Practical AI · Orillia, Simcoe County & Muskoka
You're drowning in work AI should be doing.
We find the hours hiding in your workflows, then build the systems that hand them back. Real implementation, plain-language training, and a plan you can defend to anyone.
Exhibit A
This website is the pitch.
No agency. No template. This site was planned, written, designed, and shipped by AI working alongside one human, in days. It runs the same systems we install for clients. If it looks like a big-budget build, that's the point.
- 0 templates
- 1 human + AI
- Days, not months
Less busywork.
More real work.
Close to home
A real person in your community, not a faceless agency.
EKM is Teryl Brouillette, based in Orillia. Teryl sits down with business owners, nonprofits and teams across Simcoe County, Barrie and Muskoka, in person or online, meets you where you're at, and helps you get your head around AI.
Your worries are welcome
Privacy and your data, jobs, the environment, who's behind these tools. Those concerns are fair. You get straight answers about the risks, not reassurance.
You stay in control
AI should be a tool you choose and direct, not something done to you. You decide what it touches, and a person checks the work.
Understanding comes first
Whether you end up using AI a lot, a little or not at all, you'll leave knowing more than when you came in.
Not in the area? Work with Teryl online.
Most sessions run just as well over video. Teryl works virtually with clients across the Greater Toronto Area, the rest of Canada, the US and the UK, with the same plain language and the same honesty about the risks.
What we do
Three ways in. One outcome:
AI you can run without us.
AI Readiness & Strategy
Know where AI fits before you spend. From a free readiness call to a board-ready enterprise assessment, you get a plan built on your real workflows, not guesswork.
Learn more → 02AI Implementation
We build the systems, not the slides. Production tools that fit how your team already works, and that you can run once we're done.
Learn more → 03AI Training & Workshops
Your team, confident with AI. Plain-language training and workshops, virtual or in person, built around the work your people actually do.
Learn more →How we work
Discovery-led, always.
Every engagement is custom-scoped. We listen to the people who own the work before we recommend a single tool.
- 01
Listen
We sit with the people who actually own the work and ask what drains them, what they love, and where the hours go.
- 02
Dream
Then we ask what your ideal workday would look like. Most people describe the solution without knowing it’s buildable.
- 03
Prototype
After discovery, we don’t just write a proposal. Wherever the problem allows it, we build a working prototype, so you greenlight something you’ve already seen run.
- 04
Ship
Once it’s greenlit, the build becomes production infrastructure: wired into how your team already works, with humans in the loop where they belong.
- 05
Refine
No tool is perfect out of the gate. We try it, find where it fails, and fix it. That’s part of the plan, not a surprise.
Why EKM
A decade in the work: video, marketing, now AI.
EKM has been helping people put new tools to work since 2016. We don't hand you a strategy and walk away. We build the thing, wire it into how you already work, and make sure it keeps running.
- 2016Founded · now based in Orillia, Ontario
- Production, not demosLive tools in real workflows
- CA · US · UKOnline with clients in the GTA, across Canada, the US and UK
Answers
Real questions. Straight answers.
Do I have to disclose that I used AI in my marketing?
In Canada, no law makes you label everyday marketing as AI-assisted. What the rules do require is that your marketing isn't misleading. So disclose when AI creates an impression a customer would rely on, and write your own rule for everything else.
Read the answer →Can AI build my website for me?
Yes. If you can describe what you want, an AI tool like Claude can build a working site, and you can keep changing it by asking in plain language. The part it can't do is decide what your site should say. That's still yours.
Read the answer →What do I do when my team is scared of AI?
Start with what each person is best at, not with what can be automated. Ask which parts of the job they'd happily hand off and build for those first. Once people see the work leaving is work they don't like, the fear usually goes.
Read the answer →Not sure where AI fits? That's the call.
A free, 20-minute readiness call. If it's not a fit, you still leave with clarity.