Calgary is home. The work travels: the same studio, process and standards for an organization in Halifax as for one down the street.
What Arctos builds
One studio for the connected pieces of a growing business: how it wins customers, runs its work, and sees its numbers.
Working from anywhere in Canada
Most of a project happens in shared documents, staged previews and scheduled calls, so it does not depend on being in the same city. Every engagement follows the same route, from understanding the business to improving the system in daily use.
Choosing a Canadian partner
More Canadian organizations now ask where a vendor is based, where their data will live, and which province's rules apply. Those questions shape a build from the start:
- Hosting location settled during scoping, including Canadian regions where a project needs them.
- Forms, cookies and analytics designed around PIPEDA, provincial law and Quebec's Law 25.
- Accessibility built to WCAG Level AA, the benchmark Canadian accessibility laws reference.
- Funding and financing options, such as BDC LIFT for AI, considered before the budget is set.
Work across cities
- So Social Collective: One application behind an events brand in Calgary and Toronto: the public site, a staff operations workspace, and consent-aware attendee matching.
- Calgary Watch: A real-time, community-powered incident map that helps Calgary and Edmonton residents understand what is happening around them.
- Nics Delite: A couture-pâtisserie website and custom order builder for Nicole, a Calgary maker of one-of-one cakes and Filipino-inspired desserts.
Questions
Do you work with businesses outside Calgary?
Yes. Arctos is based in Calgary, Alberta, and works with organizations across Canada and the United States. Recent work spans Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto.
Is Arctos Launchpad a Canadian company?
Yes. Arctos Launchpad is a digital growth and technology studio based in Calgary, Alberta.
Can our website or application be hosted in Canada?
Usually, yes. The major cloud providers operate Canadian data centre regions, so a site or application can be hosted in Canada when a project needs it. Where data lives is settled while the project is scoped, not after launch.
Which privacy law applies to our website?
It depends on your province and who your visitors are. PIPEDA applies federally, Alberta and British Columbia have their own private-sector laws, and Quebec's Law 25 reaches any organization collecting information about people in Quebec. Arctos keeps a plain-language guide to Canadian website privacy rules on this site.
Does choosing a Canadian AI integrator help with BDC financing?
BDC's LIFT initiative, launched in April 2026, offers preferential terms to businesses that choose a Canadian AI solution or system integrator. Check the current terms with BDC directly.