Members
Founding Members
Membership at a glance
Enterprise Member
Technology
Standard ISV
Major ISV
Consortium Contribution
2.5M
Minimum - 1M
Maximum - Open
1M
10–25M
Pending review of use-case
Engineering Contribution
5 Engineers or 2.5M
None
None
10 Engineers or 5M
IP Access — Unlimited perpetual use
Yes
No
No
Yes
IP Ownership - Joint ownership & patentability
Granted after a minimum of 4 years renewal or 3 year forward commit
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Granted after minimum of 4 years renewal or 3 year forward commitment
Product Board
One joint vote and representative across all members
Observe
Observe
One joint vote and representative across all members
Enterprise Member
Technology Member
ISV Member
Major ISV Member
Enterprise Member
Available to
Qualifying institutions within the world’s largest and most highly regulated industries, including financial services, insurance, telecommunications, government, healthcare, infrastructure and other major national entities.
Benefits
Active enterprise members gain access to everything the AI Consortium has built, is building, and will ever build during the course of their membership. Every line of code, every research finding, every assessment, every development artifact across each project they join. Not for a term. Not subject to renewal. Permanently, globally, across every subsidiary, with no licensing fees. Your critical AI control assets and operational infrastructure belong to your organization. Forever.
Membership is deliberately equal. Every member contributes the equivalent fee and team commitment. The Consortium is cross-vertical by design. Members don’t just meet each other’s regulatory standards; they raise the standard, together.
Every member has a direct hand in shaping what the Consortium builds next. Members bring their own requirements into the program, influence the roadmap, and help steer future projects through our governance boards. The Consortium’s direction is set by the institutions that operate it, reflecting the collective priorities of every member at the table and governed by best-in-class mechanisms.
Institutional accountability
Built by the people who run these institutions.
The founding members build companies and run the technology estates of some of Canada’s most foundational institutions, answering to boards, regulators, and millions of customers who depend on their organizations every single day. Between them, they represent decades of hard-won experience operating inside the most complex, regulated, and scrutinized technology environments in the country. They know what it means to make decisions that matter at scale, with trust and safety at the forefront. Each is dedicated to forming best-in-class governance standards.
Each firm’s direct commitment to the AI Consortium makes their involvement significant. Senior executives, engineering leads, and domain specialists from each organization are deeply involved in the AI Consortium and, through our governance mechanisms, actively shape the program’s architecture and strategic direction. They collectively bring the experience, judgment, and institutional accountability of organizations that operate at the highest levels of regulatory scrutiny. This deep, direct engagement ensures that what the Consortium builds reflects not just technical ambition but the real-world obligations, constraints, and consequences that each founding member navigates every day.
The board, their executives and their engineering teams are in the room, shaping the architecture, governance, and the direction of the consortium. They lead by example, have strong, informed points of view, and a complete awareness of their organizational obligations, which benefit all members at the table. By committing their time, their teams, and their institutional credibility to this program, they are setting the standard for responsible AI deployment in Canada’s largest, most regulated industries.