Custom software development and technical consulting
Particle builds custom web and mobile apps and provides senior technical consulting — fractional CTO, assessments, architecture, and vendor evaluation. Every project is scoped and priced before work starts.
Full-stack engineering, one senior team
Point us at the software problem — we scope it, price it, and build it. Every project is scoped and priced before work starts, with a senior engineer accountable for every deliverable.
AI Automation
Point AI at the repetitive parts of your business — replies, data entry, document review — and get hours back every week.
Workflow Automation
Connect the tools you already use so information moves on its own — fewer spreadsheets, fewer Friday fire drills.
Web Application Development
Customer portals, internal tools, and marketing sites built to load fast, rank well, and hold up under real traffic.
Mobile App Development
iOS, Android, or cross-platform — architected to ship a real v1 fast and scale without a rewrite eighteen months later.
SaaS MVP Development
Turn a napkin idea into a product you can put in front of paying customers in weeks, not quarters.
Cloud Migration
Move off fragile servers and spreadsheet-based systems onto infrastructure that scales, backs up, and doesn't page you at 2am.
DevOps Consulting
CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment pipelines so shipping code stops being the scariest part of your week.
Security Assessments
Find the gaps before an attacker — or an auditor — does. Plain-language report, prioritized by real risk.
Performance Optimization
Slow dashboards, laggy checkouts, timing-out APIs — we profile the system and fix what's actually costing you conversions.
Not sure which one fits?
Start a project below — we'll help you name the actual scope before we talk price. Prefer to talk it through first? Book a free consulting call.
Four shapes of build work
Every engagement fits one of these — you always know what you're paying for before you pay for it.
Fixed-Scope Project
A defined build — automation, integration, or small app — priced and delivered against a signed proposal.
Deliverable: Working softwareSaaS MVP Sprint
A focused build cycle to get a validated idea in front of paying customers, fast.
Deliverable: Live MVPCustom Automation Build
Custom workflow automations and integrations built and tuned for your business.
Deliverable: Live automation(s)Retainer / Ongoing Build
A standing engineering resource for teams that ship continuously and need capacity, not a one-off project.
Deliverable: Monthly retainerFrom first call to shipped software
Five steps, always in this order. No step gets skipped because it's "obvious" — that's usually where budgets go sideways.
Discovery call
30 minutes, no slides. We ask about your business, your stack, and what's actually costing you time or money.
Proposal & scope
You get a written proposal: problem, solution, timeline, deliverables, and price. No verbal estimates that turn into invoices.
Build
Weekly updates, a shared project board you can check anytime, and direct access to the person actually writing the code.
Test & deliver
Real testing, documentation, and a walkthrough — you should be able to run this without us if you ever need to.
Support & next steps
A support window is included on every project. After that, most clients move to a light retainer or a Consulting relationship.
Pricing isn't a guess — it's a framework
Before we quote anything, every project gets scored on four things. It's the same framework we'll walk you through on the discovery call.
Severity
Nice-to-have, important, or mission-critical? Severity is the biggest driver of both timeline and price.
Complexity
A landing page and an enterprise migration aren't priced on the same scale. We size the real work, not the label.
Risk
Security, downtime, data loss, compliance — higher risk means more planning up front, not surprises later.
Time
We estimate research, design, build, testing, and deployment individually, then pad it — "unexpected work" isn't actually unexpected.
Modern, boring-on-purpose technology
We pick tools that are easy to hand off, not tools that are fun to demo. Stack varies by project — this is the general shape.
Service vs. Consulting
Not sure which side of Particle you need? Here's the honest breakdown.
Straightforward pricing, scoped to your project
All prices in Canadian dollars. Every fixed-price project starts with a paid assessment or a free discovery call. Hourly, daily, and retainer rates live on the full Price page.
Single-platform builds, custom available
- Web or mobile app development
- UX/UI design included
- Scoped and priced before work starts
- Post-launch support available
Hourly / daily / monthly
- Fractional CTO support
- Technical assessments and audits
- Architecture strategy
- Team mentoring and sprint support
Tailored
- App dev + consulting bundle
- Priority scheduling
- Dedicated project lead
- Flexible billing terms
What this looks like for a real business
Representative examples of the kind of problems that land on our desk — illustrative scenarios, not client case studies.
Regional logistics operator
Dispatch was manually updating the same numbers across four spreadsheets, eight hours a week.
Automated the data flow between the booking system and the reporting spreadsheet.
Eight hours a week down to about ten minutes of review.
Early-stage SaaS founder
A validated idea, no engineer on the team, and investor conversations starting in six weeks.
Scoped and built a working MVP focused on the one feature investors needed to see.
A demo-ready product in time for the raise, with a clear v2 roadmap.
Retail finance team
An aging on-premise system with no documented backups and a compliance review coming up.
Assessed the current architecture, migrated critical systems to the cloud, documented everything.
Passed the compliance review and cut monthly infrastructure costs.
Engineering without the layers
Small firms hire us instead of an agency for the same reasons startups do.
You talk to the person doing the work
No account manager relaying messages to a developer you've never met.
Fixed scope, in writing
You see the price and the deliverables before anything gets built.
Canadian-based, your timezone
Meetings that don't happen at 11pm your time.
Built to hand off
Documentation and training so you're never locked to us.
Questions people ask before the call
More questions about advisory work or pricing? Check Consulting, Price, or About.
Start your project with a free 30-minute call
No pitch deck, no pressure. Tell us what you want built and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.
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