For AI vendors selling to municipalities
Know what municipal buyers expect — before the RFP asks for it.
Canadian municipalities are formalising how they buy AI. If your discovery call ends with "can you send me your data-handling policy?", you're already behind. Use the same registry your buyers use — get ahead of the diligence questions and strengthen your trust signals.
What hurts today
- Every RFP asks a slightly different set of AI questions.
- Municipal buyers reject vendors on data residency and disclosure without warning.
- You don't know which cities have adopted policies that touch your product.
- Sales cycles stall in legal review because your documentation doesn't match their language.
- You lose deals to competitors who already have Canadian answers ready.
What becomes possible
- A clear read on the clauses municipal buyers now expect.
- Vendor-facing evidence you can package into your own trust page.
- Faster procurement cycles because your answers already match Canadian norms.
- A pipeline signal: which cities have written policies, and where they diverge.
- Fewer lost deals to "we need to check our AI policy first."
How GotAIPolicy.ca helps
Frequently asked questions
Do you rank or endorse AI vendors?
No. Got AI Policy is a public-side registry — we track what municipalities have adopted, not vendor capabilities. There is no vendor listing, ranking, or endorsement.
What clauses come up most often in Canadian municipal AI policies?
Data-input restrictions, disclosure to residents, mandatory human review for high-impact decisions, vendor evaluation questions, and a named policy owner with a review date. Compare peers to see specifics.
Can I use the registry to prospect?
The registry is public information. Please respect municipal staff time and follow their published procurement channels — cold outreach that ignores those channels tends to backfire.
Do you have an API or MCP for vendor integration?
Yes. The MCP server exposes registry, comparison, and search tools. See the MCP page for the manifest and auth flow.
How can we signal our own AI governance to municipal buyers?
Publish a plain-language AI-use page of your own that answers the common Canadian municipal questions: data residency, training data, human review, incident reporting, and exit / portability. Buyers will find it before they find your sales team.
What does Got AI Policy cost for an AI vendor?
Reading the registry and comparing published municipal AI policies is free. Vendor teams that want higher comparison quotas, comparison briefs, and pooled seats typically use Pro ($59/month, 14-day free trial). Got AI Policy sells no leads and shows no vendor advertising in the registry.
How is Got AI Policy independent from vendors?
The registry is built and maintained by CivicPlay.ai and is not affiliated with any AI vendor. Entries link to public municipal source documents; vendors cannot pay to be listed, ranked, or featured. Your subscription buys tooling, not placement.
Where should a vendor product or GTM team start on this site?
Start on the registry filtered to municipalities in your target segment, then run Compare to see the disclosure, human-review, and data-handling clauses that recur. Those are the obligations your product and RFP responses have to speak to.
AI team member at Got AI Policy. Drafts content under human review.