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Four different kinds of relationship, kept separate on purpose. The associations we are part of, the institutions backing the company, the firms we bring in when the work is not ours to do, and the marketplaces where our record is published somewhere we cannot edit it.
Most companies bury this in a logo strip and hope it reads as credibility. It is more useful split apart, because the four groups below mean genuinely different things.
An association is a sector we participate in. An institution backing the company is support we received. A service partner is a firm we hand work to when it is not ours to do. A marketplace is somewhere our work is listed and reviewed under rules we do not set. Lumping them into one wall of logos would let the strongest relationship borrow credibility from the weakest, and would leave you unable to tell which is which.
Sector bodies we are part of. Manufacturing, food and beverage, natural health, and applied AI, which between them cover most of the operations we get called into.
Quebec's research and innovation network, running since 1978. It connects manufacturers and technology companies with innovation programmes, advisers and each other.
Often the first door when a client's automation project needs innovation funding rather than a bigger budget.
Quebec's industrial subcontracting network. It runs the buyer and supplier matchmaking days and publishes the Baromètre industriel québécois.
Its members are manufacturers with real supply chains, which is exactly where order intake and MRP problems live.
A Montreal non-profit that advises manufacturers in Saint-Laurent and the wider metropolitan region on innovation, exports and the shift to more durable operations. It is a matchmaking body more than a trade association: its job is to put a manufacturer in front of the people who can actually move a project.
The local door for a Montreal manufacturer who needs an operations or technology partner, rather than a provincial or national network.
The Conseil de la transformation alimentaire du Québec, the largest food processing network in the province with more than 650 members.
Food and beverage distribution is one of our heaviest verticals, for MRP implementations and for order intake alike.
The Canadian Food Innovation Network, a national body connecting food and beverage companies with technology, funding and research partners.
The national counterpart to CTAQ, and where food technology projects find collaborators outside Quebec.
The Canadian Health Food Association, Canada's largest trade association for natural health and organic products.
Health and supplements brands sell wholesale into a long tail of independent retailers, which is the order pattern PDF to Order was built for.
A Quebec applied AI, photonics and quantum network that helps companies take projects from proof of concept through to industrialisation.
Relevant to the part of our work that is genuinely machine learning rather than automation with a better label.
The Centre d'entreprises et d'innovation de Montréal, a technology incubator supporting Quebec startups through financing, launch, commercialisation and growth.
Montreal's startup infrastructure, and part of how a small team ships a Shopify app at all.
Programmes and institutions that have supported LevelOps with funding, advice or access to their network. None of them owns the product roadmap.
A Quebec organisation focused on the commercialisation and adoption of Quebec technology.
Canada's federal research and innovation body, supporting technology development in small and medium businesses.
An eight month accelerator powered by Desjardins, supporting Canadian technology startups with mentorship, a non dilutive grant and potential investment.
The Business Development Bank of Canada, the federal Crown corporation that finances and advises Canadian entrepreneurs. Unlike a grant programme, BDC is a bank: the support is a loan, an advisory mandate or both, and the terms are commercial.
Where a manufacturer or a distributor needs working capital or a growth loan that a chartered bank will not write, or an outside pair of eyes on the numbers before they buy another system.
Firms we bring in when a client needs work we do not do. We take no fee for the introduction, and we only name firms we would put in front of our own customers.
An SEO and GEO agency, working on visibility in search engines and in AI answer engines.
When the constraint is that buyers cannot find the client at all, rather than that orders are slow to process once they arrive.
An accounting firm for growing businesses.
Where an ERP or MRP rollout runs into the chart of accounts, or the books need to be trustworthy before any system built on them can be.
A Montreal Shopify and Klaviyo agency working as a long term partner on storefronts, operations and ecommerce automation.
Where a merchant needs continuing Shopify development and theme work alongside the order intake side we handle.
A Montreal growth marketing agency covering content, paid, social and CRM, including HubSpot implementation.
Where demand generation or a CRM that nobody trusts is the bottleneck, rather than the operation behind it.
A Montreal HubSpot Platinum Partner specialised in revenue operations for industrial, manufacturing and complex service companies. They implement HubSpot and connect it to the ERP, MRP and CPQ systems already running the business.
