Oction Labs · Government

Sovereign AI for public operations.

Private artificial intelligence, built for municipalities, provincial agencies, and public utilities that require data residency, FOIPP alignment, and complete auditability.

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The diagnosis

The mandate to modernize conflicts with the requirement to protect.

Public sector organizations must deliver faster, more consistent service, but public cloud AI violates sovereignty, residency, and accountability requirements.

01

Data residency is mandatory, not optional

Provincial and municipal policies require citizen data and administrative records remain within jurisdictional boundaries. Most AI platforms cannot guarantee this.

02

Institutional memory walks out every election cycle

Decades of policy context, precedent decisions, and operational knowledge reside with people who retire, transfer, or exit after terms expire.

03

FOI backlogs compound without consistent retrieval

Locating responsive records across file systems, archives, and departments burns hours that could be redirected to higher-order public service.

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What we are

We capture what your organization knows, keep it on infrastructure you control in Canada, and let your staff query it with source-attached answers.

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Capability / Sovereignty

Data stays resident. Compliance is demonstrable.

The architecture is designed around the assumption that your data must remain within your perimeter, FOIPP-aligned, and fully auditable.

01

Canadian data residency by construction

All documents, indexes, and audit logs remain on infrastructure you designate. Sovereign deployment with no reliance on external model providers.

02

FOIPP-aligned access control

Role-based permissions, automatic redaction suggestions, and privacy-tier tagging for sensitive matter. Built for freedom-of-information workflows.

03

Full audit trail for accountability

Every query, every answer, every document access is timestamped and logged. Compliance evidence is exportable, not promised.

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Use case / Policy

Policy and bylaw assistant.

Staff query the department's own policies, bylaws, council minutes, and procedure manuals and get cited, reproducible answers.

01

Consistent interpretation

The same question always returns the same grounded answer, with the source document cited. Eliminates variation between staff on policy understanding.

02

Cross-reference across years

Link current bylaws to historical versions, council discussions, and related policies. Understand the lineage of any regulation in seconds.

03

Plain-language discovery

Ask "what is our policy on X" in everyday terms. The system maps intent to the relevant section, even when terminology differs.

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Use case / FOI

FOI and ATIP support.

Responsive-records identification and summarization with every action logged. Humans make every disclosure decision; the system accelerates search.

01

Swift record identification

Query across repositories, file shares, and archives with semantic understanding. Surface likely responsive material without manual folder-by-folder review.

02

First-pass summarization

Draft summaries of responsive documents for review. Every output flagged for human verification before inclusion in disclosure packages.

03

Defensible process audit

Complete log of search terms executed, documents reviewed, and materials excluded. Supports your position if challenged.

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Use case / Memory

Institutional memory across turnover.

Election cycles, retirements, and reorganizations erase operational context. A sovereign knowledge base preserves it.

01

Captured expertise, not departed employees

Decades of decisions, precedents, and operational nuance ingested into a queryable system. New staff inherit the full organizational memory on day one.

02

Continuity through transitions

When leadership changes, the knowledge of why things work the way they do remains accessible, documented, and citable.

03

Expertise interview program

Structured capture of departing senior staff knowledge before exit. Oral history becomes indexed, queryable organizational asset.

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Use case / Public service

Citizen inquiry and communication drafting.

Consistent, policy-grounded responses to public correspondence, prepared for human review before sending.

01

Grounded response drafting

Draft replies to routine inquiries drawing from current bylaws, policies, and precedents. Staff edit and approve every word.

02

Service standard alignment

Responses reflect your published service standards and communication guidelines. Quality remains consistent across staff and shifts.

03

Reduced escalation burden

Front-line staff answer more queries accurately without interrupting supervisors, speeding response times for citizens.

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How we deploy

From kickoff to live system.

No discovery fees. No cloud dependencies. The system runs on infrastructure you control.

01 / Build

Private knowledge base and tools

Eight to twelve weeks to deploy the sovereign stack on your designated infrastructure, ingest your documents, and train staff on the four primary workflow tools.

02 / Operate

Managed service and continuous improvement

Ongoing ingestion of new documents, compliance reporting, system monitoring, and expansion into additional departments as your needs evolve.

Public procurement note: Government engagements may operate under RFP processes or extended evaluation cycles beyond our standard timeline. We accommodate municipal procurement requirements and public-sector contracting frameworks.
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Engagement

Two tiers. No shared tenant.

Starting prices in Canadian dollars. Final scope is set during kickoff, not a paid discovery phase.

Standard · Department scale

Starting at $25,000 CAD

+ $10,000 CAD / month

Single sovereign deployment for one department or function: infrastructure setup, document ingestion, staff training, and ongoing operation. You own the environment.

Enterprise · Municipality-wide

Starting at $200,000 CAD

+ $20,000 CAD / month

Multi-department or whole-of-organization deployment: expanded capacity, prioritized support, integration with existing systems, and comprehensive staff enablement.

Discovery hypothesis: Preliminary analysis suggests administrative search inefficiency may represent significant unquantified bleed. This will be validated through discovery with your specific operational context before any pricing commitment.
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Oction Labs

Canadian data residency.
FOIPP-aligned.
Fully auditable AI.

Ask questions of your own bylaws, policies, and records. Get cited answers from documents that never leave your control.

Brandon Gill
Co-CEO
brandon@octionagency.com
Shamir Cheema
CRO
shamir@octionagency.com

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