AI compute cost planning, purchasing evidence and reproducible spreadsheet exercises for Canadian teams.
The AI Compute Access Fund is closed to new applications. Our fictional $156,000 quote produces a $60,000 before-tax residual only if a $96,000 contribution is awarded and accepted. The full bill may be due before reimbursement, and repayable funding can change lifetime cost.
An AI demo shows a selected example; a pilot explores a bounded workflow; an acceptance test checks requirements agreed before purchase or release. None automatically substitutes for the others. For a Canadian AI purchase, request the test inputs, outputs, configuration and unresolved failures rather than relying on a supplier listing.
To check an AI-assisted spreadsheet, verify which rows were included before trusting the total. The worked invoice example totals $170, but duplicates, text amounts and changed labels can make a plausible result misleading. Eight published code cases show which errors the sample checks catch.