WebMax Canada-AI Readiness Roadmap 

WebMax Canada’s New AI Strategy Includes Support for Small Business. Here’s How to Get Ready.

Canada has launched a national AI strategy called AI for All, and it includes help for small businesses adopting AI. Victoria-based Chamber member WebMax Canada is offering a free AI Visibility Roadmap so trades, manufacturing, and service businesses can see where they stand as AI changes how customers find them.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the strategy in Toronto on June 4. The government wants to raise business AI adoption from about 12 percent today to 60 percent by 2034, with priority sectors that include manufacturing, energy, transportation, and agriculture. The actual programs, funding, and eligibility rules haven’t been defined yet, so nobody knows exactly what the support will cover.

What the funding won’t fix on its own is whether AI recommends your business to a customer. More buyers now ask AI assistants to name a contractor or service provider instead of scrolling search results, and those systems only mention businesses whose online information they can read and trust.

“Most owners running a trades, manufacturing or service based business shouldn’t have to track how AI search is changing the way customers find them,” says Susan Jones, co-founder of WebMax Canada. “What we can do is make sure that when these programs land, businesses are ready to move instead of starting from scratch.”

WebMax Canada is 100 percent Canadian owned and has spent more than a decade helping businesses get found online. Request the free roadmap at spottableai.ca.

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