Your AI is smart. But does it know where your data sleeps?
69% of Canadian organizations now rank data sovereignty as their #1 sourcing factor. If your AI tools run on US servers, your client data may already be somewhere your compliance officer wouldn't approve of.
We audit where your AI and data actually live, migrate your workloads onto Canadian soil, and hand you the PIPEDA documentation to prove it - fixed price, in weeks, without interrupting your business.
🇨🇦 Canadian-owned, Mississauga ON · Data stays in Canada (Toronto-region cloud) · PIPEDA & Bill C-27 aligned · You own everything we build
Sound familiar?
- —Your team pastes client information into ChatGPT, and you honestly don't know where it goes.
- —A US-based AI vendor "probably" complies with PIPEDA - but you've never seen it in writing.
- —A client, insurer, or regulator asked "where is our data processed?" and the answer took three days to find.
- —You've read that 56% of Canadian businesses are reconsidering US providers this year - and you're one of them.
You don't have an AI problem. You have a residency problem. The good news: it's fixable in weeks, not years.
What Sovereign AI means
Sovereign AI is simple to state: your data, your models, and your AI processing stay under Canadian jurisdiction, on Canadian infrastructure, documented well enough to survive an audit.
In practice that means: AI tools running in Canadian cloud regions (Toronto/Montreal), contracts that prohibit your data from training someone else's model, private LLM options for the truly sensitive workloads, and a paper trail your lawyer will actually like.
The package
Phase 1 — Sovereignty Assessment
$6,500 · 2 weeks- Data-flow map: every AI tool, integration, and automation your business touches - and the country each one processes data in.
- Risk ranking: which flows are fine, which are grey, which would embarrass you in a breach report.
- PIPEDA / Bill C-27 gap summary in plain English, plus the exact clauses to demand from your vendors.
- Fixed-price migration roadmap - you'll know the full cost before spending another dollar.
Assessment fee is credited toward migration if you proceed within 60 days.
Phase 2 — Migration
$12,000-$35,000 fixed (scoped in Phase 1) · 4-8 weeks- Move AI workloads to Canadian-region infrastructure (Toronto-region GCP/AWS/Azure - we run our own stack there too).
- Private or contractually-shielded LLM deployment for sensitive data (your data never trains public models).
- Replace or wrap non-compliant tools - without breaking the workflows your team relies on.
- The Sovereignty Binder: architecture diagrams, data-residency attestations, vendor-clause checklist, incident playbook.
Phase 3 — Ongoing assurance (optional)
AI Care retainer from $1,500/moQuarterly residency re-audit (tools drift; vendors change terms), model monitoring, and priority support.
Who this is for
Built for Canadian firms where data sensitivity is the business: law firms, accounting practices, healthcare-adjacent services, financial advisors, insurance brokers - and any SMB whose clients ask hard questions. If you handle personal information under PIPEDA, this applies to you.
Why CODIA
- We build on Canadian soil ourselves. Our own platform runs in Toronto-region cloud - we're not reselling a checklist, we operate this architecture daily.
- 14+ years of enterprise engineering (SS&C, MDA): we've handled regulated, sensitive systems long before AI made it fashionable.
- You work with the engineer, not an account manager. One person owns the outcome, end to end.
- You own everything. Code, configs, documentation. No licensing lock-in, ever.
The Data-Sovereignty Scorecard
A 12-question self-assessment. Get your traffic-light score and what to do next - free, no obligation.
FAQ
Is using ChatGPT illegal under PIPEDA?
No - but pasting personal information into consumer AI tools without safeguards or consent may put you offside. The fix is usually architecture and contracts, not abstinence. The assessment tells you exactly where you stand.
Do we have to abandon the AI tools we like?
Usually not. Most tools have enterprise tiers, Canadian regions, or can be wrapped so sensitive data never leaves your environment. We replace only what can't be made safe.
We're small - does this really apply to us?
PIPEDA applies to virtually every private-sector organization in Canada that handles personal information, regardless of size. Small firms are also the least equipped to survive a breach headline.
Can this be grant-funded?
Often, partially - Ontario programs (IRAP, OCI, RAII) fund AI adoption and advisory work. We'll flag eligibility during the assessment and help with the paperwork.
How disruptive is migration?
We build in parallel and cut over in a controlled window - the same "no rip-and-replace" method we use for legacy modernization. Your team keeps working throughout.
Every week you wait is another week of data you can't un-send.
Book your Sovereignty Assessment - $6,500, two weeks, fixed price. You'll know exactly where your data lives, what it would take to bring it home, and what it costs. No obligation beyond Phase 1.
Source: Cybersecurity Canada Report 2026.