Advizr
An AI firm in Vancouver that acts as its clients' fractional CTO for AI. It builds custom AI systems on each client's own infrastructure and trains the client's people to run them.
- Role
- Founder and CEO. He runs sales, scopes every engagement, builds the platform and manages the team.
- Credit
- Bootstrapped. Built with his team and AI coding agents.
- Dates
- Dec 2024 to nowHis LinkedIn lists Founder and CEO from December 2024. He confirmed Q4 2024 on 2026-09-23.
- How it began
- As custom consulting for business owners who wanted AI and had no way to put it to work. The platform came later.His own account on recorded calls, November 2025 and 2026-08-04: "when we started we were doing kind of completely custom consulting work"
- First client
- An internship pitch to a Canadian asset manager turned into weekly AI lessons for one of its executives, then a prospecting tool built for its sales team.The executive's account and his own, on recorded calls in 2025. The firm is not named until it signs off.
- Reach
- He had talked with more than 100 businesses about AI by November 2025.His own words on a recorded call, November 2025: "I talked to a variety of business like over 100"
- How clients arrive
- By referral. The first ones came through an AI outreach system he built.His own account on a recorded call, 2026-08-04
- Each client gets
- Its own database, deployment and server.His own account on a recorded call, 2026-08-04
- Team
- Engineering students at UBC, paid through the company.His own account on a recorded call, 2026-08-04. The headcount moves, so none is given.