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Since 2003, we have partnered with organizations on their complex software projects, from vision to production.
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Since 2003, Spiria has been a trusted digital partner for the creation of complex software, the scalability of development teams and the support of critical systems.
Custom Software Development
Application Modernization
Artificial Intelligence
A high-stakes project is as much about the relationship as the technology.
Digital systems that work for your business
Our approach brings clarity, usability, and technical precision to every stage — from discovery to design to delivery.
Discovery Phase
We understand your problem before writing a single line of code. That prevents costly mid-project rework.
Design
We create interfaces your teams actually adopt, because a tool that goes unused is a wasted investment.
Development
We deliver durable, secure code that integrates with your systems and evolves with you.
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Our Work
For over 20 years, we've been supporting industry leaders in bringing their technological ambitions to life. Proud to be a part of our clients’ successes. Here’s a glimpse at a few of their stories.
What They Say About Us
Your Career at Spiria
Spirians are more than just strategists, designers, and developers, they are agile problem-solvers who thrive on challenges and, of course, technology.
At Spiria, you can expect a culture where collaboration, curiosity, and innovation drive meaningful work.
We’re a Proud Canadian Company
A Canadian team, close to your reality. Founded in Canada in 2003, Spiria brings together bilingual experts in Montreal, Gatineau and Toronto. You work with people who understand your business context as much as your technology.
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When we think of national defence, we think of hardware: ships, aircraft, tanks. In 2026, that picture is incomplete. One of the most critical layers of Canada’s defence capability is increasingly digital. The quality of the software powering our defence systems have become a strategic imperative.
“Today, the defence sector relies heavily on cutting-edge, highly complex computer and digital systems that need to be built, upgraded, and secured,” says François de Bellefeuille, software engineer and VP Client Solutions at Spiria, a Canadian custom software development firm. De Bellefeuille is also a member of Gatineau’s newly formed strategic defence committee, a signal that the National Capital Region is positioning itself as a technology hub for the sector.
“A mission-critical system that fails, or ties your operational continuity and autonomy to another country’s decisions is a major risk. What you build, how you build it, and who builds it are now potentially questions of national security.”
The C5ISRT framework makes this explicit. Command and Control, Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting: the doctrine that now shapes modern defence operations is, at its core, a software problem. Every component depends on systems designed with precision, built to withstand adversarial conditions, and maintained by teams who understand both the technology and the stakes. A weakness in any layer is critical for national security.
These software threats are already well documented. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security recorded 2,561 incidents in 2024-2025 affecting federal institutions and critical infrastructure partners. While in August 2025, a vulnerability in widely deployed software exposed data at the House of Commons.
These are not abstract vulnerabilities. Now, the real challenges rising are related to the firms building the very technologies we use in defence. Systems built offshore without robust architecture become liabilities the moment they are deployed. And software developed outside Canada introduces supply chain dependencies that defence procurement frameworks are only beginning to address seriously.
“Canada has the talent, the firms, and the expertise to grow software capabilities from within, without relying on other countries,” de Bellefeuille adds. As Canada moves to meet NATO’s 5% GDP target, the contracts are being written and the systems are being designed.
Ships, aircraft, tanks: the hardware of national defence is only as capable as the software that commands, connects, and secures it. Well-built and Canadian-built critical systems are key to the success of our national defence.
IN 2025, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) reshapes the rules of business and technology. It amplifies what already exists: solid foundations become a competitive advantage, while fragile ones can translate to security, operations and financial nightmares.
“Sadly, AI will not solve all your business and technology problems, at least, not on its own,” says François de Bellefeuille, software engineer and VP Clients Solutions at Spiria, a Canadian custom software development firm. Founded in 2003, the company has a team of more than 150 experts across Canada and has worked with more than 600 clients cross-industries.
While it is impressive how much AI can improve efficiency, Spiria reminds us it is not magic. The reality with new technologies is that they often amplify existing successes or challenges in a company. “If we think of legacy software, adding AI will probably shine a very bright light on existing technical, data, efficiency and security gaps—putting them forward and making them impossible to ignore,” adds François.
Both Spiria’s business and software experts agree, legacy systems create a major obstacle to success for many organizations here in Ottawa. “These outdated systems create a major setback for many companies looking to integrate new technologies and keep evolving at the pace of the market,” mentions Mr. de Bellefeuille. “And it does not discriminate per industry.”
