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1CTech designs and builds backend systems, cloud infrastructure and AI-enabled products for companies in Canada and the US. Scoped engagements, written plans, and systems your team can run without us.
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What we do
Five ways to work with us. Every engagement is scoped in writing before the first invoice.
Work
Built in production, not in a slide deck
1CTech is the parent company of Scheduler0 and Afefehub. The engineering decisions behind them are the same ones we bring to client work.
Our product
Scheduler0
A unified platform for cron jobs and scheduled work.
A cloud-native scheduling platform that lets engineering teams run jobs across any cloud, watch them execute in real time, and recover automatically when something fails. It is where our approach to reliability, observability and developer experience is proven before we bring it to client work.
- Runs on your infrastructure or ours, across AWS, GCP, Azure and on-premises
- Natural-language scheduling turns a plain sentence into a validated job
- Built for integration with AI agents and automated workflows
Our product
Afefehub
Real reviews from real voices.
A review platform for businesses across Africa. Every review is a public Instagram reel or a WhatsApp voice note from a real customer, which an AI agent verifies, transcribes and summarises before it appears on the business's page. Customers can also ask Afefehub on WhatsApp for recommendations drawn from those reviews.
- Video and voice reviews with no app or sign-up required
- AI verification, transcription and summaries of every review
- WhatsApp recommendations for restaurants, cafés, hotels and local businesses
Stabilise a system that keeps failing
A two week assessment with findings ranked by risk, then a fixed-scope remediation sprint. Common for background processing, queues and scheduling that have become a liability.
Set up cloud infrastructure properly
Accounts, networking, CI/CD and observability defined as code for a product that has outgrown a single server or a console-built setup.
Ship an AI feature that holds up
Discovery to choose the right model and boundaries, then a build with evaluations, spend caps and fallbacks. Released behind a flag, measured, then rolled out.
Provide senior technical direction
A weekly retainer for a founder or executive team: architecture decisions, hiring, vendor reviews and realistic estimates.
How we work
A process built around not wasting your time
Discovery
A short conversation about what you are building and where it hurts, followed by a written proposal with scope, milestones and price.
Build in the open
Weekly demos, a shared plan, and code in your repositories and cloud accounts from the first day. No surprises at the end.
Hand-off that sticks
Documentation, runbooks and a recorded walkthrough so your team owns the result. Ongoing support is available but never required.
About
A small consultancy with production standards
1CTech is a software engineering consultancy based in Mississauga, Ontario. We design and build the backend systems, cloud infrastructure and AI-enabled products that companies depend on, and we provide senior technical direction to leadership teams that need it.
We are also a product company. 1CTech is the parent of Scheduler0, a cloud-native job scheduling platform for engineering teams, and Afefehub, a video and voice review platform for businesses across Africa. Running products of our own keeps our opinions about reliability, observability and user experience grounded in what actually works.
Engagements are deliberately small and senior. You work directly with the engineers who design and build your system, in your repositories and your cloud accounts, with a written plan and weekly demonstrations of progress. When a project needs a specialist we do not have, we bring one in and say so.
Boring is a feature
Proven tools, explicit failure modes and small blast radii beat clever architecture every time.
You own everything
Work happens in your repositories and your accounts. Ending an engagement never means losing access.
Ship weekly
A working increment every week keeps scope honest and gives you something to react to instead of a status report.
FAQ
Common questions
Mostly seed to Series B companies and product teams in Canada and the US that need senior engineering without a full-time hire, and larger organisations with a scoped problem: an audit, a migration, or a system nobody in-house has capacity to build.
Contact
Tell us what needs to work
Describe the project in an email and you will hear back within two business days, including a clear no when we are not the right fit.
- Office
- 1063 Douglas McCurdy Common
Mississauga, ON, Canada
Open in Maps - Hours
- Eastern Time. Remote by default, on-site in the Greater Toronto Area by arrangement.
- Company
- 14108779 Canada Inc., operating as 1CTech.
Federally incorporated in Canada.