AI-augmented engineering · Toronto, Canada

Ship enterprise software at a fraction of the cost.

We’re a two-person studio in Canada. We build the commerce platforms, integrations and AI ops the market quotes at seven figures — for a fraction of that, and we operate them after launch.

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Patient records crossed by the PropelRx bridge
· The thesis

Senior engineers,
AI-multiplied.

Agencies bill for headcount. We bill for the thing that shipped. The work that gets quoted in the high six figures by the usual suspects ships for a fraction with us — because the team is two senior engineers, and the rest of the leverage is software we wrote for ourselves.

01
Two senior engineers
No account managers, no junior practice on your codebase. Paris is on every call.
02
AI in the loop
Codegen, review, test scaffolds, ops monitoring — the leverage other studios bill at human rates.
03
Fixed-fee phases
We price phase 1 before we start. Scope creep is on us.
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· 01 — What we do

We build the connective tissue of modern commerce.

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Platform Engineering
Magento 2 + Hyva is our specialty; Shopify and headless are routine. The kind of storefront where 99 Pagespeed is a starting bar, not a stretch goal.
02
Systems Integration
POS to commerce, pharmacy to retail, ERP to everything. We write the bridges by hand against the vendor APIs — including the ones that have to respect a HIPAA or PIPEDA boundary.
03
Autonomous Operations
A live agent layer that watches sales, ads, inventory and SEO and proposes the next action. Currently in pilot on the Greenbrook stack.
04
Compliance Tooling
Validation, batch records and audit-trail integrity for Canadian compounding pharmacies. The compliance overhead becomes a background process.
· Flagship case study

Greenbrook,
online and in.

Greenbrook is a Canadian Natural Pharmacy & Health Foods retailer. Their in-store stack runs on Lightspeed X and PropelRx. Their online channel — GreenRx.ca — sells vitamins, supplements and health foods. We rebuilt both ends and the system that joins them.

The agency market quoted $200K just for base Magento, plus another $100K to even scope a single loyalty integration. Total estimated value of the platform they actually needed: $1.5M+. We shipped it for a fraction.

What we built
Magento 2 + Hyva storefront for GreenRx.ca, with Hyva Checkout, Algolia search, and Cloudflare on the edge.
How it connects
Inventory, customer and loyalty all sync bidirectionally between Magento (online) and Lightspeed X (in-store). One stock pool. One profile. One loyalty balance.
PropelRx bridge
When a script fills, we push the prescription label’s UPC and price into Lightspeed X so the cashier can ring it through the regular POS. PropelRx is McKesson’s pharmacy software; we don’t own it and we never touch its patient database.
Still on the bench
We run live ops, marketing, SEO and the autonomous-ops pilot on top of the stack we shipped.
Agency quote2.5×
Trace-AI delivery1.0×
Same scope. Same engineering. AI-augmented teams.
● greenrx.ca — LIVE
GreenRx.ca homepage — Magento 2 + Hyva storefront
PAGESPEED · DESKTOP 4 / 4 METRICS
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A11y
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Best Pr.
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SEO
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Stack: Magento 2 · Hyva Theme · Hyva Checkout · Cloudflare · Algolia
· Said about us
“ We were quoted $200K just for base Magento dev — another $100K to even scope one loyalty integration. Trace-AI shipped the full platform, every custom sync, every integration, for a fraction of that. It hits 99 across every Pagespeed metric. They still operate it for us. ”
Owner — Greenbrook · GreenRx.ca
Natural Pharmacy & Health Foods
Full case study →
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· 02 — Selected work

Recent traces.

All work →
FLAGSHIP greenrx.ca

Greenbrook · GreenRx.ca

Natural Pharmacy · Vitamins / Supplements
Magento 2 · Hyva · Lightspeed X · PropelRx
99 / 99 / 99 / 99 Pagespeed →
INTEGRATION in-store · POS

PropelRx → Lightspeed X

Pharmacy · Retail
API bridge · UPC + price only
Zero patient data crossed →
PRODUCT in-development

Compliance Engine

Compounding · Canada
Validation · Audit · Reporting
Regulatory automation →
PRODUCT in-development

Autonomous Commerce

Live ops · Marketing · Inventory
Multi-agent ecosystem
Decisions in real time →
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· 03 — How we engage

Four steps. No surprises.

Most engagements move from brief to phase-1 ship in under six weeks.
01 day 0
Brief
You send a Loom, a doc, or a repo. We respond within 48 hours — free.
02 1–2 weeks
Discovery
Paid sprint. We dig into API docs, integration feasibility, edge cases. Output: spec + fixed-price proposal for build.
03 weeks 2–6
Build
Senior team, AI-augmented. Daily Looms. Weekly demos. Scope creep is on us, not you.
04 ongoing
Operate
We stay on for live ops, integrations, marketing automation and the autonomous layer.
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· 04 — Engagements

Three shapes
of partnership.

No rate cards, no ranges. Every engagement is quoted from a paid Discovery phase — a real number before build starts, fixed once agreed.

· 01 PAID DISCOVERY

Discovery sprint

Fixed fee
1–2 weeks

Paid scoping. API research, integration feasibility, architecture, and a fixed-price proposal for the build. You own the spec regardless of what you do next.

· 02 PHASE 1

Platform build

Fixed price
phase 1 · 6–14 weeks

A Magento 2 + Hyva storefront, Shopify build, or custom integration suite. Priced from the Discovery spec. Scope creep is on us.

· 03 ONGOING

Operate + AI ops

Monthly retainer
ongoing

We stay on. Live ops, integrations, marketing automation, SEO, plus the autonomous-ops pilot when you’re ready. Most clients keep us indefinitely.

· NOT SURE WHERE YOU FIT?
Send a brief either way. We’ll respond within 48 hours with a real number, not a range.
Send a brief →
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· 05 — Where we plug in
LIGHTSPEED X MAGENTO 2 SHOPIFY HYVA PROPELRX FRONTIER POS KLAVIYO META ADS GOOGLE ADS STRIPE OPENAI ANTHROPIC SUPABASE ALGOLIA CLOUDFLARE
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· 06 — In development

An autonomous
commerce ecosystem.

A live agent layer that watches your sales, ads, inventory and SEO and proposes the next action. It drafts the purchase order. It rebalances the ad budget. It rewrites the meta description when crawl data shifts. You approve; it executes. We’re piloting it on the Greenbrook stack now.

TRACE OPS · APPROVAL QUEUE IN PILOT
INVENTORY EXECUTED
Draft purchase order — supplier #4
Reorder point hit on 12 SKUs
AD OPS AWAITING APPROVAL
Rebalance budget — Meta → Google
ROAS delta sustained across the week
SEO AWAITING APPROVAL
Rewrite meta — 3 category pages
Crawl data shifted on core terms
Representative proposals from the Greenbrook pilot. Nothing executes without a human yes.

Let’s leave a
trace.

We take on a handful of partners per quarter.

Book a 30-min call → hello@trace-ai.ca