Ottawa is pushing every business to triple its AI use — and steering hard toward Canadian data sovereignty. The endpoints and regions you wire up now are expensive to rip out later. Sovereign Guard is the independent guardrail that shows where your AI stack already sends data out of Canada — and the path back — so you build sovereign-by-default now, before the lock-in sets. Keep your tools; get visibility and a migration path.
Made in Canada · Runs in your own CI — your code never leaves your pipeline.
"AI for All" targets business AI adoption rising from 12% to 60%. Standing still isn't an option — your competitors and the federal agenda are both pushing.
Pick a US endpoint or region today and you bake in vendor lock-in and a costly migration tomorrow. Federal policy is steering toward Canadian data residency — the cheap time to get sovereign is before you've built on US infrastructure.
Adopt AI at speed, stay inside Canada's data rules automatically, and hold the proof that you did. That's the whole job.
It's frictionless enough for your engineers to adopt today, and defensible enough for your risk team to stand behind.
For Risk & Compliance leaders
For Engineering teams
The most common ways teams quietly send Canadians' data out of the country while shipping AI features.
🔴 Customer data sent to the U.S.
A chat assistant ships every customer message to a US-hosted model by default.
🔴 Data stored outside Canada
A single region setting (us-east-1) keeps Canadians' records on US soil.
🟡 Personal info in an AI prompt
Names, addresses, and birthdates dropped into a prompt — flagged with a confidence level.
How much PII does your team paste in?
Coming: see the prompts your developers send to Claude Code, Codex & Gemini that leave for US models.
Endpoint and region checks are provable today. PII-in-prompt is shown with a confidence level. Automated-decision and AI-disclosure checks are on the roadmap — we don't sell them as guarantees.
Try the first three in the live demo — runs in your browser →
Your engineers could grep for a few patterns in an afternoon. But compliance isn't about finding the issue — it's about being the independent party who can stand behind it when a regulator, auditor, insurer, or your biggest customer asks "who verified this?" A team grading its own homework is a claim. An independent, always-current verifier is evidence.
A separate party verified it — not the same team that wrote the code.
We track Law 25 and the coming "AI for All" legislation so you don't have to staff for it.
A tamper-evident, timestamped evidence report (PDF) — a promise you can show, not just make.
Drop the GitHub Action into .github/workflows and add your license key. Five-minute setup.
Each pull request is scanned in your own runner for foreign endpoints, non-Canadian regions, and PII-in-prompt patterns. Your code never leaves the pipeline.
Findings post in the PR with the relevant law and a fix; a tamper-evident evidence report (PDF) becomes your audit trail. Optionally fail the build on critical issues.
The expensive mistake isn't a fine — it's re-architecting after you've built on US infrastructure.
What it costs to re-architect off US endpoints once your product is built on them — avoided by going sovereign-first.
What manual residency review costs — replaced by automatic checks on every release.
Continuous coverage from day one — no rip-out, no surprise migration.
And yes — Québec Law 25 already carries penalties up to $25M / 4% of revenue for mishandling Canadians' data. Staying sovereign keeps you clear of that too.
Regulated Canadian mid-market: fintech & financial services, digital health, insurance, and logistics — and any organization with Québec customers under Law 25, adopting AI under federal incentives.
Because the expensive decision is the one you're making right now — which AI vendors, which endpoints, where data lives. "AI for All" is pushing hard adoption and a clear move toward Canadian data sovereignty, but the cheap time to get sovereign is before you've sunk six or seven figures into US-endpoint architecture you'll have to rip out. This isn't "comply or get fined" — it's "decide right once, instead of paying to reverse it later." We help you build sovereign-by-default while you still can, cheaply.
You can build the scanner — it's the easy 10%. You can't be your own independent verifier. The value isn't finding the issue; it's the independence, the always-current rules, and the defensible evidence trail when a regulator, insurer, or customer asks who checked. A homegrown grep is a snapshot that rots the day the law changes, and "we graded our own homework" is not a position you want to defend to the CAI.
No. The scan runs entirely inside your own CI runner. Your source code, prompts, and data are never uploaded, stored, or used to train anything — there's no Sovereign Guard cloud that receives them. That's the point: a Canadian data-residency tool that doesn't itself create a cross-border transfer.
No — and we're deliberate about that. It's independent, informational verification and an evidence trail to support your due diligence. It does not constitute legal advice and does not certify legal compliance. It flags risk patterns and cites the relevant law; your counsel makes the legal call.
Those platforms optimize for US (NIST) and EU frameworks and run on US infrastructure — routing your Canadian data through them can itself be the cross-border transfer Law 25 wants assessed. Sovereign Guard is Canadian-specific, works at the code level inside your pipeline, and maps findings to Law 25 and PIPEDA — the rules that actually apply to you.
AIDA is not law — Bill C-27 died on the Order Paper in early 2025. We don't build on it or make AIDA-based claims. We anchor on what's in force today (Law 25, PIPEDA) and keep you ready for the new AI legislation signalled under "AI for All."
A 14-day trial: ~5-minute setup, one workflow file, every pull request scanned automatically, with findings and a tamper-evident evidence report (PDF). No source code leaves your runner. We're onboarding a small number of Canadian engineering teams this quarter.
Made in Canada
Built for Canadian rules, not adapted from US ones.
Zero data egress
Runs in your runner; your code never leaves.
Open methodology
Every finding cites the statute it maps to.
Evidence report (PDF)
Tamper-evident, timestamped, license-verified.
We're onboarding a small group of Canadian engineering and risk teams this quarter. Five-minute setup, nothing leaves your runner.
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