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Custom Software Development in Montreal.

Custom software that replaces the spreadsheets and duct tape, shipped in quarters, not years. We build for Montreal businesses with a senior team and pricing in CAD.

Montreal market

Custom Software Development that fits how Montreal operates.

Québec's bilingual commercial centre and a globally recognized AI and gaming hub, where a dense research ecosystem, a strong studio sector, and Law 25 privacy obligations all sit inside the same buying conversation.

Montreal carries two reputations that shape every brief: it's one of the world's serious AI research clusters, and it's a gaming and studio town with real engineering depth. Companies here often arrive with ambition that's further along than average — they want applied ML inside the product, agent workflows that actually do work, or platform tooling that can scale a studio's output, not a brochure site with a chatbot bolted on. The Mile End and downtown tech scene is comfortable talking architecture, and the bar for technical credibility is high. Two Montreal-specific realities sit on the table early. First, Law 25: any product touching personal information has to be designed with Québec's modernized privacy regime in mind — consent, transparency, and de-identification thought through from the start rather than retrofitted. Second, language: we engage Montreal clients in English first, with French-language UI and content treated as a planned phase-2 deliverable, so the architecture is built bilingual-ready even when the first release ships in English. We staff this work with senior engineers on Eastern time, so the AI and platform conversations happen synchronously with the people who will own the system.

What we build for Montreal businesses

Scope, line by line.

  • Two-week paid discovery with a fixed-bid proposal at the end
  • Architecture diagram and data model
  • Authentication via Clerk, WorkOS, or Auth.js
  • Postgres database with migrations
  • Admin dashboard and role-based access control
  • REST or tRPC API with typed contracts
  • Stripe billing integration when relevant
  • Background jobs via Inngest or Trigger.dev
  • Observability with Sentry and Axiom
  • Production deployment with staging environment
Compliance

How we handle Montreal data.

We handle Canadian personal information under PIPEDA, scoping consent, breach-notification, and data-residency expectations into the architecture rather than bolting them on later. For Québec-based clients we factor in Law 25 (the modernized Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector).

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