Certification · Ontario realtors
Ottawa, CanadaA Canadian certification in responsible, compliance-safe AI, for agents who want the hours back but will not gamble their name to get them. Taught against RECO and TRESA, PIPEDA, Quebec's Law 25 and CASL, by people who read the actual regulations.
The short version
Everyone in Canada is talking about AI. Almost nobody has been shown how to use it.
Which is strange, when it's probably the most useful thing you could learn this year.
It's easier than anyone told you. That's why we built hi + ai.
The people getting ahead right now are the ones who bothered to learn it.
Look at job ads. The ones asking for AI skills are growing eight times faster than the rest.
Two years ago, six percent of Canadian businesses used AI. Today it's nineteen.
Only a third of them trained anybody to use it.
Almost everyone teaches you the tool. We teach the job. So we build a different course for every kind of work, with people who actually do it.
Say you sell houses. Everyone who signed in on Saturday gets a real note that evening, not three weeks later.
In the trades, quotes go out the same afternoon, and you stop losing work to whoever answered first.
For a law firm, the letter that finally explains a file to a client takes minutes. It's the safest place to start.
And if you're just trying to get hired, your resume answers the actual posting, your LinkedIn sounds like you, and you walk in with your answers ready.
Every lesson ends with something you can show someone. And you'll get it on the first pass.
When the course ends, you keep the people you met. That part doesn't expire.
We build all of it on ISO 42001, the international standard for managing AI.
We're not certified to it. We just teach what it asks you to do.
We won't promise you a number. Anyone who does is guessing.
Start with one lesson today.
Where agents actually get stuck
Nobody has told you where the line is. RECO has not published an AI bulletin, your brokerage may not have a policy, and the advice online is written for American agents working under American rules.
Your business runs on people trusting how you talk to them. Copy that reads like it came out of a machine costs you more than the hour it saved.
A wrong number in a market report or a fair-housing slip in a listing description is not an embarrassment, it is a complaint, and your name is the one on it.
What the numbers say
Agents who get AI working save real time. Nearly half of the profession has tried it and got nothing back, which is a story about implementation rather than about tools.
of agents using AI save at least an hour a week
NAR / RPR, 2026
save more than four hours a week
NAR / RPR, 2026
of agents say AI has made no meaningful difference to their business
NAR / RPR, 2026
That last number is the one that decided how this course is built. We do not spend it on a tour of tools, because a tour is what the 46 per cent already had. We spend it on the handful of jobs that pay you back weekly, worked start to finish, with the rule that applies to each one taught alongside it.
The curriculum
The legal material is taught once as a module of its own and then flagged again on every exercise, so the rule arrives at the moment you would break it rather than in a lecture you have forgotten by then.
Module 1
What AI is, where it earns its place in an agent's day, and the one rule the rest of the course builds on.
Module 2
Pick a tool, turn its training setting off, write a prompt that works, and check what comes back before it goes anywhere.
Module 3
The rules that govern AI in Ontario real estate, taught together in one place and then flagged again on every exercise.
Module 4
One task at a time, worked start to finish: listings, follow-up, social, market reports, and the paperwork around them.
This is the shortest honest version of the compliance module. It is the material a Canadian agent cannot get from an American course, and it is on this page rather than behind a form because you should be able to check whether we know what we are talking about before you pay us anything.
Code of Ethics (O. Reg. 365/22, which replaced the REBBA code O. Reg. 580/05) requires accurate, non-misleading representations (s. 5) and competent service (s. 9). The repealed 580/05 ss. 37-38 are still widely miscited; do not use them. The agent is accountable for AI output. Advertising must clearly identify the brokerage (Bulletins 5.1/5.3). No AI-specific bulletin exists yet; discipline can reach substantial fines.
REALTOR® Code Articles 13 and 15; REALTOR®/MLS® trademark form rules (all-caps + ® symbol, trademark statement where space allows; “MLS®” refers to co-operative services, never a database). AI does not change any of these, and AI tools may output improper trademark forms, so check.
Feeding client PII into AI needs a valid purpose and, often, meaningful consent; principles stress data minimization, transparency, and labelling AI-generated content. Federal + Quebec + BC + Alberta commissioners jointly investigated OpenAI.
Explicit, purpose-specific consent; mandatory Privacy Impact Assessment before transferring personal data outside Quebec (i.e., to US-hosted AI); automated-decision transparency and human-review rights; plus Bill 96 French-language duties. Penalties up to C$25M or 4% of worldwide turnover.
Substantially similar to PIPEDA; BCFSA has a dedicated AI Guideline stressing that using AI does not exempt licensees from accountability, accuracy, or confidentiality duties, a strong model for what Ontario may adopt.