Whether companies evolve in insurance, manufacturing or defence, the strategic modernization of their systems could allow them to set foundations for solid and sustainable business growth.
Where to Start?
According to their experts, deciding which outdated systems need to be refreshed is a strategic and business decision rather than a technical one. “Yes, you use technology. But you use it to improve critical operations in your business. It’s something you should do with purpose and strategy.”
“With our clients, we rarely recommend a simple lift and shift,” says François. According to Spiria’s experts, anyone modernizing their software applications should minimally consider the interoperability of their systems, the real investment needed for an effective system migration, the impact on their users, employees and clients, and the key components needed to add new technologies, namely AI.
For François, the modernization of software systems is very important for Ottawa businesses. “I truly believe the Capital region can follow the fast-paced technology changes happening in the world. With the right tools, we can go far and use technology to help us foster positive change in the region.”
On a sunny summer Thursday, Spiria held its first hackathon entirely dedicated to agentic development. In concrete terms, the goal was to build a solution using agentic development (also known as agentic AI), a technology capable of designing AI systems that can execute end-to-end tasks autonomously (analyzing, deciding, acting, and iterating) without constant human intervention.
Everyone at Spiria participated. Whether their expertise was in software development, finance, or UX/UI design, the event brought together our entire team across Canada. Whether from one of our offices or remotely, each person chose to build one of 11 proposed tools, all designed to address real needs tied to Spiria's operations.
Participants paired up with a tool such as Codex, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot, and had the support of a team of internal coaches, people who had already developed an expertise in agentic AI.
This experience confirmed one thing: agentic development is already transforming the way software is designed and built.
Why do this?
Believe it or not, being the CEO of a software development company in the age of AI, especially with the rise of agentic AI, shakes things up. But being passionate about programming and having built a career from it is, for many other passionate people like me, even more confronting.
I still do a lot of development for fun and for internal projects at Spiria, but I obviously don't know every software technology out there. As agentic AI became more sophisticated, I knew I had to try it myself, using technologies I'm less familiar with.
I first tested Codex to build an internal tool for my colleagues in the Culture and Talent department, and within a few hours, in a technology I don't master at all, I created a working prototype. I immediately understood that it was time for me to change the way I code. I can no longer limit myself to only doing what brought me so much intellectual pleasure; it's now up to me to find other sources of stimulation.
The reality is that the last four decades have been filled with revolutions that simplified my life as a developer. Here, agentic AI is changing my day-to-day completely. I knew the whole team needed to experience it for themselves in order to understand it, and to learn it.
Beyond code generation
AI tools have long been seen as assistants, capable of writing a few lines of code, completing a function, or recalling the syntax of a programming language.
Today's agents go much further.
They can analyze a codebase, modify multiple files, run tests, spot errors, suggest an architecture, generate documentation, and take part in complete development cycles.
This doesn't mean human expertise becomes less important. On the contrary, its role changes and becomes even more decisive.
An agent can produce code quickly. On its own, however, it doesn't understand an organization's priorities, industry-specific constraints, operational risks, security requirements, or the long-term consequences of a technology decision.
This is precisely where the expertise of an experienced team proves its worth.
Our clients aren't simply chasing novelty
Most of our clients don't ask us to use a technology simply because it's new or trendy.
Above all, they want their solution to work.
- They want it to be secure.
- They want it to be maintainable.
- They want to be able to evolve it.
- They want to avoid depending on a fragile prototype, a single vendor, or a technology choice that will quickly become a liability.
Agentic development doesn't change these fundamental expectations. Instead, it increases our ability to meet them faster.
Used correctly, agents can reduce time spent on repetitive tasks, speed up the production of first versions, make it easier to explore multiple technical approaches, and improve certain validation processes.
They also allow our teams to spend more time on the aspects that require the most judgment: understanding the problem, defining the right architecture, protecting data, managing trade-offs, ensuring quality, and preparing for the future.
Speed isn't enough
It would be easy to reduce agentic development to a promise of productivity.
Producing faster is useful, but it isn't enough.
Software that's delivered quickly but is hard to maintain, poorly secured, or poorly suited to real needs remains a bad investment.
