Government Relations — Built In-House
Your own playbook, not a standing retainer.
This is the core of the firm. Instead of speaking for you, we build the part of government relations that is hard to see and harder to fake — and hand it to you to run.
We translate what your business needs into the language a Treasury Board analyst or a ministry signs off on, map who actually holds the pen across federal (Ottawa), Ontario (Queen's Park), other provinces, and municipal government, and time the approach to the decision and budget cycle. You arrange the meetings and you take them; we make sure you walk in knowing exactly what they need in order to say yes. Government would rather hear from you than from a lobbyist on your payroll, so the capability we build stays with your team after the mandate ends.
Engagement scope
- Decision-maker mapping across all three levels of government
- Briefings and meeting prep you deliver yourself
- Legislative and regulatory positioning
- An in-house GR playbook your team keeps
A map of who decides your file, by name and role
Briefings you deliver in your own voice
A GR playbook your team keeps and reuses
A file like this · illustrative
- The situation
- A founder has been paying a retainer to a firm that forwards emails and takes credit for meetings the product earned on its own.
- What we’d build
- We replace the retainer with capability: the decision-maker map, the briefing materials, the timing against the budget cycle, and the prep to run the meetings directly.
- Where it lands
- The founder owns the relationship and the playbook, the meetings land because the right person is in the room, and there is no monthly invoice for being a middleman.
Bring us the file.
A 30-minute scoping call. We’ll tell you honestly whether we can get you ready to move it.