Services
IT outsourcing
IT outsourcing from Canada answers a question United States and Canadian buyers ask in different words but with the same intent: how do we get senior engineering capacity in our time zone, under enforceable contracts, without paying fully loaded local salaries. Corpshore Canada runs dedicated delivery pods from Ontario, Quebec and Alberta at 35 to 55 percent of the cost of equivalent in-house Canadian IT hiring. For a United States buyer the appeal is nearshore rather than offshore: a partner within a few hours of any American office, inside a familiar legal system, with none of the overnight latency that turns a code review into a lost day. For a Canadian buyer the appeal is capacity that a tight domestic labour market will not supply at a defensible price. Eligible development is documented for Scientific Research and Experimental Development credits as it happens, and data residency is configured to your requirement including Canadian-only hosting where a public sector buyer asks.
How the service works
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Assessment and pod design
We assess the estate, the delivery process and the constraints, then design a pod with the right seniority mix rather than a generic team. The pod is sized to your throughput, not to a headcount target, so you pay for capacity you use rather than a roster you have to justify. The output is a delivery design and a dated plan that price honestly against the work in front of us.
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Embedded onboarding
The pod works inside your delivery process, your repositories and your standards from the start, with shared standups and a shared backlog. We integrate rather than run a parallel process that has to be reconciled later, because the reconciliation is where most outsourcing relationships quietly fail. Access, tooling and definition of done are agreed before the first ticket moves.
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Delivery and hardening
We ship against your definition of done, build the automated testing and observability that let you ship faster with a lower change failure rate, and document Scientific Research and Experimental Development activity contemporaneously with your finance team. Eligible experimentation is recorded as it happens rather than reconstructed at year end, which is the difference between a claim that survives review and one that does not.
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Scale and continuity
A promote-from-within culture and documented knowledge protect continuity as the pod scales, so the people who understand your system stay on it. When a scarce skill is needed for a short window we bring a distributed specialist under the same contract rather than pausing the roadmap. Governance runs on an agreed cadence so a delivery risk surfaces early rather than at a milestone.
How we deliver it from Canada
Delivery is from Canadian pods in your time zone, in English and Canadian French, with full working-hours overlap across Eastern, Central and Mountain time for standups, pairing and review. Data residency is configured to your requirement including Canadian-only hosting where a public sector buyer asks, and distributed specialists supplement the core pod where a scarce skill is needed under one contract.
Squad, 3 to 6 engineers
A focused pod under a lead engineer, embedded in your process, suited to a defined product or modernisation stream with quality and delivery reporting built in.
Multi-squad, 7 to 15
Multiple squads with a delivery lead, shared architecture review and a dedicated quality engineering function, with per-stream throughput and quality reported separately.
Practice, 15 and above
A delivery practice with an engineering manager, cross-squad standards and a blended Canadian and distributed model under one governance framework where scarce skills require it.
Compliance and data handling
Development and operations comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act by default, with Quebec Law 25 requirements applied where personal information of Quebec residents is in scope. Security controls follow the relevant group framework, with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness supported where the business requires it and certification scope confirmed on request. Cross-border transfer positions are documented transparently wherever any part of the work is supported from outside Canada.
Technology
We work in your stack and your cloud rather than imposing ours. Teams are experienced across common web, mobile, backend, data and cloud technologies, and across CI/CD, infrastructure as code and observability tooling. Specific platform depth is confirmed against your requirement during assessment rather than claimed generically here, and reporting is delivered to your format and cadence.
How performance is measured
- Deployment frequency and lead time for change
- Change failure rate and time to restore service
- Automated test coverage on delivered services
- Sprint predictability and defect escape rate
- Cost to deliver against equivalent in-house Canadian hiring
Reporting is through your existing agile ceremonies and tooling, with a monthly delivery review covering throughput, quality and risk prepared by us rather than handed over as raw numbers. Scientific Research and Experimental Development documentation is maintained with your finance team so the claim position is supported rather than reconstructed at year end.
Where this applies
Technology and SaaS
Product engineering and platform modernisation for Canadian software companies scaling into new markets, delivered by a pod that ships to your release cadence rather than a fixed-bid vendor that disappears at handover.
Financial services
Regulated platform work with contemporaneous Scientific Research and Experimental Development documentation and a controls posture a risk committee can review before it reaches production.
Energy and natural resources
Infrastructure, data and application support for distributed operations across Alberta and western Canada, staffed in Mountain time so field and head office both get same-day response.
Pricing and engagement models
IT work is priced as a dedicated pod, staff augmentation within your team, or an output-based engagement for defined deliverables. Dedicated pods suit sustained product work; augmentation suits a specific capability gap; output pricing suits a bounded project with a clear specification. We will tell you honestly which model fits the work rather than pushing the one that bills the most hours.
Frequently asked questions
How much cheaper is Canadian delivery than in-house hiring?
IT delivery from Canada typically runs at 35 to 55 percent of the cost of equivalent in-house Canadian IT hiring, and the honest figure depends on seniority and the skills required. The saving comes from the delivery model and structure, not from cutting the seniority you actually need, and we will tell you where a role should stay in-house.
Do your engineers work in our time zone?
Yes. Canadian pods work in your business hours across Eastern, Central and Mountain time, with full overlap for standups, pairing and review. This is a core reason United States buyers choose Canadian delivery over offshore, where a large time difference turns every exchange into a day of latency and every clarification into a lost afternoon.
Can outsourced Canadian development support an SR&ED claim?
Development performed in Canada may qualify for Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credits, and we document eligible activity contemporaneously with your finance team to support the claim. We are not a tax advisor, and the SR&ED explainer on this site sets out the general position and directs you to your own accountant for the filing.
How do you protect delivery continuity as we scale?
Undocumented knowledge is the main continuity risk, so we capture it structurally and maintain it as the pod grows. A promote-from-within culture keeps attrition lower than the industry norm, which keeps the people who understand your system on your system rather than restarting the learning curve every few months.
What happens to our data and code?
Code and data stay under your control in your repositories and cloud, with access governed by your identity and access management. Data residency is configured to your requirement including Canadian-only where a public sector buyer requires it, and the cross-border position is documented where any work is supported from outside Canada.
Can you take over an existing codebase?
Yes. We assess the estate, capture the knowledge that exists and the knowledge that does not, and take on maintenance and modernisation with observability and testing added where they are missing. We favour incremental extraction over a full rewrite, because a rewrite freezes the product in a market that keeps moving.
Build your Canadian team
Tell us the work, the languages and the coverage you need. You will have a considered response within six hours, or book a discovery call now.
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