Middle Ground, headquartered in British Columbia, Canada, is changing consultation for governments, industries, organizations, communities and First Nations.

We are solutions-focused, offering a tailored blend of technology and advisory services, leveraging the best technologies available. We provide a range of solutions for improving consultation and engagement through AI.

Middle Ground provides better consultation outcomes for public, private sector projects and reforms, as well as First Nation referrals:

Governments and Communities

• Engaging the public on major regulatory or policy reforms

Major Projects

• Both commercial private projects like mines and terminals and public infrastructure and public works like bridges and hospitals
• Where consultation is part of the regulatory and approvals process
• Where the public wants simple, referenced answer to their questions in real time
• Where a project occurs over many years under evolving circumstances

Major Reforms

• Where public sector entities need to gather input into reforms or high-profile decisions
• Involving large quantities of incoming public input
• Where there is a need for synthesis and analysis

First Nations

• Where they have referrals from government or industry and need to track, analyze and respond to those referrals
• Where First Nations privacy, empowerment and cultural safety are key
• Where significant capacity constraints and solving for this is crucial for all parties involved
  • For example, where First Nations are heavily engaged by commercial interests and government regarding activities on their tradition lands and need to increase the efficiency of their reviews of those projects
• Increase inclusiveness by providing a way for First Nations to more quickly review project referrals by accessing project information in a safe and private way without the need for proponent teams' involvement
• The result is more trust, inclusive outcomes and quicker decisions.

Safety and accuracy is our priority.

We’ve developed a detailed and rigorous testing framework and protocol to apply to every client with results reviewed by experienced consultation and communications professionals. We support you throughout the process to ensure you get best-in-class advice on how to integrate AI into your business.

Middle Ground only provides users with answers based on documents that you provide on your project, such as the environmental assessment documentation that’s typically uploaded to a major regulator or permitting agency website.

Middle Ground only provides answers from the project information you provide. It does not give misleading or partial answers or hallucinate like ChatGPT.

All answers are cited and linked right on the page to original studies and documents so that users can examine the original studies for themselves.