The Bridge — both practices, one purchase order
Your Canadian pipeline is blocked by one gate.
We clear it, then help you sell through it.
For technology vendors whose Canadian federal revenue is blocked by a certification or procurement gate: Sagentix clears the gate and builds the motion that sells through it, as one engagement, under one accountable principal — who holds both the security credential the gate requires and the professional consulting designation the market-entry work requires.
You get an authorizable product. Then you get the account list, the buying committee and the route to purchase behind it.
How it works
Four steps, and the first one is deliberately small.
1. Establish which gate actually applies
Five different Canadian gates could apply to your product. Preparing for the wrong one costs two quarters, so this is where we start — and it is a bounded, priced first step rather than a commitment to the whole programme.
2. Translate what you already hold
If you have FedRAMP Moderate or High, SOC 2 or ISO/IEC 27001, you are not starting over. Most of it translates. What has to change is the mapping — and the Canadian catalogue moved on 31 March 2026, so many mappings still in circulation now target a retired document. We will tell you which of yours still hold.
3. Author the package
We write the artifacts. We come to your engineers for facts, not for documents.
4. Build the motion behind the gate
An authorization is not revenue. Once the gate opens you still have to reach the departments that can now buy — which organizations, which buying committee, which route to purchase. That half is why this engagement is measured against pipeline rather than against compliance spend.
Two practices, one purchase order
Most firms sell you one half. The other half is then someone else’s problem, on someone else’s timeline, with the handoff between them as your risk to manage.
The gate
Sagentix Cyber & AI
Readiness and authoring for whichever gate is actually blocking you — a Canadian authorization at Protected B, an ISO/IEC 27001 certification, a SOC 2 examination, a defence programme, or a data-protection regulator.
Control tailoring, the evidence, the package, and coordination with the assessor who judges it.
The motion
Sagentix Go-to-Market
An authorization is not revenue. Once the gate opens you still have to reach the organizations that can now buy, and reach them the way they actually purchase.
Market intelligence, the buying committee, positioning that survives a procurement review, and the route to purchase.
Regulated Market Access
Both practices, one engagement — the gate cleared and the motion that sells through it.
Why the two together are worth more than the two separately
The evidence built to clear the gate is the same evidence a procurement reviewer reads when deciding whether to buy. Run as one engagement, the control work and the positioning are written from one understanding of the product, and the account list is built while the package is in assessment rather than after it. Run as two, the second firm starts by learning what the first one already knew, and you pay for that twice.
Who this is for — and who it is not
The two halves compound for a narrow set of buyers. For everyone else one practice on its own is the better purchase, and we would rather say so now than three weeks in.
Buy the bridge
- A technology vendor whose revenue is blocked by a certification or procurement gate
- A cybersecurity or defence vendor selling into a regulated buyer
- A company holding FedRAMP, SOC 2 or ISO/IEC 27001 that now faces a second, different gate
Buy one practice instead
- A government department — you are the buyer, not the vendor, and you want the advisory practice on its own
- A pre-revenue founder — there is no motion to build behind a gate you have not yet needed
- A firm that only wants the go-to-market half, with no gate in the way
- Anyone who wants us to assess, certify or audit the package — that is someone else, always
What we commit to, and where the decision sits
Two boundaries, both deliberate, and both in your interest.
An independent assessor reviews the package we wrote
Where independence is mandated, that review belongs to an independent assessor. That is deliberate and it works in your favour — a package reviewed by someone with no stake in the outcome carries more weight, and you are the one who benefits from that.
We commit to the submission, not the verdict
We commit to the completeness and quality of what you submit, and an honest position each week on where the file actually stands. The authorization decision itself is the government's to make.
Start with the diagnosis.
Thirty minutes. We establish which Canadian gate actually applies to you, what the evidence you already hold is worth against it, and what the elapsed time realistically looks like — including the parts nobody controls.