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Superior intelligence readiness: a 30-day plan for Canadian businesses
You do not need an arrival date for superintelligence to improve how your company adopts AI. A month is enough to examine one workflow, run a controlled comparison and make a better decision about the next step. The plan below is our proposed starting point.
Days 1 to 7: choose a job and an owner
Pick a recurring task with a clear output and someone qualified to judge it. Drafting an internal weekly report is easier to evaluate than a broad instruction to improve operations. Write down the current process and where staff spend their time.
Name the person who owns the trial. Define success in terms of output quality and total work required, including review. Set a small time and spending limit so the experiment has an end even if the result is disappointing.
Days 8 to 14: prepare the information
Use sample or approved information that the team is authorised to use in the selected tool. Check whether the source documents are current, understandable and consistent. An outdated price sheet can produce a confident wrong draft regardless of the model's abilities.
Record who may access the information, where it is stored and what the tool can change. If vendor terms or your organisation's obligations need interpretation, have the responsible person review them. This trial plan does not establish legal compliance or certify data residency.
Days 15 to 21: compare work, including exceptions
Run the same kinds of cases through the existing process and the proposed AI workflow. Include incomplete inputs and cases that should be passed to a person. Keep notes on corrections, review time and outputs that should not be used.
Give the reviewer the acceptance criteria before showing the results. A consistent rubric makes it easier to recognise a real improvement and harder to be persuaded by a particularly polished example. Document the model and configuration so the trial can be repeated.
Days 22 to 30: decide and document
Choose one of three outcomes: keep the pilot at its current scope, revise it and retest, or stop using it for this task. Expansion should follow evidence that the workflow is useful under the conditions you tested.
Write a short operating note covering the task, approved inputs, permissions, review responsibilities and a way to stop. Set a review date. A later model update or a new integration may change the result and deserves another look.
Use an established reference to organise the questions
NIST describes its AI Risk Management Framework as voluntary guidance for incorporating trustworthiness considerations into AI design, development, use and evaluation. It is a useful reference for organising a review; adopting this article's plan does not amount to certification under that framework. Read the NIST framework overview.
For a Canadian business, the immediate objective is an informed adoption decision. Better records, clearer permissions and repeatable evaluation remain useful whether progress toward more capable AI is gradual or fast.
What a successful month produces
At the end of the month, the team should have a documented process, a comparison it can explain and a named owner for any continuing use. It may also conclude that the proposed tool is not useful enough for this job. That is a valid result.
Read the measurement and autonomy guides in this series before expanding the pilot. They cover the two questions that deserve separate answers: can the system do the work, and what should it be allowed to do?
Sources and editorial note
Sources checked September 20, 2026. Practical examples and trial plans are this publication's analysis. They do not describe measured client results.
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