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AI/ML applied SaaS
Reinforcement-learning and applied-ML SaaS from the Amii and UAlberta pipeline. Next.js marketing site, dashboard surfaces, public docs portals on Mintlify, evidence-led benchmark content.
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Agency in Edmonton.
Web platforms, brand identity, and dashboards for Edmonton's AI-research, gov-tech, and indigenous-led commerce operators. Mountain Time coverage, seven-hour overlap.
AI research origin. Capital city brands.
Looking for a SaaS web agency or AI-tooling web developer in Edmonton, the ICE District, or the UAlberta corridor? Digital Heroes works with Edmonton brands across the AI-research, gov-tech, and heritage-DTC spectrum. Mountain Time coverage Monday through Friday, 9 to 6 MT, with a seven-hour overlap to our New York HQ.
Edmonton has outsized gravity for its size. Amii (the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) and Richard Sutton's reinforcement-learning work at UAlberta produce one of the densest applied-AI research pipelines in North America. The provincial-government buyer base creates a steady RFP-shaped sales cycle. And the indigenous-led heritage DTC scene produces operator-led brands worth building for. We reference operator-led teams adjacent to Amii, Jobber's scaleup pipeline, or indigenous-led prairie brands.
Three Edmonton archetypes we ship.
The Edmonton market breaks into three repeatable patterns. Each has a distinct content strategy and integration path.
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Gov-tech + civic SaaS
Provincial-government adjacent SaaS operators with RFP-shaped sales cycles. Compliance-aware content surfaces, accessibility-baked design (WCAG 2.1 AA), audit-trail dashboards.
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Indigenous-led DTC + agri-tech
Heritage-focused DTC brands led by indigenous founders. Ranch and crop operations software. Storytelling-led commerce on Shopify, mobile-first dashboard UI.
Mountain Time. Seven-hour overlap.
Edmonton runs on Mountain Time, two hours behind New York. Your mid-day overlaps with our New York morning. Slack handles the async hours.
Five services for Edmonton brands.
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AI-SaaS marketing site + dashboard
Marketing site, dashboard UI, docs portal, integration surfaces for Amii-pipeline AI-SaaS.
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Web development
Next.js, Vercel, Stripe, integration-heavy custom builds for gov-tech and agri-tech.
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Web design system
Figma library, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility-baked, audit-trail UI patterns for gov-tech buyers.
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Brand identity system
Logo, type, color, motion, voice, guidelines, heritage-aware design patterns.
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Shopify for heritage DTC
Storytelling-led storefronts for indigenous-founded brands, accessible commerce patterns.
Looking for a SaaS web agency or AI-tooling web developer near you in Edmonton?
We work across Edmonton. That's the ICE District, downtown Jasper Avenue, Whyte Avenue, the UAlberta South Campus corridor, plus St. Albert, Sherwood Park, and the broader capital region. Mountain Time coverage Monday through Friday, 9 to 6 MT, with a seven-hour daily overlap to New York.
We typically reference operator-led teams adjacent to Amii, Jobber's scaleup pipeline, or indigenous-led prairie brands. We also work with provincial-government buyers on RFP-shaped cycles, and prairie agri-tech operators serving ranch and crop operations.
Technically, we ship in Next.js and Vercel, integrating with the Stripe billing layer AI-SaaS operators depend on. We design in Figma, ship via GitHub, and report through Looker Studio.
For analytics, we use PostHog for product intelligence. We hold marketing-site LCP under 2.5 seconds against the web.dev Core Web Vitals standard. For gov-tech work, we baseline every component to WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility.
Five questions Edmonton founders ask.
Do you have an office in Edmonton?
We're remote-first with HQs in New York and Delhi, plus offices in London, Sydney, and Lucknow. We serve Edmonton and Alberta on Mountain Time, 9 to 6 MT Monday through Friday, with a seven-hour overlap to New York. We don't maintain a local Edmonton office and we won't invent one.
What kinds of Edmonton brands do you typically work with?
We work with AI/ML applied-SaaS in the $300K to $3M ARR range, especially companies spun from Amii or UAlberta research. We also serve gov-tech and civic-SaaS with RFP-style sales cycles, and indigenous-led DTC and agri-tech operators serving the prairie heritage and operations economy.
Do you build AI-SaaS or only ecommerce?
Both. But Edmonton leans heavily SaaS. Most of our work is marketing-site rebuilds, dashboard UI, docs portals, and integration surfaces for AI-research, gov-tech, and agri-tech operators. The rest is heritage-led DTC and Shopify for indigenous-founded consumer brands.
Will you fly to Edmonton for kickoff or quarterly reviews?
Yes. It's a 4 to 5 hour flight from New York (typically via Toronto or Calgary). For retainers, we include quarterly in-person sessions at your location in the ICE District, Whyte Avenue, or UAlberta South Campus, or a neutral spot you choose. For platform builds, we budget a launch-week trip and a 60-day post-launch review in scope.
How quickly can you scope an Edmonton project?
A 30-minute discovery call typically books within a week. We return written scope and a fixed-price quote within 48 hours of that call. For SaaS marketing-site rebuilds, we add a 5 to 7 business day technical-discovery phase to map integrations and data sources before the quote is binding.
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AI + gov-tech. MT coverage.
30-minute call on MT. Written scope and fixed-price quote in 48 hours. In-person across the ICE District, Whyte Avenue, and the UAlberta South Campus for retainer engagements.
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The kind of operator-led brands Edmonton runs on.
We build for the operator-led brands that define Edmonton's commerce , like Bernadette's, a founder-run business that outgrew its templates and needed real engineering.
Independent Edmonton businesses cited as market context , not Digital Heroes clients.
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Edmonton areas + neighborhoods we serve.
We work remotely with Edmonton brands across the metro, from our New York HQ team with daily 9, 1 ET overlap. Coverage spans Old Strathcona, Downtown, Whyte Avenue, Oliver, 124 Street, Garneau, Highlands and Ritchie.
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Start your Edmonton project.
Call our New York HQ, or book a 30-minute intro call , we scope your Edmonton build on the call and send a fixed quote within 48 hours.
Served from Digital Heroes' New York + Delhi HQs · USD invoicing · NDA on request
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