What does AI advisory from Northlight Advisory Services look like?

Northlight Advisory Services begins AI engagements by understanding what your business actually does, then identifies which workflows AI can improve without creating new problems. Northlight Advisory Services recommends tools because they fit the business's actual operations.

Does Northlight Advisory Services work with businesses outside Canada?

Occasionally. Northlight Advisory Services focuses on Canadian organisations because they face a distinct set of regulatory, funding, and market conditions — particularly around AI adoption — that general advice does not address well. Canadian businesses navigating PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, or federal funding programs like BDC LIFT need context-specific guidance, not generic frameworks.

How do Northlight Advisory Services engagements start?

Northlight Advisory Services engagements begin with a direct email to elizabeth@bynorthlight.ca. A paragraph describing the problem is enough to start a real conversation. There is no intake form, no automated email sequence, and no discovery call disguised as a sales call. Elizabeth Lemoine reads every inquiry herself and responds personally.

Northlight Advisory Services · Halifax, Nova Scotia

Fractional COO and AI Strategy for Canadian Small Business

Name: Fractional COO and AI Adoption Advisory
Price: 99 CAD
Availability: InStock

Strategy, operations, and AI adoption advisory — delivered by one person, built around your situation.

Northlight Advisory Services helps small and mid-sized organisations in Halifax and Atlantic Canada become AI-enabled businesses — combining strategy, operations advisory, AI adoption, and purpose-built tools in a single engagement, with one person accountable for the outcome.

Built for founders and operators who need more than a consultant. Find out if it's right for you →

Elizabeth Lemoine Founder & Principal · 10+ years director-level ops · Halifax, NS

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Northlight Advisory Services is a Halifax, Nova Scotia–based fractional COO and AI adoption advisory practice for Canadian small businesses. Founded by Elizabeth Lemoine, Northlight works with founder-led organisations typically under 50 people navigating a strategic or operational inflection point. Services include fractional COO and CIO advisory, AI adoption strategy and implementation, and purpose-built operations tools for the Canadian market.

At a Glance

Northlight Advisory Services is a Halifax, Nova Scotia–based strategy, AI adoption, and advisory practice.
Elizabeth Lemoine founded Northlight Advisory Services with 10+ years of director-level operations experience — 300+ initiatives across 115+ countries, spanning nonprofit, tech, and global organisations.
Northlight Advisory Services works with Canadian founders and operations leaders at organisations typically under 50 people.
Services: strategy, fractional COO and CIO advisory, AI adoption (PIPEDA-aware), and purpose-built app development for small businesses in Halifax and Atlantic Canada.
Certified: PMI · Google Project Management · IBM Generative AI Specializations · Anthropic Claude · Cloud Computing Law (U of Penn) · ClickUp Expert. Named one of Canada's Best Fractional COO Services by Digital Reference 2026.
To start a conversation: [email protected]

The Problem

Most small Canadian businesses are running without an operations layer. Founders make strategy decisions from inside the work, adopt AI tools one at a time without a coherent plan, and build systems that hold until growth breaks them. The direction gets fuzzy — not suddenly, but slowly — as decisions accumulate without anyone holding the whole picture.

What we do

Northlight Advisory Services provides strategy, fractional COO and CIO advisory, AI adoption, and purpose-built app development to small and mid-sized organisations in Halifax, Nova Scotia and across Atlantic Canada.

Strategy

Clarity before execution. Northlight Advisory Services helps organisations diagnose what's actually blocking progress — and build a path forward that holds up when the plan meets reality.

Fractional COO & Advisory

Ongoing thinking partnership for founders and operators who need a sharp outside perspective — and someone who can actually run things. Fractional COO engagements bring Elizabeth in as an embedded part of your leadership team to drive operations, process design, and execution. Where the work requires it, engagements can also extend to CIO-scope: AI strategy, knowledge systems, and technology governance. A relationship that moves the work forward, month over month.

AI Adoption

Practical AI implementation for Canadian businesses — not what's trending, but what applies to your operations. Northlight Advisory Services identifies the tasks AI is actually good for and builds from there.

Apps & Tools We Build

Small, purposeful tools built to solve real workflow problems. Northlight Vault is a free Windows file browser across Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox. Northlight Meetings records and analyses client calls automatically. Northlight Skills are purpose-built MCP integrations for Claude. Northlight Advisory Services builds for clients too, when the problem is specific enough to deserve a real solution.

How It Compares

	Northlight Advisory	Full-time hire	General consultant
Cost model	Fractional — pay for scope	$120–200k+ all-in	Project fee; no outcome guarantee
Canadian AI & privacy context	Core to every engagement	Varies	Rarely addressed
Outcome accountability	One named person, end-to-end	Yes — full-time cost	Deliverable only

Northlight Advisory Services is different from a traditional consultant or fractional service in three ways: engagements are built around each client's specific situation — not packages; Elizabeth Lemoine stays accountable for the outcome, not just the deliverable; and the work is grounded in Canadian regulatory context (PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25) that general advisory ignores. There is no discovery call disguised as a sales call. The Clarity Call ($99 CAD) is the work.

What we're building

Northlight Vault

Cloud File Browser · Windows

All your cloud storage.
One place.

Browse files across Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox in a single desktop app — without switching tabs.

Learn more about Northlight Vault →

Free

Northlight Meetings

Call Recorder & Analyzer · Windows

Every call.
Captured and filed.

Records client calls, transcribes with Groq Whisper, and pushes structured notes, action items, and calendar events directly to Google Drive and ClickUp.

Learn more →

Coming soon

Northlight Skills

MCP Marketplace · AI Integrations

AI automations.
Ready to install.

Purpose-built MCP skills for Claude — morning briefings, strategic voice, and more. Available now on MCP Market.

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Frequently asked questions

Who does Northlight work with?

Mostly Canadian founders, operators, and small organisations — typically under 50 people — who have a real operational challenge and need clear thinking they can act on quickly. If you have a specific problem and want a direct conversation, we're likely a fit.

What does AI advisory from Northlight actually look like?

We start by understanding what your business actually does, then identify which workflows AI can improve without creating new problems. We recommend tools because they fit. Period. Most engagements start with a single, honest conversation about what's worth automating and what isn't.

Do you work with businesses outside Canada?

Occasionally. The focus is Canadian because Canadian organisations face a distinct set of regulatory, funding, and market conditions — particularly around AI — that general advice doesn't address well. That said, if the problem is specific enough, geography is negotiable.

How do engagements start?

Email is the best place to start. Tell us what you're working on — a paragraph is enough. We'll follow up with a short call to see whether there's a fit. No intake form, no automated sequence, no discovery call disguised as a sales call.

What is Northlight Meetings?

Northlight Meetings is a Windows desktop app that records client calls, transcribes them using Groq Whisper, and runs AI analysis to extract action items, key decisions, and follow-up dates. It then pushes structured notes to Google Drive, tasks to ClickUp, and events to Google Calendar — automatically. Coming soon.

What is Northlight Vault?

Northlight Vault is a free Windows desktop app that lets you browse files across Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox in a single interface — without switching tabs or apps. It's a read-only file browser: it finds and opens files, it doesn't move or delete them. Free.