Mission First
CPAI’s not-for-profit mission comes before private or unrelated commercial interests. Programs and revenue activities must support our organizational purposes.
Transparency & Accountability
Transparency & Governance
How CPAI is governed, funded, and accountable to its mission.
The Canadian Physical AI Institute (CPAI) works to make the practical adoption of artificial intelligence, Physical AI, robotics, and automation safer and more accessible for Canadian organizations.
Last updated: July 29, 2026
Legal Status
A federal not-for-profit corporation
CPAI is a federal not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. Our corporation number is 1788344-7.
CPAI is not a registered charity and does not issue official donation receipts.
Being not-for-profit does not mean that every CPAI activity must be free. It means that revenue is raised to support our organizational purposes. Any operating surplus remains within CPAI and is reinvested in mission-aligned programs, resources, and organizational capacity. CPAI does not distribute dividends to members or directors.
Governance
How CPAI is governed
Legal governance rests with CPAI’s directors. The directors are responsible for overseeing the organization’s mission, strategy, annual plans, budgets, financial controls, risk management, legal compliance, and conflicts of interest.
Honorary advisors, volunteers, and contributors support CPAI’s work but do not hold director or fiduciary authority unless they are formally appointed to such a role.
Documented Oversight
Material decisions, budgets, and financial approvals are documented and overseen through the organization’s legal governance structure.
Conflict Management
Relevant conflicts of interest must be identified, disclosed, and managed appropriately before decisions are made.
Clear Roles
Advisory, volunteer, operational, and legal-governance roles are kept distinct so that authority and accountability remain clear.
Independent Work
CPAI protects the independence of its educational, research, and editorial work when working with sponsors and partners.
Mission Reinvestment
Operating surpluses are retained by CPAI and reinvested in mission-aligned programs, resources, and responsible operations.
Mission-Aligned Revenue
How CPAI generates revenue
CPAI’s current and planned revenue-generating activities may include:
- Registration fees for CPAI-produced events, workshops, roundtables, and educational programs.
- Fees for executive education, organizational training, cohorts, readiness assessments, and practical AI-adoption programs.
- Membership or subscription fees for curated learning resources and ongoing program access.
- Sponsorship and underwriting for events, reports, research, and public-interest resources.
- Mission-aligned technical briefings, research collaborations, publications, and pilot-learning programs.
- Grants and contributions when CPAI is eligible to receive them.
These activities must be connected to CPAI’s mission. CPAI does not operate an unrelated commercial business.
Event Fees
How CPAI event fees are used
Registration fees for CPAI-produced events help cover the actual cost of delivering useful and accessible programming. These costs may include:
- Event platforms, facilities, audiovisual services, and livestreaming.
- Speaker, instructor, facilitator, or technical-review support.
- Registration systems, participant communications, insurance, and event materials.
- Captioning, transcripts, translation, accessibility, and bilingual delivery.
- Program research, curriculum preparation, outreach, and administrative coordination.
When event revenue exceeds the direct cost of delivering an event, the remaining amount supports CPAI’s broader mission activities.
Use of Revenue
How earned revenue supports our mission
Original content and practical knowledge
Revenue helps CPAI research, create, review, and publish original articles, implementation guides, playbooks, checklists, case studies, technical reports, adoption indicators, and other practical resources.
It can support subject-matter experts, writers, researchers, editors, technical reviewers, designers, translators, and audio or video producers involved in creating reliable content.
Bilingual and accessible publishing
Revenue supports English and French translation, editing, captioning, transcripts, accessible formatting, visual design, website maintenance, and the production of webinar, video, podcast, and educational materials.
Education and industry convening
Revenue helps CPAI organize webinars, workshops, industry roundtables, executive education, community discussions, and reduced-cost or freely accessible learning opportunities.
Applied research and pilot learning
Revenue may support research tools, software, secure cloud services, benchmarking, workflow and data assessments, responsible pilot projects, technical documentation, and reusable adoption guidance.
Contributors and delivery capacity
Revenue helps coordinate contributors, onboard volunteers, manage projects, recognize substantial work, and provide approved honoraria or professional support where appropriate.
Responsible operations and accountability
Revenue also supports accounting, legal advice, insurance, privacy and security controls, digital systems, record keeping, compliance, and public reporting.
Independence
Sponsorship and editorial independence
A fee, sponsorship, or partnership does not purchase a CPAI endorsement, favourable coverage, ranking, speaker selection, or control over research findings.
Material sponsorship relationships will be identified. CPAI retains responsibility for its program, research, and editorial decisions, and relevant conflicts of interest must be disclosed and managed.
Public Reporting
Our annual transparency cycle
CPAI is establishing an annual transparency cycle. After each completed reporting period, we will update this page with:
- A summary of CPAI’s principal activities and mission-related outputs.
- A high-level explanation of revenue sources and how resources were used.
- Material sponsorship or funding disclosures, subject to legitimate confidentiality requirements.
- Links to annual reports, policies, or financial documents as they become available and appropriate.
Formal financial statements will be prepared, approved, and provided to members or regulators in accordance with applicable requirements.
Questions
Questions about CPAI’s governance or revenue use?
We welcome reasonable questions about our legal status, governance practices, sponsorships, and use of earned revenue.
