When off-the-shelf doesn't fit, we build what does.
Website Design & Development
Every business eventually hits the wall where spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected tools cost more in time and errors than custom software would cost to build: a client portal, a quoting calculator, a booking system, a dashboard that finally shows everything in one place.
We design and build web applications around how your business actually works — accessible from any browser, integrated with the tools you already use, and secured properly. Enterprise engineering discipline, scoped and priced for real businesses.
We map how the work actually flows before writing code — the app fits your operation, not a vendor's idea of it.
Authentication, permissions, encryption, and audit trails engineered in from the start — not patched on after.
Integrations with your accounting, CRM, email, and payment systems — so data flows instead of being retyped.
Part of our website design & development service — get in touch and we'll scope it with you.
Property information site · Ottawa
An independent guide to buying, selling and renting in Ottawa, built and published by Ace Consultants: plain-language explainers, a guide to every community, and free tools, with no listings and no paid rankings.
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Community and culture site · Ottawa
A community website in English and Hindi, built and run by Ace Consultants, that works out festival dates and the daily Panchang for Ottawa time, with calendars, auspicious times and a guide to temples.
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Social media platform · Canada
Our own product: a done-for-you social media service that turns a business's website into branded posts and reels and publishes them to its Facebook and Instagram pages. Built and run by Ace Consultants.
Visit the siteWe map how the work is done today — who does what, in which tool, where the errors and delays are — and agree what the application has to do first.
You get a clickable prototype to try before full development starts, and a fixed quote with milestones in writing.
Each milestone delivers working software you can use and comment on, so surprises are found early, not at the end.
The application goes live with documentation and the source code, which are yours. Support and enhancements continue on a plan if you want them.
A web application is software your staff or your customers use through a browser. The ones businesses ask us for most:
Custom software is the right answer less often than software companies say. If an existing product covers most of what you need for a fraction of the cost, we will tell you, and help you set it up.
Custom earns its price when the way you work is the business — when no product fits without bending your process — or when the hours lost to manual work each month already cost more than building the tool.
Applications that hold customer data are built to be secured from the start: access by role, data encrypted in transit, and hosting in Canada where residency matters. The engineering discipline comes from more than 25 years of enterprise IT.
You own the application outright: the code, the data and the documentation. Any competent developer can take it over, so staying with us is a choice.
It depends on the scope, which is why discovery comes first. The quote sets out the milestones and their dates, and you see working software at each one rather than waiting for the end.
Usually, yes. Most accounting, booking, payment and CRM tools can exchange data with a custom application, and connecting what you already have is often the most valuable part of the project.
A website informs; an application does work — logins, data, workflows, calculations, documents. Websites are read; applications are used. Most of our builds combine both: a public site with an application behind it for customers or staff.
More than a template, less than you'd fear — cross that wall of manual work and it usually pays for itself in saved hours within the first year. Discovery produces a fixed quote, and we're honest when an off-the-shelf tool covers 90% of the need for 10% of the price.
No. You own the code, the data, and the documentation; any competent developer can take it over. Most clients keep us on a support plan because it's convenient — not because they're trapped, which is exactly how we think it should be.
A professional website that wins trust and customers — built properly, priced for small business, and delivered without the runaround.
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