AI consultancy for accountable leaders
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
- See selected work →
Less busywork.
More real work.
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.
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Dream
Then we ask what your ideal workday would look like. Most people describe the solution without knowing it’s buildable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Electric Kite Media 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 · Toronto, working globally
- Production, not demosLive tools in real workflows
- CA · US · UKClients across three markets
Answers
Real questions. Straight answers.
Can I use AI if I handle confidential client information?
Yes, and you start with the work that never touches the confidential part. Most of the hours AI gives back are in admin, drafting, and reporting, where no client data is involved. Where sensitive data is unavoidable, the boundaries are a design input, not a blocker.
Read the answer →What happens to my business data if the AI company shuts down?
That depends entirely on where your data lives. If your context sits inside a vendor's memory, you lose it. If it lives as ordinary files on a drive you own, the vendor going away costs you a subscription, not your knowledge. Choose the second setup.
Read the answer →How can a small business use AI for customer service?
Start with the moment customers feel let down, usually chasing you for an update. AI can draft replies from your live order data, send proactive updates on its own, and flag anything unusual, while a person handles the conversations that genuinely need one.
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.