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Systems that carry a whole organisation
Finance, ticketing, membership, collections, building systems and the website — designed to work as one operation rather than eight subscriptions, and run day to day at scale.
The studio
Small studio. Long memory.
whizzy is a Toronto studio that designs and builds the systems small and mid-sized businesses run on. It was founded by Dan McGrath and draws on twenty-five years of building and running technology for law firms, manufacturers, cultural institutions and trades, and ten running a business on systems built in-house.
Where it comes from
Not a portfolio of websites. A record of running things: owning the systems, carrying the pager, and answering for them when something broke.
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Regulated and cautious industries
Work delivered for financial institutions, law firms, architects and manufacturers, where access control, audit trails and getting it right the first time are not optional extras.
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Environments that cannot fail quietly
A decade running technical operations where a fault is visible immediately and there is nobody else to escalate to. It shapes how everything here gets built and tested.
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The owner's side of the table
Ten years running a business on systems built in-house. The trade-offs between what's ideal, what's affordable and what can wait are familiar from the other direction.
Sectors
Different trades. Same job.
A law firm, a foundry and a landscaping company look nothing alike from the outside. Underneath, the work is identical: understand the operation properly, then make the technology serve it.
- 01Professional services
- 02Financial institutions
- 03Manufacturing & industrial
- 04Arts, culture & attractions
- 05Design & marketing studios
- 06Trades & field services
- 07Hospitality & events
- 08Membership & non-profit
How the work runs
Six things that don't change.
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Process first, then the system
The way the business actually works gets mapped before anything is built. The software follows the operation, not the other way round.
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You own it
Code, data, domains and accounts registered in your name, with a handover pack that explains all of it.
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Fixed prices
Agreed before work starts. Changes are quoted, never discovered on an invoice.
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Built in the open
Progress, previews and decisions visible in your own portal, week by week.
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No account managers
The people who scope the work are the people who build it. Nothing gets lost in a relay.
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No lock-in
No per-seat licensing, no proprietary platform to be held on. Leaving is always possible, which is why nobody does.
Coverage
Toronto on site. Everywhere else, properly remote.
On-site across the Greater Toronto Area, and remote for clients in the rest of Canada, the UK and Europe. A decade of working across time zones, with no hand-offs between the person you speak to and the person doing the work.
Worth a conversation?
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