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SetupCanada is the tech team your new business doesn’t have yet: a website built to be found, email that can’t be faked, and security done properly. Live in about three business days.SetupCanada is the tech team your new business doesn’t have yet. A website built to be found in search, business email that lands in inboxes and can’t be faked, and security set up the way we’d do it for an enterprise client. Live in about three business days, across Canada, and we’re still here as you grow.
Registered in Alberta and need a registered office address? Ask us.
We don’t register businesses. You do that, then we take it from there.
Step three
Registering or incorporating gets you a business number. It doesn’t mention that clients will search for you before they call, that your email can be faked, or that a client will one day ask how you handle security.
Before anyone emails you, they look you up. A parked domain, or a site search engines can’t read properly, makes a new company look unfinished, or invisible.
Without SPF, DKIM and DMARC on your domain, anyone can send mail that looks like it came from you, and your real mail is more likely to land in spam. The realistic version is an invoice to your client asking them to pay into a new account.
Sooner or later a larger client sends a security questionnaire. Most new founders have nothing to show them. You’ll have a summary from an enterprise compliance platform.
Nothing for you to configure and nothing technical to learn. Send us your domain name and we do the rest.
Your domain name, registered for you, and a professional website on it built properly for search: fast pages, clean structure, and titles and descriptions written around what your clients look for. Contact forms that land in your inbox, hosting and a certificate that renews itself, and a branded QR code for your cards and signage.
Domain included, built for search, contact forms
Business email on your own domain, plus calendar, video meetings, chat, file storage and sharing, and Office apps on your computer and phone. The business-grade suite larger companies run on, for two users to start, with email authentication and multi-factor sign-in set up so your mail lands and nobody can pretend to be you.
Two users included, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MFA
Your domain and website shielded from attacks and junk traffic. Your accounts, email and site checked against recognized security best practice, using the platforms we run for enterprise clients, with a plain-English report: what was wrong, what’s fixed. Useful the first time a larger client asks you a security question.
Best-practice checks, plain-English report
Optional
Registered in Alberta and working from home? The registered office you gave is probably your house, and it sits on a public registry. If you’d rather it wasn’t, ask us and we’ll talk you through the options.
Alberta companies, ask us
Business email
The realistic risk isn’t a dramatic hack. It’s an email to your client, from your address, asking them to pay an invoice into a new account. Three short records in your domain close it off.
Authentication results
Anyone can send this, and it would look like you.
“Before we started, your domain had no DMARC record, which meant anyone could send email that looked like it came from you. That’s fixed now.”From a security summary. Plain English, no scare words.
Moving an existing domain or mailbox can occasionally stretch this. If it does, we’ll tell you, and we’ll tell you why.
| Day | What happens | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | You pay, then send us your domain name, or the one you’d like. About twenty minutes of your time. It’s the only part that needs you. | You |
| 1 | Your website goes live on your domain, with a valid certificate, the basics search engines look for, and a branded QR code that points to it. | Us |
| 2 | Your email and workspace go live on your domain: mailboxes, calendar, meetings and file sharing, with SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MFA set up properly. Two users to start. Nothing for you to configure. | Us |
| 3 | Your security summary arrives. Plain language: what was wrong before, what’s right now. | Us |
After day three
The plan is monthly because the work is. We stay on as your technology partner while the business grows.
Hosting, certificates and email authentication are watched and renewed, so nothing quietly expires.
A new hire needs a mailbox. A client sends a security questionnaire. You email us, and it gets handled.
Your security summary in plain language, at the start and again through the year.
Where we are
Based here, working with new businesses across Canada. Your setup is done by hand, by people who do security work for enterprise clients.
Downtown Calgary from the air, in winter. Footage: Max Medyk.
Everything a two-person business runs on, on one monthly bill instead of five. Prices are in Canadian dollars, plus applicable taxes.
$300CAD / month
Plus $500 one-time setup · Two users included
What’s included
More than two users? Contact us and we’ll quote the extra users. Onboarding a contractor or a new app? We quote that first too.
Ask us
Alberta companies
What to expect
Full setup also includes
Questions
No. You register or incorporate it yourself, federally or with your province, or your accountant does it for you. We handle everything after that. If you haven’t done that yet, do it first and come back to us.
Yes. Your website, email and security are set up the same way wherever you are in Canada. The one exception for now is Quebec, because our agreements aren’t available in French yet.
You could. You’d be buying an office suite, a domain, hosting and security tools separately, then working out how to set each one up properly and whether you got it right. That last part is what most people skip, and it’s the part we do, on one monthly bill.
Full setup includes two users, meaning two people with their own mailbox and sign-in. If you need more, contact us and we’ll quote the extra users before anything changes on your bill.
Yes. We make yours with QReative, our own QR tool. It’s free for anyone, so you can make more for menus, events or packaging whenever you like, with your logo and colours.
It works, but to a larger client it reads like a side project, and nothing stops someone setting up a similar-looking address. On your own domain, with authentication set up, mail in your company’s name can only come from you.
Anything beyond the standard setup, like onboarding a contractor, connecting a new app, or a custom feature on your website. Tell us what you need and we’ll quote it before we start, so there are no surprises on your bill.
Every Alberta corporation needs a registered office, and whatever address you give is on the public registry. Many owners use their home. If you’d rather not, contact us and we’ll talk you through the options.
We do security implementation and compliance work for enterprises, and the security summary you get comes from our own compliance platform rather than being a claim we make about ourselves.
You keep your domain and everything on it. Member discounts end when your subscription does.
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Bring your domain name if you already have one. If you haven’t registered your business yet, do that first.
Rather talk it through?