workspaceAlberta

workspaceAlberta

workspaceAlberta lets your AI assistant search every open CanadaBuys and Alberta Purchasing Connection tender, rank them against your business, and tell you what closes next.

Add to Claude: workspaceAlberta in Claude's connector directory

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http workspaceAlberta https://elbowsupknivesout.warreandvavasour.com/mcp

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json) / VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json, use "servers" in place of "mcpServers"):

{

"mcpServers": { "workspacealberta": { "type": "http", "url": "https://elbowsupknivesout.warreandvavasour.com/mcp" } } }

Try it:

I run a small general contractor in Red Deer, Alberta.

What construction tenders close in the next 7 days? Give me the reference, buyer, closing time and official link for each.

You get open notices from both sources, soonest first: reference (for example AB-2026-06788), buyer, closing time in Alberta time, the official posting link and any Buy Canadian or other domestic-preference flag. It finds and ranks work. It does not submit bids or contact buyers.

• Free, no account: search, details, deadlines, matching and the daily bid brief across both sources.
• Pro: watchlist, bid/no-bid scorecards, bid-room document review and tender requirement lists. Sign in when a Pro tool asks; plans and pricing.

Keywords: Canadian procurement, CanadaBuys, Alberta Purchasing Connection, government tenders, bids, trades, construction, MCP server.

Canadian industrial war production, via Library and Archives Canada.

AI Ethics

Warre & Vavasour is a startup AI lab that does not replace human workers. We build a bigger pie.

Every capability we ship exists to amplify the people already doing the work, the same promise the photographs above made to the generation that industrialized this country.

If your idea starts with headcount cuts, it is not a WorkspaceAlberta plan.

Warre & Vavasour does not make apps or chatbots. Don't ask. If this is in your business plan, you are thinking about New Business wrong. We build terminals that deliver real work and pay real taxes.

Warre & Vavasour acknowledges the astonishing resources this technology is consuming. Training and inference carry real energy, water, and mineral costs. Nobody asked for this. No one really asked for GRPO to be released on January 20, 2025. But it was released, and that is how all models got to reasoning; and from reasoning, we have harnesses now.

So this is just the way the world is and it is far too cheap not to deploy post-human-scale reasoning tools on a desktop device that genuinely accelerates Canadian manufacturing, development, and industrialization.

So yes: we acknowledge the cost. But Canadian infrastructure, right-sized models on hardware you can touch, and Canadian data retention means your enterprise AI stack is entirely Canadian and NATO supplier friendly.

There is no longer an American dependency on enterprise, on device, Canadian AI at scale.

It is 1834 all over again.

The railroad has been built.

The steam engine has been designed.

The world as we know it has changed.

WorkspaceAlberta is the way to stay ahead of these changes.

More Ways to Connect

The hosted MCP server is live and free for browsing — no install, no account, no API key. Point any MCP-capable assistant at it:

https://elbowsupknivesout.warreandvavasour.com/mcp

Cursor, Claude Code, and other HTTP-native clients — add to your MCP config:

{

"mcpServers": { "workspacealberta": { "url": "https://elbowsupknivesout.warreandvavasour.com/mcp" } } }

Claude Desktop — add the URL under Settings > Connectors, or bridge with mcp-remote:

{

"mcpServers": { "workspacealberta": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://elbowsupknivesout.warreandvavasour.com/mcp"] } } }

Then ask it something a real owner would ask:

• *"I run a CWB welding shop in Red Deer — what government work fits my shop right now?"*
• *"What closes this week? I don't want to miss anything."*
• *"Give me my morning brief — what fits us, and what's closing soon?"*

Adding your Pro key

Search, details, deadlines, and the daily brief are open to everyone. Seven tools — bid rooms, tender requirement lists, Cohere tender review, the three watchlist tools, and bid/no-bid scorecards — need an active subscription. Clients that support OAuth ask you to sign in the first time you use one. Subscribers can also use a key: it arrives by email after checkout and starts with wa_live_.

Send it as an Authorization header. For HTTP-native clients:

{

"mcpServers": { "workspacealberta": { "url": "https://elbowsupknivesout.warreandvavasour.com/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer wa_live_YOUR_KEY" } } } }

For the mcp-remote bridge, pass it as a header (no spaces around the colon in args):

{

"mcpServers": { "workspacealberta": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://elbowsupknivesout.warreandvavasour.com/mcp", "--header", "Authorization:${WA_AUTH}"], "env": { "WA_AUTH": "Bearer wa_live_YOUR_KEY" } } } }

On a Linux workstation or a leased terminal, let the installer do it — it verifies the key against the server, writes ~/.config/workspacealberta/credentials at mode 600, and registers the authenticated endpoint with whichever CLIs are present:

./installer/configure-subscriber-key.sh

Check a key at any time:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer wa_live_YOUR_KEY" \

https://elbowsupknivesout.warreandvavasour.com/me

Run it locally instead (the whole server is pure Python):

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

python mcp-servers/canadabuys/server.py

Smoke test: python -m unittest tests.test_canadabuys_mcp_smoke. Client config variants live in mcp.json.example; full tool and REST reference in docs/mcp-tool-reference.md.

