Are you stressed out about the chores piling up at home? Is your daily agenda a mess? Are you worried that your business is not being efficiently and productively managed? Luckily there are apps to solve these problems. Staying organized is key to living and working in a productive environment. Not only are there organization apps for managing tasks in your home, but there exists applications that are created specifically for the purpose of coordinating a variety of projects for several different industries like the retail, security, restaurant and event planning sectors.
As an app development agency, we are always interested in new and innovative ideas, which is why we decided to round up some of Canada’s most productive management app startups and platforms. These include helping families and homes stay organized, provide tools for event planning, AI technology during business meetings, keeping development teams focused and on task, managing security operations, offering mobile POS solutions for the restaurant industry and facilitating customer and client management in retail.
1. Hub: Keeping your Home and Family Organized
According to the team: “Hub keeps your home & family organized. Share calendars, lists, tasks, notes & more. Everything you need to manage your busy lives. Share events & keep everyone on the same page. Works with your existing calendars – zero setup. Groceries, shopping & to-dos become a breeze. Assign tasks and get things done faster than ever. Send notes, messages, photos & share life together. Build great relationships.”
Location: Toronto
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2. Clear Event: A Tool for Event Management
According to the team: Event Organizers want to ditch the expensive and fragmented collection of tools they currently use. ClearEvent is what they’ve been waiting for. A single affordable tool to plan events, manage staff and volunteers, sell tickets, organize vendors and media and take care of VIP needs. Instead of wading through email and spreadsheets, all event participants access and share information simply, on any internet connected device, without hunting through email or working with spreadsheets.”
Location: Toronto
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3. Picniic: Your Family’s Personal Assistant
According to the team: “Picniic is every family’s personal assistant, keeping households organized, productive, and connected. Picniic brings all your family activities, tasks, and data together in one place. All family members can easily access Picniic via web, phone, and tablet to keep everyone on the same page.”
Location: Vancouver
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4. Hendrix.AI: An AI Meeting Assistant
According to the team: “Testfire’s flagship product, Hendrix.ai, leverages natural language processing and machine learning to capture meeting summaries and optimize outcomes. Hendrix.ai is the simplest and most efficient way for organizations to automatically transcribe, summarize, organize, and recall their meeting notes, action items, and meeting data. Customers are medium and large enterprises, with current customers/prospects including L’Oréal Paris, ExxonMobil, Turner Construction, and other companies with a global presence.”
Location: Edmonton
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5. VarCI: Keeping Developers on Task
According to the team: “VarCI’s bot helps development teams focus on what’s important. By automating chores and providing instant feedback, it encourages shorter turn-around times and enforces consistency in home-grown processes. Getting started is simple: connect your repository; configure some rules; and let the bot take action! Relevant events from your GitHub repository are relayed to the bot, which will then determine the correct actions to take.”
Location: Montreal
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6. TrackTik: Security Workforce Management
According to the team: “The power of TrackTik is being able to view, analyze and control your entire security operations in one place. This security workforce management software helps integrate your on-site, mobile and back-office functions. Benefit from access to a suite of advanced guard management tools. At TrackTik, we’ve been shaking up security since 2013. We saw the challenges the security industry faced in terms of making the most of their resources and battling manual processes. Thinking that there must be a better way, we’ve been bringing the power of data, analytics, and automation to security operations management worldwide. Thanks to TrackTik, we’re helping security managers work smarter, get better returns and provide more value to their customers.”
Location: Montreal
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7. TouchBistro: Managing the Restaurant Industry
According to the team: “TouchBistro is a revolutionary, complete mobile POS solution on the iPad for the restaurant industry. Manage reservations, view the menu, take orders and review sales reports with a few simple touches. Instead of servers repeatedly moving between customers and terminals for order management, servers can remain with customers and instantly submit orders to the kitchen and bar. Servers no longer need to write down an order and then enter it into a distant terminal. TouchBistro’s single entry system reduces errors and increases efficiency. Menu items can be presented in vibrant color with every detail captured. Menus can be quickly and easily updated and even published to the Web, providing more dynamic impact than a traditional menu can provide.”
Location: Toronto
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8. Tulip: Using Mobile Technology to Empower Retail Stores
According to the team: “Tulip is a mobile application provider focused on empowering workers in retail stores. Partnered with Apple, Tulip’s mission is to harness the power of the world’s most advanced mobile technology to deliver simple-to-use apps for store associates to look up products, manage customer information, check out shoppers, and communicate with clients. Leading retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Kate Spade, Coach, and Bonobos use Tulip in their stores to elevate the shopping experience, increase sales and improve customer service.”
Location: Toronto
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We hope you enjoyed reading up some of Canada’s organization app startups and platforms, and that these management solutions will help you stay productive and efficient in your everyday tasks, whether it be at home or in the workplace. Now it’s time to get to work!
