About

Canadian tools for Canadian work.

Anitarian builds sovereign AI for organizations that can't compromise on jurisdiction, compliance, or execution speed.

Our mission

Make Canada the smartest nation. Anitarian is operated by a British Columbia–registered company in Kelowna, with no US corporate ownership, no US investors, and no foreign legal obligations in the data path.

Why we exist

Capability and data sovereignty can coexist. Canadian organizations should not be forced to send sensitive work outside the country to use modern AI. We're building the platform that closes that gap.

Founding team

Operators across customers, capital, AI, and infrastructure.

Anitarian is being built by a compact Canadian team with the commercial, technical, and physical-infrastructure experience required to deliver sovereign AI at production scale.

Scott Smith

CEO

Scott Smith

Scott is the CEO of Cloud Collective, a 12-year-old managed services provider that has operated infrastructure across multiple data centres for clients in law and other regulated sectors. He also co-founded RiskTools.AI, a platform that connects heavy industry operations staff, insurance buyers, brokers, underwriters, and loss control providers, and was part of the early team at Input Health, now part of TELUS Health. At Anitarian, Scott brings long-standing customer relationships, judgment shaped by regulated industries, go-to-market execution, and the practical operating discipline organizations need before they trust AI infrastructure with sensitive data.

Matt Smith

Chairman

Matt Smith

Investor, board member, and founder of Thinkific and Later, with current experience connected to Durable and a UBC background. Matt brings founder pattern recognition, fundraising leverage, product judgment, and Canadian SaaS credibility to Anitarian's board and capital strategy.

Jonathan Fitzpatrick

CTO, Infrastructure

Jonathan "Fitz" Fitzpatrick

Jonathan "Fitz" Fitzpatrick leads Anitarian's physical data center infrastructure, bringing decades of hands-on engineering experience with mission-critical power, automation, and distributed networking systems. He has engineered data center and distributed networking solutions for mission-critical applications across major Canadian organizations, including the City of Calgary (Water and Wastewater Treatment), Metro Vancouver (Seymour Capilano WWTP), CityTV, and the Capital Regional District, among others.

As Electrical, Instrumentation, and Control Systems Engineer of Record and Principal Engineer, Fitz was responsible for numerous water and wastewater facilities, water resources, semiconductor technical water plants, and flood control facilities — encompassing cogeneration, backup power, power distribution, communications, automation, and instrumentation.

He is the former Automation Chief Engineer for Stantec's Water Business and a Senior Principal with deep expertise in Power Systems, Instrumentation, Controls, and Automation for high-reliability systems. Over the past five years at Stantec, he helped build out their Digital Business with a focus on applied AI — using AI to solve real-world engineering problems such as critical infrastructure modeling, water system resiliency, and AI-based weather modeling for flooding and hurricanes.

Fitz brings UBC-trained technical depth, Hawkeye Holdings operating experience, and the practical facility leadership behind Anitarian's Kelowna sovereign compute footprint.

Jordan Eunson

CTO, AI

Jordan Eunson

Vancouver-based systems and AI operator who describes his work plainly: "I make break fix stuff." Jordan has been an IT Specialist with Copious Communications since 2009 and brings the pragmatic engineering depth behind Anitarian's model evaluation, inference, adaptation, and customer-facing AI systems. His operational experience includes managing a 330-node computational cluster for data scientists engaged in protein folding, heavy involvement in DevOps and GitOps for mass automation and orchestration, and helping run an ISP in the mid-2000s.

Values

What we hold ourselves to.

Canadian excellence over convenient compromise

If "good enough" requires sending data south, we don't ship it.

Speed and execution in slow markets

Regulated buyers move carefully. We move quickly so they don't have to wait.

Tools operating within Canadian jurisdiction

Architecture decisions are made first; marketing language is made second.

Continuous improvement through shipping

We earn trust by what's deployed in production, not by what's in the pitch.

"This isn't about nationalism. It's about not having to explain to your lawyers why your AI vendor has a US parent company."
Why data sovereignty matters

Three concerns. One architecture.

Legal jurisdiction

The US CLOUD Act reaches data held by US companies regardless of where the server sits. Canadian infrastructure under Canadian law eliminates that risk.

Regulatory compliance

Quebec's Law 25 mandates Privacy Impact Assessments for AI handling personal data, with extra scrutiny for cross-border transfers. A Canadian-only architecture simplifies the work.

Defence & government

CPCSC-bound contractors require jurisdictional control over AI tooling. US-hosted solutions create review obstacles. We don't.

Infrastructure

Where Anitarian runs.

Hosted exclusively in Canada

No US cloud regions, no US corporate parent, no CLOUD Act vulnerability.

Encrypted end-to-end

AES-256 encryption at rest. TLS 1.3 in transit. Stateless inference by default.

Never trained on your data

This is an architectural boundary, not a policy bullet.

CADSI member

Proud member of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries.

Build sovereign with us.

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