Custom software · AI legal platform
Demand Pay
An Ontario employment-law platform that drafts demand letters and court documents from the facts of a case
View case studyFor startups: Ship the product, prove the model, keep the option to scale
A prototype from an AI tool gets you a demo. Real users, payments, security and the next ten features need engineering. We build fast first versions with AI-assisted development and the senior oversight that keeps them from becoming the rewrite you cannot afford.
Who this is for
- Pre-seed to Series A founders and small product teams
- Companies launching an AI feature or an AI-first product
- Teams that need senior engineering judgment without a full-time hire
Sound familiar?
The problems we hear most
- You need something in front of users in weeks, not quarters.
- The no-code or AI-generated prototype cannot take payments, scale or pass a security questionnaire.
- Development spend keeps growing without a product to show for it.
- You are not sure which parts to buy, which to build and which to postpone.
- An enterprise customer or investor is asking about security, data handling and ownership.
How we help
Four ways we usually start
MVP and SaaS development
The smallest product that proves the model, built on a standard stack in your own accounts, with authentication, billing, analytics and deployment pipelines from day one.
Learn moreAI integration done properly
Language models behind one router, evaluation sets from real cases, data handling you can explain to a customer, and the ability to switch providers as models improve.
Learn moreFractional engineering
A senior engineer who reviews, plans and unblocks your team a few days a month, or owns delivery until you hire.
Learn moreA website that converts
A fast, accessible marketing site with the positioning, pricing and proof a buyer looks for, built in weeks.
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How it works
- 1
A free call to cut scope to what proves the model.
- 2
An architecture decision record and a phased plan with hours and rates.
- 3
Working software every two weeks, demoed to you and to users.
- 4
Launch, measure, iterate, and a security checklist you can hand to a customer.
Done for you, done with you, or learn to do it yourself
Startups usually choose done for you to launch, then done with you as they hire their own engineers.
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What can AI automate in your business?
Nine questions about where your team's time goes. You get an automation score, the three workflows worth automating first, an estimate of hours you could recover, and the right way to start. Five minutes, no sign-up.
You will get
- An automation readiness score
- Your top three opportunities, with how we solve each
- An estimate of hours recovered per week
- The engagement model that fits your team
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Questions
From startups
Can you take over a prototype we built with an AI tool?
Usually. We review it, keep what is sound, and rebuild the parts that will not survive real users: data model, authentication, payments and deployment.
Who owns the code and the accounts?
You do, from the first commit. Your repository, your cloud accounts, your domain, with documentation so any engineer you hire can take over.
Do you take equity?
No. We work for fees with a written scope so the relationship stays simple.
Free consultation
Tell us what is slowing your business down
A free 30-minute consultation about a custom website, custom software, a business valuation, AI or automation. We tell you what we would do first and roughly what it would cost. A person replies within one business day.
Or reach us directly:info@datafunction.ca+1 416-319-3884