The value of agentic development therefore depends on how it's governed.
Agents' responsibilities need to be clearly defined, the tools and data they can access need to be controlled, their decisions need to be validated, rigorous development standards need to be maintained, and their use needs to be integrated into existing quality assurance and cybersecurity practices.
It's also important not to confuse generation speed with delivery speed.
Code is only part of the work. There's still a need to understand requirements, manage dependencies, test critical scenarios, prepare deployment, document decisions, and ensure the solution's continuity.
Agentic development becomes truly compelling when it's integrated into this entire value chain.
A new way of mobilizing our expertise
Every technological advance has allowed us to focus on more complex problems.
High-level languages, software libraries, development frameworks, cloud services, and automation tools have gradually eliminated a great deal of manual work.
Agentic development is part of this continuity, but its impact could be even greater.
As agents take on a larger share of technical production, value will shift toward the ability to guide them well, evaluate their output, and integrate their work into coherent systems.
There will always be a need to define the right requirements, choose the right paradigms, establish the right constraints, and ensure the different components work together.
There will always be a need to understand users, operations, risks, and business objectives.
That's where Spiria's expertise lies.
What Spiria brings to agentic development?
Our role isn't simply to plug an AI tool into a project and hope it produces a satisfactory result.
We help our clients determine where agentic AI can genuinely create value.
We can use it to speed up prototype design, modernize an existing application, automate certain tasks, support development teams, improve testing, or explore different solutions more quickly.
But we do it with the same rigor we apply to all our projects.
This means paying particular attention to architecture, security, privacy, code quality, maintainability, observability, and the long-term viability of solutions.
It also means choosing the right level of autonomy.
In some contexts, an agent can carry out tasks very autonomously. In others, it must propose actions that are then reviewed and approved by a person.
Turning experimentation into lasting value
Our hackathon allowed us to experiment quickly, test our assumptions, and better understand the real capabilities of today's tools.
It also reminded us that an impressive demo is only the starting point.
The real work is turning that capability into reliable, secure, and durable solutions.
That's exactly what our clients expect from us.
Agentic development is opening the door to new ways of building software. It can help us move faster, explore more, and spend more energy on the decisions that truly matter.
But its value doesn't rest on technology alone.
It rests on the expertise of the people who know how to use it, how to govern it, and how to integrate it into a long-term vision.
This is how Spiria intends to approach agentic development: with curiosity, with pragmatism, and with the determination to build solutions that work today and will keep working tomorrow.
And you... How is your company approaching agentic AI?
Frequently Asked Questions
We start from your business problem, not the technology. Sometimes artificial intelligence is the right answer, sometimes it’s a better architecture, modernization or better data. Our job is to figure out the difference before we begin.
When AI is the right path, we target a concrete use case (optimizing a process, automating a task, making better use of your data or deploying generative AI) then we build a roadmap tailored to your context. Our approach is human-first, because to be adopted, AI has to fit your tools, your processes and your teams’ reality.
We choose technology based on your needs, not the other way around. From UX/UI design to development, we deliver web, mobile and cross-platform applications, and we work with the major cloud platforms, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, in single or hybrid environments. Depending on the project, our teams use technologies such as .NET, Node.js and Angular, along with Swift and Kotlin for native mobile.
Yes. It’s a common request. A prototype validates an idea, but a product meant for production demands robustness, security and the ability to scale. We take over your existing work, consolidate the architecture, close the quality and security gaps, then deliver a solution ready to be deployed and maintained over time.
The first step would be to contact us. Even if you are very early in your process, our team can help you how to get there.
Our work is as varied as the organizations we work with, but our process is consistent.
In a typical software project, we follow a proven process. We begin with a Discovery Phase to clarify user needs, technical constraints, and risks before development starts. We then design the solution, followed by agile development and QA to bring it to life. Once your application is delivered, we stay with you to support, maintain, and evolve it over time.
Spiria is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, the most rigorous standard in this area, because it verifies the effectiveness of our controls over time, not just their design. It covers five criteria: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy.
Yes. That’s what we did for Cominar. After a first vendor was unable to complete the project, we finalized development, launched the application and consolidated its architecture for a large-scale rollout.
Check out our case studies to see how we helped companies like yours.