Founder & CEO, Dassjay Labs Corp
Ankur Gupta
Ankur Gupta is the Founder & CEO of Dassjay Labs Corp, an AI consultancy and product studio in Kitchener, Ontario. Ankur helps businesses across Kitchener-Waterloo and Canada automate work with AI agents, document AI and private AI systems.
About Ankur
Ankur founded Dassjay Labs to build AI systems that do real work inside a business: reading documents, reconciling data, drafting responses and moving work between the systems a team already uses, with people approving the decisions that matter.
As Founder & CEO, Ankur leads client engagements end to end, from the first discovery workshop and process walk-through to architecture, build, evaluation and handover. Ankur also leads the company's own AI products: The Filing Fool, an SEC filings intelligence platform with web and iOS apps, and Akurion.ai, an agentic document-intelligence platform that cites the page behind every answer.
Ankur works from Kitchener and meets clients in person across Waterloo Region, Guelph and the surrounding area. AI consulting in Kitchener-Waterloo
Areas of focus
- Business process automation with AI
- AI agents and agentic workflows
- RAG and document AI with cited answers
- Private LLMs that keep data in Canada
- AI strategy and roadmaps for leadership teams
- AI product development, web and mobile
Guides by Ankur Gupta
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Business Process Automation with AI Agents: A Practical Guide for Canadian Businesses
A practical guide to business process automation in Canada: BPA vs RPA vs AI agents, how to pick processes, human review, rollout steps and honest ROI.
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How Much Does AI Automation Cost in Canada? What Drives the Price, and How to Keep It Small
What drives AI automation and AI agent development cost in Canada: integrations, accuracy, hosting, running costs, payback math and questions for vendors.
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What Is Agentic AI? A Plain-Language Guide to AI Agents for Business Leaders
Agentic AI explained for business leaders: how AI agents work, where they succeed and fail, guardrails, evaluation, approvals and examples by department.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise or Custom AI Agents: Which Does Your Business Need?
Microsoft 365 Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise vs custom AI agents: what each does well, where each falls short, a decision table and how to use both.
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Government Funding for AI Projects in Canada: IRAP, SR&ED, FedDev Ontario and Ontario Programs (November 2026)
Canadian funding for AI projects as of November 2026: NRC IRAP and AI Assist, SR&ED changes, FedDev Ontario's AI initiative, Ontario programs and what ended.
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RAG vs Fine-Tuning vs Long Context: Choosing the Right Approach for Enterprise Documents
RAG vs fine-tuning vs long context for enterprise documents: when each fits, why citations and access control matter, graph RAG, and how to evaluate it.
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Running AI on Sensitive Data in Canada: Data Residency, PIPEDA, Law 25 and Private LLMs
How to run AI on sensitive data in Canada: PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, PHIPA, Canadian cloud regions, private LLM options and a practical data residency checklist.
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A 90-Day AI Automation Roadmap for Canadian Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
A 90-day AI automation roadmap for Canadian SMBs: discovery, quick wins, a prototype sprint, production hardening, change management and funding to explore.
Read the guideTalk to Ankur about the process you want to automate.
A 30-minute call is enough to tell whether AI is a fit, what a first project would look like and what it would take to run it in production.