Build useful tools.
Focused apps and systems shaped around real problems—not features invented to fill a roadmap.
Simic Solutions
Founder-led · Built in Canada
Simic Solutions builds practical digital products around problems experienced in real businesses, real shifts and everyday life.
The person behind the company
Founder & CEO · Simic Solutions Inc.
I didn’t begin with a software-company playbook. I began by operating a real small business, solving the problems directly in front of me and learning how much better the right system can make everyday work.
Five years running Courtice Canteen built practical experience in operations, branding, marketing, customer service and team leadership. Simic Solutions brings those lessons into products designed to make real life easier to understand and manage.
Founder note: This is the starting point. We’ll replace this with James’s final first-person version and chosen photograph.
The path here
Culinary Arts education and Red Seal certification established an early standard for learning a craft properly and doing demanding work well.
Courtice Canteen became an education in products, people, systems, promotion, adaptation and the responsibility of serving real customers.
ShiftKeep became the first major commercial iPhone product—a personal record for workers who want to track their shifts and understand their pay.
Simic Solutions Inc. was incorporated in Ontario on August 21, 2026, creating the company behind the products and the work still to come.
The company
Focused apps and systems shaped around real problems—not features invented to fill a roadmap.
Brands, websites, content and operating systems developed through practical use.
The decisions, experiments, failures and progress behind building the company are part of the story.
Still being built