What we do

Work for hire, on the same terms.

We build for other people the way we build our own software: so that you could, in principle, fire us and still own everything that matters.

Ⅰ

Build it

Software written from scratch, by the people who will still be maintaining it. Web applications, mobile apps, services, integrations, the plumbing between systems that were never meant to talk.

  • Web applications and internal tools
  • Native Android applications
  • APIs, services and background workers
  • Integrations between systems that do not share a vocabulary
Ⅱ

Host it yourself

If you would rather not rent your core systems from a company that can change its pricing, deprecate your API or read your data, we do this for ourselves and we will do it for you.

  • Self-hosted infrastructure on hardware you own
  • Local AI inference instead of a per-token bill
  • Private git, CI and artifact distribution
  • Migration off a managed service you have outgrown
Ⅲ

Keep it running

The unglamorous half, and the half most engagements skip. Someone has to answer when it breaks at an inconvenient hour, and know the system well enough to fix it rather than restart it.

  • Maintenance and support for systems we built
  • Taking over a codebase whose author has moved on
  • Upgrades, dependency work and security patching
  • Monitoring, logging and the alerting that makes them useful
Ⅳ

Work out what to build

Before any of the above. An honest read on what a system should do, what it will cost, and — often the most valuable answer — which parts of it you should not build at all.

  • Technical review of an existing system
  • Architecture and approach for something new
  • Build-versus-buy, with the arithmetic shown
  • Second opinion on a quote or a plan you have been handed

How it usually starts

An email describing the problem, not the solution. We read it, ask the awkward questions, and tell you what we think it costs — including the cases where the honest answer is that you should not build it.

Code Lifeline Inc. is incorporated in Ontario and HST-registered. Engagements are quoted per project or at a day rate, depending on which suits the work.

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