AI development company for Vancouver gaming, healthtech, cleantech & fintech.

We do not operate a Vancouver office. Aiinfox runs from our Mohali, India HQ and a Frisco, TX office. For Vancouver clients that need Pacific business-hours coverage, our Frisco pod runs a US-Hours rotation on a late-CT shift (11am-to-8pm CT) that covers PT 9am-to-6pm with senior engineers live on Zoom, and the Mohali team picks up Vancouver afternoons via an early-IST start. For on-site engagements at Yaletown, Mount Pleasant, downtown, or studio offices, we travel to Vancouver on a scheduled cadence rather than maintaining a sub-scale local team at BC rates.

Honest answer: yes, with a planned shift. Our Frisco, TX office runs Central Time — two hours ahead of Pacific — so our default 9am-to-5pm CT only covers your morning. For Vancouver clients we run a US-Hours rotation: a late-CT shift (typically 11am-to-8pm CT) covers PT 9am-to-6pm on Zoom in full. Twice-weekly demos run in Vancouver business hours; written async updates land before your standup; the senior engineer on your kickoff is the senior engineer through launch. If your engagement genuinely cannot survive without a Vancouver-based team on the ground at all hours, we will tell you on the first call.

Yes. Our engagement defaults are aligned with PIPEDA federally and the BC Personal Information Protection Act for any engagement touching personal information from BC residents. DPAs are signed before any personal information is shared, and we run a Privacy Impact Assessment for engagements processing personal information at scale. For BC healthtech specifically — operators working with personal health information from Vancouver Coastal Health, PHSA, or other BC providers — we align with the BC PIPA health-information provisions, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC (OIPC) guidance, and the PHIPA-parallel obligations applicable for BC custodians. Audit logs on every model and tool call are exportable for OIPC inquiry.

Your call on the region. We default to AWS ca-central-1 (Montreal) for Canadian residency on the broadest service catalogue, or AWS ca-west-1 (Calgary) when Western Canadian residency is explicitly preferred. Azure Canada Central (Toronto) is supported for clients with Azure preferences. For inference, we route Claude or GPT-4o to a Canadian or US region depending on what your privacy officer approves — or we self-host Llama 3 on vLLM inside your Canadian VPC for zero third-party inference. No Canadian personal information silently crosses the border unless your DPA explicitly permits it.

Yes. We have shipped KYC automation, FINTRAC-aware transaction monitoring, fraud signal extraction, and deterministic-output compliance copilots for OSFI-supervised banks and lending operators serving Canadian markets. For Vancouver fintech scaleups with OSFI-supervised counterparties, every model and tool call is audit-logged with input, output, prompt version, and operator identity — so the responsible person under OSFI Guideline B-13 (technology and cyber risk management) or E-23 (model risk management for federally regulated financial institutions) has the evidence they need for a supervisory examination. Humans approve everything that touches a regulated outcome.

Yes. We work with MSA-plus-SOW structures for ongoing relationships and single-document fixed-price agreements for pilots. Standard terms cover IP assignment (your code, your IP), limitation of liability tuned to the scope, indemnification, data handling under PIPEDA and BC PIPA where applicable, breach notification, and a 30-day production warranty. NDAs are mutual. We are a registered Indian entity (Aiinfox Pvt. Ltd.) invoicing Vancouver clients in CAD via wire transfer or USD by preference, as a foreign corporation — no T4A entanglement on your side.

Most v1 engagements at Aiinfox land between CAD 35,000 and CAD 160,000 fixed-price for a focused build — an AI agent, a RAG system, a voice pipeline, or a bespoke ML model. Larger multi-quarter engagements with fine-tuning, custom evals, and OSFI- or BC PIPA-aware compliance work typically reach CAD 200,000 to CAD 350,000. Pilots are usually CAD 12,000 to CAD 25,000 with acceptance criteria written into scope. Cost difference versus a downtown Vancouver consultancy is roughly 40 to 60 percent on senior rates — useful, but the delivery model and engineer continuity are the real headline.

Yes — takeover audits are routine. Step one is reading the code, the data pipelines, the eval results (if any exist), the prompts, and the cost telemetry. Step two is shipping the smallest valuable change to prove we understand the system in a way the previous vendor did not. Step three is the longer-term plan — incremental stabilization, a parallel rewrite, or shutting it down. Most Vancouver takeovers we have seen did not need a full rewrite; they needed evals, guardrails, observability, and a senior engineer who stayed on the build past the discovery phase. We will be honest on the first call about which is the right move.