Canada Digital Adoption Program
Boost your Business Technology
How does it work?
Get up to $15,000 for a DIgital Transformation Plan and upto $100,000 in interest free financing from BDC
Boost Your Business Technology provides 90% of the costs of developing a Digital Transformation Plan and then up to $100,000 in interest-free financing from BDC to implement that plan
Grow your business
The Boost Your Business Technology grant helps small and medium-sized businesses adopt new digital technologies, by providing:
- Free digital assessment tool to evaluate your own digital readiness
- Up $15,000 to consult a digital advisor and develop a digital adoption plan
- Up to $100,000 in interest-free loans from BDC to help implement the digital adoption plan
- Funded work placements for students or recent graduates who can help with digital transformation
How to do I start?
Boost your Business Technology Applications are done through the Government of Canada. With the correct information ready, many businesses are approved in 15 minutes or less.
Once you have been approved, the Digital Adoption Plan must be created with an approved Digital Advisor. This is where can choose Alacrity.
Why Choose Alacrity?
Alacrity is able to meet a wide range of business needs. We know digital marketing. We know automation. We know business processes. We know IT transformation. Alacrity offers an extensive network of advisors, mentors, and market experts poised to help entrepreneurs advance their business. When you choose Alacrity, you are choosing a network of top experts across the tech and business world.
We know digital marketing but it’s more than just reaching people, it’s about knowing how big your opportunities are and where they are. Our team can help you size your market and optimize efforts in the marketing channels your customers are in. We don’t stop there, we will leverage our expertise to size the opportunities and provide real budgets for reaching your market.
Marketing is not enough however, often the barrier to growth is not just in reaching more customers but having the capacity to handle that growth. We bring the experience of helping countless businesses improve their internal processes. Processes such as contract creation or quote generation or production of waybills, those seemingly small processes that may be manageable now but aren’t scalable and will only hold you back.
What do you get?
At the end of the process you get a Digital Playbook that will include recommendations on website, organic marketing, paid marketing, budget, automation and more. The recommendations will include actionable steps for growing your business as well as recommended service providers. This Playbook, once submitted to ISED will make up to $100,000 in interest free financing available from BDC.
Is your business eligible?
Requirements:
- Sole proprietors or businesses incorporated under the laws of Canada or a province/ territory
- For-profit
- Privately owned
- Full time equivalent employees between 1 –499
- $500,000 to $100M of annual revenues in one of the previous three years
Ready to Apply?
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