Custom software, AI agents and automation for small businesses
A need no off-the-shelf software covers, licences that cost a fortune, or an old system nobody dares touch anymore? We build your custom software: a secure web app, easy to maintain and designed around how you work.
$250,000+
Quotes several of our clients received elsewhere.
Several of our clients had received quotes over $250,000 before calling us. No project managers, no offices, no layers of approval: you deal directly with the person who designs, builds and secures your application.
Projects
→ Custom platform
→ A solution you own
→ Web app
→ Web app
→ AI agent
→ Custom app
→ Microsoft 365 automation
→ Fast, secure static site
Microsoft 365
Method
Your application, designed and delivered with a fixed scope and a fixed price, whether it replaces an existing tool or starts from scratch.
Automation, new features: whatever you want once the foundation is solid.
Scheduled when you are ready, from a bank of hours.
Hosting
Three options, your choice.
On your own servers.
In your own cloud environment, under your control.
Hosted and monitored by JL Dev.
Security
No system is invulnerable. What matters is what is done before, and how fast you react after.
Rigour
Work
Managed IT services firm · Greater Montréal
Digital entertainment company · Greater Montréal
Manufacturing company · Greater Montréal
Maintenance
Security is measured at a point in time; it is never acquired for good. Every change and every newly discovered vulnerability can lower the level reached at delivery. Maintenance keeps it there.
FAQ
Absolutely. All our projects are delivered remotely. We follow our clients wherever they are, and we can work with several offices at once, from Montréal to Toronto and abroad.
No, it's our everyday. We already run projects with teams in several cities and countries in parallel.
Yes. Many of our projects start from an idea or a need no off-the-shelf software covers: an AI platform, an internal management tool, a Windows agent, a Microsoft 365 integration. See our work.
Let us be the judge. Modernizing the systems others refuse to touch is one of our specialties. Book an assessment: we'll look at your system and tell you honestly what is possible.
Not necessarily. Large firms bill for their structure: project managers, account managers, offices, layers of approval. We have none of that. You deal directly with the person who designs, builds and secures your application, and the price reflects it.
Projects start at $5,000. The assessment is free: in one call, we will tell you whether it makes sense.
Our projects start at $5,000. After the assessment, you receive a quote with a defined scope and a fixed price: the price does not change along the way.
Like our other projects, it is delivered at a fixed price, from $5,000. You also need to plan for the subscription or usage of the AI model itself (Claude, GPT or another).
Everything happens on Teams: discovery, regular demos as work progresses, delivery. Zero time lost to travel. That time goes into your project, and you see progress continuously.
No. We document the business logic during the project, so the knowledge no longer depends on one person.
Everything that can be migrated automatically is: we build the import tools for your system. Where the old system stored some data badly (missing relationships, inconsistent fields), you choose: we handle it, your team does it with an assisted migration tool we provide, or you leave it behind. No surprises: you know before the switchover what migrates and how.
No interruption. Usually your team uses both systems side by side for about a month: you tell us what seems different, and we adjust. Then we set the switchover date with you: the new application becomes the only one in use, the old one stays available read-only, and the final data migration is done.
No, unless you want them. During discovery, we review what your team really uses. What no longer serves stays behind: your new application is simpler, faster to learn, and you don't pay for the past.
The application plugs into what they already use: sign-in with their Microsoft 365 accounts, documents in SharePoint, notifications in Teams.
That's normal, and even a good sign. The initial scope stays protected: your project is delivered at the agreed price and date. New ideas go into a bank of hours or phase 2, and you decide when and how much.
No, Access still exists. But every version has an end-of-support date: Access 2016 and 2019 lost support on October 14, 2025, and Access 2021 lost it on October 13, 2026. No support means no more security fixes. If your database runs on one of those versions, now is the right time to talk.
Power Apps works well for some simple needs. Its limits show up quickly: a licence paid per user, every month, capped data capacity, complex logic that is hard to maintain, and awkward access for external users. A custom application has no per-user licence, and it is yours. In the assessment, we'll tell you honestly which one fits.
Your application is 100% yours: source code, documentation, data. It is built on standard, open technologies, so any competent developer can take it over. You are never held hostage.
Because security is measured at a point in time; it is never acquired for good. Every change and every newly discovered vulnerability can lower the level reached at delivery. Maintenance keeps it there.
On your premises, in your cloud, or hosted by us. Your choice.
Every application goes through an adversarial security review on every release, led by an engineer with more than 20 years in security consulting. No system is invulnerable: what matters is what is done before, and how fast you react after.