Northlight Intelligence

Where can AI add value to your organization?

AI Opportunity Assessment

A fixed-scope assessment for organizations deciding where AI can improve productivity ot reduce costs without introducing unnecessary reliability risks.

The assessment focuses on a single agreed process or use case. Within that scope, the engagement produces:

A 90-minute discovery call

A written report includes an executive summary, a prioritized list of AI opportunities with recommendations for automation or AI assistance, evaluation of expected operational impact, technical feasibility, risks and human-oversight requirements and recommended next steps, including build-vs-buy considerations where relevant.

A 60-minute executive briefing walking leadership through findings, recommendations, and next decisions

CAD $5,000Fixed Fee

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How It Works

A four-stage engagement

Define

Northlight and the client agree on the assessment scope, primary objective, relevant teams or functions, the systems and data sources that may need to be considered, and what is explicitly outside scope.

Prepare & diagnose

The organization provides relevant background materials. A 90-minute discovery session examines the selected process, business objectives, bottlenecks, existing systems, data, handoffs, and decision requirements.

Analyze

Northlight evaluates potential AI uses in terms of:

Business value
Operational impact
Feasibility
Implementation complexity
Reliability
Human oversight

Recommend

The client receives the written assessment, followed by a 60-minute executive briefing and prioritized next steps.

The standard fixed-price CAD $5,000 assessment includes:

Assessment of one clearly defined business process or AI use case

Consideration of directly relevant systems, data sources, and handoffs required to understand that process

Review of client-provided background materials

One 90-minute discovery session

Northlight analysis and prioritization

One written assessment report

One 60-minute executive briefing

Not included in the standard assessment:

Enterprise-wide process mapping or data architecture redesign

Requirements gathering across multiple departments

Software prototype development or integration

Comprehensive cybersecurity or legal audits

Quantified ROI analysis

Analysis of additional business processes or use cases

Component	AI Opportunity	Business Value	Feasibility	Risk	Recommendation
Example task	High	High	High	Low	Automate
Example decision	High	High	Medium	Medium	Augment
Example approval step	Low	Medium	N/A	High	Keep human-led

Illustrative example. Actual components, findings, and recommendations depend on the process assessed.

Northlight can provide a separate proposal for broader scope.

Already working with NRC IRAP?

This engagement may qualify as an eligible IRAP expense. The offer above is a CAD $5,000 fixed-scope professional-services engagement.

Why Northlight

AI evaluated as a human + technology system

We evaluate AI as part of a human + technology system, not merely as a software purchase. Effective AI adoption requires deciding which tasks should be automated, where people and AI should work together, how outputs should be evaluated, and where human judgment remains essential.

We integrate research-level expertise built through careers spent in top research labs:

Artificial intelligence

Cognitive science and human decision-making

Human–AI interaction

AI evaluation

Experimental and quantitative methods