SOLVIT Canada helps businesses get technology work done while creating supervised, real-world experience for emerging technology professionals.
The experience gap
Graduates and newcomers may have credentials but still lack the Canadian project evidence employers want. At the same time, organizations need flexible technology support. SOLVIT connects these needs through real paid projects.
What people bring
The SOLVIT bridge
What employers ask for
Every paid client project becomes a supervised career-launching experience.
Clients pay for real technology work. That work becomes supervised experience. Experience leads to hires, and every hire makes the next project easier to win.
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Clients pay
The flywheel
The Career Journey
Choose a pathway and prepare for client-facing work.
Stage 01 · Discover
Choose a pathway aligned with your current skills and career goal.
Stage 02 · Prepare
Complete readiness checks, professional expectations and project-specific preparation.
Observe, then contribute to real client deliverables under supervision.
Stage 03 · Shadow
Observe experienced delivery and learn how real client work is scoped, communicated and documented.
Stage 04 · Contribute
Complete supervised tasks on appropriate real projects.
Turn delivered work into evidence, references and next steps.
Stage 05 · Prove
Record deliverables, feedback and Skills Passport milestones.
Stage 06 · Progress
Move toward employment, contracting, freelancing or deeper specialization.
SOLVIT does not promise a job. We create stronger evidence of ability, professional references and a more credible path into the labour market.
Either way, the flywheel turns. Businesses get technology work delivered; emerging professionals get supervised experience on it.
For businesses & organizations
From IT support and networking to cloud, cybersecurity, AI automation and field technology, SOLVIT delivers practical technology outcomes for SMEs, nonprofits, institutions and selected households.
You contract SOLVIT Canada for outcomes: scoped, supervised and quality-checked. You're never handed an unsupervised junior.
Get Technology SupportWorkstations, device setup, troubleshooting, user support, maintenance and field support.
Wi-Fi, routers, switches, small-office connectivity, troubleshooting and deployment.
Tenant setup and support, user administration, collaboration tools, migrations and cloud operations within our capability.
Device deployment, smart technology, POS, hardware upgrades, AV and selected IoT installations.
Baseline hardening, endpoint and security hygiene, awareness and access controls, with specialist partners where required.
Workflow automation, AI-assisted processes, internal tools and practical adoption support.
Process digitization, systems setup, technology adoption and project delivery.
Three ways to work with us
Defined technology work delivered by SOLVIT under clear scope, supervision and quality control.
Typical uses
Device deployment, troubleshooting, network setup, field support, cloud tasks, automation projects.
Flexible access to pre-vetted technology professionals supported by SOLVIT's management and development framework.
Typical uses
Help desk capacity, junior technical support, project staffing, temporary workload support.
Build or extend a technical team through SOLVIT's talent, operating support and management environment.
Typical uses
Ongoing support teams, delivery pods, project teams, remote/onsite hybrid capacity.
For emerging professionals
Build a Canadian work record through supervised client projects, mentorship, Skills Passport milestones, references and a clear Career Journey.
Skills Passport · Sample
Ottawa · Founding cohort
Illustrative example. The Skills Passport is a concept in development.
Tired of being asked for experience you haven't been allowed to get yet.
We give youReal paid work, a supervisor who knows the craft, and references you actually earned.
You can do the work. You just haven't shipped it for a Canadian client yet.
We give youShipped work with your name on it: the missing Canadian line on your résumé.
You brought years of expertise. No one here has seen you work yet.
We give youReal projects, real supervisors and real references, for participants who already have the legal right to work in Canada.
SOLVIT is not promising a job. We help you build stronger evidence of ability, professional references and a more credible path into the labour market.
Real projects, not simulations
Every engagement is documented the same way, so clients, participants and employers can see exactly what was delivered and who grew from it.
SOLVIT Canada is early. We publish a project only once the client has approved the record: no invented case studies and no placeholder numbers.
Client approval, required before any record is published
Exemplar initiative
An offline-first learning server: an example of engineering, design, software and prototyping work flowing into a real initiative.
SomaBox originated with SOMA Foundation Rwanda. SOLVIT Canada and SOMA Foundation Rwanda are distinct organizations.
For partners
Post-secondary institutions, employers, funders and community organizations each play a different role in the same flywheel. Here is what SOLVIT gives, and what it asks.
Who we want to work with: Ottawa's universities and colleges
SOLVITWhat SOLVIT gives
A real-work counterpart to academic and co-op pathways, with employer-style feedback and supervised project evidence.
What SOLVIT asks
Coordinated referrals, and alignment on readiness and junior-tech expectations.
Who we want to work with: Ottawa SMEs, technology companies and government contractors
SOLVITWhat SOLVIT gives
Pre-vetted emerging technical talent whose Canadian experience is evidenced through delivered work.
What SOLVIT asks
Hiring pipeline commitments, honest feedback, and interviews and opportunities where there's a fit.
Who we want to work with: Federal (ESDC, IRCC, ISED-aligned) and Ontario employment programs
SOLVITWhat SOLVIT gives
Measurable, audit-ready employment outcomes, without replacing the commercial engine.
What SOLVIT asks
Wage subsidies and program grants that accelerate the flywheel.
Who we want to work with: Ottawa's newcomer and settlement organizations
SOLVITWhat SOLVIT gives
A pathway for eligible newcomer graduates who need supervised Canadian work experience.
What SOLVIT asks
Trusted referrals of participants who are eligible and ready.
Federal mandates, post-secondary talent, technology employers and newcomer communities all meet here. We're proving the model in Ottawa first.
Federal capital
Ottawa places SOLVIT close to federal workforce, immigration, innovation and procurement ecosystems, as well as contractors and national program offices.
Talent supply
Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and Algonquin College contribute a steady pipeline of students and graduates seeking meaningful project experience.
Newcomer pipeline
Ottawa's established newcomer and settlement ecosystem includes skilled professionals who may need Canadian project evidence and references.
Ottawa first. National expansion only after Ottawa shows a reproducible model.
Read our storyEvidence & impact
We don't publish impact numbers we can't evidence. Here's what we hold ourselves to, and what we'll measure and report as real data comes in.
We never run training cohorts without a paying customer at the front. That's what makes it a job, not a class.
Ottawa is our entire world for the first year. We earn the right to grow by getting the model right here first.
Every participant on a SOLVIT project is paid fairly, supervised properly and treated like a teammate.
A small team. One founder. Still early. We'd rather tell you that than dress it up.
Today
One early customer, a founder and a plan.
Next
A second paying customer and a first participant.
Then
A real cohort, with mentors.
Later
A partner institution on board.
In a year
A first hire that proves the model.
Each figure will be published with its definition, time period and source, and only once audited.
Participants onboarded
Eligible participants who formally enter the Career Journey.
Paid projects delivered
Client projects completed and accepted.
Skills Passport milestones
Verified milestones completed under supervision.
Hires into Ottawa employers
Participants who move into paid work with an Ottawa-area employer.
Newcomer employment outcomes
Eligible newcomer participants progressing to paid work.
SME & nonprofit clients served
Unique paying organizations served.
Repeat client rate
Share of clients buying another engagement.
Client satisfaction
Audited feedback score, with sample size and period.
Insights
Project stories, SME technology, employer insights and career advice, written from Ottawa.
Questions
The short version of how SOLVIT Canada works.
We're a technology services company in Ottawa. Businesses, nonprofits and households pay us for real technology work, and emerging professionals contribute to appropriate parts of that work under supervision, building evidence of what they can do.