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Empowering you to make the best strategic investments in AI

AI Strategy & Advisory

AI Strategy & Advisory

Get clear, practical guidance to explore, adopt, and invest in AI where it matters most to your business, organization, association or community.

Training & Readiness

Training & Readiness

Strengthen your organization’s understanding and confidence through tailored sessions, interactive workshops, and expert guidance that build alignment, capability, and readiness for change.

Implementation & Integration

Implementation & Integration

Delivering the right solution for your organization, whether that means building, buying, or adapting, based on your goals, capabilities, and where you are in your journey.

Our Impact in Action

  • Turned AI concepts into investor-ready products, helping clients land major equity rounds

  • Drove 5x revenue growth through data-powered process optimization

  • Established a future-ready data backbone that unlocks the next wave of AI solutions

  • Designed clear strategies and hands-on programs that upskill teams and accelerate AI adoption

Your AI Advantage

  • Convert AI uncertainty into a clear roadmap and first-step pilot that everyone understands

  • Fill skills and capacity gaps through on-demand expertise and a phased execution playbook

  • Shape an ambitious yet practical AI vision that positions you as the catalyst for change

  • Secure budget and leadership support with ROI-backed business cases that spur action

Meet The Team

Jennifer LaPlante

Jennifer LaPlante

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Jennifer LaPlante is the founder of OAI Technologies Inc., a consultancy that helps organizations adopt AI and digital intelligence through strategic guidance, practical tools, and responsible implementation. Known for instantly translating big ideas into structured, metric‑driven operating models, she de‑risks execution and gives stakeholders early confidence in every initiative.

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As Chief Growth and Investment Officer at Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, she led national innovation efforts and built Canada’s first Ocean AI Strategy. Formerly Executive Director of DeepSense, Jennifer worked with hundreds of companies to help advance AI adoption across the ocean sector. She holds an MBA and an MSc in Computing and Data Analytics, co-founded Halifax’s Women in Machine Learning & Data Science chapter, and mentors emerging talent through Women in AI Canada and the Creative Destruction Lab–Oceans program. Recognized as a 2021 DataIQ Top 100 Influential Person in AI, Jennifer has served on several boards and advisory groups, including the Government of Canada’s AI Public Awareness Working Group, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, Propel ICT, and AI4Manufacturing.

Leslie Canavera

Leslie Canavera

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As the co-founder of PolArctic LLC, Leslie created a data science company focused on solving business challenges in the Arctic using Artificial Intelligence. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration on International Business, and is a veteran of the US Air Force where she served as a commissioned officer. From the USAF she transitioned to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for five years conceptualizing and initializing programs with complex geospatial components and analytics.

 

Leslie left NGA to found the technology start-up PolArctic LLC based on her experience and passion for the Arctic, and to bridge the gap between science and business requirements. Leslie is Yup’ik, Alaska Native, born and raised in Alaska. She was awarded the Women in Artificial Intelligence (WAI) North America Award for AI for good: Environmental Social Governance (ESG) for 2022, and was listed as a 2021 Forbes Next 1000 entrepreneur

Clients

This isn’t about learning all of AI, it’s about understanding the parts that actually matter to your business.

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