Software That Survives the Job Site
We build software for Canadian general contractors, specialty trades, and infrastructure firms - field-first, offline-tolerant, and aligned to the provincial OHS regime your project actually operates under. Calgary roots, projects shipped from Surrey to St. John's.
The Canadian Reality
Canadian Construction Has Been Quietly Adopting US Software That Was Never Built For Canadian Sites
Procore was built for Texas. Buildertrend was built for the US suburban homebuilder. They work fine until you hit a CCDC contract template, a Quebec RBQ inspection, or a January pour in Saskatchewan - then the seams show.
Walk onto almost any Canadian commercial project today and you will find the same software stack: a US-built general contractor platform plus a small constellation of spreadsheets, a private Slack channel for the supers, a WhatsApp group for the sub-trades, and a printer at the trailer that still gets daily use. The off-the-shelf tools cover ~70 percent of what the project needs. The other 30 percent is the part that keeps the PMs at the office until 7 PM every night, manually translating between systems that were not designed to talk to each other and certainly not designed for the Canadian regulatory layer.
The regulatory part is the most under-appreciated. Each province has its own Occupational Health and Safety regime - the Alberta OHS Act, BC OHS Regulation, Ontario OHSA, Quebec LSST under CNESST, and the Atlantic provinces each with their own variants. Reporting thresholds differ, JHSC composition requirements differ, training documentation requirements differ. The same lost-time incident gets reported and tracked differently in Edmonton than it does in Mississauga. Quebec adds a separate licensing regime through the RBQ that has no equivalent in any other province, plus French-language documentation requirements that most US platforms simply do not support. For a GC operating in multiple provinces, the cost of forcing this through a US platform is paid in shadow systems and re-keyed data.
We build for that reality. Our construction work covers daily field reports that capture crews, equipment, weather, and visitors offline at the site and sync the moment the truck rolls back into LTE coverage. Estimating platforms that hold vendor pricing in a structure your team can actually maintain instead of in a single spreadsheet one estimator owns. Project management tools where RFIs, submittals, change orders, and meeting minutes live in one auditable trail that survives a CCDC contractual dispute. Safety platforms that know the difference between an Alberta near-miss and an Ontario one and produce the right form for the right regulator without the safety coordinator translating in their head.
The other reality is the labour environment. Construction in Canada is in the middle of a labour transition - aging trades workforce, heavy immigration-driven hiring, and a productivity gap that has barely moved in two decades while every other industry has tripled output per worker. Software is one of the few levers that does not require waiting for a new generation of journeymen to age in. We design for crews where the youngest worker on site has been using TikTok since they were nine and the oldest has been using paper job tickets for thirty-five years, and the app has to work for both. That is the design constraint we take seriously.
What's Broken Today
The patterns we keep seeing
Daily reporting still done on paper
Site supers fill out paper daily logs at the end of the shift, hand them to the project coordinator the next morning, who re-keys them into the company system by lunch. Three hours of admin per super per day that disappears the moment a digital workflow lands.
Estimating that lives in one person's head
Vendor pricing, unit rates, productivity assumptions, and historical job costs sit in spreadsheets owned by one or two senior estimators. When they take a week off the bid desk slows. When they retire the institutional knowledge walks out the door.
Sub-trade coordination over WhatsApp
Group chats, voice notes, and ad-hoc phone calls coordinate the sub-trades day-to-day. Excellent for speed, catastrophic for the audit trail when a deficiency or scope dispute lands on the project six months later.
Provincial OHS compliance as a quiet tax
Operating in multiple provinces means every safety form, every incident report, and every training record has to map to a different regulatory regime. Most platforms support one province well and force the others into the same template.
What We Build
Solutions tailored to construction
Not a generic platform with industry skins. Architecture, workflows, and integrations chosen for construction operations specifically.
Mobile-first apps for site supervisors, foremen, and trades that work fully offline at the site and sync the moment they hit coverage. Built for gloves, hi-vis, and a site superintendent with thirty years of paper-form muscle memory to overcome.
Bid-desk platforms that hold vendor pricing, unit rates, and historical job costs in a structure your team can maintain. Quantity takeoff workflows that survive scope changes without breaking the math.
Single-source-of-truth platforms for RFIs, submittals, change orders, meeting minutes, and drawings. Built around CCDC contract realities so the audit trail holds up in a dispute.
Multi-province safety reporting that produces the right form for the right regulator. JHSC documentation, training records, incident workflows aligned to AB OHS, BC OHSR, ON OHSA, QC LSST, and Atlantic provinces.
Run the Numbers
Watch the Field-to-Office Loop Close in Real Time
This is a live mock of the kind of daily field log we build. Fill it out the way a site super would - bump the crew, set the weather, log a deficiency - and watch the office dashboard update the instant you do. On paper, that data arrives tomorrow morning.
