth, I’ve been on a relentless independent search to understand true human motivation and why the world functions the way it does.
AI is no different. It isn’t just lines of code—it is a deeply human tool that reflects human choices. I am here to bring a grounded, highly empathetic understanding of human nature to the table, making sure the technology we build today shapes a future of genuine equality for everyone, instead of reinforcing division.
// Shannon Sherston, Co-Founder
AI’84 Services Roadmap
Phase 1: Get Up-2-Speed(The Staff Workshop) ->
"We demystify the tech for your team so they stop fearing it and start using it."
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Phase 2: Strategy & Discovery (The Blueprint) ->
"We audit your week and hand you a prioritized list of what can actually be automated."
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Phase 3: Implementation (The Build) ->
"We build the custom agents and workflows so you don't have to write a line of code."
The Alberta Use-Cases
`> AI FOR TRADE CONTRACTORS`
`> AI FOR LOCAL LOGISTICS`
`> AI FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES`
`> CUSTOM WORKFLOWS`
The Honest AI Hub: Education, Ethics, and Reality.
Our Ethics Statement: AI Ethics is Human Ethics
At AI 84, we operate on a foundational truth: AI ethics is human ethics.
Technology doesn't invent inequality, bias, or division out of thin air—it simply learns them from us. AI is the most powerful mirror humanity has ever built, reflecting our collective history, our social patterns, and our deepest mistakes right back at us.
But where others see a crisis, we see an evolutionary turning point.
Having a mirror this clear means we finally have the opportunity to confront our missteps. More importantly, we now possess the computational tools required to repair those mistakes. We aren't here to just watch the future happen; we are here to consciously shape it.
Our Philosophical Commitments
The Mirror Principle: We don't treat AI as an isolated tech problem. We look at the human motivations, behaviors, and structures behind the data to fix systemic issues at their root.
Conscious Repair: We actively use these tools to dismantle old architectures of inequality and build digital systems that prioritize human equity.
By the People, For the People: AI must never belong solely to an insulated tech elite. It must be driven by collective human experience, guided by deep empathy, and designed to serve the advancement of everyone—not just a privileged few.
We aren't just building smart systems; we are ensuring that the future of technology remains undeniably, beautifully human.
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