Canada's AI & Digital Sovereignty Index
Canadian AI Sovereignty is now measurable
With available Independent verification and mitigation recommendations
Canada is building sovereign AI infrastructure and using AI for everything. The Canadian AI & Digital Sovereignty Index measures its foreign dependencies and whether the AI running on it is actually safe, accountable, and Canadian-controlled.
Sovereignty: the question every
Canadian organization needs to answer.
Every week, Canadian organizations adopt AI systems and related digital infrastructure from global vendors.
Some are responsible. Some are not. Most can’t prove either way.
Sovereignty isn’t just about where data lives. It’s about whether the AI shaping public services, national security, and enterprise decisions can be held accountable — by Canadians, for Canadians.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
Released as an open framework.
Co-created with Canadian industry
and government departments.
Tested with Canadian business.
In September 2025, NuEnergy.ai published the Canadian AI Sovereignty Assessment Framework on GitHub — open standard, Creative Commons, open to co-creation.
Over a dozen co-creation sessions later with federal government departments, the framework has been refined with input from across Canada’s AI and digital community, including representatives of Canada’s AI Sovereignty and Innovation Cluster (CAISIC). It has been beta-tested with a number of Canadian tech firms including emerging growth firms like Agentiiv Inc. And commercially deployed with Canada’s largest digital transformation, the Benefits Delivery Modernization Programme at Employment and Social Development Canada.
Canada’s AI & Digital Sovereignty Index is built on NuEnergy.ai’s Machine Trust Platform™.
An AI Sovereignty view you can trust.
Canada’s AI & Digital Sovereignty Index is a third-party, evidence-based assessment of whether AI systems and digital infrastructure operating in Canada meet critical risk requirements regarding IP, ownership and control, foreign legal dependencies, privacy and more.
The Index produces a measurable AI Sovereignty Score — with clear and configurable Red/Yellow/Green warning signals — across the full AI lifecycle.
It offers a level of self-assessment for planning and offering structure. And a robust third party review process for risk measures and mitigation in initial assessment and ongoing deployment.
The framework was released by NuEnergy.ai to Canada in August, 2025, as an open standard under a public Creative Commons license. What NuEnergy.ai brings is independent third-party validation, operational rigour, and the Machine Trust Platform infrastructure to make your score credible, auditable, and defensible.
Canada’s AI & Digital Sovereignty Index is designed for:
Canadian AI integrators and software vendors
You’re bidding into federal, provincial, and regulated-industry RFPs that now ask sovereignty questions you can’t yet answer with evidence. The Index gives you a chance to mitigate areas and show differentiation.
Government of Canada and public-sector buyers
You need a defensible, third-party-validated way to compare AI offerings on sovereign control — not just feature lists. The Index aligns with the Treasury Board’s Algorithmic Impact Assessment and the open Canadian AI Sovereignty Assessment Framework.
Regulated enterprises (banking, healthcare, telecom)
Your board, your regulator, and your customers are asking who actually controls the AI you’ve deployed. The Index gives you a single, measurable answer — and the drift monitoring to keep that answer true over time.
Why NuEnergy.ai:
Independent. Evidence-led. Proven.
NuEnergy.ai is an independent AI governance company at the top tier of the Government of Canada’s AI Source List and its Machine Trust Platform has been qualified for procurement after rigorous review from ISED’s Innovative Solutions Canada Testing Stream. Its patented Machine Trust Index assesses AI over time and multiple categories (e.g. Bias, Performance, Security, Privacy) that now includes Sovereignty.
AI Trust is not a slogan to us. It is our process — and yours, as you work with us.
AI sovereignty data can be trusted, but only with the right measures and mitigations.