Toronto pace.
Toronto procurement-fit.
Toronto operates on enterprise procurement cycles — vendor onboarding, infosec questionnaires, SOWs that go through legal twice. Our fixed-price sprint format slots cleanly into that flow because the deliverable is defined, the price is one PO line, and the SOW writes itself from our written scope confirmation. OIDMTC and SR&ED-eligible labour. AODA-compliant by default.
Real considerations for founders shipping out of Toronto — tax-credit math, regulatory awareness, time-zone alignment, talent ecosystem.
Procurement and finance teams love sprints because cost, scope, and timeline are pre-bounded — the SOW and PO write themselves from our scope confirmation. No T&M open-meter, no monthly retainer line items, no scope-creep change-order theater. One PO per sprint.
OIDMTC (Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit, ~40% on eligible labour for interactive digital media products) plus SR&ED federal. Most of our Toronto sprints qualify for at least one. We provide labour-category breakdowns your CFO can hand directly to your tax advisor.
Ontario's Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) requires WCAG 2.0 AA minimum on customer-facing interactive content for organizations of 50+ employees. We ship to AODA-compliant standards by default — semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, contrast ratios, ARIA where needed. Out of the box, not as a $30K post-launch retrofit.
Bay Street fintech founders deal with FINTRAC, OSC, and CSA frameworks. We don't take regulatory legal risk on your behalf, but we don't ship blind to it either — sprints touching financial primitives include compliance-aware data handling (PIPEDA/Loi 25 for cross-province, KYC/AML hooks where relevant).
OIDMTC is claimed by your company on eligible Ontario-based labour for qualifying interactive digital media products. Because sprints are paid to a vendor (us), the credit doesn't apply directly to the sprint invoice — but if you have your own engineers building alongside our sprint output, their labour can qualify. Our role is to ship the foundation fast so your in-house OIDMTC-eligible team can layer on top productively. We provide the architecture documentation that makes the OIDMTC eligibility claim defensible.
Default. WCAG 2.0 AA minimum on every interactive deliverable from sprint Tier 03 (5-Screen Demo) onward, no upcharge. Tier 01 and 02 (single screen / wireframe) have it as a recommendation, not a hard requirement, since the deliverable typically isn't user-facing yet.
Yes. Most Bay Street and large-enterprise procurement requires a vendor information form, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 attestations or equivalent, insurance certificates, and an MSA. We have these ready and can complete a typical onboarding in 1–2 weeks (the pace is set by your procurement team, not ours). We don't have SOC 2 Type II (not yet justified for our size), but we provide written security practices documentation that's typically accepted as a substitute for SMB-focused engagements.
Yes. We are async-first by default — every engagement runs identically whether you're in Toronto, MTL, Toronto, NYC, or anywhere else in North America. The Toronto-specific advantages above (local tax credits, industry awareness, time-zone alignment) are bonuses for Toronto founders, not constraints on who we'll work with.
Most Toronto founders start with an Ideation Sprint ($4,995, 1 week) or HTML Demo Sprint ($9,995, 3–4 weeks) before committing to a Full Stack build. The smaller sprint validates fit and credit applies to your next sprint within 60 days. No retainers, no minimum spend.
Tell us what you're building. We'll confirm the sprint tier, timeline, and price in writing — usually within 24 hours.
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