Auto-playing: switch site, then file a daily log. Switch to try it yourself.
Crowfoot Tower
L12 mixed-use · Project dashboard
Logs today
Workers on site
Open deficiencies
Safety logs
Live activity
Level 4 — Framing synced by M. Okafor
just now
Foundation — Pour synced by J. Tran
earlier today
Live demo of the kind of field-to-office workflow we build. The data, sites, and project are illustrative - the real thing connects to your accounting and project systems and works offline at the site until the truck hits coverage.
The Regulatory Map
The rules we design around
Compliance is architectural for us, not a checkbox added at the end.
Provincial Occupational Health and Safety Acts
Each province has its own OHS regime - AB OHS Act, BC OHS Regulation, Ontario OHSA, Quebec LSST under CNESST, and Atlantic variants. Reporting thresholds, JHSC composition, and training documentation requirements all differ.
Applies to: All Canadian construction employers, varies by province
Régie du bâtiment du Québec
Quebec's construction licensing authority. Contractors operating in Quebec require RBQ licenses with specific subcategories per type of work, plus French-language documentation requirements that no US platform supports natively.
Applies to: Any contractor operating in Quebec
CCDC Standard Contract Documents
Canadian Construction Documents Committee suite - CCDC 2 (stipulated price), CCDC 5A/B (construction management), CCDC 14 (design-build), and others. The contractual scaffolding for most Canadian commercial work, with specific RFI/submittal/change order conventions.
Applies to: Most Canadian commercial construction projects
Provincial WCB / WSIB Reporting
Workers Compensation Boards (AB WCB, BC WorkSafeBC, ON WSIB, QC CNESST, etc.) each have their own injury reporting forms, premium calculations, and return-to-work obligations. Multi-province GCs report to multiple regulators.
Applies to: All Canadian construction employers
Accessible Canada Act + AODA
Public-sector and federally regulated construction must meet accessibility design and procurement standards. AODA in Ontario adds specific tendering and design obligations for projects involving public bodies.
Applies to: Public-sector projects, federally regulated entities
National & Provincial Building Codes
The National Building Code of Canada plus provincial adaptations (Alberta Building Code, Ontario Building Code, Quebec Construction Code, etc.). Software that touches inspections, deficiency tracking, or sign-offs has to respect the jurisdiction's code references.
Applies to: All Canadian construction projects
Proof Points
Patterns we have shipped
The scenario
Mid-size commercial GC running paper daily logs across 14 active projects in Alberta and BC
Replaced paper with offline-first field app integrated to the company's accounting and project management - cut daily admin time per super by ~70% and centralized deficiency tracking with photo evidence for dispute resolution.
The scenario
Specialty mechanical trade contractor losing bids on inconsistent unit pricing across estimators
Built a vendor pricing and historical cost database that gave all estimators access to consistent inputs - lifted bid win rate from 18% to 26% over six months while reducing time-to-bid.
The scenario
Multi-province residential builder struggling with provincial WCB reporting variance
Custom safety platform with province-aware incident workflows produced the right form for the right regulator - eliminated late submissions and reduced LTI follow-up effort to under one hour per incident.
Tools Chosen for the Job
Why we use what we use
React Native + Expo
Offline-first field apps that ship to iPhones and ruggedized Android tablets from one codebase. Over-the-air updates push critical fixes during the build without waiting for App Store review.
PostgreSQL + PostGIS
Geospatial extensions for site geofencing, project location data, and progress tracking on linear infrastructure (pipelines, roads, transmission lines).
AWS Canada Central
Data residency stays Canadian. Aligns with PIPA, PIPEDA, and Quebec Law 25 - relevant when projects involve public-sector clients with data residency clauses.
Native camera + EXIF + GPS
Photo evidence with embedded timestamp, GPS, and orientation - critical for deficiency tracking and dispute resolution months after the fact.
PDF + DWG markup
Drawing register tools that let supers annotate PDFs and DWG exports on tablets, with markup synced back to the project drawing system.
Accounting integrations (Sage 300 CRE, Jonas, Spectrum, Foundation)
The construction-specific accounting platforms most Canadian GCs run. Bidirectional sync for cost coding, AP, and progress billing.
The Underlying Services
Services we draw on for this work
Mobile App Development
Cross-platform iOS and Android apps built with React Native — one codebase, native performance, faster launch
Explore serviceCustom Web Development
High-performance websites and web apps built with Next.js — optimized for SEO, speed, and conversion
Explore serviceDatabase & API Solutions
Scalable databases and secure APIs that connect your systems — built for reliability and growth
Explore serviceFAQ
Questions buyers ask first
Common questions about construction software development in Canada
Ready to talk construction software?
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We will walk through your operation, talk through what's worked for similar Canadian construction operations, and tell you honestly whether we are the right team.