ONTARIO, CANADA · EST. 2016
Calford Care Inc. builds business software and helps organizations untangle their systems, operations and technology.
Work directly with an experienced technology and business leader: more than twenty years leading technology, operations and projects, close enough to work through the details, and committed to seeing the work through.
2016 Established
Canada Canadian-owned, built and based in Canada
Two disciplines Software and consulting, under one roof
20+ years Leading technology, operations and projects
WHAT WE DO
Two disciplines, one standard: build what works, explain it plainly, and leave it in good hands.
Candora started as the system that runs our own companies: books, time, invoicing and payroll in one place, where every number traces back to its paperwork. Now it is being prepared for other Canadian businesses.
Explore CandoraSenior help without the layers: software, project and portfolio leadership, operations and process, IT strategy, and the websites that hold it together.
Explore consultingOur software Coming soon
For consultants, contractors, small firms and the accountants who serve them.
Know where every dollar came from, and see what your business earns, owes and can afford.
Built in Canada for owners who want their books to make sense: HST handled, CRA payroll tables built in, several businesses under one sign-in, and an accountant who gets clean records at year end instead of a shoebox.
Subscriptions are separate from hands-on implementation (setup, migration from your current system, and training), so you pay only for the help you need.
Consulting services
Work directly with a senior generalist who sees how technology, people, process and delivery fit together.
From a two-hour advisory session to a multi-month implementation, the goal is the same: real progress, and a result your team can run without us.
Custom applications, automation and integrations, built so the people who inherit them can maintain them. Candora is the proof: a full accounting platform, designed and built in-house.
Governance and delivery plans for many initiatives at once, procurement from requirements to contract, and system implementations steered from start to handover.
Map how the work really flows, write procedures people actually follow, and get the organization ready for the change it is about to make.
An experienced IT director's judgement without a full-time salary: roadmaps, infrastructure, security and continuity planning, vendor selection and acquisition integration.
Corporate websites delivered end to end: discovery, content and leadership bios, visual direction, build and handover. Most small-business sites take about a month, depending on scope.
Focused consultation. Scoped projects. Ongoing advisory. Cross-functional delivery. Candid about capacity and when a specialist is needed.
Tell us what you are working onHOW WE WORK
Listen first, then look at how the work really happens, not how the org chart says it does.
Agree on scope, outcomes, owners and risks, in writing, before the work starts.
Make progress visible, and say plainly what is on track and what is not.
Document it, train your people, and leave you able to run it without us.
We tell you what the work needs, even when it is not what you hoped to hear.
Your information stays yours: shared only with your permission, and kept secure.
We work alongside your team, not around it.
We choose what your people will actually use and can afford to keep.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Senior experience across technology, operations and delivery, built over more than twenty years and still delivering results today.
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT
In a current engagement, we are providing portfolio and project leadership for a growing non-profit: bringing several organizational and technology initiatives under one plan, and carrying a major system from procurement through implementation, integration, user testing, training and change management, with the processes, policies and documentation to support it.
PRIOR CAREER INITIATIVES
As IT director in multi-site manufacturing: built and led three departments, including digital engineering; delivered a custom manufacturing execution system with real-time production status; led an ERP migration and IT implementations across the business; and integrated acquisitions, with operational excellence as the goal throughout.
OUR OWN OPERATIONS
Our own SaaS platform, Candora, runs the books of our companies every day: time tracking, invoicing, HST, bills and bank reconciliation, across more than one entity. Every feature has been proven in daily use on our own books before being offered to anyone else.
Founder & Principal
Nathan has spent more than twenty years leading technology, systems and operations, most of them as an IT leader in multi-site manufacturing. There he ran an ERP migration, built a digital engineering function, delivered a custom manufacturing execution system and integrated acquisitions, while managing budgets, vendors and cross-functional teams.
He began consulting under the Calford Care name in 2016 and incorporated Calford Care Inc. in 2022. Today he leads portfolio and project work for clients and builds Candora, the company's own business software. He holds ITIL 4 Foundation, ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor and Oracle Primavera P6 certifications.
As Director of Information Technology for a multi-site manufacturing group operating in Canada and the United States, Nathan led a migration to a new enterprise resource planning platform across finance, engineering, production and procurement, built a digital engineering function from the ground up, introduced an agile development practice and delivered a custom manufacturing execution system that gave the business real-time production status.
Before that, he spent sixteen years providing centralized IT and project leadership across a group of six fabrication companies, rising to Director of Information Services. He led the technology integration of several acquisitions, from environment assessment and systems redesign to rapid go-live, built governance frameworks and led the rebuild of the group's public website.
Across both roles he ran RFP and statement-of-work processes, negotiated contracts and licensing, managed service providers and software vendors against service levels, built operating and capital budgets with business cases for executive leadership, led a headquarters relocation and guided cross-functional teams through competing priorities.
Nathan began consulting under the Calford Care name in 2016 and incorporated Calford Care Inc. in 2022. Today he provides portfolio and project leadership to organizations and builds the company's own business software.
Close enough to the detail to be useful anywhere. Honest enough to call in a specialist when it matters.
Senior Advisor, Calford Care Inc.Co-founder & Director, Calford Care Project
Nicole keeps Calford Care Inc. grounded: she helps set priorities, protects the time the work needs, and offers wise counsel on the decisions that shape it. She co-founded Calford Care Project in 2016 and leads its day-to-day work with children, individuals and families. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with Distinction, from Brock University.
OUR PURPOSE
Long before Candora, care and community shaped the Calford family. Nathan and Nicole have spent years giving their time to children, families and neighbours who needed someone to walk alongside them.
That is why Nathan builds businesses: to create the time, energy and resources to do more of that work, through Calford Care Project.
Co-founder & Director, Calford Care Project
For more than twenty years, Nicole has walked alongside people of all ages through challenging seasons, offering counsel, direction and practical help. She brings something no textbook can: the lived experience of overcoming a difficult past of her own, joined with formal training and years of putting it into practice every day.
She is active in her community, helping lead the Ugly Mug Coffee House, free community meals and drop-in barbecue outreaches, and she is a strong advocate and a ready voice for people facing mental health and addiction challenges.
At Calford Care Project she brings the same warmth and practical wisdom to children and families, offering guidance in parenting, everyday life skills, routines and coordination, one person at a time.
Nicole believes every person deserves the chance to grow into who they were made to be. She leads Calford Care Project's operations, client relations, scheduling and coordination, and works directly with individuals and parents on confidence and communication, routines and parenting strategies, budgeting and healthy living. A trained facilitator and public speaker, she also plans and runs community events. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with Distinction, from Brock University.
Calford Care Project is a separate, family-led initiative founded by Nathan and Nicole in 2016 and led day to day by Nicole. Beyond its paid care services, it gives its time freely: practical help, mentoring and a steady presence for children, individuals and families, because that is who we are.
Impacting lives. One person at a time.
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