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DTC fashion + lifestyle
$5M to $40M GMV DTC fashion and lifestyle operators on Shopify Plus. Subscription on essentials, post-purchase via Gorgias, lifecycle on Klaviyo, headless front-ends where the brand earns the build.
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Agency in Toronto.
Shopify Plus, web platforms, and SaaS marketing sites for Toronto DTC, fintech, and AI-SaaS brands on Eastern Time. Same-day response.
Canada's largest tech hub. Operator-led brands.
Looking for a Shopify agency or SaaS web developer in Toronto, MaRS, or the Bay Street financial corridor? Digital Heroes works with Toronto brands across DTC fashion, fintech, and AI-SaaS.
Toronto sits at the convergence of three major commerce hubs. The MaRS Discovery District is North America's largest urban innovation hub. The Vector Institute supplies AI talent. Bay Street hosts a thriving fintech corridor. Together, they pull operator-led brands like Endy, Knix, and Drake General Store into a scaleup pipeline we know well.
Same Eastern Time as our New York office means a full nine-hour daily overlap. A 90-minute flight gets us there when in-person work matters. You get same-day Slack response Monday through Friday 9 to 6 ET, weekly Friday demos, and 24/7 emergency support through our Delhi and Sydney offices.
Three Toronto archetypes we ship.
The Toronto market splits into three repeatable patterns. Each has its own content gravity and integration topology. We ship DTC fashion, fintech, and AI-SaaS builds across all three.
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Fintech + B2B SaaS
Bay Street adjacent regtech, payments, and B2B SaaS operators serving Canadian banks and the US-CA cross-border mid-market. Compliance-aware content surfaces, Next.js marketing sites, dashboard UI, and integration-heavy stacks.
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AI/ML applied SaaS
AI tooling and applied-ML SaaS founded out of the Vector Institute pipeline. Marketing-site rebuilds, dashboard surfaces, public docs portals on Mintlify, evidence-led benchmark content.
Eastern Time. Full-day overlap.
Toronto runs on the same Eastern Time as our New York office. Same nine-hour working window, same Slack timing, 90-minute flight when in-person work makes sense.
Six services for Toronto brands.
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Shopify Plus for DTC fashion
Plus build, subscription on essentials, post-purchase ops, lifecycle email, headless when earned.
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Web development
Next.js, Vercel, Stripe, integration-heavy custom builds for Bay Street fintech.
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SaaS marketing site + dashboard
Marketing site, dashboard UI, docs portal, integration surfaces for Vector-pipeline AI-SaaS.
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Web design system
Figma library, accessibility-baked, motion-aware patterns, dark-light tokens.
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Brand identity system
Logo, type, color, motion, voice, guidelines, Figma library handoff.
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Growth strategy
North-star metric, growth model, weekly experiment cadence, paid-organic balance.
Looking for a Shopify agency or SaaS web developer near you in Toronto?
We work across the GTA: downtown Toronto, the Financial District, MaRS, King West, Liberty Village, and Queen West. We also serve Mississauga, Markham, North York, and the Vaughan tech corridor. Eastern Time coverage: Monday through Friday 9 to 6, weekly Friday demos, same-day Slack response.
Our Toronto reference points are operator-led DTC brands (Endy, Knix, Drake General Store caliber), Bay Street fintech, and Vector Institute AI-SaaS founders scaling their first commercial product.
For the stack: we build on Next.js and Vercel. For fintech, we ship with Stripe billing. For Shopify, we integrate Shopify Plus with the Klaviyo lifecycle stack.
We design in Figma, ship through GitHub, and report via Looker Studio. Marketing sites run LCP under 2.5 seconds per the web.dev Core Web Vitals rubric.
Five questions Toronto founders ask.
Do you have an office in Toronto?
No. We're remote-first with HQs in New York and Delhi, plus offices in London, Sydney, and Lucknow. We work with Toronto brands on Eastern Time (9 to 6 ET, Monday through Friday) with same-day Slack response. We will not invent a fake Toronto office.
What kinds of Toronto brands do you typically work with?
Three archetypes fit best. First: $5M to $40M GMV DTC fashion or lifestyle operators scaling on Shopify Plus. Second: Bay Street fintech or regtech SaaS builders needing a marketing-site rebuild and compliance content. Third: Vector Institute AI-SaaS founders needing dashboard UI and a public docs portal.
Do you build fintech or only ecommerce?
Both equally. Toronto splits roughly 45 percent DTC and 55 percent SaaS or fintech. We ship Shopify Plus for fashion and lifestyle brands while building Next.js marketing sites, dashboard UI, and product surfaces for Bay Street fintech and Vector Institute AI-SaaS.
Will you fly to Toronto for kickoff or quarterly reviews?
Yes. Toronto is a 90-minute flight from our New York HQ. Retainer engagements include quarterly in-person sessions at your location (downtown Toronto, MaRS, King West, Liberty Village, or the Financial District) or a neutral spot. One-off platform builds include a launch-week trip and a 60-day post-launch review in scope.
How quickly can you scope a Toronto project?
Fast. A 30-minute discovery call books within a week. Written scope and fixed-price quote land within 48 hours after that. 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 becomes binding.
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Toronto DTC + SaaS. ET coverage.
30-minute call on ET. Written scope and fixed-price quote in 48 hours. In-person across downtown Toronto, MaRS, King West, Liberty Village, and the Financial District for retainer engagements.
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The kind of operator-led brands Toronto runs on.
We build for the operator-led brands that define Toronto's commerce , names like Peace Collective and Patois , founder-run businesses that outgrew their templates and needed real engineering.
Independent Toronto businesses cited as market context , not Digital Heroes clients.
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Toronto areas + neighborhoods we serve.
We work remotely with Toronto brands across the metro, from our New York HQ team with daily 9, 1 ET overlap. Coverage spans Kensington Market, Liberty Village, Queen West, The Annex, Distillery District, Leslieville, Yorkville and King West.
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Start your Toronto project.
Call our New York HQ, or book a 30-minute intro call , we scope your Toronto build on the call and send a fixed quote within 48 hours.
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