Intelligence Solutions · Alberta and Western Canada

Read the shift. Make the call. Carry it through.

We help the builders of Western Canada see policy coming and act on it first. Technology, energy and enterprise are the foundation of human flourishing, and our work exists to accelerate them.

Policy, regulatory and market intelligence for business in Alberta and Western Canada. Advanced AI does the first read of the news; you get the few items that matter and the next formal step on each.

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Michael Dabels

Founder

More than twenty years of leadership as a Canadian Army infantry officer taught Michael to brief fast and cut to what matters. He pairs that experience with a degree in political science and is now available to help businesses and organizations across Alberta and Western Canada read what’s changing, decide and act.

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Permit Watch map showing building permits plotted across Calgary, with a filter bar, floating Type of work and Layer buttons and a permit list — Updated nightly

Your intelligence partner

Built like a briefing, not a news digest.

Checking ministry sites, legislatures, regulators and city portals takes hours, and the change that matters is still easy to miss. Scattered alerts and manual tracking leave gaps.

Damocles Edge uses advanced AI for the first pass. It reads the sources behind The Feed, drops duplicates and off-topic items, groups related stories, writes a one-line key message for each and helps shortlist the weekly Top 3. Michael Dabels directs the work and signs the analysis.

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Built on official and open sources

Government of Alberta
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Alberta Utilities Commission
AESO
Alberta Major Projects
Elections Alberta
Bank of Canada
BC Gov News
Manitoba News
City of Edmonton open data
City of Calgary open data
Strathcona County open data
City of Red Deer open data

A sample of the public sources we read. Listing a source does not mean it endorses or uses our work.

Who it’s for

Built for people who have to make the call.

For business owners, executives and leadership teams, and the government relations, public-sector and municipal people they work with.

Owners and executives

The few policy and market shifts that touch your business, with the next step to watch, and a plan when a decision needs one.

Most used

Government relations

Where each bill, regulation and agreement stands across the West and Ottawa, with the dates that matter in one calendar.

Most used

Builders and trades

Where permits are being pulled, by whom and for what, updated every night, with the policy changes that affect construction.

Most used

Permit Watch
Construction Sector Brief
Saved-search alerts by email

Municipal and public sector

What neighbouring jurisdictions and other governments are doing, and when it lands.

Most used

What we offer

One system, from the first signal to the finished plan.

Start with the free feed, add the member products you need, and bring us in when a file needs a plan. Members can combine any brief with Permit Watch on one account.

Products built for Western Canada decision-makers

From C$77

Sector Brief

Weekly brief for energy, agriculture or construction
What moved, why it matters, the next formal step
One sector, or all three

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C$59 a month, a separate plan

Policy Tracker & Calendar

Where each bill, regulation and agreement stands
Files across the West and Ottawa, checked daily
Upcoming dates and deadlines in one calendar

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Add it on its own or with a brief

Permit Watch

Permits and development files on one searchable map
Alberta building activity, updated nightly
Saved-search alerts by email, on request

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On request

Engagements

Scan, Brief, Execute, Monitor
Hands-on work on your own files
Ends in a plan your leaders own and run

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Open to everyone The Feed, updated through the day, and the weekly Top 3 by email. Free to read: Western Affairs Monthly, November 2026. See open coverage →

Why Damocles Edge

More signal. Less noise. A plan at the end.

Most monitoring stops at the alert. We start there.

Advanced AI filtering

AI reads every Feed source on each refresh, drops duplicates and off-topic items, groups related stories and writes a one-line key message for each.

Official sources, cited

Government releases, legislatures, regulators and municipal open data come first. Briefs cite their sources so you can check the work.

Military-grade rigour

Briefings follow the discipline of more than twenty years as a Canadian Army infantry officer: bottom line first, sources cited, the next step named, nothing left without an owner.

Built for Western Canada

Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, plus the federal decisions that land in the West. Regional coverage, not national coverage with the West as an afterthought.

Always on. The Feed refreshes four times a day, the Policy Tracker daily and Permit Watch nightly. Automated checks block any update that fails them.

How engagements work

Scan. Brief. Execute. Monitor.

Four stages, taken one at a time or as one ongoing engagement.

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