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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
  • Van Belle Nursery
  • 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

An independent read on an in-house ERP

…gives the facts without “spin”, so you can make informed, unbiased decisions.

Dave Van BellePresident, Van Belle Nursery
Ways to start

Focused practices. The same Aligned engineering.

Choose an assessment below, or bring us an implementation plan.

Aligned Launch

For founders with AI-built prototypes or live products.

Launch Assessment

Explore Launch

US$5,000

Aligned AI Works

For teams connecting Microsoft 365 and other business systems.

Workflow Assessment

Explore AI Works

US$3,000

Aligned Systemics

For SaaS companies beyond product-market fit.

Margin Recovery Assessment or Systemic Risk Diagnosis

Explore Systemics

US$15,000each

US$25,000for both

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.

Focused Services

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

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