Arcnovus provides enterprise architecture, AI strategy and delivery, and fractional technical leadership for regulated industries. Government, nuclear, energy, fintech. A senior-led team that carries context, not just deliverables.
Arcnovus provides enterprise architecture consulting for government and regulated industries (including nuclear, both Canadian and US), AI strategy and delivery that ships to production, and SaaS products. We serve federal departments, nuclear operators, defence, energy, and mid-market companies. Services include architecture roadmaps, compliance frameworks (CNSC, CSA N286, NRC, NQA-1), fixed-scope AI engagements from opportunity assessment through production deployment, and purpose-built software products.
Ottawa, ON · Engagements across Canada and internationally
Architecture and compliance for organizations where getting it wrong isn't an option.
We work with government departments, nuclear operators, and regulated enterprises to design systems that meet the standards their industries demand. Architecture roadmaps, compliance frameworks, cloud enablement, and AI governance for environments where regulators, auditors, and safety cases are part of the operating reality.
Find where AI creates value. Prove it works. Ship it.
Four fixed-scope engagements that take AI from open question to production capability. Each targets a specific stage: finding the right opportunity, validating it with real data, shipping it into production, or mapping the AI tools your team is already using without approval.
The technical leadership seat, filled without the full-time hire.
A senior technology leader embedded in your team on a monthly retainer, 10-20 hours per week. Technology strategy, architecture decisions, team mentoring, vendor evaluation, and AI governance, delivered by practitioners who have built enterprise architecture practices and led technology organizations in regulated industries.
Software we build and operate.
Alongside consulting and delivery work, we build SaaS products that solve specific operational problems. Each product is designed, built, and operated by our team.
Every engagement starts with the right question. We scope it, build it together, and you leave with something that works, not a dependency on us to keep it working.
We study your operations, architecture, data, and constraints. The output is a clear picture of where you are and what's worth building: architecture gap analyses, compliance readiness reviews, AI opportunity maps, or technical due diligence reports.
Recommendations grounded in what we found. Architecture roadmaps, compliance frameworks, AI build-or-buy analyses, governance structures. Specific enough to act on, sequenced so your team knows what comes first.
When the plan calls for building, we build it. Prototypes, production systems, data pipelines, governance structures. Fixed scope, defined deliverables, handed off with documentation your team can operate from.
“Most AI advice falls into two camps: vendor hype that oversells what’s possible, or academic theory that undersells what’s practical. Neither helps the business leader who needs to decide, this quarter, whether AI is worth the investment and where to put the money.”
Bill Sourour founded Arcnovus in 2007. The firm has spent nearly two decades building enterprise systems, cloud infrastructure, and production software for organizations that can't afford to get it wrong. Arcnovus arrived at AI the same way its clients are: by building systems that work, then rebuilding them when the requirements change.
Recent work includes AI governance frameworks for federal departments, a content moderation system on a self-hosted LLM that caught thousands of records manual review missed, data hubs where analysts query a decade of records in plain language, and AI capability assessments for SaaS companies looking to integrate AI into their products.
Bill leads every engagement. He writes the architecture, builds the prototypes, and brings in specialists when the work requires it. TOGAF-certified enterprise architect, active Secret clearance, 25 years building systems across federal government, regulated industries, and private sector. A senior-led team sized to the engagement. No bait-and-switch.
Every engagement starts with the same question: what should we actually build, and is it worth building?
One problem at a time. Every engagement has a defined scope, a defined deliverable, and a defined end. No open-ended retainers.
We don't hand you a strategy deck and leave. We build prototypes, write architecture, deploy production systems, and transfer knowledge to your team.
The code, the architecture, the documentation: yours. When the engagement ends, your team owns everything and can operate it without us.
Bill Sourour
Founder and President
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Bring the situation. A compliance gap your auditors flagged. An AI opportunity you want to validate. A product idea that needs architecture. We scope every engagement to your actual problem.