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00 · Services · Automation

Automation for businesses that run on hours.

We build the systems that take repetitive work off your team's plate — quoting, intake, documents, reporting, AI-assisted workflows. The same engineering practice behind our own products, applied to yours. Canadian, grant-aware, and honest about what things cost.

Ontario, Canada · Remote-friendly · A small number of clients at a time
01 · How it works

Audit. Build. Run.

Start with the audit. Everything after it is optional — the roadmap is yours either way.

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C$2,900 · two weeks
Audit
Find where the hours go.

We map the 5–10 processes your team runs by hand, and return a ranked roadmap: hours saved per month, the right tool for each (free options included), real monthly cost, and which government programs can fund the work.

  • Ranked automation roadmap with ROI per item
  • Honest costs — including the $0 options
  • Grant mapping: what Ottawa and Ontario will fund
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From C$9,500 · fixed scope
Build
Ship the system, not the slideware.

We build and deploy the automation ourselves — document pipelines, quoting, intake, reporting, AI-assisted workflows — with acceptance criteria written into the contract: what it processes, how often, at what error rate.

  • Production code on your infrastructure
  • Acceptance criteria in the contract
  • Built by engineers who ship their own products
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C$1,200/mo · per system
Run
Keep it running. Keep it improving.

Monitoring, maintenance, model and cost tuning, and a monthly report on what your systems did and what they saved. Like managed IT — for the automation layer.

  • Monitoring and maintenance with clear response terms
  • Monthly savings and performance report
  • Cost engineering: we tune the bill down, not up
02 · Pricing

What it costs, up front.

Fixed prices, in writing, before we start. No hourly meters, no surprise invoices.

OfferPrice (CAD)What you getTerms
Automation AuditC$2,900 fixedRanked automation roadmap: hours saved, tools, real costs, grant mappingTwo weeks. 100% credited toward your first Build.
BuildFrom C$9,500 fixedOne automation system in production, acceptance criteria in the contractFixed scope, fixed price. Includes your first 30 days of Run.
RunC$1,200 / month per systemMonitoring, maintenance, cost tuning, monthly savings reportMonth to month. Leave anytime — the system stays yours.
Fractional automation engineerC$4,900 / monthOne day a week of ongoing automation engineering, on your prioritiesThree months to start, monthly after. Two seats only.
Prices before HST · Multi-system builds quoted per roadmap · Grant funding can offset a substantial share (below)
03 · Funding

Your project may be part-funded.

Canadian businesses rarely pay full freight for this work — if the paperwork is done right.

BDC LIFT
Financing for AI & technology adoption

BDC's LIFT initiative pairs advisory with preferential-rate financing for established businesses adopting AI and digital technology — and it asks you to work with Canadian suppliers. We are one.

ONTARIO DCC
Matched grants for digital adoption

Ontario's Digital Competence Centre offers matched grants for technology planning and adoption. An automation audit maps cleanly onto what these programs fund — we structure the deliverables so they qualify.

Program availability changes — we verify current eligibility as part of every audit.
04 · Why Vanillapha

The difference is who does the work.

Most automation consulting fails the same way: a strategy deck, an invoice, and nothing in production.

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We ship our own products.
Vocert is live on the App Store. CanCertify and Fantpage run in production. The people building your automation maintain real systems with real users — not decks.
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Privacy is the floor.
PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 are designed into every build — data residency, retention, human review where the law expects it. We build compliance software; it shows.
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Honest about cost.
Every recommendation comes with a price: what it costs now, where the free tier ends, and what the first invoice looks like. If the cheap option wins, we say so.
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Outcomes, not buzzwords.
You will not buy “AI transformation” from us. You will buy hours back — measured, reported, and boring in the best way.

Tell us the task your team dreads.

That is usually where the audit starts. We take on a small number of clients at a time; if we are not the right fit, the roadmap will still tell you who is.

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