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 does not recommend tools because they are popular — only because they fit.

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 — that general advice does not address well.

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. No intake form, no automated sequence, no discovery call disguised as a sales call.

Northlight Advisory Services · Halifax, Nova Scotia

AI-Enabled Operations for Small Business

Q: Who does Northlight Advisory Services work with?

Northlight Advisory Services works primarily with Canadian founders, operators, and small organisations — typically under 50 people — who have a real operational challenge and need clear thinking, not a lengthy consulting engagement.

Q: What is Northlight Vault?

Northlight Vault is a free Windows desktop app built by Northlight Advisory Services that lets users browse files across Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox in a single interface. Northlight Vault is a read-only file browser and is free during early access.

Clear thinking.
Real results.

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 →

Get in touch

[email protected]

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 experience across 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.
To start a conversation: [email protected]

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. Not a retainer that fills a calendar. A relationship that moves the work.

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

Small, purposeful tools built to solve real workflow problems. Northlight Vault is one. Northlight Advisory Services builds for clients too, when the problem is specific enough to deserve a real solution.

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 during early access

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.

Coming soon

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, not a lengthy consulting engagement. 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 do not recommend tools because they're popular — we recommend them because they fit. 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 during early access.