# Canadian.Ventures

> Canadian.Ventures is a Canadian business consulting service, part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group. Canadian founders and owner-operators, in every province and territory, turning a new venture idea into a scoped first product, a first sales motion and the first few dozen paying customers

Canadian.Ventures is part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group of companies, a Canadian business headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, led by Ali Sedighi, MBA. Coverage: Canada.

Contact: call or text (604) 632-4959, or email Ali@Sedighi.ca. There are no forms: call, text or email only.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://canadian.ventures/): Canadian.Ventures is a start-up advisory service that walks Canadian founders from a rough idea to a scoped first product and the first few dozen paying customers, one tested step at a time.
- [Services](https://canadian.ventures/services/): Pick the service that matches the question your venture can't answer yet. Most founders start one stage earlier than they think they should, and save money doing it.
- [Areas](https://canadian.ventures/areas/): We work with founders everywhere in Canada, in person or by video call, phone, text and email. The method is the same everywhere; what changes is where buyers gather, which rules apply, when the seasons bite and which public agencies serve your region.
- [About](https://canadian.ventures/about/): Canadian.Ventures is a Canadian business consulting service in the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group, headquartered in Vancouver, BC. It helps founders build new ventures from idea to first customers, and it is led by Ali Sedighi, MBA.
- [Results](https://canadian.ventures/results/): We don't have start-up portfolio returns to show you, and we won't invent any. What we do have are documented results from our HVAC work, including a brand built from nothing, and an honest account of what carries over.
- [Pricing](https://canadian.ventures/pricing/): Consulting from $175 an hour, defined projects from $3,500 and monthly retainers from $2,500, in Canadian dollars. The first 30-minute consultation is free, and every paid engagement is scoped in writing first.
- [FAQ](https://canadian.ventures/faq/): Short, direct answers to the questions founders actually ask: price, equity, contracts, timelines, ownership, reporting, and what happens if you've been burned by an advisor before.
- [Contact](https://canadian.ventures/contact/): Call, text or email. Send a few lines about the venture, what you've done so far and what's stuck, and a senior strategist will reply. We usually reply within one business day.

## Services
- [Customer discovery](https://canadian.ventures/services/customer-discovery/): A discovery sprint replaces your assumptions about buyers with notes from about twenty real conversations. It's the cheapest stage of building a venture and the one that most often changes the plan.
- [Early operations](https://canadian.ventures/services/early-operations/): Once customers arrive, a venture starts to depend on the founder's memory. We set up the pricing logic, onboarding steps, metrics sheet and weekly review that let it run on written routines instead.
- [Go-to-market](https://canadian.ventures/services/go-to-market/): Your first hundred customers will almost certainly come from one channel worked hard, not five worked lightly. We help you pick it from evidence, write the offer, and run it weekly until the numbers tell you something.
- [MVP scoping](https://canadian.ventures/services/mvp-scoping/): A good minimum viable product is defined as much by what it leaves out as by what it includes. We turn discovery findings into a build list, a cut list and a ship date you can actually hold.

## Coverage
- [Alberta](https://canadian.ventures/areas/alberta/): Alberta's two big cities give founders large, distinct buyer pools within a few hours of each other, and its smaller centres are tight-knit business communities. Discovery here should account for an economy that moves with the energy cycle.
- [British Columbia](https://canadian.ventures/areas/british-columbia/): BC has two markets for most ventures: the dense southwest coast and the far more spread-out Interior and North. Prove the venture in one before stretching to the other, and plan discovery around who you can actually reach.
- [Manitoba](https://canadian.ventures/areas/manitoba/): Most of Manitoba's buyers are in or near Winnipeg, which makes discovery and early sales efficient. The rest of the province is spread across smaller centres where trust and introductions do much of the selling.
- [New Brunswick](https://canadian.ventures/areas/new-brunswick/): New Brunswick's three main cities are close together but different in character, and many buyers live their lives in French. A venture tested here should decide early which language communities it serves and run discovery accordingly.
- [Newfoundland and Labrador](https://canadian.ventures/areas/newfoundland-and-labrador/): Most of the province's buyers are on the Avalon Peninsula around St. John's, while central Newfoundland, the west coast and Labrador are distant markets with their own networks. Prove the venture where buyers are close together first.
- [Nova Scotia](https://canadian.ventures/areas/nova-scotia/): Halifax concentrates much of Nova Scotia's buying power, while Cape Breton and the smaller counties behave like separate, tightly connected markets. Prove the venture in one, then carry the reputation to the next.
- [Ontario](https://canadian.ventures/areas/ontario/): Ontario has the most buyers in the country and the most competition for their attention. Founders here win by narrowing hard: one city, one buyer type and one channel, then widening once it works.
- [Prince Edward Island](https://canadian.ventures/areas/prince-edward-island/): PEI is small enough that a founder can, in principle, speak to every buyer of a given type on the Island. That makes it an excellent place to prove an offer quickly, and a place where reputation is everything.
- [Quebec](https://canadian.ventures/areas/quebec/): A venture that sells to Quebec customers is built in French from the first interview. Language isn't a translation step at the end; it decides who you learn from, how you scope the product and what launch costs.
- [Saskatchewan](https://canadian.ventures/areas/saskatchewan/): Saskatchewan rewards founders who understand two things: the farm and resource calendar, and how fast reputation moves in small, connected communities. A handful of well-served early customers can open a whole region.
- [Territories](https://canadian.ventures/areas/territories/): Northern ventures serve small, spread-out populations with high delivery costs and long winters. The method still works, but the first version must be built for distance, and in Nunavut for Inuktut, from the start.

## Guides and articles
- [Guides](https://canadian.ventures/guides/): Three long, practical guides that cover the hardest early steps: learning from buyers without leading them, deciding what version one leaves out, and closing the first ten customers yourself.
- [Customer interviews](https://canadian.ventures/guides/customer-interview-script/): Good discovery interviews ask about what people did, not what they would do. This guide gives you the recruiting approach, a full script, a notes template and a way to read twenty conversations without fooling yourself.
- [First ten customers](https://canadian.ventures/guides/first-ten-customers/): Your first ten customers will almost certainly come from conversations you start yourself. This guide covers the target list, the first message, the sales call, the price objection and the follow-up, with Canadian consent rules in mind.
- [MVP cut list](https://canadian.ventures/guides/mvp-cut-list/): A minimum viable product is the smallest thing that solves one buyer's problem well enough to charge for. The cut list, the written record of what you're leaving out and why, is what keeps it small.

## Optional
- [Full text](https://canadian.ventures/llms-full.txt)
- [Parent company](https://sedighi.ca)