Your team is already using AI, whether or not anyone has decided how. We help you do it deliberately: pick the tools that protect your data, write a policy people will actually follow, and automate the repetitive work that is quietly eating your week.
AI consulting and workflow automation is the work of deciding where AI genuinely helps a business, putting rules around it so confidential information stays protected, and automating the repetitive steps between the systems you already use. DASTech delivers it to Canadian small businesses and professional practices from Angus, Ontario, and it pairs naturally with our fractional IT service. See it in practice: how we automated a legal-technology consultancy’s project pipeline.
We start with what you already pay for. Most small businesses have more automation and AI capability sitting unused inside Microsoft 365 than they realise, and the fastest wins usually cost nothing extra.
We look at how your team actually works, then map where AI saves real time and where it is a distraction. You get a short, prioritized plan: what to try first, what to leave alone, and what it will cost.
Copilot works inside your Microsoft 365 tenant and respects your existing file permissions, which is exactly why loose permissions have to be cleaned up before rollout. We tighten access first, then license, configure and train.
Invoice handoffs, onboarding checklists, intake forms, approvals, reporting, file routing. We automate the manual steps between the tools you already own, usually with Power Automate and the integrations built into your stack.
A one page acceptable-use policy, an approved tool list, and settings configured so business data is not used to train someone else’s model. Written plainly enough that people actually follow it.
We review your systems, your data, and how the team works today, then identify the two or three highest value opportunities and the risks worth closing first.
The acceptable-use policy, the approved tool list, and the data-handling settings, agreed with you and configured before anyone rolls anything out widely.
We build the first automations and prove them on real work, so you can see time saved before committing to anything larger.
Copilot or your chosen tools rolled out properly, with short practical training so the team uses them well, then we keep improving as you go.
Start with the assessment, then we scope the rest to your business. Project work is quoted as a fixed price up front. Anything outside an agreed scope is $175 + HST per hour.
$1,499 + HST, one time. How your team works today, where AI and automation genuinely help, the risks worth closing, and a prioritized plan with costs. You keep the plan either way.
Systems and workflow review
AI and automation opportunity map
Data and confidentiality risk review
Prioritized plan with costs
60 minute walkthrough
From $4,950 + HST, quoted as a fixed price once the assessment tells us the real scope. Policy, permissions cleanup, Copilot configuration and team training, delivered as one project.
Acceptable-use policy, written plainly
Approved tool list and data settings
Microsoft 365 permissions cleanup
Copilot licensing and configuration
Practical team training
From $1,499.99 + HST per month, month to month. Ongoing automation work, new use cases, and policy upkeep as the tools change. Can be added to an existing fractional IT plan.
New automations as needs emerge
Policy and tool list kept current
Usage review and tuning
A named contact who knows your setup
Month to month, no long contract
It depends on which tool and which tier, which is exactly why this needs a decision rather than a habit. Business and enterprise tiers generally offer no-training options and stronger data handling, while free consumer tiers often use what your staff type to improve the service unless someone changes a setting. We check the current terms for each tool we approve, turn on the right settings, and write the rules down so nobody has to guess.
Often yes, because it works inside the Microsoft 365 you already pay for and respects your existing permissions. The catch is that it surfaces anything a user can already open, so if your shared drives are wide open, Copilot makes that very visible very quickly. We clean up permissions first, which is worth doing regardless.
The repetitive, rules-based work between systems: routing invoices and documents, onboarding and offboarding checklists, intake forms feeding your systems, approval chains, recurring reports, and reminders. If a person is copying information from one screen into another every week, it can usually be automated.
Yes, and it is quicker than you think. Team size does not change your duty to protect client and personal information, and small teams often share logins and habits more loosely. A one page policy plus the right tool settings takes an afternoon and removes the guesswork about what is safe to paste into an AI tool.
Plain-language answers written from hands-on work, not rewritten vendor marketing. No pitch.
We will show you two or three places AI or automation would save real time in your business, and be honest about where it would not. No obligation.
