Askyr builds and runs software for businesses that depend on it — but can’t hire a software team.
Flat monthly plans. A thirty-year builder. Software that stays up because someone is actually watching it.
If any of this sounds like your business, you’re who we built this for.
- The person who built it is gone.
- Nobody knows what the server bill actually pays for.
- Every change takes months and costs a mystery.
- It breaks, and everyone holds their breath.
Your software shouldn’t run on hope. This is a fixable problem.
Three steps, no surprises.
Talk.
Tell us what’s going on. It costs nothing and you’ll get a straight answer — even if the answer is that you don’t need us.
The System Review.
$1,500 flat, ten business days. We document your systems in plain English, tell you what’s fragile, and tell you what it all should cost. The documentation is yours to keep no matter what you decide next.
A plan.
Pick a flat monthly plan and we run your software like it’s ours. Requests ship in days, not quarters. Every month you get a list of what shipped.
Humans in business hours. Monitoring around the clock.
You can reach people during regular business hours. The machines never sleep — most problems are caught and fixed before you’d have noticed them.
One flat price. No hours, no meters, no surprises.
Care
$750/month
Your software watched, patched, backed up, and ready. Nothing preventable ever becomes an emergency.
- most plans start here
Care + Queue
$3,000/month
Everything in Care, plus a request queue you control. Two things actively worked at all times, and most items ship in two to three business days.
Embedded
$5,000/month
Your software department. Three active slots, next-business-day response, and a monthly planning call about where your systems go next.
Prices in CAD.Need more than Embedded? That’s a conversation.
Thirty years of work, and the roster to show for it.
Development and systems work done for these organizations, directly or through senior roles:
- American Express
- Health Canada
- Greenpeace Canada
- Mr. Lube
- Silver Jeans Co.
- The Dufresne Group
- Petsecure
- Morguard Investments
- Algonquin College
The part nobody else says out loud.
Sometimes the answer is that you don’t need us. Your current provider is fair, your setup is solid, and we’ll tell you exactly that — no charge, no follow-up sequence, good luck out there. An honest “stay put” costs us a sale and buys something worth more.
So if you’re ever unsure what your software should be costing you, just ask. You’ll get the real number.
Questions people actually ask
No — and it’s worth being clear about. We’re a software department, not an IT department. We build and run the software your business depends on. Laptops, printers, and password resets are a different trade.
Every month you get a list of what shipped. Not hours logged, not activity — finished things you can point at. If the list is ever thin, you’ll see that too, which is exactly the point.
Monitoring watches around the clock on every plan, and most issues are caught and handled before your morning coffee — that’s the point of the watching. When something serious needs a human at 2 a.m., it depends on your plan: on Care and Care + Queue, after-hours response is available as a flat-rate call-out. On Embedded, after-hours incident response is included — when it’s down, you’re never waiting for morning. And incidents never wait in line behind regular work on any plan — they have their own lane.
Big work becomes a project with a flat price you approve before anything starts. Projects run alongside your plan, never instead of it.
You leave with everything: your code, your documentation, your accounts, your data. We’ll even help hand it to whoever comes next. You always hold your own keys here — ask anyone who’s been held hostage by a provider why that matters.
The first conversation costs nothing, and you’ll leave with a straight answer. Worst case, you find out your setup is fine.