labs@atheron:~/locations/ottawa$ ls --market ottawa

Built for Ottawa

Bilingual software, hosted in Canada.

We are a Canadian software studio based in Kelowna. We build apps, AI assistants, blockchains and integrations for the suppliers, associations and agencies around the capital, in English and French, hosted in Canada. You get a priced range in minutes and a team that runs what it builds.

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// the market

What shapes the work here.

Government is the anchor client

Federal departments and agencies, and the firms that supply them, make up much of the city's work. Their projects come with security requirements, procurement rules and long review cycles.

Two official languages

Anything the public uses, and much that staff use, has to work equally well in English and French. That means two languages designed in from the start, not a translation bolted on.

Defence and technology

Defence suppliers, telecom and research firms here handle controlled information and export rules. Who may see a record, and proof of who did, matter as much as the features.

Associations and nonprofits

National associations and charities headquartered here run memberships, events, donations and advocacy on tight budgets. Simple, durable systems beat clever ones.

// working with us

How it works from here.

We set our working hours around yours, so you reach us when it suits you.
Calls on Microsoft Teams in English, with a written follow-up in French on request. Every milestone sits in your client portal.
Hosting in Toronto or Montréal, so your data stays in Canada.
Prices in Canadian dollars, from the same rate card the estimator uses.

// what we build

Four kinds of work.

~/apps

Ottawa app development

Bilingual, accessible apps from the first screen.

~/ai

AI for Ottawa teams

Assistants that answer in both languages.

~/web3

Blockchain in Ottawa

Credentials and records anyone can verify.

~/integrations

Ottawa integrations

Secure APIs and the evidence to prove it.

// example projects

Priced in your currency.

Hypothetical projects, priced from our rate card when you open the page. Not clients, and not results.

Example projectGovernment and public sector

Plain-language resident assistant

An assistant on the public website that answers from published bylaws, fee schedules and service pages in plain language and links to the source, on an open-source model hosted in Canada in an account the government controls, so no resident's question leaves its jurisdiction.

// Example project

Build, In Canadian dollars: CAD 159,300 to 243,500, delivered within 23 weeks

Open in the estimator Full breakdown

Example projectDefence and aerospace

Controlled goods register

A register on the supplier's own servers for visitor screening records, staff registrations and exemptions, access to controlled items and technical data, and training, with reminders before anything lapses. The obligations stay with your registered company and designated official; we build the records they keep and give no legal advice.

// Example project

Build, In Canadian dollars: CAD 115,500 to 175,400, delivered within 19 weeks

Open in the estimator Full breakdown

// industries

The industries we see most.

Each one has example projects priced live from our rate card.

~/government

Government and public sector

Provincial and federal service portals, inspector apps, plain-language services assistants and verifiable licences and permits.

~/defence-aerospace

Defence and aerospace

Serialised parts tracking for maintenance and repair, supplier certificate ledgers, air-gapped manuals assistants and controlled goods registers, deployed on your premises where needed.

~/telecom

Telecom

Field service apps with dispatch, care agents, network alarm models and inter-carrier settlement ledgers.

~/nonprofit

Nonprofit

Donor and volunteer apps, grant writing assistants, impact reporting portals and crypto donation pages.

~/public-safety

Public safety and emergency services

Offline incident and patrol reports, evidence chain of custody, mutual aid resource tracking, a report-checking assistant on premises and public alerting apps.

~/healthcare

Healthcare

Patient portals and apps, clinical note assistants, referral intake models and shared credential ledgers.

~/education

Education

Apps for students and families, course tutors on private models, verifiable credentials and cohort bots for your online programmes.

~/indigenous

Indigenous governments and organizations

Membership and administration systems, housing and maintenance, lands and referrals tracking, funder reporting with a private assistant and community-issued digital cards, all built so your community owns and controls its data.

All industries

// proof

We build our own products too.

We run what we build. These are ours, live or in progress, and each page breaks the build out.

~/work/team-portal

The team portal

The back office we run the company from: HR, Finance, CRM, Projects, Support, Community and Developer, each area opened role by role.

See the project

~/work/members-and-accounts

Members and accounts

Our customer portal, and the sign-in service every Atheron product uses: our own OpenID Connect provider, with passkeys and wallet sign-in.

See the project

~/work/aton-ai

ATON AI

Models we train on GPUs we own, a backtester that replays rules on the same cards, and a news labeller running an open-weight model locally.

See the project

// questions

What buyers here ask us.

Do you have an Ottawa office?

No. We are based in Kelowna and work remotely with every client. Calls are on Teams, and everything we build is visible in your client portal as it happens.

Can you work on Protected B systems?

We can scope the work and build to the controls a Protected B system needs. Whether the work also needs a supplier with a security clearance is a question we settle with you before anything is quoted.

Do you build in both official languages?

Yes. Our own site runs in five languages, and we build English and French in from the first screen, including the content tools your staff use to keep both current.

// guides