Federal Access to Information (ATIP) and BC FOI records support, with US FOIA scouting on request.
Start a requestFrom the first question to the released pages.
Find the right agency, check what's already been released, and write requests that are hard to deflect.
Read the release, flag redactions and gaps, and pull out what matters.
Connect records to public filings, court documents and open sources.
Search, sort and summarize large releases fast. Every finding is checked by a person.
Track legal deadlines and extensions, and follow up or complain when they slip.
Three steps.
Describe the question. We scope it and say what's realistic.
We draft and submit the requests, then track every deadline.
The records, plus a plain-language summary of what they show.
Anyone who needs government records and lacks the time to chase them.
Source documents for stories, filed and tracked while you report.
Primary records for academic and policy work.
Evidence on how decisions were made and who made them.
Contracts, inspections and regulatory files that affect you.
For more than 25 years I've helped management teams build companies: writing business plans and prospectuses, launching brands, and running marketing and communications. I've guided several companies through listings on the TSX Venture Exchange and the Canadian Securities Exchange, often serving as a director or senior officer, in retail, consumer products, agriculture, manufacturing and resources.
That work taught me how to read corporate and government paperwork: what a filing is really saying, what it leaves out, and how to get a straight answer from the organization behind it.
I founded PointNexus Access to put that to work on public records, using AI tools to move faster through large releases without cutting corners on accuracy.
Curious and persistent: if the record exists, I'll keep after it.
Richard also writes as Deemed Refusal. Client work stays confidential and is never used in that writing.
PointNexus Access is a federal and BC records-support practice. It is separate from the PointNexus Consulting work (2009–2024) on corporate process and filings.
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PointNexus Access is an independent research service, not a law firm, and does not give legal advice.