Where access is heading.

The capabilities shaping the future of Canadian access and privacy — built natively on Microsoft 365, deployed in your tenant, and designed for every jurisdiction.

Horizons

Themes

2026

Edition

The three horizons

A directional view of where AccessPoint is investing — what we're building now, what's coming through 2026, and what's on the horizon. Sequencing is indicative, not a commitment.

Now

Current focus

Multi-jurisdictional foundation

Complete Canadian provincial and territorial coverage
Bilingual EN / FR correspondence templates
Effective-dated statutory clocks for regime transitions
Business-day and calendar-day deadlines per jurisdiction

Coordinator productivity

Daily work prioritization dashboard with urgency tiers
In-app and Microsoft Teams notifications with reminders
Personalized views, saved filters, and custom fields
Workload reports across coordinators and teams

Document control & review

Three-view document review: original, redline, redacted preview
White-box redactions with exemption citations
Document workspace with content search and tagging
Page-stamping, Bates numbering, and linked requests

Coming through 2026

Requester & correspondence management

Requester contacts and institutions with full request history
Bulk-request flow control with active-request limits
Native email correspondence — send templated notices and capture the thread on the file
Frivolous & vexatious tracking and requester reporting

Procedural defensibility

Hash-chained, tamper-evident audit log
One-click court-ready evidence packages
Search-completeness attestation certificates
Statutory consultation and Commissioner complaint workflows

AI-powered productivity

Suggested responsive documents via Microsoft Copilot
Duplicate and near-duplicate detection
AI-assisted redaction suggestions with coordinator review
AI-assisted EN ↔ FR translation for response packages

Configurable & collaborative

Custom request stages, statuses, and tenant roles
Custom report builder with field selection and aggregation
Configurable notification rules and reminders
Team comments with @mentions; Teams, OneNote & Lists as records

Later

The horizon

Integrated access & privacy platform

Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) workflows
Privacy breach management with Commissioner notification
Privacy Act and PIPEDA correction request workflows

Deep AI integration

Teams meeting recordings and transcripts as records
Copilot declarative agent for natural-language queries
AI-augmented daily briefings and prioritization
Plain-language summaries for requesters

Intelligent process management

Teams-native cross-departmental consultation
Predictive SLA risk scoring with aging dashboards
Multi-coordinator collaboration and review routing
Semantic search and AI-suggested document tagging