AI Readiness · Funding & Grants
Funding can help you adopt AI. We help you go after it.
Canada is putting real money behind business AI adoption. AIC helps eligible Canadian SMEs understand which government grants and funding programs may apply, and does its best to help them apply, so cost is less of a barrier to getting started.
What Canada is putting behind AI adoption.
Under Canada's national AI for All strategy (June 2026), the federal government is backing business AI adoption with over $2 billion in new investment, including programs aimed squarely at small and medium businesses.
LIFT, $500M via BDC
A $500 million SME financing program (LIFT), delivered through BDC, to help smaller businesses get off the AI sidelines.
AI Compute Access Fund
A $700 million expansion (toward $1 billion total) for affordable, sovereign Canadian compute.
Free AI literacy training
National investment in free AI literacy and skills training for Canadians and their teams.
We help eligible SMEs go after grants and funding.
What may apply to you
We map your situation to government grants and funding programs that may fit, so you don't have to decode the landscape alone.
Get application-ready
We help turn your AI plan into the business case, use cases, and readiness evidence that funding applications ask for.
Through the application
AIC does its best to support eligible SMEs through the process of applying for government grants and funding.