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Scope, boundaries, and fee practices
The commitments and limits that apply to every Northward engagement, stated plainly.
Scope of services
Northward Advisory provides managed outbound business-development services, and grant, funding, business-planning, and financial-modelling support. It does not provide legal, accounting, tax, investment, immigration, or assurance services. Funding decisions are made solely by the relevant government or funding organization, sales outcomes depend on many factors outside Northward's control, and no outcome is guaranteed.
Professional boundaries
Northward Advisory is not a law firm, an accounting firm, or a licensed financial-services provider, and its personnel do not use protected professional titles. Where a matter requires a licensed professional — legal, accounting, tax, investment, immigration, or assurance — we identify that need and refer clients to appropriately qualified external professionals.
Fees
Scope and fees are agreed in writing before work begins. Depending on the engagement, services may be offered through fixed project fees, ongoing retainers or other mutually agreed structures, subject to applicable funding-program rules and professional codes — where a funder prohibits fees contingent on, or paid from, an award, Northward follows that rule. Government filing fees and third-party costs, where applicable, are separate from professional fees.
Outcomes
Funding, program, and application decisions are made solely by the relevant government or funding organization. Sales outcomes — including meetings, opportunities, and closed business — depend on market conditions, the client's offer, and the client's own sales process. Northward makes no representations or guarantees regarding the outcome of any application, campaign, assessment, or engagement, and past experience does not predict future results.
Confidentiality and information handling
Information provided to Northward is used only to deliver the engagement for which it was provided. Clients are asked not to send confidential financial information through the website contact form; secure channels are established at engagement. See the Privacy page for how website inquiries are handled.
Outbound outreach
Northward Outbound conducts business-to-business outreach on behalf of its clients. Outreach is directed to businesses and conducted in line with applicable Canadian anti-spam and telemarketing rules. Clients remain responsible for the accuracy of the claims made about their own products and services.
Questions about any of the above: info@northwardadvisory.com