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CanFlows.
AI-native forms for Canadian government. Sovereign by design.
Forms and permitting on Azure Canada, PIPEDA-aligned, WCAG 2.1 AA. AI generates the form from a plain-English description. The intake, triage, and decision are automated where they can be, escalated where they must be. 2.3-day median permit processing, 43% end-to-end automated, 98.7% SLA.
The product
What CanFlows is.
CanFlows is an AI-native forms and permitting platform built for Canadian municipal, provincial, and federal government. A clerk describes a workflow in plain English — "permit for a backyard suite, residential zoning, requires site plan" — and the platform generates the form, the validation rules, the routing, and the decision criteria. The form is accessible by default. The data is sovereign by default. The audit trail is on by default.
The intake is multilingual (English, French, plus Indigenous-language support on request). The triage uses AI to classify, route, and pre-fill — 43% of permits complete end-to-end with no human touching them. The remaining 57% are escalated to the right reviewer with the right context, not bounced back to the citizen for clarification.
Hosted on Azure Canada, exclusively. Data residency is contractually guaranteed. PIPEDA-aligned. WCAG 2.1 AA. The data is the government's data — never trained on, never shared, never leaves the region.
The problem
Government permitting is the bottleneck.
The 47-day median
Permits take a month and a half.
Across Canadian municipalities, the median permit processing time is north of 30 days for residential and 90+ for commercial. The backlog is the citizen experience. The backlog is the council's complaint line.
The PDF plague
Forms are PDFs from 2014.
Citizens download a PDF, fill it in by hand, scan it, upload it, and hope. The clerk re-keys the form into the back-office system. Errors are caught on day 4. Citizens learn the form was wrong on day 11.
The sovereignty tax
Sovereign clouds cost 3× more.
Off-the-shelf SaaS form builders won't sign a PIPEDA-aligned data residency contract, won't commit to Azure Canada exclusively, and don't understand the ATIPP / MFIPPA / FOIP compliance regime. Government IT ends up with bespoke systems that take 18 months to ship.
The solution
Forms that generate themselves. Permits that move.
CanFlows turns a plain-English workflow description into a live, accessible, sovereign form in under an hour. The platform handles the accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA out of the box), the multilingual intake (EN / FR plus Indigenous languages on request), the data residency (Azure Canada exclusive), and the audit trail (PIPEDA-aligned, ATIPP-ready).
The AI does the boring work. It validates the input, classifies the permit type, fetches the supporting documents from the back-office system, and routes the application to the right reviewer. 43% of permits complete with no human in the loop. The 57% that need a human go to a reviewer with the context already attached.
Median processing is 2.3 days. The SLA is 98.7% (uptime + decision time). The platform is contractually sovereign — the data, the model calls, and the audit trail stay in the Canadian region.
Key stats
CanFlows, in numbers.
2.3 d
median permit processing, submission to decision
98.7%
uptime + decision-time SLA, financially backed
43%
end-to-end automated, no human in the loop
Azure CA
exclusive hosting — data never leaves the region
PIPEDA
aligned; ATIPP / MFIPPA / FOIP ready
WCAG 2.1
AA conformance, default-on, not an upsell
EN / FR
official bilingual, Indigenous on request
Everything it does
What CanFlows ships with.
- 01AI form generation — describe the workflow in plain English, get an accessible, sovereign form in under an hour
- 02Multilingual intake — EN / FR by default, Indigenous languages on request, with full right-to-left and locale handling
- 03AI triage & classification — auto-routes the application, pre-fills from back-office data, escalates only when it should
- 04Document intelligence — extracts data from uploaded PDFs, site plans, surveys; validates against zoning and policy rules
- 05Decision automation — 43% of permits complete end-to-end with a signed, audited decision letter
- 06Reviewer console — the 57% that need a human land with the context, the docs, the precedent, and the AI recommendation attached
- 07Audit trail & ATIP-ready exports — every action recorded, every export FOIP-compliant, retention per municipal policy
- 08Sovereign infrastructure — Azure Canada exclusive, model calls stay in region, data never used for training
Built for
Who runs on CanFlows.
Get in touch
Brief VZU on CanFlows.
Email the team. Reply in one business day. Procurement-friendly terms for municipal, provincial, and federal buyers. The pilot is fixed-fee, the architecture is sovereign, the ship date is real.