I help people feel at home with AI.

PFG AI Labs is a small Canadian practice with one person at the table: me. I help individuals and small teams who feel left behind by AI find practical ways to use it, and I build with it every day myself.

Paul Laffin, founder of PFG AI Labs
Paul Laffin
Founder, PFG AI Labs · Print For Good Films Inc.
Background
Statistics Canada, a decade
Role
Data Ambassador, 4 years
Earlier
Advertising at BBDO, web content at Ford

Making complicated things make sense.

I'm Paul Laffin. My career has always been about one thing: taking something complicated and making it make sense to real people. I started in advertising at BBDO, managed website content for Ford in the early days of the commercial web, and spent a decade at Statistics Canada, including four years as a Data Ambassador.

As a Data Ambassador, I sat across the table from people in governments, non-profits and businesses who had information but weren't sure what to do with it. I was never that interested in the data itself. I was interested in the moment after, when it finally clicked and people knew what to do next.

AI is the same kind of moment, only bigger. Lots of people feel it rushing past them. My job is to slow it down, explain it plainly, and help you use it for the work you actually care about.

I don't just advise. I build with AI every day, from Fields From Orbit, my satellite art business, to the tools I'm setting up inside a small communications firm. Everything I recommend, I've used myself first.

PFG AI Labs is a division of Print For Good Films Inc., a Canadian company.

Optimistic about AI. Deliberate about how we use it.

The future we build with AI won't happen by accident. It'll be shaped by the people who show up, get curious and start making small decisions now, rather than waiting for someone else to figure it out. That's not a warning. It's an invitation.

I'm genuinely optimistic about what AI makes possible: more time for the work that matters, better decisions, and small teams that can punch well above their weight.

But it takes deliberate choices about which tools to use and what you're actually trying to accomplish. I'm here to help you make those choices calmly, at your own pace, with a real person beside you.

The standard I hold myself to.

Start with your real work

We don't start with a shiny tool and look for a use. We start with what's taking too long, and work back to the simplest help.

Keep it simple

The best AI setup is the simplest one that works. I'll tell you when a spreadsheet beats a new tool.

Leave you confident

You'll finish with something that works and the confidence to use it on your own, without needing me in the room.

Want to talk it through?

Book a free 20-minute call. Tell me what's on your plate, and I'll show you one thing AI can help with this week.

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