SaaS Development Company in Halifax

Codazz quotes fixed fee with SR&ED logs included, scoped per engagement rather than published as bands. An MVP scoped at one core workflow, multi-tenant from day one, with Stripe billing, auth, and a small admin tool is a twelve to eighteen week engagement. A production v1 SaaS adds three to five workflows, role-based access, audit logs, integrations to one or two external systems, and an analytics dashboard. Ocean tech platforms add a data pipeline tier for streaming ingest from AIS, sensor networks, or satellite feeds. Halifax delivery sits well below Toronto and the US, partly because Atlantic Canada operating costs are lower and partly because we run from Edmonton and Chandigarh. Codazz quotes fixed fee with SR&ED logs included.

Most custom SaaS engineering qualifies for the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program, which returns 35 percent refundable credit on eligible R&D spend for Canadian-controlled private corporations up to the $3M expenditure limit, and 15 percent non-refundable above that. Eligible work typically includes novel architecture, algorithmic experimentation under uncertainty, performance research, and systematic investigation — not routine integration or off-the-shelf configuration. From kickoff we maintain time-tracked engineering logs, technical narratives, experiment histories, and failed-hypothesis documentation aligned with the CRA T661 form. Nova Scotia SR&ED claimants can often stack the Nova Scotia Innovation Equity Tax Credit on eligible portions. Final eligibility sits with your SR&ED consultant and the CRA.

Yes — the Canada's Ocean Supercluster (now Ocean Startup Project-adjacent under the Global Innovation Clusters program) funds collaborative ocean tech projects across Atlantic Canada with significant ISED matching dollars. We have scoped and built for member-led platforms in vessel tracking, aquaculture monitoring, ocean observation data, and seafood traceability, and we structure engagements to fit the Supercluster's IP assignment and reporting obligations. For projects involving Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) data, Marine Atlantic feeds, or Canadian Hydrographic Service products we handle the licensing and data sharing agreements as part of discovery. Outputs include the Supercluster milestone reports your project lead has to file and an engineering trail that supports SR&ED on top of the grant funding.

PIPEDA covers private-sector personal information federally, and Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPOP) plus the Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act apply when public bodies are involved. Our default SaaS architecture keeps personal information inside Canadian regions (AWS ca-central-1 Montreal or Azure Canada Central Toronto), implements row-level multi-tenancy isolation, maintains audit logs of access to personal information, supports data subject access requests through a documented runbook, and ships with a Privacy Impact Assessment template for clients selling into provincial or federal buyers. For Halifax insurance and financial back-office clients we also align with OSFI E-21 operational resilience expectations where the customer is federally regulated.

A focused MVP targeting first paying customer typically takes fourteen to twenty weeks. Weeks 1 to 2 are discovery and design partner conversations. Weeks 3 to 12 are build, with two-week sprints and biweekly demos to design partners. Weeks 13 to 16 are pilot deployment with one to three design partners on a discounted contract or letter of intent, with active iteration on real workflow data. Weeks 17 to 20 are billing activation on Stripe, onboarding flow polish, support runbook handover, and the first paid contract. For Ocean Supercluster member projects the timeline often stretches because Supercluster milestone reporting and partner consortium reviews add overhead — typically twenty to thirty-two weeks to commercial pilot.

Yes — we build supplier quality, program management, and document control SaaS for vendors in the National Shipbuilding Strategy ecosystem around Irving Halifax Shipyard and the broader Department of National Defence supplier base, including HMCS Halifax program suppliers and Lockheed Martin Canada subcontractors. These builds require Controlled Goods Program (CGP) awareness, ITAR sensitivity flags on data crossing borders, and PSPC Contract Security Program documentation if classified data touches the system. We deliver the engineering with the necessary data residency (Canadian regions only, often with restricted access from Canadian-cleared personnel), and partner with cleared Halifax-based staffing firms when on-site Reliability or Secret clearance is required for specific tasks.

Yes. Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) funding — through programs like the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation (REGI) stream and the Business Scale-up and Productivity stream — is common in Halifax SaaS engagements. We structure deliverables and milestones to map cleanly against the funded project's claim schedule, maintain time-tracked engineering logs in the format ACOA project officers expect for reimbursement claims, and produce technical progress narratives suitable for inclusion in the funded organisation's reporting. We do not file the claims for the client (that sits with the client's accountant or grants administrator), but we make sure the engineering record they need exists from day one rather than getting reconstructed under audit pressure twelve months later.

Halifax delivers real cost-basis advantage against Toronto, Vancouver, and the US — engineering salaries, office rent, and overhead all run lower, which is why insurance back-office, Verafin-style fintech (out of St. John's but Atlantic-connected), and Maritime Travel-adjacent operators have built durable platforms here. Talent supply is strong: Dalhousie Faculty of Computer Science, Saint Mary's, NSCC, and King's College graduate hundreds of engineers a year, and Volta Labs plus Invest Nova Scotia keep early-stage activity dense. Ocean tech is a genuine global edge — the Ocean Supercluster, COVE in Dartmouth, and the Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie give Halifax-based platforms domain depth no other Canadian city matches. Codazz extends that with EST and AST coverage from Edmonton and Chandigarh on fixed fee.