Where the CRM is the missing piece, or HubSpot has to talk to the ERP we just put in, and the work needs an integrator who does that every week rather than a growth agency that also happens to open a portal.
A Montreal search engine agency that dropped everything except SEO and Google Ads. Technical SEO, content and paid search for B2B and ecommerce, including Shopify.
When the constraint is that buyers cannot find the client in Google, rather than that orders are slow to process once they arrive. Sitegrow covers the same problem with a GEO angle. Rablab is the one we call when the work is search engines and nothing else.
A Montreal operator-led firm that helps CPG brands scale. Commercial growth plans, on-demand consulting across sales, operations, finance and marketing, and a fractional country manager when the founder cannot be in every function at once.
Where a consumer brand has the order flow under control and the next constraint is how they sell, how they enter retail, or how the company is actually run. We handle the systems. They handle the commercial side.
No money changes hands on these introductions. If that ever changes, this page will say so before an introduction is made rather than after.
Directories that vet the firms they list and publish client reviews the firm cannot edit. Useful to you mainly as somewhere to check us against a record we do not control. These links go to our own listing rather than to the marketplace front page, because the listing is the part you can audit.
A Canadian agency marketplace that lists verified firms with public reviews the firm cannot edit. Our profile has been marked verified since 2023 and currently carries a 5.0 from two named reviews, including operators at LOKI Coach and Waste Robotics. The listing lives on the French path, which is the one that resolves.
The French language counterpart to ShopExperts for a buyer who wants to check us in a directory we do not control. The listing is the part you can audit: reviews, portfolio records and the date we were verified.
A Shopify expert marketplace running since 2015, matching merchants with vetted agencies and freelancers. It scores a listing on public proof such as reviews, verified credentials and published work, rather than on who pays for placement.
Our profile has been live since November 2025. It carries three project records, Soja & Co, Sharman's Proper Pies and Les Mauvaises Herbes, and a review posted to the marketplace by a named client rather than collected by us. It is also where we would point a merchant who needs Shopify work we do not do, such as theme development, and cannot wait for an introduction.
The rule is simple and we apply it against our own revenue. If the thing blocking a client is not something we do every week, we say so and name someone who does.
That costs us work in the short term and it is still the right call, because the alternative is a team learning on a client's budget. It also tends to come back: a firm that has watched us hand over work we could have fumbled through is a firm that sends work the other way.
Whether you are an association whose members keep hitting the same order intake wall, or a firm that meets the same clients we do from a different angle, tell us what you see and we will tell you honestly whether there is something here.
FAQ
No. Every link on this page is a plain link to the organisation, and none of them pays us for a referral. That is why this page carries no affiliate disclosure while our systems page does: on that page the links are built to carry tracked referral codes later, so they are marked as sponsored. Here there is nothing to disclose, and printing a disclosure anyway would imply a commercial relationship that does not exist.
Two useful things and one honest caveat. It puts us in front of the sector's own conversations, which is how we learned that food and beverage distributors and natural health brands hit the same order intake wall from opposite directions. And several of these bodies administer innovation funding, so we can tell a client which door to knock on rather than guessing. The caveat is that membership is not a certification. It says we show up in the sector, not that anyone has audited our work.
Because the alternative is pretending. We implement ERP, MRP and Shopify systems and we build order intake software. We are not an accounting firm, an SEO agency or a Shopify theme shop, and a client who needs one of those is better served by someone who does it every day. Referring the work out keeps the engagement honest and usually keeps it cheaper.
No. These are reciprocal relationships between firms who see the same customers with different problems. If that ever changes and money starts moving, this page will say so before the introduction happens, not after.
Possibly. The test is whether we keep meeting clients who need what you do and cannot do it ourselves, and whether we would be comfortable putting our name next to yours in front of a customer. Tell us what you do and which of our clients you would be useful to.
It is the weakest relationship on this page, and it is here for the one thing the others cannot do: you can audit it without taking our word for anything. An association confirms we show up in a sector. A marketplace publishes client reviews we can neither edit nor remove, next to project records carrying dates. If you want to test whether this site is honest, start there rather than with anything we wrote about ourselves.
Support has come in the form of programmes, advice and access to networks rather than anyone taking control of the company. The product roadmap is decided by us, which is worth saying plainly on a page that lists institutional names.
