Shared Services Canada . Government / Public sector
CANChat, a generative AI assistant for unclassified federal work
Production
Pilot
Production
Scaled
Killed
As more departments are onboarding to join the over 20 departments already using the CANChat serviceFrom the source, 2026-07-01
What happened
Shared Services Canada built CANChat, its first generative AI chatbot, for unclassified federal work such as drafting, editing and summarizing. The Canada.ca story says it uses Canadian-trained language models and does not train on user prompts. More than 20 departments already use it, and more are onboarding.
Sources
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- Company
- Shared Services Canada
- Industry
- Government / Public sector
- Vendor / platform
- Not stated in source
- Type
- Employee assistant
- Status
- Production
- Evidence date
- 2026-07-01
- Source
- https://www.canada.ca/en/shared-services/campaigns/stories/canchat-ssc-first-generative-ai-chatbot.html
- Last checked
- 2026-10-21
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