AI Strategy & Adoption
Tantus provides AI consulting services to help organizations reduce manual work, improve decision-making, and deliver better services. We help you identify where artificial intelligence can create value and build a practical plan for adoption.
Our expertise spans AI strategy, readiness assessments, governance, and adoption support. Working with our Data Services team, we assess data quality, access, and governance so your AI initiatives draw on reliable information. From choosing your first AI project to expanding successful pilots, we help you set priorities, manage risk, and measure results.
Tantus delivers AI services through six connected capabilities that help organizations move from understanding and readiness, to strategy, governance, and sustainable adoption. When client needs cross into related areas, our AI services team leverages our extensive expertise in data, cybersecurity, management consulting, and delivery.
Our AI Consulting Services
AI Workshops
Build a shared, practical understanding of AI across executives, boards, councils, practitioners, and staff. We clarify opportunities, limitations, accountability, and decision rights so leaders can act with confidence.
Service offerings:
Executive, board, and council AI briefings
Role-based AI literacy programs for leaders, practitioners, and staff
AI opportunity, limitation, and risk workshops
Alignment with business, service, data, and technology priorities
AI decision-rights and accountability workshops
AI Readiness Assessments
Establish a clear baseline across business priorities, people, process, data, technology, security, and governance. We identify the gaps that matter and define what must be true before an AI use case should move forward.
Service Offerings:
Enterprise AI readiness and maturity assessments
Current AI use and organizational exposure reviews
Data, technology, architecture, and security readiness reviews
Workforce and change-readiness assessments
Risk-informed gap analysis and prioritized readiness roadmap
Responsible AI & Governance
Make your AI adoption is accountable, defensible, and aligned with current privacy and security regulations. We help review your existing policies, oversight, and controls to create cohesive AI governance policies.
Service Offerings:
Responsible AI policies, standards, and acceptable-use rules
AI governance, decision rights, and escalation processes
AI system and use case inventories
Privacy, cybersecurity, ethics, and regulatory readiness reviews
Controls for bias, drift, data leakage, human oversight, and vendor risk
AI Initiative Review & Recovery
Has your AI initiative stalled, underperformed, or failed to move beyond pilot?We identify what happened, preserve useful learning, and determine whether to redesign, redeploy, scale, or replace the initiative.
Service Offerings:
Independent AI initiative health and value assessments
Post-pilot and post-implementation reviews
Root-cause analysis - data, technology, governance, and adoption
Recovery, redesign, and redeployment roadmaps
Scale, replace, pause, or retire recommendations
AI Strategy & Use Case Prioritization
Connect your AI investments to measurable business and service outcomes by identifying, evaluating and sequencing a focused set of use cases based on value, feasibility, risk, effort, data readiness, and organizational capacity.
Service Offerings:
Enterprise AI strategy and multi-year roadmap
AI use case discovery, evaluation, and prioritization
Value, feasibility, risk, effort, and data-readiness assessments
Business-case and investment-decision support
Procurement-ready requirements and vendor-selection support
AI Adoption & Enablement
Turn your strategy into changed ways of working through governed pilots, workforce enablement, and delivery discipline. We help you test value, manage change, evaluate vendors, and decide when and how to scale.
Service Offerings:
AI adoption operating model and intake process
Governed pilot design with measurable outcomes and exit criteria
Workforce enablement, training, and change management
AI vendor, platform, and tool evaluation
Transition planning with Tantus delivery teams and specialized partners
Articles, Insights & News
Meet Jason Suriano: Director of AI & Data Services at Tantus Solutions Group
A three-time Canadian tech founder and former Chief Product Officer, Jason brings hands-on experience building digital products and guiding teams from early ideas through development and adoption.
POPA & ATIA: What Alberta Public Bodies Must Fix First
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AI in Cybersecurity: Maturity, Risk and Blind Spots
Where AI genuinely strengthens security operations, and where automation bias quietly creates new risk.
Frequently Asked Questions
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AI consulting is advisory work that helps an organization decide where AI creates real value, whether it is ready, and how to adopt it without creating unmanageable risk. Tantus Solutions Group provides AI consulting services to public-sector and mid-sized organizations: strategy, readiness, governance, and enablement.
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Tantus offers six AI consulting services:
AI literacy and executive alignment workshops
AI readiness and maturity assessments
AI strategy and use case prioritization
Responsible AI and governance
AI adoption and enablement
AI initiative review and recovery
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Most organizations should start with an AI Literacy and Executive Alignment session. Next, AI readiness assessments help with data, technology, and governance support including which AI use cases are worth doing first.
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If your data is fragmented, poorly governed, or in legacy systems, AI can amplify the mess. Tantus assesses data quality, access, classification, and stewardship, then works to help you close the gaps before your AI implementation.
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AI creates value when it’s tied real service or business outcome: faster decisions, less manual work, better use of the data you already have. Tantus prioritizes use cases against value, risk, and readiness, then sequences them so the first win is one you can actually deliver.
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Responsible AI is the practice of using artificial intelligence with human oversight, accountability, privacy, and security so your organization can explain and stand behind the results.
Turn AI uncertainty into action
Whether you are looking for executive AI training, need help assessing readiness, setting your AI direction, strengthening governance, or recovering a stalled initiative, Tantus can help you with AI.