We install AI infrastructure that works on day one.
Working infrastructure. Custom prompts. Measurable ROI. Delivered in a single session, ready for your team to use immediately.
About FounderAI
A new division of Founder 8 Advisory
FounderAI exists because business leaders deserve better than a strategy deck. You need infrastructure that works — AI tools your team can use the same afternoon, with a financial model that proves the return.
Our assessments cover 7 operational dimensions, surface the highest-ROI opportunities, and deliver everything installed and configured. Claude environments, custom prompts, pre-built connectors, and a guaranteed ROI model. One session. Everything working.
We've done this for 50+ operators across finance, operations, sales, and leadership. Now we're scaling through our academy and certification program — training the next generation of AI advisors.
Operators Served
Minutes to Working Infrastructure
Value Streams Modelled in Writing
Founder 8 Advisory
Strategic guidance for business leaders navigating risk, capital, and growth
Founder 8 Advisory operates out of Edmonton (HQ) with active Calgary presence. Calgary remains Ross's primary client-facing city. We help business leaders and founders navigate complex strategic decisions, capital allocation, and operational risk.
Founder 8 is member-invite-only — our clients are CEOs, founders, and executives leading mid-market and enterprise organizations. We provide board-level advisory across:
Strategic Risk Assessment
Identify and mitigate operational, financial, and market risks
Capital Strategy
Structure debt, equity, and operational leverage for sustainable growth
Claims Advocacy
Navigate insurance claims, litigation support, and regulatory matters
Ross Huartt
CEO & Founder
CEO, Founder 8
Ross built Founder 8 because the insurance industry he came up in ran on fragmented systems & manual process, & the operators he advised outside it were buying decks that never translated into numbers. The group now holds a brokerage network, a technology stack, & an invite-only advisory. The discipline connecting them is measurement — what something is worth, what it costs, & what it will do in the next twelve months, in writing. FounderAI is that discipline pointed at AI adoption.
A decade in Alberta, following an early career as an RICS-chartered surveyor in the UK.
Background & Credentials
- RICS Chartered Surveyor(Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). A quantitative discipline built around measuring value & risk in writing. The methodology behind every Founder 8 engagement traces back here.
- Chairman & Founder, EcoClaim— an AI carbon-measurement platform for insurance claims. The AI stack Founder 8 now deploys for operators was first built inside Ross’s own portfolio.
- Member, Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).
From Ross
“Too many of my advisory clients invested in expensive AI consulting that produced decks, not results. I built FounderAI because I saw what was possible. Infrastructure that works on day one, with the maths to prove it. We help operators skip the consulting theatre & go straight to the numbers.”
Our Approach
Infrastructure first. Results immediately.
Your team operates with AI the same afternoon.
We install working infrastructure. Your team gets Claude configured with connectors, custom prompts, and pre-built workflows. No data scientist required. No developer hire. The infrastructure is done — your team focuses on using it to solve real problems.
Then we help you scale it — how to train your team, build best practices, and measure ROI. But that comes after the infrastructure is live and proving value.
Every engagement includes a guaranteed ROI model. You see the math before you invest, and you measure the results after. That's the standard we hold ourselves to.
Infrastructure First
Working AI tools installed and configured, ready for your team to use immediately.
Measurable ROI
A guaranteed financial model with every engagement. You see the return before you invest.
Your Team Owns It
Everything documented, everything yours. No ongoing dependencies. No consultant lock-in.
Let's talk about your AI opportunity
Whether you're evaluating AI, planning an implementation, or scaling what you've started.