PACIFIC STANDARDS

Pacific Standards. AI assessment and implementation for BC small businesses.

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01Message from the studio

Your business is wasting hours somewhere. We find out where, prescribe the fix in plain language, and build it in days. Everything in writing, before you spend a dollar.

02Shipped in BC

The receipts.

A Slack bot that turned monthly reporting into a ten-minute review

Laptop on an office desk showing a Slack workspace with the Willow reporting bot collecting team updates

Tools you and your staff actually open on a Tuesday.

Built in Vancouver

Busy West Broadway intersection in Vancouver with downtown towers and snow-dusted North Shore mountains behind

A multi-tenant platform, prototype to investor-ready in days

Boardroom screen showing the wellness platform's reporting dashboard with company stats and charts

A native iOS training app, built with a coach, now in use with his clients

Client in a gym holding an iPhone running the Topset training app with the day's lifts queued up

The prescription: one page, plain language

Tablet on a desk showing a Pacific Standards prescription page with the diagnosis, ranked fixes, and roadmap

03Two paths, one front door

Assess

The working session, the written prescription, and the costed roadmap. Every client starts here.

Start assessment

Build

We build what the prescription calls for: automations, tools, products, and websites. Most clients keep going.

What we build

04Anatomy of a fix

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Built for a small BC communications team,

  1. Diagnose

    A working session, mapping where the hours go.

  2. Prescribe

    One page, plain language, fixes ranked by payoff.

  3. Build

    The fix, built and live in days.

35 hours a month back, measured.

05Real builds and open files

Case Files

  • Willow

  • Counselling practice

  • Topset

  • Trades

  • A workplace wellness platform

  • Salon

06The offer

The fix starts here.

One assessment finds where AI and emerging tech will actually pay off in your business. Sometimes that means building something new. Often it means connecting the tools you already pay for. Either way, you get the fix, the cost, and the payoff in writing before you spend a dollar on a build.

$899 credited toward your first build

Book your assessment
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07The people

  • Ashley Aubrey

    Assessments, builds, marketing, intake

    Over fifteen years running marketing and operations for some of Canada's biggest brands, with AI training through Harvard Business School's online program. Ashley started Pacific Standards so business owners could get big tech support without the big tech price tag, and he runs every assessment himself.

    LinkedIn
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    Co-founder / PrincipalHead of Product

  • Rahul Ramesh

    Agents, automations, deep integrations

    Rahul runs the agentic side of the studio: the bots, agents, and deep integrations that turn a one-page prescription into systems that quietly do the work. If one of your tools talks to another, he wired the conversation, and he holds every build to the same bar: dependable, explainable, and boring in the best way.

    LinkedIn Corvus Tech
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    Co-founder / PrincipalHead of Agentic

08Notes, experiments, opinions

What's up in the studio