Managed technology · Waterloo, Ontario

Someone is
watching your
systems tonight.

Bumblebee Technology plans, builds, and runs the technology our clients depend on — from AI development to the switch on the plant floor. One team, end to end, and no queue between you and the people who fix it.

Who you deal with
One team

The people who scoped the work are the people who build it and pick up when it breaks.

Where we are
Waterloo Region

On site when it matters, remote when it doesn't. Canadian data, Canadian rules.

How we charge
Fixed scope

A number before we start, and a written plan you keep whether or not we build it.

New — AI project development

We build the AI tool,
not the slide deck about it.

Everyone has been told to do something with AI. Very little of it survives contact with real data and real staff. We scope one job worth automating, build it against your actual systems, and put it in front of the people who'll use it — with the permissions, logging, and review steps that make it safe to trust.

What we build

  • Document and form processing — intake, invoices, case files, applications
  • Internal assistants that answer from your own policies and records
  • Data extraction and clean-up feeding reports that reconcile
  • Workflow automation across systems that were never built to talk

How we scope it

  • One process. Named, timed, and costed as it runs today.
  • Two-week build. A working tool on your data, not a demo on ours.
  • Held to a number. Hours saved or errors avoided, measured after.
  • Your call to continue. Pilot first, then decide what's next.

What we won't do

  • Ship a chatbot onto your website and call it a strategy
  • Send your records to a service you haven't approved
  • Automate a broken process instead of fixing it
  • Bill for a pilot that didn't earn its keep
Services

Everything an IT
department would own.

Pick the pieces you need. Most clients start with one project and end up handing us the whole thing.

STR

Technology strategy

A plain-language roadmap: what to fix now, what to budget for next year, what to stop paying for.

INT

Systems & integration

Getting line-of-business software, Microsoft 365, and finance tools to share the same facts.

DAT

Data & reporting

Reports leadership and the board will read, built on numbers that reconcile to the source.

AI

AI project development

Custom AI tools built on your data — document processing, internal assistants, workflow automation.

INF

Networks & infrastructure

Servers, networks, Wi-Fi, cameras, and backups that hold up when nobody is watching them.

SEC

Security & compliance

Practical hardening, phishing defence, access reviews, and PIPEDA-ready documentation.

VEN

Vendor management

We deal with the vendors, hold them to dates, and translate what they tell you.

CIO

Fractional IT leadership

The CIO conversation on a monthly cadence, without adding it to your payroll.

Method

Look. Plan. Build. Run.

In that order, every time. Nobody sells you a build before they've seen what you have.

01 — Look

Two weeks inside your systems and your team's day. We document what you have, what it costs, and what's quietly broken.

02 — Plan

A written roadmap with sequence, costs, and risks. Take it to another firm if you'd rather.

03 — Build

We do the work ourselves. Fixed scope, named dates, a weekly note on where things stand.

04 — Run

Monitoring, patching, and a quarterly review of what changed and what's coming.

Clients

Where the technology
is the operation.

We work best where systems are business-critical and the consequences of downtime are operational, not theoretical.

Manufacturers

Shop-floor data, ERP and inventory integrations, asset tracking, and networks that survive a plant.

Non-profit & social services

Case management, funder reporting, and privacy obligations, handled properly on the budget that exists.

Professional firms

Document management, client confidentiality, and the boring reliability billable hours depend on.

The hive

You'll always know who
is doing the work.

Senior people, on the work

Whoever scopes your project builds it. No handoff to someone who wasn't in the room, and no account manager relaying messages.

Written down, always

Findings, decisions, credentials, diagrams, and dependencies — documented as we go and yours to keep, including if you leave.

We say the unwelcome thing

If a project shouldn't go ahead, if a vendor is the problem, or if the cheap option is the right one, you hear it early.

Start here

Tell us what's
not working.

Six questions, about a minute. A real person reads every one and answers within one business day — and if we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.

Why there's no email address here

There's nothing on this page for a scraper to harvest, so the inbox stays clear for people who actually need something. Prefer to talk? Ask for a call in the last step and we'll phone you.

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Before you send anything, the boring assurances

Your data stays in Canada

Canadian-region hosting by default, PIPEDA-aligned handling, and a written data-processing summary naming every system your information touches. No client records go into a tool you haven't approved.

Documentation is yours

Diagrams, credentials, decisions, and dependencies live in your systems, not ours. If you leave, you leave with everything, and we'll brief whoever comes next.

References, and an exit

An incorporated Ontario company, with client references on request. Ongoing work runs month to month after the first term — thirty days' notice, no exit fee, no hostage-taking.