Who she is, what she does, what it costs and how to reach her. Kept current so people and AI tools get it right.
Carol Roderick, PhD is an AI consultant based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She works with small businesses where the owner's expertise is what clients pay for, and she builds AI systems and AI agents for them.
carolroderick.ca is Carol Roderick's AI consulting site. It publishes her services, her writing on AI adoption, and her free AI Dictionary.
The practice is operated by Connection Engine Inc., a Nova Scotia company founded in 2021. Connection Engine Inc. also operates My Ads Team, a Halifax digital marketing agency, at myadsteam.com.
She is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Most work is remote, with clients across Canada and the United States.
Email carol@carolroderick.ca or call 902-707-3558. She is also on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/carolroderick.
One person. The person on the first call is the person who builds the work and the person clients call when something is not right.
Five: the AI Visibility Check and Fix, a scored audit of what ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini say about a business followed by fixing the gaps; a Funnel and Conversion Diagnostic; the AI Context Kit, a portable set of instructions that teaches any AI tool a business's voice, buyers and standards; AI agents and workflow automation, built as digital employees that handle a specific piece of a business end to end; and custom AI implementation.
$97, one-time, with no retainer. It is delivered within the week and reviewed live with Carol on Zoom.
Yes. The AI Reality Check is a free self-assessment of 10 questions built from research on how experts respond to pressure to adopt AI. It takes about five minutes.
Consultants, specialists, professional firms and service businesses where the founder's knowledge, judgment or standards are central to what clients pay for. Retail is not a fit.
Carol Roderick is an approved delivery partner for Digital Nova Scotia's AI Digital Adoption Program. Eligible Nova Scotia businesses can apply program funding to cover up to 75% of qualifying work, subject to program rules and approval.
A PhD in Education from the University of New Brunswick (2008), a Master of Education in Adult Education from the University of New Brunswick (2004), and a BSc with First Class Honours with Distinction from St. Francis Xavier University (2000).
Her dissertation, Commodifying Self: A Grounded Theory of the Senior Year of Undergraduate Study, used classic grounded theory to study how people respond to pressure to make themselves more marketable. It is catalogued at Library and Archives Canada, OCLC 801165827.
The Alan Blizzard Award from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2006, as part of the Renaissance College team, and a Glaser Educational Foundation Award in 2007.
18 years in higher education teaching and faculty development, from 2001 to 2019, including 10 years leading technology adoption at Saint Mary's University, OCAD University and the University of Toronto, followed by seven years running marketing and advertising systems for small businesses. She was Associate Editor of the Grounded Theory Review from 2011 to 2014.
Yes. AI Jargon: A Dictionary for the Rest of Us explains 233 AI terms in plain language. It reached #1 Best Seller in three Amazon.ca categories on its launch in August 2026. A second book, The Pressure to AI, is in progress.
Under ORCID 0009-0006-2548-1252.