Real estate brokers/reps must verify client identity, keep records, and report large cash, large virtual-currency, and suspicious transactions; obligations expanded October 1, 2025 (including verifying unrepresented parties). AI touches none of these duties and cannot discharge them: do not offload FINTRAC compliance to AI, and never paste identity documents into consumer AI tools.
The international standard for AI management systems, adopted here as the National Standard of Canada CSA ISO/IEC 42001:25. It covers the system an organization runs (accountability, risk, impact assessment, documentation, review) within a stated scope, never a model or a product, and only a body accredited for it can issue a certificate; the Standards Council of Canada runs that accreditation here. Nothing obliges a brokerage to be certified, so the course teaches the practices and the one-page AI policy that answers a corporate seller, and it is blunt about the difference between holding a certificate and saying you are aligned with one.
Ontario Human Rights Code plus a discrimination provision added to the TRESA Code of Ethics. AI marketing copy must not steer or express preferences by protected ground (e.g., “great for young professionals,” “adult building”); focus on the property, not the audience.
Canadian law generally requires human authorship (CCH's “skill and judgment” standard; CIPO guidance that purely prompt-generated works lack sufficient human authorship). Purely AI-generated listing copy/images likely aren't protected by copyright, and AI output can also infringe others' works. The test case, CIPPIC v. Sahni (“Suryast,” Federal Court file T-1717-24), remains pending: memoranda were filed in mid-2025 and the parties are awaiting a hearing date; no decision as of 2026.
What you get
You finish holding
Placeholder, not a final value. Certified AI Practitioner, Real Estate (Canada)
[how many prompts, and how many templates]
Certificate of completion · This certifies that
[ holder's name ]
has completed the requirements of
Placeholder, not a final value. Certified AI Practitioner, Real Estate (Canada)
Independent professional development. Not approved by RECO and does not count toward RECO's mandatory continuing education.
Who teaches it
Co-founder, hi + ai · Ottawa
[real bio, real credentials, one paragraph]
Co-founder, hi + ai · Ottawa
[real bio, real credentials, one paragraph]
What agents say
No testimonials yet
The first cohort has not run, so there is nothing honest to put here yet. When there is, every quote on this page will carry the agent's name, their brokerage and their Ontario city, because an anonymous rave is worth nothing to you.
Enrol
If you finish the course and think it was not worth what you paid, say so inside the refund window and we send the money back. There is no form to argue your way through and nobody will ask you to prove you tried.
Order review
Paid in full by card at checkout. You get the full agreement and a receipt by email straight after. Cancel within the refund window and we refund you inside 15 days.
Checkout is switched off until the price is confirmed. It will not take a card at a placeholder number.
Brokerages and teams
We come to your office and run the session in house, for one flat fee rather than a price per agent. Your admin team can sit in, and the compliance material is tuned to how your brokerage actually works.
In-house session
Tell us the size of the office and roughly when you would like to run it, and we come back with a date and a written quote.
Fee: Placeholder, not a final value. Flat fee, quoted per session
Not enrolling today?
We run a free live session most months and open a cohort a few times a year. Tell us where to send the invitation, and read the free compliance lesson above in the meantime.
Questions
No, and be careful with anyone who tells you their course does. RECO's CE catalogue is closed to new courses, so there is currently no way for any provider to sell you AI training that carries CE credit. This is independent professional development, and it is worth taking on its own terms rather than as a way to fill a requirement.
No. There is nothing to install, no account to configure and no servers involved, and it works on a phone. If you can use email and a browser you have everything you need. Solo agents who describe themselves as not technical are exactly who this was built for.
It is built for people who work between showings, so the lessons are short and you can stop and start. The total sits in the run of a few evenings rather than a full week off.
Not at what you actually get paid for. AI is genuinely good at the busywork around a transaction, which is drafting, summarizing, reformatting and first passes, and it is bad at the judgment and the relationship, which is the part clients are buying. The course is about handing over the first, keeping a human in the loop on everything, and getting your evenings back.
Judge it on the guarantee. If you finish and think it was not worth what you paid, tell us inside the refund window and you get your money back with no argument, which is more than anyone else in this market is willing to put in writing.
Yes, and the privacy, copyright and human rights material applies across Canada. The regulator-specific parts default to Ontario's RECO and TRESA, and the course also covers Quebec's Law 25 and the BC and Alberta regimes, so you will know which parts to translate for your province.
Please read
The regulations this course covers are Real Estate Council of Ontario, Trust in Real Estate Services Act, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Quebec's privacy law, Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation. They change, and when they do we update the lessons and tell the people who have already taken them.