A 15-question self-audit for Ontario small businesses. Covers how you handle client data, where your exposure is, and where AI actually fits in your operation. Takes ten minutes. No sales call required, no judgment if most of your answers are "I don't know". That's exactly why this exists.
It is the same checklist we use on day one of a paid audit. You are getting the first pass for free.
The checklist surfaces the questions every small business should be able to answer about their own data. And forces you to notice which ones you can't. The answers become your starting map.
Most small-business owners we talk to have the same blind spot: they know their data situation is messy, but have no way to see the whole picture on one page. This checklist is the first page of that picture.
Nine years in cybersecurity, currently Manager of External Network Security Services at Digital Boundary Group. These questions come from real assessments, not a template.
PIPEDA-aware, written in plain English, scoped to the realities of a 2-to-50 person operation. Not a Fortune 500 governance framework with the word "small" taped on the front.
Nothing you write in the PDF gets sent to us. You fill it out locally on your own device. We never see your answers.