Uniquely positioned to be your partner on your AI journey.
AI is expected to provide trillions of dollars in global economic growth by 2030. It is automating everything from healthcare delivery, customer retention and marketing, hiring, education, to operations. AI can be used for social and economic good with massive benefits by providing new goods and services, boosting productivity, and enhancing competitiveness, and economic growth. AI also introduces a new set of challenges, including ethical, business, and regulatory requirements. The fast pace of AI adoption is highlighting risks of unintended discrimination potentially leading to unfair outcomes, concerns related to transparency about how AI is involved in making significant decisions about humans, privacy and security risks, non-compliance with laws, and a host of other potential harms to individuals, organizations and society.
Mara is uniquely positioned to be your partner as you embark on your AI journey. Our integrated approach to AI governance incorporates privacy and security, data ethics, business and IT strategy, and organizational change management considerations seamlessly into your AI planning and deployment. We can work with you from the outset to embed a cross-cutting approach to help ensure AI planning, implementation and ongoing governance is successful.
AI Services
Advisory & Consultations
Meet with independent ethics, privacy, security and technical experts to review your proposed use of AI, whether you are procuring outside solutions, adapting AI solutions to meet your needs or building new solutions in house. We can help you to identify important considerations across each stage of the AI lifecycle early and work with you to chart a clear path forward.
Governance Framework
Companies and organizations that are proactively developing and operationalizing comprehensive AI governance frameworks will be better prepared to succeed when AI regulation is enacted. Mara can work with you to ensure that AI is effectively governed by upholding ethical, legal and regulatory requirements. We work with your teams to align your internal policies, structures and processes with business goals, accepted standards and regulatory guidance to manage different risks in AI deployment, build trust among key stakeholders and demonstrate transparency and high ethical standards related to AI use. The Mara team offers an integrated approach to defining the appropriate AI governance for your organization that includes privacy and security, data ethics, IT strategy, architecture and design, and organizational change management.
Policy & Training
We can work with you to translate high level principles related to AI to the operational level in order to optimize the benefits from responsible use of AI while effectively managing the potential harms and risks. We provide customized training on AI and new, emerging regulations governing AI that is highly relevant to boards, executive teams, and decision-makers across Provincial and Federal governments.
Impact & Readiness Assessments
Are you ready for AI? Mara can work with you to determine your organization’s current state of readiness to implement AI systems in a responsible manner. We support clients in ensuring they are ready to uphold risk management, corporate governance, sustainability, and overall compliance requirements, using a customized and industry accepted AI framework to identify gap areas and build a plan to help you chart your AI path forward. We are adept at carrying out AI Impact Assessments based on pertinent regulatory frameworks to help identify, assess and mitigate AI-related risks across each stage of the AI lifecycle, with actionable recommendations that help ensure your practices are aligned with strict regulations and regulatory guidance governing AI adoption and deployment.
Architecture & Design
Our experienced team of technologists can help you plan, design, and deploy AI in a manner that is aligned with your organization’s IT strategy and business goals. Throughout the AI development and implementation lifecycle, our team collaborates closely with organizations to align their strategic vision for leveraging AI with the advanced capabilities offered by contemporary AI and machine learning platforms. From data acquisition and preparation to model development, training, refinement, deployment, and ongoing machine learning operations management, our team ensures that AI technologies and services are tailored to meet client specific organizational needs, serving as invaluable tools to address your most complex challenges. We will work with you to architect and design AI solutions based on accepted security and cloud architecture best practices, and industry standards to drive meaningful advancements and appropriate utilization of AI.