Building the sovereign default for shipping software in Canada.
Canner is a Canadian-owned deployment platform — the developer experience teams expect from Vercel or Netlify, with the data physically in Canada and no US legal hook. We’re building for the long term and talk with aligned investors who share that thesis. Consider this an open door, not a pitch.
Why now
Two forces are converging. Canadian organizations — especially in healthcare, finance, legal, and government — face growing pressure to keep data in the country and out of reach of foreign law. Meanwhile the modern developer workflow (git push → live URL) has become the baseline expectation, set by US platforms that can’t make the sovereignty promise. No Canadian-owned platform delivers both. Canner does.
Regulatory tailwind
Quebec’s Law 25, PIPEDA reform, and sector rules keep pushing data residency from ‘nice to have’ to ‘required’. Buyers increasingly ask where the bytes live before they sign.
The CLOUD Act gap
Vercel, Netlify, and AWS Amplify are US persons subject to the CLOUD Act. For regulated Canadian buyers that’s a structural disqualifier no feature can fix.
Experience is the wedge
‘Canadian hosting’ has existed for decades, but it still feels like 2010. Canner’s bet: pair a Vercel-grade workflow with real residency. The experience is what wins the developer.
AI-native shipping
A wave of apps is now generated in Cursor, v0, Bolt, and Claude. They all need somewhere to deploy — and Canadian teams need that somewhere to be here.
What we’re building
Canner turns a git push — or a drag-and-drop, or a CLI deploy — into a live URL on infrastructure in Montreal: full-stack apps, static sites, and AI demos across Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, and SvelteKit, plus Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, and Rust. Managed Postgres, custom domains with automatic TLS, preview deploys, response caching, and a data workbench all sit on the same Quebec-resident stack.
The platform is live, in production, and used by real Canadian teams today. Everything runs on boring, durable infrastructure we operate ourselves — Postgres, systemd, Caddy, Linux — chosen for longevity over hype.
- git push, drag-and-drop, or CLI → a live URL, data in Montreal
- Managed Postgres, custom domains + auto-TLS, preview deploys, caching
- Full-stack: Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, SvelteKit + Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Rust
- A REST API, CLI, and MCP server for AI-native workflows
Why it’s defensible
Sovereignty isn’t a feature you can ship — it’s a function of who owns and controls the company. Canner Inc. is 100% Canadian-owned and intends to stay that way. That isn’t a constraint we work around; it is the product. A US competitor cannot copy it without ceasing to be a US company. The developer experience gets us in the door; the ownership is why regulated buyers can actually sign.
Founder
I’ve spent fifteen years building data infrastructure for Canadian companies — including engagements at McGill University and Structube — and I run iaminter.net, a Quebec-based consulting practice for custom BI and analytics. Canner is the platform I kept wishing existed: Vercel-grade deploys with the data physically in Quebec and no US middleman.
Canner Inc. is incorporated and 100% owned by me today — a clean cap table and a technical founder who builds and operates the whole stack. I’m looking for investors who see Canadian data sovereignty as a durable, structural market, not a moment.
Let’s talk
If the sovereignty thesis resonates and you back technical founders early, I’d like to hear from you. The fastest way in is a short call — or request the deck and take it from there.
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This page is for information only. It is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, and nothing here is investment, legal, tax, or financial advice. Any investment in Canner Inc. would be offered only to qualified investors under applicable prospectus exemptions in Canada (and, where permitted, to accredited investors in the United States), through definitive written documentation. Canner Inc. is a Canadian-owned corporation and intends to remain Canadian-owned and Canadian-controlled. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees.