Truro, Nova Scotia · Serving all of Canada · Founder-led, 25 years in IT

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A small studio in Truro, built to be easy to hire.

One person accountable for your project, one price agreed in writing, and work that belongs to you when it is done. Nine people behind it.

Our story

Vijay Ara, founder and director of bizintegra.ca Vijay AraFounder and Director · Truro, Nova Scotia

Most small businesses in Atlantic Canada are stuck between two bad options. Hire an agency and pay for account managers, discovery decks and a relationship to maintain. Or hire the cheapest freelancer available and spend the saving on fixing it afterwards.

This exists as the version in between: senior work, priced plainly, delivered by the person who does it. No account layer, no retainer you forget to cancel, no proposal that takes three weeks to arrive.

We started in Truro because that is home, and kept the work remote because the interesting problems are not all within driving distance. Clinics in Halifax, agencies in Toronto, shops anywhere with a postal code.

The team

Nine people, led by Vijay Ara — Vijayaraju Ashokraju — who has spent twenty-five years in the IT industry building enterprise applications and AI automation, across development, architecture, delivery and digital marketing.

That size is deliberate. A lone freelancer has to turn down anything that does not fit the one thing they do. A large agency puts an account manager between you and the work. Nine people means the person who scopes your project is accountable for it, and you still only have one number to call.

For specialist work outside what the team covers, we bring someone in and tell you who they are. We do not pass your project to a subcontractor without saying so.

Vijay is based in Canada and available in person for larger engagements — at your premises, or anywhere in Nova Scotia by arrangement. Everything else is delivered remotely, which is why clients outside the province cost no more than clients down the road.

How we price

Starting prices are published on every service page. That is deliberate. Asking people to book a call to learn whether something costs $2,000 or $20,000 wastes their time and ours.

The published figure is a starting price for a typical scope. A written quote follows the first conversation and does not move afterwards unless you add something.

Third-party costs — hosting, Shopify subscriptions, domain registration, paid fonts — are paid directly by you at cost. We do not mark them up and we do not resell them.

Where we work

Truro first, Canada generally, in both official languages.

LOCAL

Truro and Colchester

In person when it helps. Chamber and community work included.

REGION

Halifax and Atlantic

Most clinic, retail and professional services work sits here.

NATIONAL

Across Canada

Remote delivery, Atlantic time zone, easy overlap with every province.

FR

Quebec and bilingual

French builds and translation for firms with obligations in both languages.

Start here

Tell us what is broken.

Send the short version. We reply within one business day with either a price range or an honest referral somewhere better.

Tools we connect, manage and report on

Our development stack

Languages

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • C#
  • .NET
  • SQL

Web and mobile

  • HTML and CSS
  • Android
  • iOS

Frameworks and platforms

  • WordPress
  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce

Integration and automation

  • Zapier
  • Make
  • n8n
  • REST APIs
  • Webhooks
  • Stripe
  • Twilio
  • Git

Business workflow

  • Zoho
  • HubSpot
  • Notion
  • Airtable
  • Trello
  • QuickBooks

Hosting and cloud

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Cloudflare
  • cPanel
  • Linux

AI

  • Claude API
  • MCP
  • Retrieval (RAG)
  • Prompt caching

Looking for a developer rather than a design shop? Contract development is billed hourly at a flat rate, and white-label work keeps your name on the delivery.

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