Too often that knowledge remains isolated within individual projects, departments, or organizations. When teams change, valuable operational experience is lost.
A harbour authority in Prince Rupert spends months learning how to run a ghost gear recovery programme — which contractors work, which permits take two weeks, which GPS coordinate format DFO requires. When that team changes, or when Bella Bella starts the same programme, the learning starts over.
This is not a failure of intention. It is a failure of infrastructure. There was nowhere for the knowledge to go.
CIXE exists to be that place.
Government systems remain the systems of record. DFO, CHS, ECCC, and municipal databases stay authoritative. CIXE connects them with the operational experience that those systems were never designed to capture.
Every completed operation leaves behind structured knowledge: what worked, what broke, who to contact, what the permit process actually requires. That knowledge accumulates. The platform gets more valuable with every use.
Government systems remain the systems of record. CIXE brings authoritative information together with verified operational experience to support better field decisions.
— CIXE Design Principles v1.0
GGX — the Ghost Gear Recovery Exchange — is the founding demonstration of the CIXE platform, currently in field validation at Prince Rupert Harbour.