Curiosity that ships

We’re an AI engineering firm based in Canada. Since 2018, we’ve helped businesses turn ambitious ideas into working technology.

We believe AI should expand what a business is capable of. It takes curiosity to see the opportunity and engineering discipline to turn it into something people can depend on.

Proven in production

  • Years in business

    8+
  • Clients

    50+
  • Projects

    80+
  • Reviewed on Clutch

    5.0

A top AI firm in Canada, multiple years in a row

Recognized as a top AI development, machine learning, AI consulting, and AI strategy company in Canada in both 2025 and 2026, based on verified client reviews and project submissions to a third party.

  • Clutch Top Artificial Intelligence Company badge, Canada

    Top Artificial Intelligence CompanyCanada · 2025 & 2026

  • Clutch Top Machine Learning Company badge, Canada

    Top Machine Learning CompanyCanada · 2025 & 2026

  • Clutch Top AI Consulting Company badge, Canada

    Top AI Consulting CompanyCanada · 2025 & 2026

  • Clutch Top AI Strategy Company badge, Canada

    Top AI Strategy CompanyCanada · 2025 & 2026

Excellent engineering starts with understanding the problem in depth

Every business faces different challenges. Before recommending a solution, we take the time to understand your goals, constraints, and the people who will use what we build.

We combine your business knowledge with our engineering expertise to design systems that deliver real value.

  1. Understand the challenge

    We start by getting to know your business, your people, and what you’re trying to accomplish. We identify the opportunity, understand the constraints, and define what success looks like before writing a line of code.

  2. Design the best approach

    We choose the architecture, technologies, and integrations that fit your requirements. We establish how the system will be evaluated, consider security and governance from the outset, and make sure there’s a clear path from development to production.

  3. Build, evaluate, and improve

    We build with your real workflows and data in mind, testing against representative scenarios and edge cases. Our team works closely with yours, making progress visible and refining the system until it meets the standards we’ve set together.

  4. Deploy and support

    We take what we’ve built into production, where it can start delivering value. Whether you need a complete handoff, training for your team, or ongoing managed support, we make sure the system is ready for what comes next.

What guides our work

Values shape how we approach difficult problems, make decisions, and deliver work we’re proud to stand behind.

Boldness

Meaningful progress requires the courage to question assumptions. We’re willing to tackle complex challenges, explore unfamiliar territory, and push beyond conventional approaches.

Innovation

We’re driven by curiosity and the desire to build things that didn’t exist before.

It’s about finding better ways to solve real problems, then testing, refining, and building those solutions to a standard people can depend on.

Truth

Good partnerships are built on transparency. We’re upfront about what’s possible, where the risks lie, and what it will take to deliver a reliable solution.

Maz Ahmadi, CEO, Wizard Labs

How it all started

I started coding as a kid because I wanted to build video games. What began as curiosity turned into a revenue-generating online gaming site before I was old enough to drive.

In post-secondary, I co-founded a tech startup with a few friends. The startup didn’t make it, but my obsession with technology did. I dropped out, went all in on tech, and eventually found myself leading engineering teams for startups across North America.

Wizard Labs started in 2018, without a pitch deck or a grand business plan, but with momentum. Projects kept coming in through my network, and the founding crew from my startup came together again to consult and build solutions for other companies.

Before long, we were working with tech companies, global brands, and governments.

In 2019, we took on our first AI project. That marked the beginning of a shift toward the complex engineering challenges we focus on today: artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the infrastructure that makes it all work.

Technology has changed a lot since I wrote my first lines of code. The curiosity that started it all hasn’t.

And I believe we’re just at the starting line.

Maz

CEO, Wizard Labs


Proudly based in Vancouver, Canada

Two Wizard Labs team members in conversation in the Vancouver office

Founded in Vancouver in 2018, Wizard Labs has grown from a small team taking on projects through personal connections into an AI engineering partner working with technology companies, global brands, and government organizations.

Our entire team is based in Canada, with our core team working together from our Vancouver office. That close collaboration helps us stay aligned, solve complex problems together, and maintain a consistent standard of quality across our work.

Wherever our clients are, we bring the same commitment to thoughtful engineering, rigorous evaluation, transparent communication, and building systems that perform reliably in the real world.

A Wizard Labs engineer working at a desk by the windowA Wizard Labs team member working at a desk against a brick wallA pedestrian plaza in Yaletown, Vancouver, with umbrellas strung overhead
The brick heritage building in Vancouver that houses the Wizard Labs officeThe Wizard Labs team working on laptops around a boardroom table

If artificial intelligence is going to disrupt your business, you’d rather be the one doing it

Tell us where you’re headed. We’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right team to help you get there.