Vancouver, British Columbia
Manufacturing software in Vancouver.
Custom systems for Metro Vancouver plants, shops and yards. Industrial land is 4% of the region and carries 22% of the jobs. Free thirty minute walkthrough.
The work
Four things we built. Different industries, same engineer.
Each one started as a problem somebody said out loud. All four are live: press the button and use the real tool.
Recommissioning a gas plant from twenty-year-old drawings.
The client bought a plant that had been shut down for years. 646 tags, thirteen questions each, before a single part could be bought. We built the system that answers them, tag by tag.
A 60-person fab shop, up for sale, and nothing written down.
The buyers loved the business and could not see how it ran. We interviewed 22 people, pulled out everything they knew, and built the whole operation into one package: flows, procedures, safety, ISO, maintenance, a legacy library. The deal closed.
A supply business that runs itself.
A teeth whitening supplier that sells to salons. One console reads the mail, chases the leads, counts the stock and writes the letters. The owner clicks only to send and to pay.
An end to end water delivery business, run from the truck.
One truck, 150 doors a week. The app asks every customer, builds the run, sends the invoice and takes the payment. The owner drives.
The money
28.5 hours a week. That is $881.
We mapped a 90 person fabrication shop. 28.5 hours every week went into work nobody sells (the payback chart on pragmabuild.com/how-it-works).
Here is what those hours cost on this side of the province.
- $30.91an hour, median. A production supervisor in the Lower Mainland Southwest.
- $881a week. 28.5 hours times $30.91.
- $45,812a year. $881 a week times 52.
Your rent is the highest in the country. The last thing that should be sitting on it is a person typing a number twice.
That shop had 90 people. Yours is a different size, so your number is your own. The walkthrough measures it.
Your town
Yes, this is your town
Industrial land is four per cent of the Metro Vancouver land base and it carries 22 per cent of the region’s jobs and 30 per cent of its GDP, about $43 billion (Metro Vancouver 2024 Economic Impact of Industrial Lands Study, reported 6 Jan 2025, read 2 Oct 2026).
That is the whole problem in one line. The ground is scarce, it is expensive, and more of your output has to come off the same floor every year. You cannot buy your way out with more space.
Food, metal fabrication, boat and marine work, wood, printing and packaging, and the warehouses that feed the port. Different trades, the same squeeze.
The work
What we build
The ground is scarce and expensive, so more output has to come off the same floor every year. Every one of these is about that.
Square feet you are not paying for twice.
One count, updated where the part actually moves, so you are not renting space for stock nobody knew you had.
Moving one job shows you the other nine.
A live schedule tied to real capacity, so a rush order is a decision with a visible cost instead of a hope.
The office answers without walking out.
A live job state the floor sets by touching a screen, so the customer gets an answer on the phone, first time.
Typed once, quote to invoice.
The quote becomes the job, the job becomes the shipment, the shipment becomes the invoice. In a city this expensive, re-typing is the cheapest thing to stop paying for.
You keep your ERP. We build the parts it never covered.
Money toward it
One door is shut. One is open.
The BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund is closed. Its page says so plainly, with no reopening date (BC government, read 2 Oct 2026).
What is open is the federal Regional Tariff Response Initiative through Pacific Economic Development Canada. It funds “equipment and technology adoption, including automation and digitization.” You need to be an incorporated for profit business with at least $1 million in revenue and real exposure to tariffs or exports. No fixed deadline is posted (PacifiCan, read 2 Oct 2026).
If the tariffs hit your order book this year, that is the one to look at. We will tell you when a door is shut before you waste a morning on the form.
What we hear
What usually stops people
“We have no room to grow.”
Then the growth has to come out of the floor you already have. That is what the map measures: the hours that are not making anything.
“We already bought software once.”
So has everybody. Your process does not get bent to fit ours. A system nobody uses is worse than the spreadsheet it replaced.
“Our data is a mess.”
That is most of the first two weeks. It is the same job whether you start now or a year from now.
“You are over the mountains.”
Four and a half hours, or an hour in the air. Most jobs run remote on a screen share and a phone camera in your operator’s hand, and we are on the same clock as you. When the job needs boots on the floor, we come.
Next step
Book a walkthrough.
Free. Thirty minutes. You get a written map of your operation: every process, what it costs in hours and dollars, what can be automated, and the order it pays back in. You keep the map whether or not you build anything with us.
Straight answers
- Do you come to the Lower Mainland?
- Most work is remote on a screen share and a phone camera. When a job needs us on the floor, we drive or fly. We are in Kelowna, same time zone.
- How big does my shop have to be?
- Ten people to five hundred. Plants, shops, yards, farms, fleets, distribution.
- How long does a build take?
- Hours to days, depending on scope. You see working pieces every week. There is no reveal at the end.
- Who owns it?
- We keep the code. You keep your data and your freedom to leave. Export everything any time, no fee, and a thirty day exit with no penalty.