Custom operating systems & platforms
Build around the requirements that make your technology different. Work with us on the architecture, integrations, and specialized software your product needs.
Explore custom engineering → Canadian-owned. Built for ambitious ideas.
A Canadian Software Innovation Company
Solve hard problems. Bring ambitious technology to life.
Custom operating systems, software platforms, and engineering expertise for innovators building beyond general-purpose solutions.
Trusted by Agile Trailblazers and Industry Disruptors
Innovation leads
Your next breakthrough needs more than ordinary software.
AI is making everyday software easier to create. The difficult work is solving the problems unique to your technology: how it operates, connects, performs, and holds up in the real world.
We bring custom platforms, operating-system research, and hands-on engineering to that work. The goal is to help you move faster through technical uncertainty and build something that advances your business.
Our focus is funded Canadian innovators with ambitious technical goals. We also work with international organizations looking for specialized Canadian technology and expertise.
From hard problem to working solution.
Start with the challenge. Bring together the technology, development, and quality expertise needed to solve it.
Development & technical consulting
Turn a hard technical problem into a practical path forward. Bring engineering expertise into your team, from early research and prototyping through implementation.
Explore development and consulting →Managed testing & quality
Keep quality close to development. Combine experienced testers with bugAgent to investigate risks, find defects, and inform your next release.
Explore Manual Testing services →Available today. Exploring tomorrow.
bugAgent is our ready-to-use platform. Manual Testing is our established testing service and consultancy, active for over 10 years. Our other platforms are in development, with Canadian operating systems and sovereign email in research and development.
Available today
bugAgent
Innovation needs quality.
Find defects and investigate software quality with our available testing platform. Pair bugAgent with managed testing expertise to help your team understand risks and move forward with confidence.
Explore bugAgent Conversational testing · In active development; not yet released
The conversational capabilities of bugAgent are in active development; not yet released. These features are not part of the available platform today.
Manual Testing
Managed testing services and quality consultancy, active for over 10 years. Work with experienced testers to investigate risks, validate software, and support your releases.
Explore Manual Testing servicesCanadian operating system
Researching a Canadian-made operating system and custom OS foundations for specialized technology. This is an active R&D initiative, not a released product.
Canadian sovereign email
Exploring a Canadian sovereign email service, with Canadian ownership, hosting, and data residency at its foundation. Currently in R&D and not yet available.
More in development
Launch, qualThread, ARC, and OQA are part of our developing portfolio, alongside other projects in stealth.
For innovators with little room for failure.
We focus on technical challenges in zero-tolerance industries, where reliability and quality belong in the design from the beginning.
Smart manufacturing
Software connecting production, equipment, and operational decisions.
Clean technology
Platforms for new approaches to energy, resources, and environmental challenges.
Physical AI & robotics
Intelligence that interacts with the physical world, where software behaviour matters beyond the screen.
IoT & embedded systems
Specialized software for connected devices and the platforms behind them.
Defence
Technical challenges where reliability, control, and Canadian technology are priorities.
Public-sector innovation
Canadian software for ambitious programs with demanding operational and data requirements.
Canadian ownership. Clear deployment choices.
Hosting and data residency are defined for each offering and engagement. Review our Security & Trust page for current deployments and planned options.
Canadian-owned
Work with a Canadian-owned software innovation company focused on advancing ambitious technology.
Hosting defined per offering
bugAgent currently runs production in the US. We scope infrastructure and deployment requirements for each engagement.
Planned Canadian options
Canadian production hosting and data residency for bugAgent are planned options for new clients, subject to deployment planning and agreement; they are not active in production today.
10+years of enterprise QA experience
4continents with enterprise clients
FT 2024Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
Start with the hard problem
What are you trying to make possible?
Tell us what you’re building, what’s getting in the way, and what success looks like. Let’s explore the technology and expertise that can move it forward.
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