natIgnite 2026 Finalists

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natIgnite 2026 Honorable Mention - Gordian AI

Gordian AI is an AI-powered organizational intelligence platform designed to help companies capture, analyze, and replicate their business wins. Inspired by Gordon Sheppard's Executive Winning System and 'Anatomy of a Win' methodology, the platform transforms executive-level strategic thinking into an accessible, conversational AI experience that can be used across an organization. Many organizations face a common problem: critical decision-making knowledge exists only in the minds of a few experienced leaders, who become bottlenecks because their thinking is rarely documented in a transferable way. Gordian AI acts as a digital executive coach — through a conversational chatbot and workflow wizard, users analyze past wins, uncover the factors that made them successful, and generate repeatable playbooks for future projects.

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natIgnite 2026 Honorable Mention - Limitless Minds

Autism Edmonton has many valuable learning sessions, but users do not have an easy centralized way to access them on demand. Limitless Minds is a centralized, low-stress, accessible smart learning system (LMS) where autistic individuals, caregivers, and professionals can easily find, understand, access, and revisit resources anytime. The platform includes AI-powered smart search, transcripts, closed captioning, personalized recommendations, and a continue-watching feature, plus a community hub and a games section. A sensory-aware environment is central to the design. Unlike traditional educational websites, the platform adapts to the user instead of forcing the user to adapt to the platform, and it creates long-term impact for Autism Edmonton by increasing accessibility and supporting a sustainable income stream.

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natIgnite 2026 3rd place - InclusiTrip

InclusiTrip addresses the systematic exclusion of travellers with disabilities — including mobility, sensory, and cognitive needs — caused by fragmented, inaccurate accessibility information in the travel industry. It provides a centralized platform that displays hotels personalized to a traveller's accessibility needs, generating personalized match scores for each hotel based on the user's customized preferences, verified reviews, hotel information, and certification. Users can filter by specific needs (e.g., sensory-friendly spaces, wheelchair access, or neurocognitive requirements), save preferences to a profile, and use a personalized sensory feature such as white noise. Providers pay a subscription to advertise their accommodation on the platform.

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natIgnite 2026 2nd place - GrantPath

GrantPath helps students discover disability-related funding and move from uncertainty to a stronger, ready-to-submit application. Many students with mental health conditions, learning disabilities, chronic illness, or accessibility needs struggle without realizing they may qualify for support. At the University of Alberta alone, an estimated $60 million in student aid remains unclaimed because the path to funding is buried in confusing rules, documentation requirements, and intimidating forms. GrantPath turns that process into a guided workflow: a supportive chatbot translates policy into plain-language questions and identifies potential eligibility, voice-enabled clinician-visit rehearsals help students practise explaining their needs, and the tool helps produce a more complete, professional submission package.

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natIgnite 2026 1st place - Bonita

Bonita is a Google Chrome extension designed to improve reading accessibility for neurodivergent individuals, including those with ADHD, autism, and dyslexia. By transforming standard web content into a more structured and visually manageable format, the extension helps users engage with online text more comfortably and effectively. Key features include sentence splitting, keyword bolding, a colour-coding system that highlights nouns, verbs, and adjectives, a Line Focus mode that dims surrounding text, and Text-to-Speech. Together these tools address common reading challenges such as difficulty concentrating, losing one's place on a page, and struggling to decode grammatical relationships within sentences.

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