Vetting at scale. Compliance by design.
Supplier vetting that scales. Screen your entire sub-supplier base for CPCSC compliance, sanctions exposure, and FOCI risk in hours, not weeks.
AKULIVIK
DATA INGESTION
ENTITY MAPPING
COMPLIANCE SCREENING
RISK SCORING
Green / Amber / Red verdicts
CPCSC Level 1 aware
Monthly retainer re-screening
NSGRP form pre-population
CPCSC is live. The tooling isn't.
Canadian defence primes now have a legal obligation to screen their supply chains. The regulation arrived ahead of any system built to handle it.
CPCSC Level 1 launched with no tooling
CPCSC Level 1 self-assessment became mandatory in April 2026. Primes must verify supplier compliance status across their entire sub-supplier base. There is no automated system to do this. Legal teams are checking a government portal one supplier at a time.
Ownership chains are opaque and manual
A numbered Ontario company owned by a Swiss holding firm whose beneficial owner sits on the board of a flagged entity in a third jurisdiction that's not an edge case, that's Tuesday. Paralegals trace these chains manually through corporate registries across multiple countries. They stop at layer two. The risk sits at layer four.
Sanctions lists update faster than screening cycles
OFAC, the UN consolidated list, and Canada's own sanctions regime update continuously. A supplier cleared last quarter may not be clear today. Without automated re-screening, the prime is operating on stale compliance data and doesn't know it.
FOCI assessment is subjective and inconsistent
Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence screening depends on who does it and how much time they have. Two paralegals reviewing the same supplier can reach different conclusions because there is no structured framework applied consistently. The output is an opinion, not a determination.
NSGRP forms are filled by hand
For suppliers involved in research partnerships, the NSGRP Risk Assessment Form requires structured data that already exists in the screening output, but no system connects the screening to the form. Coordinators re-type information they already gathered into a PDF template. Every re-entry is a delay and a transcription risk.
No system of record for vetting decisions
When a prime is audited on a supplier relationship that went wrong, the question is: what due diligence was performed and when? Most primes cannot produce a structured answer. The vetting record is scattered across emails, SharePoint folders, and individual analysts' notes. That's not a defensible compliance posture.
AKULIVIK turns compliance from a liability into a system.
Every gap in your current process has a direct engineered answer. CPCSC mandates, ownership chains, FOCI screening, NSGRP forms, handled automatically, continuously, and with a permanent record your legal team can stand behind.
Feed your supplier list in. AKULIVIK checks every entity against the CPCSC self-assessment portal, returns the status, and flags any lapsed or missing assessments. Eighty-seven suppliers screened in hours, not weeks. The backlog clears in an afternoon.
The system follows the corporate structure from the named supplier through every parent, subsidiary, and shell entity until it reaches natural persons or dead ends. Every node is mapped. Every jurisdiction is covered. The legal team sees the complete picture, not the first two layers of it.
Sanctions lists don't wait for your quarterly review cycle. AKULIVIK re-screens your entire supplier base monthly, flags any change, new sanction, ownership transfer, CPCSC status lapse, adverse media, and pushes the delta into your legal team's tracker. Thirty minutes a month replaces two full-time paralegals.
Every FOCI assessment follows the same rules-based framework applied consistently across every supplier. The output is a structured determination with the specific indicators named, scored, and sourced, not a subjective judgment that varies by analyst. Two reviewers looking at the same output reach the same conclusion.
For suppliers entering research partnerships, AKULIVIK maps its screening output directly to the NSGRP Risk Assessment Form fields. The coordinator reviews and submits rather than re-typing from scratch. The application ships in days instead of weeks.
Every screening produces a timestamped, source-linked dossier that becomes the system of record. When a regulator or auditor asks what due diligence was performed, the prime produces a structured document, not an email thread. That's the difference between a defensible compliance posture and a hope that nobody asks.
Let us help you help our sovereignty
AKULIVIK is scoped to your supplier base, your regulatory frameworks, and your programme deadlines. One conversation tells us what you need screened and how often. We handle the rest, continuously, automatically, and with a record that holds up under audit.
