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Partners on AHI — AI Hub of Innovation
Indigenous-owned infrastructure,
built in partnership.
Turning Stone Developments stands at the forefront of AHI — the Métis-led, Indigenous-owned 48% general partner bringing generations of development, business and negotiation strength — in partnership with Havenz Smart Communities as developer of the campus.
Who Turning Stone Is
Generations of development strength, Indigenous-owned.
Turning Stone Developments is an Indigenous-owned infrastructure firm based in Calgary — Métis-led, privately held, and built to develop revenue-generating infrastructure with First Nations, not around them. Community benefit is written into the ownership structure from day one.
Turning Stone sits where few firms can: between institutional capital and community-led projects that have to close. The filter on every project is shared value — First Nations in a real ownership position, and institutional-grade returns. If a structure cannot do both, it does not go forward.
That standard is exactly why Havenz chose Turning Stone — and why Turning Stone chose AHI.
| Ownership | Indigenous-owned · Métis-led |
|---|---|
| Structure | Privately held · Calgary, Alberta |
| Focus | Indigenous infrastructure — digital & AI, clean energy, transportation, housing |
| Role on AHI | 48% general partner — Indigenous ownership, capital relationships, governance strength |
Leadership
Ron Maurice
Founder & CEO, Turning Stone Developments
Ron Maurice is one of Canada's most accomplished Indigenous business leaders. In 2002 he founded Maurice Law — Canada's first Indigenous-owned national law firm — and built it over two decades into the country's leading advocate for historic Treaty and Aboriginal rights claims, with billions secured for First Nations clients and a national practice spanning claims, litigation, trusts and wealth creation, and corporate governance.
That is the calibre of partner standing behind AHI: decades across Indigenous law, treaty rights and economic development — and the negotiation and business judgment that only generations of that work can build.
"First Nations ownership at the centre — not passive stakes."
— The Turning Stone structuring principle, applied on AHI
| Firm | Maurice Law — founded 2002; Canada's first Indigenous-owned national law firm |
|---|---|
| Advocacy | Two decades advancing historic Treaty and Aboriginal rights claims |
| Results | Billions in settlements and awards secured for First Nations clients |
| Practice depth | Specific claims · litigation & class actions · trusts & wealth creation · corporate-commercial & governance |
| Reach | Offices across Western Canada — Redwood Meadows, Calgary, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Winnipeg |
Background summarized from mauricelaw.com.
First Nations at the Centre
Respecting heritage. Creating opportunity. Building capability.
Turning Stone's involvement means AHI is structured the way national infrastructure should be: Indigenous-led, revenue-generating, and built so the benefit stays in community for generations.
Respecting Heritage
Partnership begins with respect — for the Nations, the land and the generations of stewardship behind both. Engagement is led by Indigenous leadership, on Indigenous terms.
Creating Opportunity
Real ownership positions, procurement pathways, careers and revenue participation — economic participation designed in from day one, not added later.
Building Capability
Long-term stewardship and capacity that stays in community — governance seats, operating skills and institutional relationships that outlast any single project.
How Turning Stone structures — applied on AHI
First Nations ownership at the centre — not passive stakes
Revenue-generating, bankable assets
Community, public and private capital stacked together
Long-term stewardship and capacity that stays in community
The Flagship, Together
Turning Stone × AHI — Alberta's Indigenous-partnered AI campus.
On 119 titled acres in Red Deer County, the partnership pairs on-site power with high-density AI infrastructure — 10 MW in commissioning today, a ≈300 MW-class master plan†, and a 1 GW-class platform ambition† — with Indigenous economic participation and ownership built into the general partnership itself.
What Turning Stone brings
Indigenous ownership and governance · First Nations partnership network · capital relationships · negotiation and business strength honed over generations · scaleable vision.
What Havenz brings
Development execution as developer of AHI — land, approvals, engineering, delivery ecosystem, operations through AHI Management, and the platform to replicate what works.
What the partnership builds
A permitted, appraised ($382.8M), revenue-designed campus where energy security, data security and community benefit share one title — and one aligned partnership.
In construction — AHI Red Deer
Power on the ground
119 titled acres — aerial
The master plan — rendered visualizationSelective by Design
Neither of us takes every deal. That's the point.
Turning Stone applies one filter to every project: shared value — real Indigenous ownership and institutional-grade returns, or it doesn't move forward. Havenz applies the same discipline through its site checklist, stage labels and verification register.
Two selective partners choosing each other is the strongest signal either can send. AHI is where those two standards met — and the model both intend to carry into the next project, and the one after that.
| Shared filter | Real ownership + institutional returns — both, or no deal |
|---|---|
| Governance | General-partnership governance with Indigenous leadership at the table |
| Execution | Diligence, capital stacking and the discipline that gets projects financed — and keeps them financed |
| Horizon | Long-term holds, long-term stewardship — value that compounds in community |
Building infrastructure that serves communities and the public interest.
Turning Stone Developments and Havenz Smart Communities — one partnership, one flagship, one standard.
Partnership descriptions on this page use project-approved language. Nations, communities and counterparties are engaged directly and respectfully — nothing on this page implies any Nation's endorsement of any specific transaction.