Every great company
is a mountain.
We work with technology founders and innovators to navigate the ascent, find the route, and reach the summit — from financing to market entry, and all the base camps along the way.
Three camps between here and the summit.
The route is commercialization: turning R&D into revenue, revenue into growth, and growth into ownership worth something. Whether you're a two-person startup or the innovation team inside an established company, the mountain is the same. Every serious climb is planned before the first step — a development plan that hits your product's milestones and meets the requirements of programs like SR&ED and IRAP at the same time. We've guided a hundred-plus climbs through every leg of it.
Someone who has been up before doesn't stop to find the route. Funding lands in months instead of quarters, and the work starts while the window is still open.
The expensive mistakes on this mountain are already known: the claim that fails review, the raise taken a year too early, the market read nobody checked. We keep you off them.
Fund.
Cover the cost of building — and keep your company.
Funding starts before the application — with a development plan built to reach your product's objectives and qualify for the programs that pay for it. We work with companies at the planning stage, because that is what positions a claim to succeed. Then we help cover the cost of the climb — tax credits, government programs, and when it's time, the right raise — so you keep building without giving the company away. And you only pay when the money lands.
- 01Non-dilutive funding strategy — every program you qualify for, sequenced
- 02SR&ED tax credits — no-win, no-fee
- 03Government funding — NRC-IRAP, ACOA, NBIF, CanExport, Mitacs
- 04Equity raise & investment readiness
AI inside · AI-assisted claim documentation takes less of your engineers' time — and nothing is filed that we haven't verified ourselves.
Grow.
Commercialization, from strategy to signed deals.
Commercialization is where most technical companies lose a year. Fixed-fee, phased engagements — often majority-funded through the very programs we help you access. Market research you can defend to investors, partner and channel development, and the operating cadence to actually execute.
- 01Go-to-market & commercialization advisory
- 02Market research & market sizing
- 03Strategic partner & channel development
- 04Corporate development retainers
AI inside · Source-cited market models built with AI-scale research and partner-grade judgment.
Exit.
When it's time to sell — or to buy.
Senior, discreet, milestone-based. Valuation, deal structuring, due diligence, and negotiation support from operators who have been on both sides of the table — through to close and the integration after.
- 01Sell-side M&A mandates
- 02Valuation & deal structuring
- 03Due diligence & negotiation support
AI inside · Faster diligence and document review. The judgment stays human.
Climbs we've finished.
$729K returned in year one
SR&ED and NRC-IRAP for an Atlantic Canadian software company, in the first year of the engagement.
$1.1M+ in cumulative NRC-IRAP
Secured across successive projects for a cleantech scale-up, alongside recurring SR&ED claims.
Sell-side mandate through to close
Valuation, buyer engagement, and negotiation support for an engineering services firm.
Names shared in conversation, with our clients' permission.
We build our own gear.
Most consultancies write decks about tools. We ship them, for clients and for ourselves. The proof is that you can use one right now.
Ten minutes to a defensible read on your claim.
Answer the questions CRA will effectively ask, get an honest readiness score and the gaps to close, all before anyone is billed.
Run the check40 Atlantic programs. Your route through them.
Six questions light up the mountain. Matched programs glow along your route, and near-misses show exactly what unlocks them.
Chart your routeSource-cited market models, at AI scale.
Bottom-up market sizing where every input cell carries a source. It runs inside our Grow engagements, and investors can audit the workbook.
Behind the gear is a route: four levels between chat and autonomy. We run our own firm at the top of it, and guide clients up the same climb.
One-off answers. Nothing sticks.
AI that knows your business.
Recurring work runs itself.
Whole tasks, delegated. How we run CGP.
Guides who've made the climb before.
Founders, engineers, and angel investors who've backed companies since 2006. On the rope with you, not radioing in from the lodge.
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Worth the climb.
Tell us about your mountain: what you're building, where you're stuck, and what the summit looks like. If we're not the right guides, we'll point you to who is.
Or call us at 506-476-5907. We pick up.