How we build
You are trusting us with your pricing rules. Here is how we make sure they hold.
No jargon: what we check before anything goes live, where your data lives, what belongs to you, and what we do not promise.
Eight checks, seven blocking
Nothing reaches you without passing eight checks
Every change is checked automatically. If a check fails, the change does not go out.
No forgotten password
We check that no password has been left in the program.
Known flaws
Every change is screened for catalogued security errors.
Outside parts
The building blocks we borrow from others are checked and locked to a safe version.
Servers
The setup of the machines that run your tool is checked.
Tests
Your price calculation is tested more strictly than anything else.
Traceability
We always know exactly which version is running for you.
Break-in attempt
We try to break into the tool ourselves, on a throwaway copy, before it goes live.
Human review
A person reads it and approves. Always.
The eighth step takes more than one person: nobody here reviews their own work.
Your installation, on its own
Your installation is shared with no one
Most online software keeps all its customers in the same database, separated by a simple software rule. That holds, until the day a programming error lets one customer's data through to another.
With us, each client has its own installation, completely separate. In practice:
An urgent fix for you is made for you, right away. You do not wait for everyone's maintenance date.
Your data cannot end up with another client: the installations do not touch.
You update when it suits you, not when another client needs it.
If you leave, we hand you a full copy of your data. No complicated extraction, no negotiation.
Your data is copied automatically, to more than one location, and we regularly check that we can put it back. A copy nobody has ever tried to restore is worth nothing.
What we reuse
We do not reinvent the wheel at your expense
Price calculation, cost price, the bill of materials, tracking a quote: we have already built those pieces and we keep improving them. Every project starts from there. You do not pay twice for the same work.
The other way round, we do not turn your need into a template for everyone on day one. A need only becomes shared when it comes back a third time. Until then, it stays yours.
What stays specific to you is what has to be: your rules, your rates, your shop-floor constraints, the look of your quotes.
Where your data is
Your data stays in Quebec, for real
It is hosted in Beauharnois, with a provider of French origin, running on Quebec hydroelectricity.
Why it matters: a server set up in Canada by an American company is still subject to American law. The CLOUD Act lets US authorities demand that data, wherever the server is, and no contract prevents it.
Law 25 does not require keeping your data in Canada. It requires an assessment before sending it outside Quebec. We make that easy for you: it does not leave.
The limits, up front
What we do not promise
We do not have an official security certification yet. No SOC 2 or ISO 27001: the good practices are in place, the external audit is not. The day one of your contracts requires it, we tell you plainly what it costs and how long it takes.
We do not promise a timeline before seeing your rules. How long it takes depends on the number of product families, how complex your rules are and the state of your ERP. Anyone who gives you a price without looking has not looked.
We do not promise a quantified result. You will not see "+30% sales" anywhere on this site: nobody has that data for your sector, and neither do we.
We do not stay forever. The mandate ends when someone other than your senior estimator is really doing the quotes. What comes after (support, fixes, rule changes) is discussed separately, and nothing requires you to take it.
You have technical questions? Good.
Ask them. If your IT lead wants the full version, we send it to them.