Agentic products in regulated corners of the economy fail on domain knowledge long before they fail on model quality. These are the reference notes we wrote for ourselves — every factual claim carries a source, and where the law is unsettled we say so rather than rounding it into confidence.
Long-form answers to questions that currently have no good Canadian answer online. Written to be read start to finish, or skimmed via the FAQ at the bottom of each.
What a DPP is, the EU deadlines that already bind Canadian exporters (batteries from 18 February 2027; the EU Registry live since 20 July 2026), and the five Canadian instruments — Textile Labelling Act, Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act, the Competition Act's 2024 greenwashing amendments, the Combating Counterfeit Products Act and the 2024 Copyright Act repair exceptions — that already create product-information duties. 11 sources.
Real-world asset tokenization in CanadaThere is no bespoke Canadian regime — existing securities law applies by default, and most tokenized fractional interests are securities. Covers the CSA staff notices that actually govern, the CSA's Project Tokenization initiative opened 31 March 2026, FINTRAC money-services registration, OSFI's capital cap, and which asset classes are genuinely hard. 8 sources.
Where the guides above define a subject, these size a problem — the market data, the regulatory clock and the gap we think is worth building into.
Counterfeiting's estimated C$20–30B annual drag on Canada, the CETA export base exposed to EU passport rules, and a resale market with no reliable way to verify itself.
Agentic commerce: when software becomes the buyerThe fragmenting agent-payment standards landscape — x402, AP2, ACP, card-network agent pay — and the settlement gap sitting underneath all of them.
Rental applications over-sharePIPEDA exposure in Canadian tenant screening, newcomers with no domestic credit file, and how a zero-knowledge eligibility proof replaces a document dump.
AI governance in Canadian finance: OSFI E-23Who Guideline E-23 on model risk management covers before it takes effect on 1 May 2027, and the governance tooling gap that opens for institutions and their vendors.
We publish this research because we needed it and it didn't exist. If you're working on the same problems, we're happy to compare notes.