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Mindful, or not at all.
Used with intention, AI lifts old constraints. Used carelessly, it does harm. Rated-N chooses the first, every time.
Rated-N · Founding Principles
Ground Truth
Rated‑N's living AI Policy
AI sits at the front of everything Rated-N does. It can be turned on people as easily as put to work for them. That danger is real, and treated as real.
Used with care, it is the best lever the North has had in a generation: it lifts the load off the one person doing the job of three, and keeps Northern stories up here.
The North has never been short on intelligence: land-based, oral and hard won. No machine replaces that. The job is to put the good in these tools to work, safely, for the North.
Rated-N core tenets
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The human idea comes first.
AI amplifies human thinking; it never replaces it. Rated-N is fiercely anti-slop. The idea leads. The tool serves.
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Nobody's face or voice without permission.
No likeness, voice or performance is used without direct consent, and consent can be taken back.
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Ask anything.
Which tools, where the files sit, what the fine print says: open to anyone who asks. The best tool is the most responsible one. Loyalty to the outcome, not a logo.
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What belongs to a community stays with that community.
On its land, under its governance, never loose on the public internet.
Data Sovereignty · the four tiers
Every project's data is sorted into one of four tiers, in writing, before any file is touched. A marketing draft and a treaty record need different protection. Rated-N sorts the work first, then chooses the tools.
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Open Ground
Work meant to be shared with the world.
Looks like
Marketing, social posts, brainstorming, public research.
What Rated-N does
Best-in-class commercial AI, under the providers' own published privacy terms.
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Working Ground
Your confidential day-to-day. Not for public eyes.
Looks like
Financials, customer lists, strategy, contracts, HR documents, pricing.
What Rated-N does
The same providers and terms, named in writing before a file moves. Stricter handling when the work needs it.
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Protected Ground
Information with legal weight, yours or someone else's.
Looks like
Health records, legal files, NDA material, regulated data, client privilege.
What Rated-N does
Protection arranged and named in writing before a file moves. If it can't be, Rated-N says so.
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Sovereign Ground
Information that cannot leave the community, territory or people it belongs to. Full stop.
Looks like
Traditional knowledge, elder testimony, treaty records, data tied to land, language or governance.
What Rated-N does
It never touches the public internet. It stays on equipment in your territory, under your governance. If that can't be done, Rated-N turns the work down.
Framework alignment
First Nations: OCAP®-aligned by design. Inuit: National Inuit Data Strategy. Métis: Métis-specific governance. Plus the global CARE principles. The community is co-governor, not client.
/ Where to start
Not sure which tier fits? That's where every conversation with Jay begins.
The honest limit
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What Rated-N can and cannot answer for.
Rated-N doesn't build the AI models and can't answer for the companies behind them. Pretending otherwise would be the first dishonest line in this document.
What Rated-N does answer for is the choosing: which companies get paid and which get walked away from, judged on safety, privacy and people, and revisited as they change. Where a Canadian tool can do the job, it gets the work.
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If something goes wrong.
You hear it from Jay directly and fast: what happened, and what's being done about it. Not a notice buried in an email.
Rated-N treats its AI policy as living and evolving over time.