Your CCI membership — enhanced through partnership
Tools, intelligence, and hands-on strategy to help Canadian-headquartered innovators engage government, navigate regulation, and unlock procurement — with precision.
Built in collaboration between CCI and Signa Strategies. Your membership benefits remain the same.
What is Signa — and how it works with CCI
Signa Strategies is a Canadian advisory firm founded by CCI’s executive leadership team to help innovators turn strategy into action. CCI remains your national business council — leading collective advocacy, research, and convening. Signa complements that work by providing personalized government-relations and public-affairs strategy for companies that need one-to-one execution.
As a CCI member, your benefits are unchanged. Through this partnership, you’ll see clearer intelligence, faster signals on what’s moving in Ottawa and across the provinces, and a more direct path from policy context to company-specific outcomes. When you’re ready to activate, Signa can support execution — always optional and separate from membership.
How CCI and Signa work together for members
Here’s how the partnership translates into support for your organization — from strategy to activation.
- Provide high-level GR guidance, policy context, and introductions to relevant departments.
- Advise on media positioning and relationship-building with key outlets and journalists.
- Deliver member intelligence (research, briefings) and convene national and regional programs.
- Brief members on evolving federal and provincial lobbying regulations.
- Surface procurement and policy opportunities via Signa Intelligence.
- Executing GR plans: meeting scheduling, briefing materials, and structured follow-up.
- Running media execution: coverage, op-eds, issues management, and communications campaigns.
- Preparing procurement deliverables: bid strategies, positioning decks, and readiness packages.
- Delivering compliance support: registrations, protocols, and executive training.
- Providing personalized advisory across regulatory affairs, risk scans, and coalition building.
Example projects Signa delivers
Government Relations Strategy & Mapping
CCI: High-level guidance, policy context, and introductions. Signa: Execution — meetings, materials, and follow-up.
Media Strategy & Campaign Development
CCI: Positioning advice and media relationship guidance. Signa: Coverage, op-eds, issues management, and comms execution.
Procurement Navigation
CCI: Access to Signa Intelligence tracking policy shifts and opportunities. Signa: Bid strategies, positioning decks, and readiness packages.
Lobbying Compliance
CCI: Member briefings on evolving rules. Signa: Registrations, protocols, and executive training.
Regulatory Affairs
Compliance advice, rulemaking engagement, and regulator outreach planning.
Lobbying & Advocacy
Direct engagement with officials and policymakers to advance defined priorities.
Political Risk Assessment
Scanning risks and opportunities tied to political or regulatory change.
Agenda Prep — Government Meetings
Briefing packages, messaging, and Q&A for ministerial and official meetings.
Personalized Lobby Days
Focused days on the Hill or at Queen’s Park tailored to your objectives.
Media Engagements & Editorials
Message architecture, media prep, and editorial development.
Consortium Building
Assembling partners and coalitions to strengthen your case and reach.
What is Signa Intelligence?
This fall, we’re rolling out new tools to help CCI members access the information they need to make faster, more strategic decisions.
Procurement Opportunity Tracker
Surfacing upcoming public-sector buying windows and contract opportunities relevant to Canadian scale-ups.
Parliamentary & Regulatory Monitor
Concise updates on committees, consultations, and legislative developments shaping Canada’s innovation economy.
These resources will be integrated into CCI’s regular member communications and programming.
FAQ
Does this change my CCI membership?
No. Your membership, benefits, and access to CCI programming remain the same. The partnership adds tools and optional one-to-one support via Signa.
Is Signa replacing CCI?
No. CCI continues as Canada’s business council for innovators. Signa provides optional, personalized execution for companies that want hands-on support.
Do I have to work with Signa to receive the new intelligence?
No. Signa Intelligence will appear in CCI member channels. Working with Signa for one-to-one support is optional and separate from membership.
Who does Signa work with?
Signa works exclusively with Canadian-headquartered organizations.
Questions or a specific file to discuss?
Email dana@signastrategies.ca to connect directly.