Services

Four practice areas. One discipline.

Whatever the sector, the method is the same. Prove feasibility, secure the capital, run the procurement, and deliver a project that gets built and operates. We measure success in commissioned assets rather than completed reports.

Who We Serve

Built for owners, operators, and communities

Industry & Cleantech

Energy producers, developers, and start-ups that need project evaluation, innovation strategy, funding, and a path from pilot to commercial deployment.

Communities & Municipalities

Towns, rural municipalities, and community organizations with good projects waiting to happen. We do the heavy lifting that gets them off the ground.

First Nations & Métis Communities

Indigenous nations and Métis communities advancing community-owned enterprises with full sovereignty over data, decisions, and outcomes.

Service areas: Alberta · Saskatchewan · British Columbia · Manitoba · Ontario. We serve First Nations and Métis communities Canada-wide on federally funded work.

Practice Areas

What we do

01

Energy Consulting

Conventional to clean. Our focus is energy communities and businesses own, run, and profit from. Solar, storage, microgrids, geothermal, and biofuels that keep wealth, jobs, and power local. Behind that focus sits a decade of traditional oil and gas engineering, which means we evaluate every technology on its merits and its economics, and our feasibility answers hold up.

  • Solar PV, battery storage, and hybrid microgrid development from feasibility to commissioning
  • Geothermal energy assessment, including reservoir simulation for electricity generation
  • Biofuels economy feasibility, from feedstock assessment to clean energy economics
  • Off-grid and grid-tied system strategy, utility relationships, and regulatory navigation
  • Arctic-specification infrastructure designed for minus 40 performance
  • Carbon capture and storage feasibility, plus oil and gas project evaluation and emissions reduction

Call on us when you need an honest, economics-first answer on whether an energy project should proceed, and a partner who can carry it to commissioning.

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Related: Net metering & solar incentives · Net metering: Alberta vs Saskatchewan

02

Horticulture & Forestry

Advisory for controlled environment agriculture, urban forestry, reforestation, and land-use planning. We integrate ecological knowledge with commercial viability, grounded in three decades of hands-on growing and facility operations at retail scale.

  • Controlled environment agriculture from concept through procurement and operations planning
  • Urban forest strategies, operational tree planting plans, and canopy assessments
  • GIS deliverables covering soils, hydrology, infrastructure, and phased development zones
  • Collaboration with registered forestry professionals, licensed engineers, and technical specialists

Call on us when a land or growing project needs to make ecological sense and commercial sense at the same time.

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Related: Growing Canada's Community Canopies (urban forestry funding)

03

Artificial Intelligence

AI should support judgment and never replace it. Where it earns its keep, we build it into the projects we develop, such as predictive control for community-owned energy systems, crop intelligence for indoor farms, and decision tools the community owns. We have submitted expressions of interest and planned flagship deployments, with a senior professional accountable for every recommendation.

  • AI-driven microgrid optimization for predictive energy dispatch, in development for a community-owned hybrid system
  • Crop intelligence and AI-managed growing conditions, planned within a flagship indoor farm
  • Nation-owned AI decision tools in development, governed by OCAP® principles
  • Expressions of interest submitted and AI innovation funding won, including $1M from Alberta Innovates

Call on us when you want AI applied to a real operational problem with a business case behind it.

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Related: PrairiesCan Regional AI Initiative funding

04

Project Management & Delivery

End-to-end oversight of complex, multi-phase capital initiatives. We bring structured methodology, stakeholder alignment, and risk management discipline drawn from 100+ capital projects developed across our partners' careers, from $10K community systems to $100M energy programs. Every engagement is delivered through the four core capabilities described below: feasibility, funding, capital, and procurement.

  • Multi-party coordination across engineering, regulatory, construction, and funding workstreams
  • Phased development plans that de-risk projects from pilot to full scale
  • Stakeholder alignment across boards, councils, funders, lenders, and operators
  • Class B cost estimates and construction tender packages

Call on us when a project is too big for your internal team to carry alone and too important to hand to a firm that disappears after the report.

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Related: All funding programs · The complete funding guide

Core Capabilities

How every engagement gets delivered

These four capabilities run through all of our practice areas. They move projects from idea to investment grade.

Feasibility Studies & Business Cases

Investment-grade studies, multi-year financial projections, sensitivity analysis, and master business cases that hold up under federal program review, bank credit committees, and equity due diligence.

Grant Writing & Funding Strategy

Layered funding strategies and application authorship with millions secured, including the first CanExport Community Investments grant awarded to an Indigenous community in Canada. See the programs →

Capital Partnership Development

Investment proposals, lender engagement, equity partner identification, and letters of interest from retailers and offtakers, backed by a secure virtual data room that helped raise over $1M in private investment. The relationships and infrastructure that complete a capital stack.

Procurement & Governance

RFI, RFP, and RFQ processes, vendor and engineering partner selection, plus owner-controlled governance structures, reserve strategies, and the operational policies that make them durable.

Our Specialization

Indigenous Partnership Practice

Our core services are for anyone. Our deepest specialization is partnering with First Nations and Métis communities as lead development partner on energy, agriculture, forestry, and innovation projects, the kind that get built and stay owned.

How we partner

  • Engagements governed by OCAP® principles, so data, knowledge, and intellectual property rest with the Nation
  • Respect for Indigenous governance, protocols, and Council decision-making in every activity
  • Capacity building so communities own and operate the enterprises we help deliver
  • Cultural respect for traditional knowledge, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers in project planning

What we have done

  • Lead development partner on a multi-project Indigenous-led portfolio
  • Crown corporation negotiations, including a precedent-setting franchise rights waiver for a First Nations government
  • Canada's first Indigenous CanExport Community Investments grant, secured as a team
  • Government relations across federal departments, provincial ministries, and municipal partners

We also support organizations seeking respectful, effective partnerships with Indigenous communities.

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