Funding-Ready Software Development

Fund Your Build. Not Just Your Backlog.

Planning a serious software or AI initiative? Build it with an engineering partner that considers Canadian innovation funding from day one. 247 Labs becomes an extension of your team, shaping the technical scope, evidence trail, and delivery plan around the funding opportunities your project may be eligible to pursue.

Selected clients

Serious Technology, Built for Organizations Moving Forward

The 247 Labs Advantage

Engineering Built Around the Funding Conversation

Funding does not replace a strong product plan. It gives the right kind of innovation a clearer route to market. 247 Labs brings engineering, delivery documentation, and specialist coordination into one disciplined engagement.

Scope Designed for Evidence

Your statement of work is structured around clear objectives, technical unknowns, milestones, and deliverables, so the work is easier to govern and easier to substantiate.

Plan Your Build

Custom Software Development

From internal systems and customer portals to full SaaS platforms, our product and engineering teams build secure, scalable software around your operational goals.

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AI & Automation Initiatives

We turn high-value AI opportunities into practical pilots and production systems, designed around measurable workflows, responsible implementation, and commercial outcomes.

Explore AI Development

Delivery Documentation

Throughout the engagement, we maintain the technical records, sprint artefacts, and delivery clarity specialists need to assess work already underway.

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Specialist & Funding-Cycle Coordination

Where appropriate, we work alongside your SR&ED, grant, tax, and finance advisors so development decisions are informed by their timelines and requirements.

Talk to an Expert
247 Labs and their team were highly effective in their work. It is rare to find speed, detail and perfection, they have all three. Our team had an explosive idea, and 247 Labs helped us get it off the ground.

Sarmad Ibrahim — AI Innovation Manager, IBM

Funding-Ready Build Story

An AI Proof of Concept That Unlocked Further Research Funding

Dental AI — detecting and diagnosing oral health issues
AI Proof of Concept

Dental AI — detecting and diagnosing oral health issues

A research client needed to prove that AI could detect and diagnose dental disease, starting from a proof-of-concept prototype. 247 Labs handled the full architecture, design, and development of an AI dental platform that could detect and diagnose dental problems. The prototype impressed the research team, and the project went on to receive over $250,000 in additional research funding.

$250K+ In additional research funding secured after the prototype
PoC Full AI platform: architecture, design and development
AI Demonstrated detection and diagnosis of dental disease

Our Approach

How We Make Your Build Funding-Ready

The right program, timing, and eligibility depend on your organization and the work itself. Our role is to ensure the development process begins with the right questions, and leaves a clear trail of answers.

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Understand the Opportunity

We learn what you are building, why it matters, who it is for, and what makes the technical path challenging.

02

Define the Build Strategy

We translate the opportunity into a practical product roadmap, technical scope, budget range, and phased delivery plan.

03

Identify Potential Pathways

With your advisors where needed, we identify relevant categories of support, from R&D tax incentives to innovation and AI programs, without presuming eligibility.

04

Structure the Statement of Work

We connect milestones, experiments, decisions, and deliverables to the actual work your team needs completed.

05

Build, Document & Review

Our team delivers in visible sprints, preserving the project artefacts and technical context that make progress easier to review.

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Prepare for What Is Next

As the build evolves, we help you plan the next release, advisor handoff, and potential funding cycle with a clearer record of the work.

Canadian Innovation Funding

The Programs We Structure Your Build Around

The Canadian programs a software or AI build most often touches. We structure the scope and records; your advisors assess eligibility.

SR&ED

Scientific Research & Experimental Development Canada's largest R&D tax incentive. We structure SOWs around technical uncertainty and the records a qualified SR&ED advisor needs.

NRC IRAP

Industrial Research Assistance Program Advisory support and cost-shared contributions for SME innovation, incl. an AI stream. We scope the work and milestones an ITA looks for.

Scale AI

Canada's Global Innovation Cluster for AI Co-investment in industry projects that put AI into production. We define the build, integrations, and workflow outcomes it is judged on.

Mitacs

Accelerate research internships Cost-shared graduate and postdoc researchers embedded on a company R&D problem, often AI. We frame the question and integration path.

AI Compute Access Fund

Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy Federal help for SMEs to afford AI training and deployment compute. We size the compute, data, and MLOps needs of your build.

Leadership

A word from our CEO.

When companies come to 247 Labs, they are rarely just looking for a service. They are looking for clarity, momentum, and a partner who understands what is actually at stake. Every service we offer is built around one principle: technology should move your business forward in measurable ways. Faster decisions. Lower operational friction. Better customer experiences. Stronger ROI.

Azwar Khalid — CEO, 247 Labs Inc.

FAQs

Funding-Ready Build Questions We Get Often

The questions Canadian teams ask most before starting a funding-ready build.

Can 247 Labs guarantee government funding for my project?

No. Eligibility, funding amounts, application outcomes, and claim acceptance are determined by the relevant program administrators and depend on your organization, project, timing, and documentation. We help you build with a stronger process, not a promise of approval.

What Canadian programs might apply to a software or AI build?

Depending on the project, teams commonly explore pathways such as SR&ED tax incentives, NRC IRAP support, regional innovation programs, and AI-related initiatives. Each program has different objectives, eligibility requirements, timing, and forms of assistance. We will help identify the right questions to take to your qualified advisors.

Does all software development qualify for SR&ED?

No. Routine implementation, standard configuration, and ordinary commercial work may not qualify. SR&ED eligibility turns on the nature of the work and the program's criteria, including whether eligible experimental development was performed. A qualified SR&ED advisor should assess your specific situation.

When should we start this conversation?

Before scope and development begin is ideal. Early planning gives the team time to define the intended innovation, establish a documentation rhythm, and align work with any relevant program timelines. It is still worth talking if your project has already started.

Do you prepare or file grant and tax-credit applications?

247 Labs is your engineering and delivery partner. We coordinate with your qualified funding, SR&ED, tax, or legal specialists where appropriate; those specialists provide program-specific advice and handle their own professional responsibilities.

Build the Product. Strengthen the Investment Case.

Bring us your next software, AI, or platform initiative. We will help you plan the work, understand the technical path, and explore whether a funding-ready approach makes sense before the build begins. A 247 Labs expert will follow up within 48 hours.

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Client Success Stories

Technology Built for What Is Next

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Call us at 1-877-247-7421 or email hello@247labs.com

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