Bell and Coveo have formed a strategic sovereign AI partnership aimed at accelerating the modernization of digital services for federal and provincial governments and regulated industries.

The collaboration integrates the Coveo AI-Relevance Platform with Bell AI Fabric, a full-stack AI offering anchored by Bell’s nationwide fibre network, data centre infrastructure, software, cloud capabilities and professional integration services. The companies say the combined platform will deliver secure, compliant and scalable AI solutions designed to help organizations modernize citizen services, boost workforce productivity and unlock the value of their data while keeping sensitive information and AI operations within Canada under Canadian law.

The partnership builds on the companies’ expanding roles in Canada’s AI sector, including Coveo’s previously announced memorandum of understanding with the federal government to modernize public services using AI-powered search and relevance technology. The initiative also aligns with Bell’s goal of strengthening a domestic AI ecosystem by partnering with Canadian technology firms to scale their capabilities nationally, said the company.

Bell’s technology-services division, Ateko, will play a key role in designing and integrating the solutions and providing governance advisory services to support responsible adoption of the Coveo platform within complex public-sector and regulated environments.

Coveo’s platform uses semantic search, machine learning, generative AI and contextual relevance to unify enterprise data and deliver real-time insights across digital and agentic channels. The companies say these capabilities can support improved citizen engagement, faster self-service case resolution, reduced operational complexity and greater employee productivity.

“Canada has a responsibility and opportunity to lead in sovereign AI,” Bell’s group president of business markets, AI and Ateko. “Through our strategic partnership with Coveo, we are strengthening a made-in-Canada AI ecosystem that combines our secure national infrastructure and Bell AI Fabric with Coveo’s world-class, internationally recognized AI-Relevance platform. As partners, we will help governments and enterprises modernize mission-critical services while ensuring Canadian data and AI computing remains secure, governed and under Canadian control.”

Laurent Simoneau, CEO of Coveo, said the collaboration represents a “defining step” in building a fully integrated Canadian sovereign AI stack.

“By embedding the Coveo AI-Relevance Platform within Bell AI Fabric, we are helping governments and enterprises to deploy advanced AI search and generative capabilities at scale with confidence to drive transformative outcomes while maintaining high standards of security, transparency and sovereignty,” he said.