SaaS North AI 2026 · Ottawa · Nov 3–5
I'm Izza Masud, founder and CEO of Distilligent AI, here in Ottawa. My parents wanted a doctor or an engineer. I became neither. I teach computers to remember what matters to you, and to ask your permission first.
Here's what we talked about, a few things to take home, and an easy way to keep talking.
First, a little honesty
Curious? Skeptical? A bit of both? There’s room for all of it. Four questions, about a minute, no score.
The elephant in the room
Put the words that feel true inside the elephant.
An honest room is more useful than an agreeable one.
So you work with AI
Do you know what you just handed over?
AI gets so much better when it knows your work. That's the good news. The trick is sharing what helps it, while keeping what makes you, you. Here's what's worth looking after:
The question every organization asks us
Law firms, insurers, accountants, clinics, engineering firms: anyone sitting on sensitive knowledge. We solve it two ways.
Way one · The Anonymiser
Our engines build exactly the context each question needs, then hide the sensitive parts, just enough that the AI still understands the work. About 96–97 of every 100 private details are hidden automatically, and anything we're unsure of waits for a person.
The AI does the work. It never meets your clients.
Way two · The IP Vault
Your organization's know-how is baked into its own model, on your own premises. When a better model comes along, you take your knowledge out and move it in. Nothing of yours is left behind.
Your brain, new body. Yours to keep.
The bigger idea
Today you explain yourself to AI every single time, and each time a little of your know-how walks out the door.
Like a veteran adjuster who just knows a file smells wrong. It lives in your own house, and it gets sharper every year.
When people stop being afraid of losing what they know, they stop testing AI and start trusting it with real work.
Baked models · opening soon
We bake your organization's knowledge into a model you own. We're starting with a small first group. Book a coffee and ask for a spot.
See it
The short film, start to finish.
Free, for everyone from SaaS North
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A place where your AI remembers what matters to you, and asks before it uses it. Sign in with your email.
Two free skills for your AI
The Napkin: your AI asks one question at a time until one work frustration fits on a napkin.
The Stack: your AI walks one piece of your work through ten steps and hands back a skill of your own.
Let's keep talking
Pick a time that suits you, weekdays 10–2 or 5–8 (Eastern). You'll only see the times I'm free.
Where do you fit?
We're raising a US$1M pre-seed to bring both products to market through partners. I'd love a proper conversation.
Consultancies and integrators can deliver this to their own clients. Our first consulting partner is coming on board now.
Bring one real workflow and see what it looks like with your knowledge kept at home.
Built for your duty of confidentiality. Provisional patent being prepared.