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Canadian AI Security Is Canadian National Security

WorkspaceAlberta is a Canadian procurement intelligence workspace. It connects public tender data to the people who can actually do the work: fabricators, mills, contractors, shops, manufacturers, and the small teams that keep the real economy moving.

The direction is explicit:

• Canadian demand signals: CanadaBuys and Alberta Purchasing Connection in one search surface.
• Canadian AI company: Cohere as the first sovereign-model route.
• Canadian open source model: Command A+ command-a-plus-05-2026, with the W4A4 Hugging Face route available through CohereLabs/command-a-plus-05-2026-w4a4.
• Canadian tools: practical MCP wiring for the procurement sources Canadian firms already need to watch.
• Canadian compute path: designed so sensitive public-sector and industrial workflows can move toward Canadian infrastructure, including Canadian chips and data-centre capacity where those options are available.

The point is not nationalism as decoration. The point is operational independence.

If Canadian companies are going to bid Canadian work, understand Canadian supply chains, and protect Canadian industrial capacity, then the AI layer underneath that work matters.

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The Last Mile of Work

AI promised 5X productivity. Most small businesses got a chatbot that writes mediocre marketing copy.

The model is not the whole bottleneck. The connection is.

Wiring up the places where the work lives usually costs money, time, and technical patience a small business does not have. Government tender databases are a perfect example: the work is public, the demand is real, but the discovery process is still awkward enough that good companies miss good opportunities.

WorkspaceAlberta solves the last mile by giving an AI assistant the wiring it needs to search, compare, summarize, and brief public procurement opportunities from inside the workspace where the owner is already working.

Hélène Lalonde drawing in ends at Montreal Cottons, Valleyfield — Nicholas Morant / National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada, PA-160566 (copyright expired).

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What This Actually Does

WorkspaceAlberta is an MCP-first workspace for Canadian procurement.

It now brings together:

• CanadaBuys for federal tender notices
• Alberta Purchasing Connection for Alberta public-sector opportunities
• Cohere Command A+ for optional tender analysis and fit review
• A daily bid brief that summarizes the market, best-fit matches, and deadlines from both sources

Welder at Robin Nodwell Ltd., Calgary, 1963 — from the Provincial Archives of Alberta series "What Alberta Makes Makes Alberta" (PA3324, no known copyright restrictions).

The assistant can:

• search national and Alberta opportunities together
• inspect a posting by reference number
• list what is closing soon
• match opportunities against a saved business profile
• generate a free daily brief for the owner or estimator
• use Cohere Command A+ to review tender fit, risks, requirements, and next actions

This is meant to answer practical questions:

• What work is open right now?
• Which opportunities fit what we actually do?
• What closes soon?
• What should we read first?
• What should we ignore?

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The Custom Procurement MCP Server

The custom MCP server is the product.

It is a deployed working endpoint that knows the live public procurement pipeline exposed by CanadaBuys and Alberta Purchasing Connection. It can serve that pipeline back to users through an AI assistant based on what they do, where they work, what they can supply, and what deadlines matter.

The core tools are:

• search_opportunities for unified federal and Alberta search
• get_opportunity_details for a single posting by reference number
• list_deadlines for what is closing soon
• find_matching_opportunities for profile-based ranking
• find_business_fit for a free-text business description, classified with TypeSafe Jev after a commodity-code prefilter
• daily_bid_brief for the daily owner/operator summary
• analyze_contract_with_cohere for optional Cohere Command A+ tender review
• process_bid_room for live E2B attachment processing: Cohere Parse turns tender PDFs and images into markdown, then Command A+ reviews the evidence
• classify_tender for a bidder-requirement checklist: tender PDFs are split into clauses, each clause and page is classified with TypeSafe Jev, and the results merge into one requirement per tag with connector, lead time, pages and evidence (see pipelines/requirement_classifier/)
• watch_opportunity / list_watchlist for a persistent tracking list with closing-date countdowns
• bid_no_bid_scorecard for a fast deterministic go/caution/no-go read on any reference
• match_industrial_support_programs for a read-only industrial and tariff support catalog, with Ontario-only streams labeled for Alberta firms

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