Small businesses are roughly one fourth as likely to use AI as large businesses.
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The gap is real.
of Canadian employees worry about being replaced by someone who uses generative AI effectively.
Canadian companies are three times more likely to be without AI integration than U.S. companies.
Sources: OECD, AI Adoption by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (2025), KPMG Canada, and RSM Canada, Middle Market AI Survey 2026: U.S. and Canada. External research is context, not a promise of individual results.
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We bring companies from not knowing where to start, to confident AI use & compound learning.
Team Workshops
We set up your Core AI workspace and train your team on the highest-impact skills they can use tomorrow.
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A two-week sprint of interviews, setup, workshops, and handoff, designed around your team’s readiness, technology, and highest-impact opportunities.
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The examples cover different kinds of day-to-day work, from planning and finding knowledge to keeping conversations moving.
Turn your inbox into ready-to-approve work.
AI can sift through incoming messages, customer context, and past threads to sort what needs attention. It can prepare replies, route requests to the right person, and turn the right messages into tasks.
Instead of writing every response from scratch, your team reviews, edits when needed, and approves.
Open your calendar knowing what matters today.
Before a meeting, see the people involved, relevant history, useful documents, and open questions. Your calendar becomes a practical daily plan that helps the team prepare for the right conversations and follow through afterward.
Spend less time hunting for context and more time having the conversation that needs to happen.
Ask a question. Get the answer and the document.
Before a client call, your team can ask a practical question and pull together the relevant history from documents, emails, notes, and records.
What is our history with this client?
Who is the key contact person?
When did we last connect and what did we discuss?
What has been holding this up?
The source documents and messages are one click away when you need to go deeper.
Create the finished asset, not just text to copy and paste.
Start with a scope, notes, data, images, customer context, brand materials, or past examples. AI can turn that material into a polished proposal, estimate, report, presentation, or customer document in the tools your team already uses.
Your people start with a strong, professional version that is ready to review, improve, and send.
Ask your financial records a plain-language question.
Ask what changed in spending, which customers are overdue, what a report is really telling you, or where the business should look more closely. AI can sift through approved invoices, receipts, financial documents, and reports to assemble the relevant information into a clear answer.
Spend less time gathering information and more time deciding what to do with it.
Turn every good sales conversation into a timely next step.
After a call, AI can pull together the customer history, the conversation, related emails, and the current deal record. It can prepare the follow-up, create the tasks, update the CRM, and tee up the next action while the context is still fresh.
Your team reviews and approves the work, then the message is sent and the right records are updated.
Turn real work into marketing that is ready to share.
A completed project, customer feedback, service update, or team insight can become a case study, customer email, social post, sales presentation, or newsletter. AI pulls together the source material and creates a strong first version, so marketing does not begin with an empty page every time.
Make more of the work your team is already doing well.
Turn a call into the work that should happen next.
From a call transcript or existing notes, AI can identify decisions, action items, owners, deadlines, and open questions. It can prepare the follow-up email, create the tasks, update the customer record, and assemble any work that needs to follow.
Your team reviews the output, then the follow-through is ready to happen in the right tools.
Thumbstop’s Track Record
“To say Thumbstop delivered above and beyond would be an understatement.”
“It feels like a true partnership.”
“Their expertise and drive to continuously learn new approaches and tools have helped us create a great system that we can grow with.”
“AI is insanely easy to use. It’s like having some Gen Z genius who handles all of my repetitive work.”
AI should make work feel more manageable, not more intimidating.
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Potential funding support
Funding may be available to support your AI training.
Governments are investing in workforce training and AI upskilling. Depending on your location, company, and the available programme, there may be support worth exploring.
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