About StilwaterAI

Fellow builders. Proudly Canadian.

We are a human-first AI services company from Huntsville, Ontario. We show up having done the homework, we speak in plain language, and we stay.

Jason Hurlbut

Founder & Chief DreamWeaver

The origin story

In Jason's words.

I went to Italy on vacation and couldn't stop working.

Not because my team needed me. Because the business I'd helped build had become something I couldn't step away from. As Chief Revenue Officer at a cloud migration company, we'd hit the top 85 fastest-growing companies in Canada two years running. Sixty-five-hour weeks. Real momentum. Real results.

But standing in Italy, watching people live at a different pace, I made a decision: I didn't want to build something I couldn't leave. I exited the company not long after.

Within weeks, Microsoft partners found me. They wanted to grow the way we'd grown, and they wanted help with AI. For a year and a half, I tried to convince organizations to adopt the AI tools already sitting in their Microsoft ecosystem. I largely failed.

Not because the tools weren't capable. Because nobody knew how to start. Leaders weren't lost on the technology. They were lost on the change. What does adopting AI actually mean for my team? Where do we begin? Who owns it? I couldn't answer those questions by selling a software platform. So I stopped trying to.

A few months later, a prospective client asked me for a contract. I used AI to help me build one: a mutual non-disclosure agreement and a full contract, derived directly from the proposal, turned around in 45 minutes. The client was astonished. And I realized something that has shaped everything since: AI doesn't require technical expertise to transform what a person or a team can do. It requires a different mindset about how work gets done.

Most leaders I was meeting had no one to help them develop that mindset. They were drowning in the noise. Every vendor promising transformation, nobody offering to sit beside them and think it through from the ground up. I knew how to do that. StilwaterAI was the answer I kept wishing someone else would build.

I started this because leaders deserve to take a real vacation. No laptop, no early morning check-ins, no quiet anxiety about what's happening at the office. That is still the mission. And we're getting there.

Meet Our Team

Jill Mitchell

Chief Talent Alchemist

Jill turns groups of talented humans into aligned, values-driven teams, with a level of enthusiasm that should probably be bottled. After 20+ years scaling startups, she's known for fixing messy people problems, coaching with integrity, and making culture actually matter. Whether she's building systems or just reminding everyone why they liked work in the first place, Jill has a knack for creating environments where people show up, grow, and maybe even have fun doing it.

Aaron Key

DreamForge Catalyst

Meet the guy who went from managing movie soundtracks to managing AI workflows (and, not surprisingly, both involve a lot of caffeine and creative problem-solving). At StilwaterAI, Aaron gets to indulge in his favourite pastime: being a professional problem-solver who makes people's workdays better (both in and out of the office). Aaron oversees AI workflow development for businesses who've all had that same moment: "there has to be a better way to do this."

Jason Hurlbut

Founder & Chief DreamWeaver

As an early adopter with enough startup experience to fill several lifetimes (and at least three coffee loyalty cards), Jason specializes in translating AI jargon into plain English, sometimes even on the first try. His diverse background means he can turn complex tech into relatable stories, ensuring everyone leaves the conversation a little smarter (or at least a little more entertained).

Linda Hurlbut

Director, Learning Innovation

Linda helps build AI education that gets you. With a deep background in tech training and project management, she turns "we should really learn this" into "wow, we actually did." Her superpower: making complexity look organized and momentum feel inevitable.

Kirsten H

Website Co-Developer

Kirsten persuades bolt.new into producing something that passes for a website. This requires equal parts stubbornness and diplomacy with a coding partner that doesn't care much for either. She has a background in words and tech, which occasionally proves useful, but mostly she just wants it to work. Miraculously, it often does, though not without the odd muttered negotiation.

How We Show Up

Our Culture

Collaboration First

We believe the best results come from working closely with our clients as true partners, not as a vendor delivering a report.

Results Driven

Every engagement is measured against one goal: helping your organization thrive through real, tangible outcomes.

Continuous Learning

We use AI in our own operations and talk openly about what works. Our credibility is earned, not claimed.

We're in this together.

We serve leaders across Canada, including in the smaller cities, towns, and rural communities that larger firms overlook. A business in Timmins or Red Deer or Prince George is not a lesser version of one in Toronto. It is often a more resilient one.

Tariffs, trade uncertainty, rising costs: these are our daily reality too. And to our American friends: you are welcome here. We lead with shared humanity, not geography.

Justin Beaver, the StilwaterAI mascot, in a plaid shirt and safety vest by a lake

Why a beaver?

Justin Beaver is our AI-generated mascot. Beavers are Canada's national symbol and the most industrious builders in nature: they transform their environment to make it work better for their community. That is our promise in one animal. And like us, he builds with every tool available.

Our commitment to not-for-profits.

Foundations, social services, and community organizations deserve the same productivity gains as any private business. We have special arrangements for not-for-profit organizations that remove certain costs along the way. The mission of serving a community is just as valid as the mission of building a business, and often the stakes are higher.

Not sure where to start?

You're not alone. And we know exactly where to start.

Whether you lead a team, a department, or an entire organization, the path begins with the AI Awareness and Readiness program: your team trained, your leaders ready, a policy that protects you, and a clear roadmap of what to build first.

See the AI Awareness and Readiness program Book a conversation