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SOVEREIGN MEDICAL AI

AI that runs inside the hospital, not across the border.

Oction Labs builds private, auditable AI infrastructure for Canadian health systems. The models, the data, and the audit trail stay on your network.

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THE REAL BOTTLENECK IS GOVERNANCE, NOT MODELS

Canadian health AI is governance-constrained, not technology-constrained.

The winning vendor is the one that makes AI provable, local, and auditable. That is the problem Oction is built to solve.

Sources: Vector Institute Toolkit v2.0; Health Canada AI-enabled medical device guidance (2024); CMA National Physician Health Survey (2024).

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THE PROBLEM - TWO BAD OPTIONS

Health leaders are forced to choose between capability and control. They should not have to.

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Cloud AI tools (scribes, chat, copilots)
What it gives youFast features, broad capability
What it costs youPatient data leaves the building; cross-border exposure under the US CLOUD Act; per-token cost that scales with use
02
Governance-only platforms
What it gives youRisk registries, monitoring, audit trails
What it costs youThey govern AI but do not run it; procurement buys process, not clinical outcomes
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THE THIRD WAY - OCTION

A sovereign medical AI layer: the AI runs inside the hospital, on hospital-controlled hardware, and stays auditable.

We are not a governance dashboard and we are not a cloud scribe. We are the layer that runs the AI and proves what it did.

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WHAT WE DELIVER - FOUR PILLARS

One platform, four capabilities that map directly to Canadian health privacy law.

Data stays local
On-premise de-identification, differential-privacy budgets, and synthetic data generation before anything leaves the premise. Share insights without sharing patients.
Retrieval speed
Policies, protocols, formularies, imaging reports, and discharge summaries become queryable on local hardware, with no external API calls or rate limits.
Trustable output
Every answer cites its source documents and is constrained by a domain knowledge graph. Confident wrong answers are the thing healthcare cannot afford.
Broad applicability
One layer supports documentation, knowledge retrieval, research data sharing, and operational analytics rather than a single point tool.
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PILLAR 1 - DATA NEVER LEAVES THE PREMISE

Sovereignty by architecture, not by contract clause.

The Canadian privacy-preserving ML research base is real (CHEO/uOttawa synthetic data, Waterloo differential privacy) but rarely in routine clinical use. Oction productizes it.

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PILLAR 2 - SPEED WITHOUT CLOUD LATENCY

Every clinical record becomes queryable on local hardware.

Honest status: target average query latency is sub-second on commodity on-premise hardware (target, not yet a measured clinical-corpus result). A baseline benchmark on a representative clinical corpus runs in Month 1 of the first health-system pilot.

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PILLAR 3 - TRUSTABLE, AUDITABLE OUTPUTS

Healthcare cannot deploy AI it cannot audit.

Honest status: source-citation rate and hallucination reduction are target metrics, validated in the first pilot against a baseline LLM using a domain eval suite of 100 to 200 clinical question-answer pairs. We report the measured numbers, not the marketing numbers.

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PILLAR 4 - ONE PLATFORM, MANY WORKFLOWS

The same local layer powers the full clinical AI roadmap.

Clinical knowledge retrieval
Instant, source-cited answers from hospital protocols, policies, and formularies
Ambient documentation
Local speech-to-text plus structured note generation, EMR-bound
Research data sharing
Synthetic and differentially private datasets across sites
Operational analytics
Patient flow, capacity, and quality reporting with no cloud exposure
Clinical decision support
Source-grounded suggestions inside the EMR (later phase, after documentation and retrieval are proven)
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WHERE WE FIT - COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

No competitor combines on-premise model execution, data sovereignty, and privacy-preserving sharing in one Canadian-built platform.

Signal 1 (AIMS)
ModelCloud governance platform
Their strengthHealthcare-native risk management; CHAI partner; Trillium and Inova references
The gap we closeGoverns AI but does not build or run models on-premise; no native Epic/Cerner integration disclosed
Qualified Health
ModelCloud enterprise AI platform
Their strength$125M Series B; major US logos; build plus govern
The gap we closeCloud-hosted; built for large US systems, not Canadian data residency
TrueEdge AI
ModelOn-premise edge AI
Their strengthOn-premise cardiology imaging
The gap we closeNarrow imaging focus; limited platform breadth and data-sharing
EliseAI
ModelCloud patient-comms automation
Their strengthFront-office efficiency
The gap we closePatient data leaves the clinic; non-clinical scope
Azure OpenAI / AWS HealthLake
ModelCloud LLM and data services
Their strengthBroad features, enterprise sales
The gap we closeData crosses borders; cost scales with usage

Oction's lane: on-premise execution plus sovereignty plus privacy-preserving sharing, built in Canada for Canadian law.

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WHY CANADA, WHY NOW

Four forces make sovereign medical AI a near-term procurement reality, not a thesis.

Sources: Canada Health Infoway AI Scribe Program (2025); CIHI / Infoway interoperability frameworks.

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PROOF THE MARKET WORKS - CANADIAN OUTCOMES

Canadian health AI already saves lives. The blocker is governable, sovereign infrastructure to scale it.

