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Do More With the Software Your Business Depends On

Whether software is your product or keeps your business moving, we work out what needs to change and carry out the engineering alongside the people responsible.

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When to Call Us

When the Business Needs More From Its Software

Owners, executives, technology leaders, and PE operating partners turn to Aligned when:

Decide

Choose a practical path forward

You need to choose whether to buy, build, or combine systems. Compare what will work with your workflows, integrations, budget, and future support, not just a feature list.

Improve

Make internal applications dependable

A useful application or disconnected workflow is ready for its next step. You need engineering to improve data flows, reduce manual handoffs, and make everyday use reliable.

Grow

Create capacity for the next stage

More orders, users, or locations should not mean proportionately more manual work. Add capability and remove application or delivery constraints without sidelining the people who know the business.

Protect

Get cost, risk, and dependency under control

Cloud costs are squeezing margins, outages disrupt operations, or critical knowledge sits with too few people. You need the causes made clear and the engineering done, whether preparing for growth or buyer diligence.

Some of the Companies We’ve Worked With

  • Credit Key
  • ListSimple
  • Ripple Operations
  • OCA Aspire
  • Responsive
  • SmartMoving
  • PayNearMe
  • RXO
  • Ryze S.p.A.
  • TAK Logistics
  • SAXX Underwear
  • Spud
  • Nature's Path
  • Ontario Chiropractic Association
  • Genus Capital Management
  • Inkwell
What We Do

We Make Your Software Work Better for Your Business

We improve applications, connect data and systems, implement AI-powered workflows, and strengthen cloud infrastructure. The aim is practical: smoother workflows, room to grow, and better control of cost and risk.

Not sure how to move forward? We help you evaluate the options. Already have a plan? We review what matters and get to work. We support your technical leaders and work with business sponsors and outside maintainers where there is no internal engineering team.

You retain ownership, with access to the accounts, code, and operating knowledge. We agree who will maintain the result, whether that is your team, another provider, or Aligned under a separate maintenance agreement.

In Their Words

$1M+ in annualized cost savings

Remarkably, Aligned delivered results in under six months and within budget, all without disrupting our ongoing operations.

Jim WrightCOO, OCA Aspire
Read the OCA Aspire case study

Automated customer onboarding

…would highly recommend Aligned to any business that wants to solve challenging architectural problems with a focus on security, scalability, and business growth.

Chris SanfordCTO, Responsive
Read the Responsive case study
How We Help

Engineering for What the Business Needs Next

We work out what needs to change and implement it. You keep control of your systems, and we agree how they’ll be maintained.

Core Services

Choose technology, build useful capability, and make existing systems more dependable.

Technology Evaluation & Planning

Compare buying software, building it, or combining both. Choose a practical plan that accounts for your workflows, running costs, and future support.

Application & Integration Engineering

Build and improve applications, connect data across systems, and keep information in sync. Replace manual handoffs so teams can handle more work.

Systems & Delivery Diagnostics

Find what is causing recurring failures, slow delivery, and rising costs. Investigate the systems and working practices, then identify the changes that will help.

System Reliability Engineering

Fix underlying weaknesses that make systems unreliable or difficult to change. Plan testing, rollout, and recovery around the work your business needs to keep doing.

System Security Remediation

Investigate and fix identified security gaps in applications and infrastructure. Check the changes and explain which risks have been addressed and which remain.

System Knowledge Recovery

Work out how critical software behaves and how its parts connect. Recover missing knowledge and turn it into practical guides for maintenance and change.

Software & Dependency Upgrades

Update unsupported software and aging components, resolve compatibility problems, and test important workflows. Keep suitable parts in place rather than replacing more than necessary.

Cloud Engineering & Operations

Build and improve cloud environments with access controls, automated deployment, and monitoring. Make them repeatable to set up and clear to operate.

Focused Services

Reduce cloud costs, strengthen applications built with AI, and automate workflows using AI.

Cloud Cost Optimization

Find what drives cloud spending and change the infrastructure, applications, or databases behind it. Reduce unnecessary consumption while accounting for performance and reliability.

AI-Built Application Hardening

Review and strengthen AI-built prototypes through security fixes, testing, and deployment. Agree what is ready to use and how it will be supported.

AI Workflow Automation

Build AI-powered workflows into existing systems, with quality checks, human review, and ways to handle exceptions. Use ordinary automation where it works better.

Specialist Services

Prepare technology for a business sale or a platform for external customers.

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Why Aligned

What You Can Expect From Us

We Speak Plain Language at the Leadership Level

We connect engineering findings to operating costs, staff workarounds, and business capacity. We show what the evidence supports and identify the assumptions behind estimates.

Reinforcements for the People Responsible

We work alongside your technology leader, business sponsor, and available maintainers. We listen to the people who know the systems and help them carry the work forward.

Engineering Judgment, Grounded in Delivery

We investigate the code, architecture, and workflows, then carry out agreed changes. Our recommendations account for what it will take to implement and maintain the result.

Clear Findings, Including the Unknowns

We explain what we find, what it means for the business, and what remains uncertain.

Built for Ownership. Supported for Continuity.

We keep accounts, code, and operating knowledge accessible to you, with continuing support or transfer to another maintainer by agreement.

Accountable Work, Not Undirected Staff Augmentation

We take responsibility for agreed engineering work, not simply fill seats. We make progress, trade-offs, and remaining work visible so you can make informed decisions.

What does your business need from its software next?

Bring a decision, an existing plan, or a system you want to improve. Asking doesn't commit you to anything: if we can't help, we'll say so, and any ongoing support afterward is separate and optional.

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Our office

  • Vancouver
    170-422 Richards Street
    Vancouver, BC, V6B 2Z4
    Canada
  • Email
    hello@aligned.net
    Phone
    1 604 259 7676