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Findstr: Canada’s AI Governance Portal
Vortex Solution is launching Findstr, a SaaS platform designed to help organizations structure, govern, and secure their use of artificial intelligence. Findstr brings AI tools, models, users, knowledge, and costs together in a single private and segmented environment.
- One point of entry.
- Clear governance.
- Canadian infrastructure.
AI is already inside your organization
Artificial intelligence does not always enter an organization through an official project. It often begins directly within teams, through personal accounts, individual subscriptions, and tools that fall outside the organization’s usual governance framework.According to the 2024 Work Trend Index from Microsoft and LinkedIn, published on May 8, 2024, and based on a survey of 31,000 employees and leaders across 31 countries, 78% of AI users were bringing their own artificial intelligence tools to work.
Teams move quickly. But without a shared framework, the organization can lose visibility into which tools are being used, which data is being shared, which knowledge is being created, and which costs are accumulating. The risk extends beyond a growing number of subscriptions.According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025, published on July 30, 2025, 20% of the organizations surveyed reported experiencing a data breach related to the use of unauthorized or insufficiently supervised AI tools.
In other words, at one in five organizations surveyed, the ungoverned use of artificial intelligence contributed to data exposure.IBM also reported that only 37% of surveyed organizations had mechanisms in place to manage or detect these uses. In Canada, IBM estimated that a significant presence of ungoverned AI tools added an average of C$308,000 to the cost of an affected data breach in 2025. This amount represents the additional cost associated with limited visibility and control over AI use.
According to Cisco’s 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, published on January 25, 2024, 48% of respondents acknowledged entering non-public company information into generative AI tools.
AI is already being used.The real question is whether it is structured.
One point of entry for artificial intelligence
Findstr becomes the organization’s official AI portal. Employees access their assistants, models, content, and AI tools through a shared, personalized, and governed environment.
The platform helps organizations:
- centralize access to AI tools and models;
- manage users, roles, and permissions;
- segment data according to teams and responsibilities;
- establish clear usage policies;
- structure and share organizational knowledge;
- monitor token consumption;
- govern budgets and costs;
- evolve the underlying technologies without disrupting users.
Findstr is not tied to a single model. Instead, the platform makes it possible to connect, organize, and govern different artificial intelligence models through a stable interface.
Models evolve. Your governance remains.
Turn individual use into collective intelligence
When employees use their own separate tools, the knowledge they create remains scattered across personal accounts and isolated conversations. The organization pays for AI use without necessarily retaining the value it produces. Findstr transforms these individual uses into a collective asset.
Knowledge can be structured, shared, and reused across the organization. Insights no longer disappear into separate accounts. They gradually contribute to a lasting organizational memory.Teams can move faster while respecting the roles, permissions, and policies defined by the organization.
Your intelligence should not remain locked inside personal accounts.
Clear governance of AI costs
Artificial intelligence costs can quickly become difficult to track when each team uses its own subscriptions, providers, and models. Findstr centralizes consumption and provides better visibility into how AI is actually being used.
Organizations can:
- track token and model-related costs;
- assign consumption budgets;
- compare costs across use cases;
- reduce the number of individual subscriptions;
- select the appropriate model for each need;
- forecast artificial intelligence budgets more effectively.
The most powerful model is not always the most relevant one. Findstr helps organizations select the right model, for the right use, at the right cost.The objective is not simply to reduce spending. It is to ensure that every investment in artificial intelligence creates measurable value for the organization.
Artificial intelligence that is truly Canadian
Findstr goes beyond local hosting.
The large language model, or LLM, underlying the solution is also operated entirely in Canada.
Requests, documents, internal knowledge, and organizational data can therefore be processed within a private, segmented Canadian environment.
This approach gives organizations greater control over the entire technology chain:
- SaaS platform designed and developed in Canada;
- infrastructure and hosting located in Canada;
- language model operated in Canada;
- organizational data and knowledge retained in Canada;
- local development, security, and support teams.
Designed here. Hosted here. Supported here.
Findstr delivers practical digital sovereignty: a Canadian solution, operated in Canada and governed according to each organization’s requirements.
Your data remains under your control
Findstr is designed and operated by Vortex Solution within a Canadian infrastructure managed from end to end.The platform is supported by a specialized internal team and a security framework certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II standards. Access, environments, roles, and data can be segmented according to the organization’s policies.
Each team can access the tools and information required for its work without automatically gaining access to all organizational knowledge.Security is not added after development. It is part of the architecture.
This approach enables organizations to adopt artificial intelligence while maintaining greater control over confidential information, digital assets, and compliance obligations.
Designed here, for organizations here
Findstr is a SaaS product entirely envisioned, developed, hosted, and supported in Canada by the teams at Vortex Solution. This local approach provides genuine proximity, a strong understanding of Canadian and Quebec requirements, and direct support from implementation through ongoing operations.
Findstr does not impose a single way to use artificial intelligence.Instead, it provides a stable framework that allows each organization to define its own policies, permissions, and priorities.
Your AI. Your data. Your governance.
Frequently asked questions about Findstr
What is Findstr?
Findstr is a Canadian artificial intelligence governance portal. It centralizes AI tools, users, knowledge, models, and costs within a private, structured, and governed environment.
Does the data remain in Canada?
Yes. Findstr operates within Canadian infrastructure. Documents, requests, data, and organizational knowledge can be stored and processed in Canada.
Is the language model also operated in Canada?
Yes. The language model underlying Findstr is operated entirely in Canada. Organizations can therefore use local artificial intelligence within a private and segmented environment.
How does Findstr help control AI costs?
Findstr centralizes consumption across users, models, and tokens. Organizations can monitor use, assign budgets, reduce the number of individual subscriptions, and select the most appropriate model for each need.
Does Findstr meet organizational security requirements?
Findstr is designed and operated by Vortex Solution within a security framework certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II standards. Roles, access, environments, and data can be segmented according to each organization’s internal policies.
All your organization’s artificial intelligence. One portal. Complete governance.
Findstr enables your teams to use artificial intelligence within a structured Canadian environment adapted to your requirements.
Request a demonstration and discover how to centralize your tools, protect your knowledge, and maintain control over your costs.
References
- Microsoft and LinkedIn, 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report: AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part, May 8, 2024.
- IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025, July 30, 2025.
- IBM Canada, Canadian findings from the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025, July 30, 2025.
- Cisco, 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, January 25, 2024.