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CHARTWatch (Unity Health Toronto)
26% reduction in unanticipated in-hospital deaths; peer-reviewed in CMAJ, Sept 2024; 13,649 patients studied
SourceCMAJ; Unity Health Toronto
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Infoway AI Scribe Program
10,554 clinicians enrolled; 708,654 encounters captured; 49% active users by Aug 2025
SourceCanada Health Infoway
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Alberta Connect Care
Province-wide Epic live across 155+ AHS sites since Nov 2024; only health-authority-scale Epic in Canada
SourceAlberta Health Services
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Vector Toolkit v2.0
Frames Canadian health AI as governance-constrained, not technology-constrained
SourceVector Institute
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TARGET PARTNERS AND BUYERS

We enter through the buyers who own data risk and clinical workflow.

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SegmentProvincial health authorities / academic hospitals
Primary buyersCIO, CMIO, Chief Digital Officer, VP Research
Entry use caseClinical knowledge assistant; scribe pilot
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SegmentMulti-site specialty clinics
Primary buyersPractice administrator, CMO
Entry use casePatient comms plus knowledge assistant
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SegmentEHR / health-tech vendors
Primary buyersCTO, VP Product
Entry use caseEmbedded AI module on Oction's local layer
4
SegmentClinical research networks
Primary buyersVP Research, data governance lead
Entry use caseSynthetic data and multi-site sharing

Anchor region for the first pilot: Alberta. Province-wide Epic (Connect Care), single health authority (AHS), and active Amii Health Innovation Lab support reduce integration and procurement friction.

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THE PILOT - PHASED, LOW-RISK, MEASURABLE

Start with the safest, highest-trust use case. Earn the right to the clinical ones.

Phase 1: Clinical Knowledge Assistant (Months 1 to 4)

Phase 2: Ambient Documentation / Scribe (Months 4 to 8)

Phase 3: Research Data Sharing (Months 8 to 12)

Phase 4: Embedded Clinical Decision Support (Year 2)

We deliberately lead with documentation and retrieval, not diagnosis, to keep clinical liability low while trust is built.

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PROOF WE CAN DEPLOY - PHASE 0 IS LIVE

This is not a slideware company. The architecture is running in a regulated Canadian environment today.

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PART OF THE CANADIAN HEALTH-AI ECOSYSTEM

We are built to work inside Canada's existing health-AI institutions, not around them.

Vector Institute
Collaboration, compute, and talent in the Canadian AI ecosystem
Canada Health Infoway
Connected Care and AI Scribe trust-framework alignment
NSERC Alliance
Academic work on differential privacy in health data
CIHR
Clinical AI safety and implementation-science research
Provincial health authorities
The buyers and reference sites our stack is designed for

Our architecture is designed to meet the standards these institutions set, so a deployment fits the way Canadian health systems already evaluate and adopt technology.

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TEAM AND THE GAP WE ARE CLOSING

Deep systems and infrastructure depth. One named gap, openly stated.

01
Brandon Gill
RoleCo-Founder / CEO
FocusSales, partnerships, capital strategy, government alignment
02
MJ Dewji
RoleCo-Founder
FocusStrategic oversight, capital deployment, long-term positioning
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Leonel Garcia
RolePartner / COO
FocusOperations; healthcare delivery lead; clinical workflow validation and health-authority relationships
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Shamir Cheema
RolePartner / CRO
FocusRevenue operations and commercial strategy
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Augustin Gentile
RolePartner / Business Development
FocusPartnerships and revenue-generating deals
AI TEAM autonomous agent mesh
Julian Systems & infrastructureLucius Operations intelligenceAtlas Security & forensicsAvery ResearchKai DataOscar ContentFinn Real estate
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WHAT A PILOT LOOKS LIKE

A measurable 90-day pilot, designed to prove sovereign AI on a health system's own terms.

What a partner gets:

How a pilot runs:

The point of the pilot is simple: show that private, auditable AI works inside a Canadian hospital, measured on real clinical material.

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APPENDIX - PROOF POINTS WE WILL MEASURE IN THE PILOT

We label targets as targets. These convert to validated claims during Phase 1.

Query speed
Target< 1,000 ms p95
Validation methodBenchmark on representative clinical corpus
TimelineMonth 1
Source-citation rate
Target> 90%
Validation methodAutomated eval on 100 to 200 clinical Q&A pairs
TimelineMonth 2
Hallucination reduction
TargetMeasurable vs. baseline LLM
Validation methodDomain-specific eval suite
TimelineMonth 2
Cost predictability
Target30 to 50% TCO reduction vs. cloud API
Validation methodTCO model vs. cloud spend
TimelineMonth 4
Privacy guarantee
TargetDifferential-privacy budget honored
Validation methodThird-party DP audit
TimelineMonth 6

All figures above are targets until measured in pilot.

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Built in Canada. Deployed on your network. Governed from day one.

Brandon Gill, Co-Founder & CEO: brandon@octionagency.com

Leonel Garcia, Partner & COO (healthcare delivery): leonel@octionagency.com

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