AI Product & MVP Development in Ottawa
The best AI Product & MVP Development in Ottawa, at the best available price.
A real, production-grade build you can put in front of users or investors. Frontend, backend, mobile, the agentic AI underneath, and the cloud or private infrastructure it runs on, as one engagement rather than four vendors.
Ottawa is shaped by the federal government and by Kanata North, one of Canada's largest technology parks, with a long history in telecom and networking. Shopify was founded here. Much of the local demand comes from companies selling to government or building network, security and defence technology.
Ottawa founders building for government or enterprise buyers need a product that survives procurement. The build includes the audit trails, accessibility and bilingual interface buyers here expect.
What you get
- Full-stack build on Next.js, Node or Python, with a database and API design that survives past the MVP
- AI where it earns its place: LLM features, retrieval over your own documents, agent flows that call real tools, voice
- Auth, payments, analytics and an admin surface, not a demo that breaks on the second user
- Deployment across AWS, GCP or Azure, or private and on-premise hosting where the data demands it
- Clean, documented code on your own infrastructure, written to make us replaceable on purpose
Final pricing depends on scope, features and complexity, so we settle it on a call before any work starts.
Invoiced in USD or CAD, payable by Wise or bank transfer.
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You speak to the engineer who does the work. No sales rep, no deck.
Who builds here
Software Development Company
Kanata's established technology companies often need senior engineering capacity for a specific product line, and a dedicated engineer working in their repository is the most direct way to add it.
What Ottawa companies build with us
Get it built at $0.
That is not a discount. It is when you pay. The work is split into checkpoints with acceptance criteria written down before anything starts, and each checkpoint is invoiced only after you have seen it and accepted it. No deposit.
- $0 to start
- You hold every dollar until a checkpoint is delivered and you accept it. No approval, no invoice.
- Fixed cost, unlimited features
- Or hire the team outright: one fixed monthly cost, unlimited feature development, any stack.
- The engineer takes your call
- The person on your first call is the one who architects and writes it. No account managers, no bench time.
A US agency quotes $50,000 to $150,000 for the same build and asks for 40 to 50% of it before a line is written. Account managers, project managers, sales commission and bench time. None of it appears in your product.
Three stages, nothing hidden.
Twenty-minute call
You talk to the engineer who will build it, not a sales rep. We scope the problem and you get told plainly if this is the wrong fit.
Fixed proposal in 48 hours
Fixed price, fixed timeline, defined deliverables, in writing. No hourly billing surprises and no open-ended scope.
Weekly demos until it ships
Working software every week, direct access over Slack or WhatsApp, and documentation handed over at the end.
What actually applies here.
Regulation and data
Federal institutions follow the Treasury Board's Directive on Automated Decision-Making, which requires an Algorithmic Impact Assessment, transparency and human review for automated systems used in administrative decisions. Vendors handling government information usually need it to stay in Canada and to meet the security level of the data, such as Protected B, with security-screened personnel. Private companies follow PIPEDA.
Contracting and payment
You contract with an individual consultant based in India. Invoices in CAD or USD, paid by Wise or bank transfer. Your accountant treats an overseas supplier in the usual way, and any paperwork they need is provided before work starts.
Working hours
Four or more hours of daily overlap with Eastern time, calls in your morning, and same-day replies on working days.
Can you work on Protected B government data?
Not directly. Work with Protected data generally needs Canadian security screening, which we do not hold. We build and hand over systems that your screened staff deploy and operate, and work only on synthetic or unclassified data ourselves.
Do you build bilingual interfaces?
Yes. English and French interfaces, documentation and AI responses are a normal requirement for Ottawa buyers and are planned from the start.
Is three days realistic?
For a working, demoable version of a core idea, yes, and that is what the three-day build is. A full production system with billing, admin and hardening takes weeks, not days. We will tell you which one your situation actually needs.
Do we own the code?
Entirely. It ships into your repository on your own cloud accounts, documented so your team or your next hire can pick it up without us.
Can you also host the AI model privately?
Yes, and as part of the same engagement. If compliance means inference cannot leave your network, the serving layer and the application are built together rather than handed between vendors.
MVP Development
A working MVP in as little as 3 days, from $1,000. Production-grade, not a throwaway prototype.