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Seats for professionals in Canada and the United States

Up to 100 seats a year, elected on six criteria anyone can read. Each seat shows a professional's registrations, fees and pay, checked and dated.

Status, November 4, 2026. No seat has been elected yet. Founding-seat applications are open, and the first election is in January 2027.

Apply for a founding seat Read the six criteria

For planners, accountants, lawyers, investment advisers, mortgage professionals, insurance advisors and recruiters who serve people with money in Canada, the United States or both. Practise in one country? You are welcome. Licensed on both sides? Your seat is marked cross-border, and that is what clients with money in two countries look for. Looking for a professional instead? Ask Aurelle for an Introduction.

Seat 014Founding seat, elected January 12, 2027

A. Example, CPA, CFPExample and Partners LLP, Toronto, Ontario

Licensed
CPA Ontario, member 000000. Confirmed January 12, 2027.
Licensed
New York State Education Department, CPA licence 000000. Confirmed January 12, 2027.
Seat type
Cross-border: Canada and the United States.
Fees
Flat, CAD 3,500 a year. The full schedule is on the profile.
Other pay
Commissions, trailing fees and referral payments: none disclosed.
Reviews
6 asked, 5 replied, 5 published whole, 0 withheld.

Members pay Aurelle an annual fee. Elected by Aurelle against six published criteria, version 1. Re-elected each January. A seat is not a recommendation. How Aurelle is paid.

What a seat is

A numbered place on a public roll. It records that Aurelle checked a set of facts on stated dates, and it lapses if they stop being true.

A profile of checked facts

Each registration with its number and the date Aurelle confirmed it, your fees in figures, every way you are paid, and your clients' reviews published whole.

Checked again every year

A seat lasts one year. The checks run again before the next, and a seat whose facts have changed lapses. The record says why.

Introductions, where your rules allow

When someone asks Aurelle for names, it may name you if you are licensed for their state or province. Aurelle charges for an Introduction only where your profession's rules allow it, and promises no volume.

The six criteria

The same for everyone, and shown on every profile with the date of each check. Version 1 is a draft dated November 4, 2026.

  1. Credentials confirmed with the regulatorRegistration and standing, against the public register.
  2. Fees in plain figuresA number a client can read before the first call.
  3. Every way you are paid, disclosedCommissions, trailing fees and referral arrangements, all on the profile.
  4. Where you are licensed, statedWhich country, state or province you are licensed in, and for what. Licensed on both sides: marked cross-border.
  5. Client reviews, published wholeCollected by Aurelle, not by you, and never edited.
  6. A discipline and complaints checkAt election, and again at every re-election.
What is checked, and against what

How a seat is elected

Applying is free. Nothing is paid unless a seat is offered.

  1. Apply

    Four short steps, about ten minutes. You can save a draft and come back.

  2. Checks

    Aurelle compares your registrations with the regulators' public registers and replies within 14 working days. If they check out, it asks for your client list and statements, then invites your clients to review your work.

  3. Election

    Aurelle Standards decides in writing, with reasons, within 30 working days of having everything. Seats are elected in the order applications are complete, up to 100 a year.

  4. Your seat

    Seats are numbered. Aurelle invoices after the election, and your profile goes live when the invoice is paid.

  5. Re-election, every year

    The checks run again. If a criterion has stopped being true, the seat lapses.

What each stage of an application means

What a seat costs

  • A seat

    Profile on the roll, the seat card, the yearly re-checks.

    CAD 2,400a year
  • A founding seat

    Seats elected by December 31, 2027.

    CAD 1,200the first year, then CAD 2,400
  • A recruiter's seat

    For recruiters who place professionals in Canada, the United States or across the border.

    CAD 3,600a year
  • An Introduction

    Only where your profession's rules allow it. Not yet charged to any profession.

    CAD 300each

Prices are in Canadian dollars before tax. Tax is added where it applies and is shown on the invoice before you pay. Seat terms.

The roll

0 of up to 100 seats elected for 2027

Every seat holder by number, with the date of each check. The first seat holders appear after the election in January 2027.

See the roll

Aurelle Standards

Writes the criteria, decides each election, hears appeals and complaints, and publishes the conflict-of-interest policy. Reviewers are named at the first election.

Charter and policy

Bureau

A weekly show under your firm's name, scripted to your compliance rules, with the compliance pack your reviewer needs. From CAD 950.

How Bureau works

How Aurelle is paid

Professionals pay Aurelle. That is a conflict of interest, and Aurelle limits it in writing.

  • The seat fee is invoiced only after the election or re-election it covers has been decided.
  • No one who pays sees an application, sets a criterion or changes a score.
  • Payment does not decide who is named in an Introduction, or in what order.
  • Aurelle sells no financial products and takes no share of what a client pays a professional.

How Aurelle is paid ยท Conflict-of-interest policy

Apply for a founding seat

Four short steps, about ten minutes, free. Save a draft and come back. Aurelle replies to every application within 14 working days.

Apply for a founding seat What a seat gives, costs and ends