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Sovereign AI

Target operating model. Pre-revenue. Infrastructure live, conversations active.

Oction Labs has not entered into any service or revenue contracts to date. Phase 0 infrastructure is live and buyer conversations are underway.

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OCTION LABS01 / Issue
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The Issue

General-purpose AI is not legal for regulated work.

MunicipalProvincial data-sovereignty laws prohibit cloud LLMs for citizen data.
HealthcareHIPAA + PIPEDA require on-premise handling of patient records.
Finance / LegalSOC 2 + client confidentiality rules block SaaS AI tools.
Public SafetyNIST 800-53 mandates controlled supply chains and audit trails.
The gap: every AI vendor pitches "secure." None can prove sovereign infrastructure. Demand exists. Procurement law blocks the current supply.
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OCTION LABS02 / Plan
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Our Plan

One vertically integrated stack. Three revenue models.

Phase 0 - Live now Sovereign Compute Pilot Grant-eligible proof of concept deployed on client hardware. ISED / NRC / Alberta Innovates
Model 1 - Target operating model Sovereign AI Deployment Managed sovereign deployments. Client owns data; we own compliance. Compliance built in.
Model 2 - Scaling Proprietary Data Assets Permissioned operational data becomes licensable assets.
Model 3 - Government-targeted Sovereign AI Compute Hubs Sovereign compute hubs on government co-location contracts.
We build the stack regulated buyers are legally allowed to buy.
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OCTION LABS03 / Market
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The Market

Four revenue layers, one infrastructure position.

SegmentTAMSAM (5-year)Notes
Municipal AI services$2.1B$340MPredictable procurement, defined compliance
Regulated enterprise$8.4B$1.2BHealth, finance, legal – high contract value
Data licensing–$180M (Year 3)Proprietary asset layer from deployments
Net-zero compute / grants$450M$60M (Year 3)Government-funded infrastructure arbitrage
Total addressable in 5 years$1.78B
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OCTION LABS04 / Why it works
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Why Now

A 24-36 month window, opened by three forces.

01 Regulatory urgency NIST 800-53 Rev.5, provincial rules, and EU AI Act spillover.
02 Hardware maturity Inference-grade compute is now deployable outside data centres.
03 Talent arbitrage Calgary and Edmonton talent is under-recruited relative to Toronto and Vancouver.
Miss this window, and incumbents (Deloitte, CGI, IBM) will fill it with overpriced, underperforming solutions.
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OCTION LABS04 / Why it works
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Why It Will Work

Built without outside capital.

1Phase 0 proof-of-concept deployment running in a regulated Canadian enterprise environment
30K+Indexed knowledge chunks across RAG / CAG / KAG memory layers
5Identified Alberta municipal targets
Forward-looking. Live infrastructure, active proof of concept, active buyer conversations.
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OCTION LABS04 / Why it works
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The Data Flywheel

Deployments produce data. Data becomes the next product.

DeploymentGenerates anonymized, permissioned operational data.
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PatternsEncoded into knowledge graph: refinements, templates, playbooks.
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InfrastructureTested configs become reusable deployment modules.
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LicensingDatasets and trained weights become proprietary assets.
Result: margins expand as we scale. Year 1 looks like services. Year 3 looks like software + data.
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OCTION LABS05 / Moat
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Our Moat

Competitors rent the stack. We control it.

Competitor
Weakness
Our advantage
Deloitte, CGI, Accenture
$300+/hour labor, six-month cycles
Fixed price, short pilots
OpenAI / Anthropic / Google
Cannot sign data-residency agreements on owned hardware
In-province, auditable, managed infrastructure
Local MSPs
No AI layer, no knowledge system
Purpose-built automation and memory stack
Internal IT teams
No budget, no AI talent, no compliance fluency
We are the outsourced AI department
Moat: compliance fluency × hardware control × data ownership = no direct competitor.
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Team

Brandon GillCo-founder & CEObrandon@octionagency.comSales, capital strategy, government alignment
MJ DewjiCo-foundermj@octionagency.comStrategic oversight, capital, long-term positioning
Leonel GarciaPartner & COOleonel@octionagency.comOperations; healthcare and regulator relationships
Shamir CheemaPartner & CROshamir@octionagency.comRevenue operations, commercial strategy
Augustin GentilePartner, strategic partnershipsaugustin@octionagency.comPartnerships and new business revenue
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The Convergence

Regulated AI is not a feature. It is a market.
Data lifecycle, compliance framework, and infrastructure are converging inside Canadian regulated environments.
Most vendors rent one layer. We are building the full stack.
The next 24 months will determine which platforms define Canadian enterprise infrastructure. We are not predicting the outcome. We are assembling the components that make it inevitable.
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The Ask

$25M at 8-10% equity
$250M–$312.5M post-money valuation

Capital converts the existing pipeline into contracted deployments and closes the sovereign infrastructure loop.

01
Contracted production deployments with municipal and regulated enterprise clients.
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Proprietary data assets captured from live operations.
03
Grant-aligned sovereign compute hubs that lower unit cost and deepen the moat.
De-risk milestones this round funds: first signed enterprise contract; second municipal deployment; NIST audit completion; ISED / NRC / Alberta Innovates co-investment applications submitted.
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Use Of Funds

Category
Allocation
Amount
Funding alignment
Core ops + team expansion
60%
$15M
Runway to scale deployments, compliance, and field engineering
Data acquisition + enrichment
20%
$5M
Proprietary data assets for Model 2 licensing
M&A / contingency buffer
20%
$5M
Strategic tuck-ins, grant match, reserve
Target runway: 24-30 months to first material recurring run-rate. Break-even target: Q4 2029.
Appendix available on request: NIST 800-53 mapping, hardware specs, automation and orchestration architecture, knowledge system overview, municipal procurement playbook, partner letters, and ISED / NRC / Alberta Innovates funding roadmap.
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CLOSING

Thank you.

We are building the sovereign AI layer for regulated Canadian infrastructure. If you are constructing the same future, let us talk.

Brandon Gill
Co-founder & CEO
brandon@octionagency.com
Leonel Garcia
Partner & COO
leonel@octionagency.com
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