We scope before we sell
The first engagement is usually a short, paid discovery. You end it holding a plan and an estimate you can take to another firm if you want to. We would rather lose the work than start it on a guess.
About
A small team,deliberately.
Netwands Inc. has been building software in Toronto since 2022. We have stayed small on purpose — the engineers you meet are the engineers who do the work.
Who we are
We work with organisations where software failure has consequences beyond a bad quarter — public bodies, energy operators, security vendors and regulated businesses.
That shapes how we build. We favour boring, well-understood technology over interesting technology. We write things down. We would rather spend a week on the failure modes than a fortnight recovering from one. None of that is glamorous, and all of it is why clients come back.
We are candid about scope. If a project does not need the thing you have asked for, we will say so before the contract is signed rather than after.
In numbers
4Years operating
50+Systems delivered
20+Client organisations
8+Senior engineers
Selected clients
(02)Approach
How we work
Four commitments. They are specific enough to be broken, which is the only kind worth publishing.
Small teams, senior people
The engineers in the pitch are the engineers on the work. There is no layer of junior delivery underneath a senior name on a slide.
Working software every two weeks
Not a status report — something deployed that you can use. If a fortnight passes without that, something has gone wrong and we say so.
We plan for the handover
Documentation, runbooks and pairing are part of the engagement, not an afterthought. A consultancy you cannot leave is a dependency, not a partner.
Regulated environments
We have delivered into environments governed by SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PIPEDA and provincial public-sector procurement rules. We build to those controls and prepare the evidence your auditor asks for.
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- HIPAA
- PIPEDA
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- AODA
Come and talkto the engineers.
No account manager, no discovery call that is really a sales call. You will speak to whoever would run the work.
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