About
Founded by
Shake Dewan.
AI Forward Inc. was founded in Toronto in September 2023 by Shake Dewan, its Founder & CEO. It builds companies that run on AI, and helps others become one.
AI Forward at a glance: AI Forward Inc., a federally incorporated Canadian company founded on 8 September 2023 and based in Toronto. Founder & CEO: Shake Dewan. What it does: finds a company's bottleneck, builds and runs the AI system that fixes it, and ships every system with a decision ledger the client owns.
01 / The founder
Shake
Dewan.
“I build AI Forward companies: my own, my clients', and in time ones we buy.”
Shake Dewan (Shekhar Dewan) is the Founder & CEO of AI Forward and Co-Founder & CTO of Canadian Funding Partners, an independent company he co-founded and built AI-first.
- National lead of Deloitte's Language AI (NLP) Centre of Excellence, as a data science consultant at Deloitte (Omnia AI), working across the consulting, implementation and strategy practices.
- Data scientist at Statistics Canada.
- BA Honours in Computer Science and Mathematics, and BSc in Cognitive Science, Mount Allison University.
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
- 30+ AI and automation projects led since founding AI Forward.
02 / What AI Forward does
Find. Fix.
Own. Teach.
- Find↗
The AI Forward Diagnostic and scorecard
Where the business leaks time and money, and which step limits everything else.
- Fix↗
AI sales systems, then back-office AI
Built and run at the bottleneck, with a decision ledger the client owns.
- Own↗
Fractional CTO
Someone senior who stays accountable after launch, billed through AI Forward.
- Teach↗
Talks and team sessions
Bottleneck-first AI, taught on the team's own workflows.
03 / How we run
Our own rules,
in public.
- 01
Start at the bottleneck
We never sell AI that isn't on a client's bottleneck without saying so plainly.
- 02
Operate before we advise
What we sell runs in our own companies first.
- 03
The client owns the ledger
No system goes live without decision logging, tests from real cases and a named owner for overrides, all in the client's systems.
- 04
Facts only
We publish results as ratios, name clients only with permission, and label predictions as predictions.
Questions
Straight
answers.
Who founded AI Forward?
Shake Dewan founded AI Forward Inc. in Toronto in September 2023. He is its Founder & CEO.
Is Canadian Funding Partners part of AI Forward?
No. Canadian Funding Partners is an independent company that Shake Dewan co-founded and built AI-first. He is its Co-Founder & CTO.
Where is AI Forward based?
Toronto, Ontario. It works with companies across Canada.
Next step
Talk to
Shake.
Book a 30-minute call. It starts with your bottleneck, not our services.