labs@atheron:~/locations/united-states$ ls --market united-states

Your Canadian team

Your hours, prices in US dollars.

Atheron Network Labs is a software studio in Kelowna, British Columbia. We build custom apps, AI agents, blockchains and integrations for US companies that want a senior team who sets its hours around theirs. Every figure is shown in US dollars beside the Canadian price it comes from.

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// the market

What shapes the work here.

Hours set around yours

We set our working hours around yours, so you reach us when it suits you.

Billing that works for US finance

Our master services agreement lets a client billed in the United States be invoiced in US dollars, so it can pay by ACH. The exchange rate is locked when the SOW is signed and used for every invoice under it.

Privacy and security by state and sector

US rules come by state and by sector: California's CCPA, HIPAA for health data, SOC 2 for buyers who ask. We build to the controls that apply to you. Independent auditors issue any certification.

Hosting in the United States

Name the United States in the estimator and the hosting, backups and logs stay there, with the provider and region shown in the estimate.

// 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, Monday to Friday. Every milestone and sign-off sits in your client portal.
Prices are worked out in Canadian dollars from our published rate card and shown in US dollars beside them, as a conversion.
A client billed in the United States may be invoiced in US dollars, at a rate locked when the SOW is signed. No Canadian sales tax is charged outside Canada.

// what we build

Four kinds of work.

~/apps

Apps for US companies

Web and mobile apps from a team in your hours.

~/ai

AI for US companies

Assistants and agents with written limits.

~/web3

Blockchain for the US

Contracts and ledgers, audited and plainly explained.

~/integrations

Integrations for the US

APIs, QuickBooks and compliance, connected.

// example projects

Priced in your currency.

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

Example projectHealthcare

Patient portal with a mobile app

A patient portal and an iOS and Android app for booking, intake forms, reminders and payments, connected to the clinics' practice management system so the front desk sees one calendar.

// Example project

Build, In Canadian dollars: CAD 258,500 to 395,500, delivered within 29 weeks
Build, In US dollars: USD 181,500 to 277,700

Converted at 1 CAD = 0.70 USD, the rate on our rate card. The price itself is in Canadian dollars.

Open in the estimator Full breakdown

Example projectRetail and e-commerce

Orders and returns agent

An agent in chat and email that looks up the order, starts a return within your policy, answers sizing from your own size guides and hands anything unusual to a person with the history attached. It runs on a frontier model through its API, which handles high volume well and is the quickest to start; only what each answer needs is sent.

// Example project

Build, In Canadian dollars: CAD 133,500 to 204,100, delivered within 21 weeks
Build, In US dollars: USD 93,700 to 143,300

Converted at 1 CAD = 0.70 USD, the rate on our rate card. The price itself is in Canadian dollars.

Open in the estimator Full breakdown

// industries

The industries we see most.

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

~/healthcare

Healthcare

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

~/finance

Finance and fintech

Lending apps with identity checks, support agents, underwriting document readers and partner settlement ledgers.

~/retail

Retail and e-commerce

Headless storefronts with shopping apps, customer service agents, authenticity certificates for resale and Discord drop bots.

~/logistics

Logistics

Dispatch boards and driver apps, booking agents for the inbox, shared bills of lading on a private ledger and load bots.

~/digital-assets

Crypto and digital assets

Compliance back offices for your exchange, investigation assistants, multisig treasuries, token vesting portals and community bots.

~/real-estate

Real estate and proptech

Resident apps for property managers, brokerage listing sites, building assistants and portable rental history credentials.

~/construction

Construction

Site apps for daily logs and safety, specs assistants, progress claim and holdback ledgers, and bots for your crews.

~/marketing

Marketing and advertising

Campaign dashboards with client portals, brand voice models, impression reconciliation ledgers and referral campaign bots.

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/aton-desk

ATON Desk

Live chat for any website, with an AI agent trained on the customer's own content answering first and their team taking over in one click. Coming soon.

See the project

~/work/payment-engine

The payment engine

A crypto payments service with its own contract, its own ledger and passkey approvals: a merchant asks in Canadian dollars, the customer pays in a token, the engine settles in USDC.

See the project

~/work/aton-chain

The ATON chain

A public blockchain for payments, written down in full before a line of the node was built, with its own site and a live roadmap.

See the project

// questions

What buyers here ask us.

Why hire a Canadian studio?

You get a team that sets its hours around yours, writing in your language, with a published rate card and contracts you can read before you start, and figures shown in US dollars.

Can we pay in US dollars?

Yes. Our master services agreement lets a client billed in the United States be invoiced in US dollars and pay by ACH, card or wire. The exchange rate is locked when the SOW is signed.

Do you charge sales tax?

No Canadian GST, HST or provincial tax is charged to a client billed outside Canada. Your own state's rules on software and services are yours to check.

How do we get a price?

Open the estimator, describe what you need, and it gives you a range in a few minutes. You can show it in US dollars, converted at the rate on our rate card that day.

// guides