Canadian Sovereign Infrastructure

AI inference
that stays
in Canada.

One OpenAI-compatible API. 100+ models. Canadian data residency, PIPEDA compliance, and intelligent routing — built for the government and enterprise buyers who can't afford to route their prompts through Seattle.

Data residency 100% Canada
Models 100+
Compliance PIPEDA, SOC2
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Why now

The window is open.
It won't stay open forever.

12%
of Canadian businesses currently use AI — against a national target of 60% by 2034. That's four to five times growth in eight years.
$2B+
in Canadian sovereign AI funding deployed since 2024, including the AI Compute Access Fund, now topped up to $1 billion for Canadian SMEs.
Jul 2026
CUSMA trade renegotiation — the moment Canadian enterprises start asking their procurement teams: where is our AI data actually going?
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Canadian-operated sovereign AI gateways exist today. The EU has EUrouter and Cortecs. Canada has nothing equivalent.
What you get

Everything OpenRouter does.
Nothing OpenRouter doesn't.

Canadian Data Residency

Every token processed stays in Canada. No exceptions, no waivers, no compliance asterisks. Servers located exclusively in Canadian data centres.

Intelligent Routing

Route by cost, latency, or performance. Set fallback chains so your application never fails silently. Automate model selection without touching your code.

OpenAI-Compatible API

One endpoint, 100+ models. Change the base URL and your existing code works. No new SDKs, no rewrites, no vendor lock-in on our side either.

Bilingual EN/FR

Built for Canadian public services, federal agencies, and Quebec enterprises. Native support for both official languages in documentation, UI, and routing logic.

Compliance Pack

PIPEDA-aligned from day one. SOC2 Type II in progress. Audit logs, data retention policies, and consent management built into the architecture, not bolted on.

Observability

Per-request cost tracking, latency distributions, token usage by model and team. Know exactly what your AI pipeline is spending — before the bill arrives.

Compliance

Not a checkbox.
An architecture.

Every routing decision, every log entry, every data transit path is designed from the ground up around Canadian privacy law. PIPEDA alignment is built into the routing layer — not applied as an afterthought compliance add-on when an enterprise buyer sends a questionnaire.

PIPEDA-aligned
SOC2 Type II (in progress)
Audit logging
Data retention controls
BYOK key management
Feature
OpenRouter
NorthGate
Canadian data residency
PIPEDA compliance pack
Bilingual EN/FR
Sovereign compute partner
Government procurement ready
"The most consequential AI infrastructure decision a Canadian enterprise makes this decade isn't which model to use. It's where that model runs."
When a bank routes a credit adjudication prompt through a US-hosted inference endpoint, that's not just a data governance question — it's a statement about whose infrastructure your decisions run on.
The same is true for a provincial health authority processing patient records, a federal department running procurement analysis, or a Quebec manufacturer optimizing supply chains.
NorthGate AI exists to make the sovereign choice the easy choice — without sacrificing model quality, routing intelligence, or developer experience.