CIVIC by GNOSIS is being built to put the plan, the people, and the record on every phone in town. So when the smoke comes up over the ridge — or the wind turns, or the road washes out — your town will have a record of what was known, what was decided, and who was looked after.
Auditor General of Newfoundland and Labrador · April 2026
The other ninety-one percent — most of the towns we live in — will go into the next fire season, the next storm, the next evacuation with nothing on paper. No call list. No mutual-aid arrangement. No record, after the fact, of who decided what when the smoke rolled in.
Summer 2026 is weeks away. We are not waiting for the next one.
Summer 2025 · what we already lived through
Last summer, communities across this province lived with smoke, evacuation alerts, and the question of where to go next. The plan that mattered was the one already on the wall — and most towns did not have one. The smoke is not a memory. It is a forecast.
We are building this so Newfoundland and Labrador never has to live through last summer’s fear again.
Last summer · the information vacuum
Last summer, the way most of us found out our road was in an evacuation zone was a neighbour's Facebook post. The way we learned a notice had changed was a screenshot in a community group. The way we knew the wind had turned was someone calling down the bay.
Officials held a news conference about once a day. Between them, the information moved on word of mouth and a Facebook page that was never built for emergencies. People drove home from work not knowing if their own house was inside the line.
Residents shouldn’t have to wait for the next news conference, scroll three community groups, or hope a cousin saw the update before they did.
CIVIC by GNOSIS is designed to put the evacuation zones, the notices, and the changes on the phone of every household they apply to — the moment they go live, on the road they live on. No press lag. No Facebook lottery. No “did you hear?”
What you’ll have on your phone
When the cell towers drop, CIVIC will work offline. When the wind turns, it will know what to tell you. When the mayor needs to know who’s safe and who needs looking after — it will already know.
Status
Active alert, one-tap “I’m Safe”, evacuation centres, the town’s plan.
Map
Fire perimeter, evacuation route, muster points — cached on your phone, no signal needed.
Profile
Your household’s risk record. So when decisions get made, you’re not invisible.
How offline will work · the day-one airplane-mode test
The day CIVIC opens in your community, you will be able to prove it yourself in ten seconds: turn airplane mode on, open CIVIC. Everything you need will still be there.
Live preview · Coming to NL towns 2026
Newfoundland & Labrador
Wildfire Alert · Evac standby
Active fire 8 km northwest. Wind shifting south at 25 km/h. Mayor has issued evacuation standby for Cross Road and Water Street. Pack a bag.
Posted 22 min ago
Your check-in buddy
DailyChecked in 2 h ago
One tap a day · auto when you walk
Mrs. Roach · end of lane
Hasn’t checked in today
The Black Box, brought home
Prevention
A council clerk can put together a province-compliant emergency plan in a single sitting — not a six-month consultant engagement. Hazards. Contacts. Mutual aid. The households that need looking after first. Done.
Guidance
When something happens, the plan goes live. Mayor, fire chief, public works, RCMP — on the same page on their phones. Decisions captured as they're made. Residents reached on the channels they actually use.
Risk record
By morning, there is a defensible record of who knew what, when, and what was done about it. For council. For the press. For the Auditor General. And — when it matters most — for the family asking why.
For the people, by the people
The biggest gap in any emergency response is not the binder at town hall. It is the door no one knew to knock on. CIVIC by GNOSIS closes that gap by putting the lightest, plainest tool in the hands of every household — free, on iPhone, iPad, Android, or any web browser, when your municipality comes online.
Register the family who would need help first — an older parent, someone on oxygen, a young child, a neighbour who lives alone. So the people responding know whose door to knock on, and in what order.
Alerts shouldn't go off when the warning is on the other side of the bay. Hyperlocal by postal code. Quiet when it can be. Loud when it has to be.
When your municipality goes online with CIVIC by GNOSIS, the plan is yours to read. No binder on a shelf at town hall. On your phone, in language a fourteen-year-old can follow.
No smartphone? You are not left out.
Around the bay, plenty of people don't carry a smartphone. That is fine. CIVIC by GNOSIS works on iPhone, iPad, Android, or any web browser — just sign in. And when your community comes online, the same alerts CIVIC sends to phones will go out by text message and voice phone call too, so the warning reaches your house however you stay reachable — your landline, your basic cell, or a neighbour's phone listed for you.
For the woman at the end of the road
She is eighty-two. She lives where the gravel runs out. The nearest neighbour is half a kilometre through the woods. Her son works in Fort McMurray. Her daughter is in St. John’s with kids of her own.
When the smoke comes, she does not call 9-1-1. She checks the wind and waits for someone to come up the lane. That is how it has always worked here. Quiet, capable, alone.
CIVIC by GNOSIS does not change that woman. It changes who knows where she is.
One tap from her phone tells her neighbour she is fine. If she does not tap, the neighbour comes up the lane. If the neighbour cannot get up the lane, the EOC knows by name, by address, by what she needs — the oxygen, the mobility, the propane tank that should not be near a fire. And her son in Fort Mac gets the one thing he can’t get from a thousand kilometres away on his own — peace of mind that his mother is okay.
That is the part of the work that has nothing to do with technology. It is who we already are. We are just giving it a record.
Why it must be built here. Why it has to be us.
It assumes a signal. It assumes a sidewalk. It assumes you live within shouting distance of a hospital. We don’t.
We live at the end of a road that the grader hasn’t been down since November. Half the houses on the lane heat with a wood stove. The boreal forest comes right up to the back fence. The cell tower is a half-hour drive away. A tool for this place has to start from this place.
Offline-first because we have to be. Plain English because the binder on the shelf wasn’t. Free because the people who live here should not have to pay to be looked after.
Two halves, one platform
For the council
Plan builder, live operations, decision capture. Built for the clerk and the council — not the consultant. Council-ready in a single sitting.
For you
A free app on your phone. Register your household. Get hyperlocal alerts. Read your town's plan. Mark “I'm okay” — or “I need help.”
Same engine. Same record. So when the smoke comes, you're both reading from the same page.
Sovereignty
Your household details, your town's plan, every decision the council makes — stored on Canadian-region infrastructure. Your information stays in this country, on this side of the border.
Register your household
The first households on will shape what CIVIC does on your road. Your postal code, your weather, your way of life — CIVIC gets built around real households like yours, before fire season. Sign on now and you'll be the first when CIVIC goes live in your community.
Stored in Canadian-region infrastructure.
CIVIC is being built for fire season 2026. The first households are signing on now; while CIVIC is in active development, it is not yet a live emergency-alert service — for an active emergency, always follow your municipality’s official channels.
For ministers, mayors, and clerks
Write to us directly. We will send the institutional brief by close of business and arrange a twenty-minute walk-through with your team — in person in St. John's, or by phone, whichever suits.
info@gnosisethical.comGNOSIS Ethical Intelligence is built in Atlantic Canada — for the people, the councils, and the communities who live with the weather we live with.
