AI adoption and automation
For operations, service, sales, documentation, quality, or internal workflow automation where a practical first use case is needed.
Map AI pathSee onboarding pathCanadian AI, digital adoption, and funding readiness
Find the funding path before you spend.
Digid helps Canadian businesses turn AI, automation, cloud, training, and digital ideas into clear projects before they spend time on applications, financing conversations, or vendor quotes.
Start from the business problem.
You do not need to know the program name first. Choose the situation that is closest, then Digid can help you prepare the right next step.
BDC LIFT readiness
For Canadian businesses preparing an AI, digital, cybersecurity, automation, or smart equipment project before a financing conversation.
Review LIFT fitRead financeability guideOCI DMAP and TDP
For Ontario businesses that need a digital adoption plan, technology direction, or project definition before implementation.
See DMAP pathSR&ED for AI and digital projects
For software, automation, data, or technical work where uncertainty, experimentation, and evidence capture may matter.
Review SR&ED fitPECB and bridge training
For teams that need AI governance, ISO-aligned training, QMS awareness, or practical bridge courses before rollout.
Plan training pathCloud implementation support
For projects involving cloud platforms, CRM data, knowledge retrieval, workflow automation, or system integration.
Review cloud pathWhat makes a project easier to fund.
A strong project is useful even before approval. It has a measurable workflow, a realistic build path, and evidence that a lender, funder, advisor, or implementation partner can understand.
Workflow value
The project targets a real business process: quoting, scheduling, inspection, onboarding, reporting, customer service, quality, compliance, or knowledge work.
Readiness proof
The team can show current tools, data sources, constraints, risks, staff roles, vendor dependencies, and the decision criteria for a first version.
Implementation path
The plan explains what will be assessed, built, trained, governed, measured, and improved after the first release.
What Digid helps prepare
A clearer project before any application or financing discussion.
Programs and financing requirements change. Digid helps you prepare the parts that stay useful: workflow clarity, project scope, readiness gaps, implementation plan, and evidence for a serious conversation.
- Clarify the business workflow, expected outcome, and project owner.
- Check readiness gaps across data, governance, staff, cloud, cybersecurity, training, and delivery capacity.
- Compare possible paths: BDC LIFT, DMAP/TDP, SR&ED, training support, cloud credits, implementation, or self-funded delivery.
- Prepare a practical project path before spending on tools, applications, or vendors.
What to bring to a funding review.
A short review works better when the first evidence is already in one place. Bring what you have; Digid will identify what is missing.
Business context
Revenue range, province, team size, operational bottleneck, current tools, and the reason the project matters now.
Project context
The workflow to improve, expected outcome, data involved, likely vendors, cloud platform, timeline, and internal owner.
Evidence context
Existing plans, quotes, screenshots, process maps, tickets, cloud logs, training needs, or technical notes that support the project story.
Start with a short assessment if the path is unclear.
The assessment gives Digid enough context to point you toward AI Pathfinder, onboarding, DMAP/TDP, BDC LIFT readiness, SR&ED evidence, training, cloud implementation, or a later follow-up.
Funding, financing, tax-credit, and training-support decisions are controlled by third parties. Digid is independent and is not associated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by BDC or any government funding body unless explicitly stated in a specific program context.