AI deployment, infrastructure, and economics.
Models, compute, token economics, private infrastructure, and the systems required to deploy AI where knowledge is the asset.
Ottawa Will Help Pay for Your Private AI Stack
Canada's new Productivity Mega-Deduction, the expanded SR&ED credit, and RAII's 0% financing stack. A worked example: how a $1M private AI build returns $250K in its first tax cycle.
The AI Training Question Your Vendor Can't Answer
A mathematician spent a year drafting a proof inside a vendor's AI tools. The vendor joined the race, won in 88 hours, and couldn't rule out that his data helped. Where your IP thinks matters.
The State of Open-Source Models 2026: The Big Board
The definitive ranked board for open-weight AI models — all 21, graded on six axes, filtered by hardware tier, category, and license. Updated June 2026.
Open-source inference
Production AI that answers for itself.
Every research note points to the same thesis: production inference is a stack problem. Providers, models, routing, cost, evidence, and operations. Northwood builds the open-source tooling and operates the whole system.