Every AI company launches with a claim. We're launching with a status report.

Fireweed AI opens to its first group of testers this month, ahead of general availability in September. That gap is deliberate. August is the last month where what a user tells us still changes what ships.

What Fireweed AI does

It drafts. It summarizes. It reads a forty-page agreement and answers questions about clause 14. It takes a decision you're circling and helps you write it down clearly enough to send. If you've used an AI assistant before, this will feel familiar. That's the point — capability is the price of entry, not the differentiator.

The differentiator is where it runs, and who can reach it.

What is true today

Responses come from Command A+, a model built by Cohere, a Canadian company headquartered in Toronto. Accounts, files and conversations are hosted in Canada. Conversation content is not used to train models. Access is limited to our development team, working in Canada, for evaluation and troubleshooting.

Governance Services — consultation and data mapping, capacity assessment, strategic planning, and OCAP®-aligned policy development — are live now and independent of the beta.

What is not true yet

We do not yet own our infrastructure. Migration to Canadian-owned facilities is underway and is the single most important thing on our roadmap. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 work begins this month. Offline deployment that runs on a laptop, with no connection required, is in development. Connections into your own record systems — so your files are reachable from the conversation without leaving your control — are in development.

We are publishing that list on purpose.

The sovereignty conversation in Canada has developed a bad habit: vendors describe the destination and let you assume they've arrived. The distance between "Canadian-hosted" and "sovereign" is not rhetorical. It is a migration, with a date, that either happened or didn't. An institution deciding where its records live deserves to know which side of that date it's standing on.

So we'll keep publishing the list, and updating it, until every line moves to the other column.

What testers do

A three-minute survey once a week for four weeks. What's broken, what's missing, what you'd want next. Four surveys, then they stop.

We're especially interested in hearing from people whose organizations have a real answer riding on "where does this data actually live" — First Nation governments, development corporations, municipalities, health authorities, universities. If that question has consequences attached at your desk, your feedback is worth more to us than a hundred general impressions.

It's a beta and it'll show. Some of it is rough. That's the trade, and we'd rather make it in the open.

Two ways to start

Fireweed AI Beta — private AI environments for individuals, teams, enterprises and governments, hosted in Canada, built around OCAP® and CARE principles from the architecture up rather than bolted on afterward.
→ Testing access is open now.

Fireweed Governance Services — data mapping, capacity assessment, strategic planning and OCAP®-aligned policy development, delivered by a team that understands institutional governance.
→ Available to start immediately.