The IT jobs nobody will take. We take them.
Small towns run on two office staff and software from another decade. The big vendors want $50,000 platforms. We build the thing you actually need, at a fixed price your office can approve this month.
Between "buy a $50,000 platform" and "live with it forever" there has never been a third option. Now there is.
Every small municipal office has the list: the historical database that needs renaming and reorganizing, the utility billing living in a spreadsheet, the website nobody on staff can update, the license process still running on paper.
These jobs are not hard. They are just unsellable to big vendors, and unfamiliar to the local computer shop. So they sit, sometimes for a decade, quietly costing hours every single week.
Those are exactly the jobs we quote. Fixed price, plain language, sized for the purchasing authority your office already has.
Six ways in. One way of working.
Every engagement: a 15-minute call, a written fixed quote, the work, and a plain-language handover your council can read.
Custom Local Software
Purpose-built systems when off-the-shelf doesn't fit: utility and member billing, asset management, permit tracking, dashboards.
Field Apps & Sensors
Phone apps for crews and low-cost sensor hardware: road condition logging, inspections, meter reading, work logs.
Data Rescue
Historical rolls, cemetery registries, utility accounts, bylaw indexes: cleaned, restructured, documented, usable.
Website Fix or Rebuild
Fast, accessible, plain-language municipal sites your office updates itself. Agendas, minutes, and notices included.
Automations, Forms & Integrations
Reports that build themselves, exports that reconcile, online permit and license forms, systems that finally talk.
Your IT Desk
The retainer: priority response, a block of hours each month, and one number to call for whatever comes up.
Documentation & Continuity
Plain-language handbooks for your systems, continuity plans for your council, and training setups with safe example data.
Emergency Fix
Broken right now? We start within two business days with a fixed diagnosis fee that credits against the repair.
You don't need to know what to ask for.
Tick what sounds familiar. We'll tell you what it's called, what it typically costs, and where to start. No email required to look.
Not slideware. Working systems.
Designed, built, and operated by us, from the database to the phone in the truck.
A water co-op, off spreadsheets for good
A complete management platform for a member-owned rural water co-operative: member accounts, billing, and day-to-day operations in one system, replacing the spreadsheet-and-paper stack. Purpose-built software a small utility board can actually afford to own.
Road damage, mapped while you drive
A vehicle-mounted pothole sensor with a companion phone app. Crews drive the roads they already drive and get a mapped, time-stamped record of road damage, ready for maintenance planning and the grant applications that pay for it.
Built around how a small office actually buys.
A 15-minute call
Describe the problem in plain language. We'll tell you honestly if it's not worth fixing.
A fixed quote
One number, in writing, sized so your office can approve it directly. It stands for 90 days.
The work
Done remotely, with check-ins your office can actually attend. Nothing goes live without sign-off.
Handover, in plain English
Everything documented and owned by you, plus a one-page memo ready for the council package.
Too small for the big vendors. Too municipal for the web shops. Exactly right for us.
We're the vendor whose whole business is designed for how a 900-person town buys: fixed prices under approval thresholds, no lock-in, plain-language memos, and a phone that gets answered by the person doing the work. We're a Canadian family company: your data stays in Canada, and the work is never outsourced overseas.
The $1,500 Check-Up.
A fixed-price review of your office's systems, data, and website. You get a plain-language report your council can read, a prioritized fix list, and firm quotes for anything worth doing. If you proceed with a project, the $1,500 comes off the price. Small enough to approve today; useful even if you never hire us again.
The things a careful buyer asks.
Who actually does the work?
Do we need to run a tender for this?
What happens if you get hit by a truck?
How do you handle our records and FOIP?
Will the price change halfway through?
Send us the job nobody would take.
Fifteen minutes gets you a fixed number or an honest "not worth fixing." Both are free, and both beat another year on the someday list.
or email hello@rangeroad.ca