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Independent practice · Ontario, Canada
Full-stack engineering consulting
Build the systems your business actually needs.
Canopy Digital is Ryan Spice-Finnie’s independent engineering practice. I build and modernize web applications, business integrations and local-first tools—from the interface through deployment and handoff.
Led and built by Ryan Spice-Finnie. The practice Career and portfolio ↗
What we do
Full-stack help,
without stack religion.
Engagements can start with a strategy pass, a rescue pass, a new product, or one integration that has to work across the real business.
Architecture, roadmaps, technical discovery, and delivery planning for teams that need a practical path from idea to shipped system.
Deliverables
- Technical discovery
- Architecture plans
- Build roadmaps
- Risk reviews
What we ship
Tools & Showcase
Public tools, prototypes and internal projects, with clear status and a direct next step.
Canopy App Development Premium
LG UltraGear Bridge
Windows tooling for LG monitor controls, lighting and background-service workflows.
Open-source tools Premium
PocketMic LAN
An open-source Android-to-Windows encrypted microphone over LAN. 48 kHz mono PCM16, AES-256-GCM, QR pairing, zero cloud, MIT licensed.
Product tooling
HurrCut
A local-first browser video editor for clips, overlays and creator workflows. Desktop packaging and advanced export remain separate development work.
Game and visual product systems
PixelBoats
Independent browser game development with Canvas, WebGL, Three.js and PixiJS 8: rendering, state architecture and performance tuning.
Practical operations tooling
Invoice Generator
Invoice tooling for reusable line items, structured records and document exports.
Business systems
QBO Mail Dashboard
An internal QuickBooks Online dashboard for contact synchronization and controlled email requests through PHP. Not a public SaaS offering.
Storage infrastructure
EFSDB
An encrypted file-system database with a PHP reference runtime, manifests and a web control plane.
PHP hosting adapter
SvelteKit PHP Adapter
An open-source adapter for SvelteKit on PHP and shared hosting, with prerendered output, PHP actions and API integration.
Public Fusion is a workspace for conversation and evidence preparation. Our local engineering harnesses add separate routing and review workflows. Custom deployments begin with agreed provider, data-handling and human-review requirements; Canadian ownership alone does not establish data residency.
View AI offersCanadian Fusion
An AI workspace that shows its route.
Fusion Core makes conversation routing and receipts visible. Each request uses one server-managed OpenRouter Free response, without orchestration or bring-your-own keys. SEO preparation and research help organize evidence; they are not a certified audit.
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Research method
Research is more useful when it leaves a verifiable trail.
Each question starts its own Fusion workspace: scope, sources, contradictions, limitations, and synthesis stay together. AI conclusions do not replace evidence; they should make the link to it clear.
- 01
Frame the problem
Set the decision, audience, constraints, and what would count as evidence.
- 02
Collect the record
Keep supplied sources and artifacts with the conversation rather than summarizing them out of context.
- 03
Test the tension
Separate measured facts, hypotheses, and unknowns before asking for synthesis.
- 04
Deliver the decision
Produce a brief with recommendations, limitations, next validation, and provenance.
FusionSEO
From audit artifacts to a plan that separates facts from assumptions.
CanopySEO uses seo_audit_python to create structured artifacts — including report.json, a manifest, and rendered reports. Fusion can prepare a bounded specialist packet from that report, with evidence IDs, receipts, and the gaps that still need verification.
Results do not claim rankings, backlinks, traffic, competitors, or AI visibility without supplied source data or an approved verification step.
Fusion access
Start with what works today.
The public workspace uses one server-managed OpenRouter Free response per request. Local Fugu harnesses and custom deployments are separate offerings. Orchestration and bring-your-own keys are not enabled here.
Basic account
Basic
Available$10.99 CAD / month
Account-based access, subject to server-enabled entitlements.
- Account-linked workspace
- Encrypted server-side account storage
- Usage limits and abuse protection apply
Pro
Planned$29.99 CAD / month · planned
An upcoming offering, not yet available to purchase.
- Features and limits to be confirmed
- No additional orchestration enabled today
- No automatic waitlist registration
Prices in CAD, plus applicable taxes. Actual access, limits and provider availability are confirmed in your account.
Payments
A payments surface for
Canadian checkout decisions.
The payments site turns Canopy payment integration work into a focused operating surface: gateway comparison, merchant-account fit, payout expectations, risk routing, and an AI-assisted intake path for teams choosing a practical Canadian payment stack.
System graph
Useful work happens between the boxes.
Strong delivery connects product surfaces, auth, data, model calls, deployment, and handoff into one operable path.
BriefInterfacesAPIsModelsDeploySupport
The studio
Senior engineering for real business systems.
CANOPY digital is a compact engineering partner for companies that need the interface, backend, data, cloud, integrations, and handoff to line up.
The work scales from founder-led builds and SMB operations to enterprise consulting where identity, uptime, compliance, and legacy systems are part of the job.
01
Map the real system.
The first job is finding the actual constraints: users, data, auth, legacy systems, budget, timeline, and the parts no one owns yet.
02
Use the right stack.
React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Node, Python, PHP, MySQL, cloud services, or simpler pieces are all valid when they fit the business.
03
Integrate deliberately.
Payments, identity, chat, realtime, offline sync, and AI tools need clear contracts, failure modes, logging, and handoff notes.
04
Leave it maintainable.
The best engagement leaves a team with cleaner interfaces, fewer unknowns, and a system they can safely keep improving.
Systems that survive handoff
Architecture, docs, deployment notes, and ownership boundaries from the start.
The right runtime for the job
Svelte, React, Angular, Vue, Node, Python, PHP, MySQL, native Windows, or web-to-native tools when they fit.
Integrations without drama
OAuth, ForgeRock, Stripe, Shopify, WebSockets, cloud services, and workflow automation.
A practical path to launch
Discovery, scope, prototype, build, QA, and release planning without bloated consulting theatre.
How we work
Ten weeks,
five chapters.
Our process is a rhythm, not a checklist. Each phase hands off a decision the next one can build on.
01 Week 1-2
Discover
We audit the current product, infrastructure, stack, integrations, stakeholders, and delivery risks.
What you get
- Stakeholder interviews
- Technical audit
- Constraint map
02 Week 2-3
Define
The engagement becomes a scoped architecture, product brief, data/API shape, and measurable delivery plan.
What you get
- Architecture brief
- Integration map
- Success metrics
03 Week 3-6
Design
We design the user-facing workflow, admin surfaces, edge cases, and the controls people need to operate the product.
What you get
- UX flows
- Component system
- State and error paths
04 Week 6-10
Build
Frontend, backend, data, cloud, auth, and integrations move together with reviewable checkpoints.
What you get
- Production build
- Integration checks
- Deployment path
05 Week 10+
Launch & evolve
We ship, verify, document, monitor, and identify the next practical iteration while context is fresh.
What you get
- Launch support
- Monitoring notes
- Iteration roadmap
Start a project
Have a brief worth obsessing over?
Tell us what you are building, who it is for, and what would make it memorable. Use the quick brief here or open the detailed quote intake when the system shape already has moving parts.
Engineering notes
A Canopy-styled window into the engineering blog
Short build notes and deeper technical articles on AI-assisted workflows, SvelteKit/PHP delivery, local tools, and production debugging, surfaced here without mirroring the canonical blog.
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