Business experience and engineering depth, pointed at the same problem.

Ashley Canada has 20 years in sales, operations, and client success. In 2026, with no coding background, she placed 9th of 160 globally in the Dynamous x Kiro AI coding hackathon. She knows what a broken workflow costs because she has worked inside them. She also knows how to build what fixes them.

She finds where AI pays back. Ashley delivers Blane Canada’s AI Opportunity Assessments. Using the firm’s Four-Dimension Diagnostic (operations, goals, team, and guardrails), she maps how work really gets done and turns it into a prioritized roadmap leadership can act on. On one operations engagement, that work uncovered an estimated $437,000 a year in hidden operating costs.

She makes it stick. Ashley led the phased implementation that followed: stakeholder alignment, rollout, and training. The roadmap had go/no-go gates the client approved. When the client’s data was not ready, she paused the build until it was. She speaks both languages: business outcomes to leadership, clear requirements to the build team.

She trains people to use it. Together with Eric Canada, Ashley has trained 300+ business leaders and economic development professionals across Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and New Mexico. Sessions include BREI, the Pennsylvania Basic Economic Development Course, and the Next Move Group national conference. She has appeared on the Develop This and The Whittaker Report podcasts. She also designed a five-session AI workshop series for a regional economic development council’s small business program. Every session is built so people leave with skills they can use the same afternoon.

She builds. Hackathon judge Cole Medin, founder of the Dynamous AI Mastery Community, called her entry “legitimately a life-changing application, and it worked extremely well. Really accurate information, a really nice and simple architecture.” She took an RFP automation idea to a working prototype in five days. As a validated proof-of-concept, it cuts an 80-hour workflow to under an hour. She built the AI readiness scoring tool behind 110 completed assessments. She rebuilt it in 48 hours ahead of a live event. She also designed and runs Blane Canada’s AI operating system. Her standard for every system: it shows its sources instead of guessing.

Justin has spent 25 years building and running enterprise systems that cannot go down. He began in enterprise infrastructure at Accenture, supporting the build-out of the world's first all-digital mobile communications network at Sprint PCS, later acquired by T-Mobile. From there he moved into Healthcare IT where he built out the capacity analytics platform to support the operations of a global healthcare infrastructure provider.

He holds 9 patents in system performance modeling, cloud optimization, and monitoring.

In June 2025 Justin took first place in a live build competition inside Liam Ottley's AAA Accelerator, the training program at the center of a 300,000-member AI automation community.

He also founded Pathkicker, an AI route optimization and fleet dispatch platform that he architected, built, and brought to market. It runs in production today, integrated with Samsara and Service Fusion, dispatching hundreds of service jobs every month.

As Chief Technology Advisor to Blane Canada, Justin helps the leadership team answer the questions that decide whether an AI initiative succeeds: where the data really stands, whether the architecture holds at scale, what it will actually cost to own, and where AI genuinely fits and where it does not.