Co-founder & CEO, Paradigm Inputs
I'm building the commerce platform that lets rural entrepreneurs run their own agricultural business.
- Company
- Paradigm Inputs, Calgary
- Education
- Master of Management in Artificial Intelligence, Queen's University
- Designation
- CFA charterholder
Record
- 2026
Paradigm Inputs selected for the Calgary Launch Party Top 10, Platform Calgary's annual showcase of the city's most promising startups.
- 2026
Raised more than $2 million from NYA Ventures to expand Paradigm across Western Canada. Announcement ↗
- 2024
Co-founded Paradigm Inputs, originally Direct Yield Market, with Marc-André Fortin.
- 2015–17
Passed all three levels of the CFA Program in eighteen months.
Background
I started in finance. I spent more than a thousand hours passing the CFA exams with a career in investment banking in mind, then changed course to study artificial intelligence at Queen's, in a program that paired data science with business strategy.
For the next several years I helped companies across industries build AI strategies that delivered measurable value, and wrote about it along the way.
Paradigm Inputs is where finance, technology and supply chain meet. I lead the company's strategy, capital and product, with a simple aim: improve the profitability of Canadian farmers and keep more of the margin in rural communities.
Paradigm Inputs
An ag commerce platform for the people who sell to farmers.
The businesses that sell crop inputs carry large orders, long seasons and deferred payments, and most of them still run on paper, phone calls and spreadsheets. Software built for retail doesn't fit the way agriculture buys.
Paradigm gives rural entrepreneurs the operating system of a modern business in one place, built by people who understand agriculture: they own the customer relationships and set their own margins, and the platform handles the rest.
- Invoicing & receivables
- Payments & financing
- Inventory
- Competitor pricing
- Bookkeeping integration
- Real-time dashboards
- AgAssist™ and label library
Distributors · White label
Run the platform under your own brand: your products, your pricing, your customers and your region, with the commerce and operations software behind them handled by us.
Talk to us →Resellers · Western Canada
Sell the Paradigm Inputs brand as an independent broker. Your customers get Certified Premium Generics, third-party tested and sourced direct from manufacturers, at 25–50% below incumbent retail.
Become a broker ↗Writing
Series · 8 parts
The AI Strategy Framework
A field guide to building AI that actually pays for itself, one layer at a time: product vision, data collection, storage, transformation, analytics, machine learning and, at the top, AI.
I · II · III · IV · V · VI · VII · VIII
- Feb 2020Data = Money: Why Data-Driven Companies Need to Act like Banks
- Feb 2020Big Data & The Black Swan: How Management Can De-Risk AI
- Dec 2019The Tortoise or The Hare: Exploring the Ideal Pace for AI Transformations
- Aug 2019Can Someone Please Tell Me What AI Actually Is?
Contact
For distributors interested in the platform, investors, lenders, partners and people who want to build with us in Calgary.
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