Review & Audit
We review your ideas and projects with a thoughtful and inquisitive mind. From that, we make recommendations to overcome current and future challenges and we can create action plans.
Technology Consulting Services
Are you finding it difficult to build support, momentum and direction for your idea or project? Do you need to show faster results with less waste? Are you concerned about quality?
Our consulting services can help you get started, stay on track and show results faster
Coaching & Training
We are highly personable, knowledgeable and accommodating. We go at your pace and provide a relaxed and comfortable environment for a better learning experience and knowledge transfer.
Governance & Advisory
We can monitor your progress, regularly check in, participate in review committees and advisory boards to provide advice and guidance to help you remain on track and overcome new challenges.
Temporary Staffing
We can help get the work done and take a hands-on role in your team as product owner, scrum master, project manager, team leader, solution architect, UX designer, tester or developer.
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Consulting solutions for Apps and Lean Operations
Our passion, knowledge and expertise can save you time and money, show results early, and position you for the future.
Our Story
Rick and Evan were at the vanguard of worldwide mobile adoption when they started their consulting company in 2010 with a mission to help businesses transact on the go using smartphones and tablets.
Where others saw opportunity in consumer apps, Rick and Evan saw opportunity in business apps. From their very first customer on the south side of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the company quickly expanded to help mobilize businesses across Canada.
Rick and Evan are now at the vanguard of another disruptive technology in Bitcoin. Once again, where others see opportunity in consumer solutions, Rick and Evan see opportunity consulting in business solutions helping companies decide if Bitcoin has a place on the balance sheet as a corporate reserve asset and inflation hedge.
Our Advantage
- We’re easy to work with, flexible and accommodating
- We’re fun, humour plays a large part in our day to day
- We’re dedicated, first to arrive, last to leave
- We’re experienced, more than 60 years experience between us
- We’re certified, Scrum master, product owner, project manager, UX design
- We’re respected, just ask our customers
“AKA had the right approach, professionalism, knowledge, and skills to deliver the project on time and on budget. Thanks to AKA, the Access ACSA app allows us to provide a better level of service to our students.”
Michael Hogan /Alberta Construction Safety Association
“AKA gave us a clear idea of our project’s scope, what to expect, and a better idea of the process on how to take our idea from development to a product.”
Medhat Nasr / Alberta Agriculture & Forestry
“I was facing time constraints and dollar constraints. I wanted something agile. I’ve got nothing but the highest praise for AKA’s work. They’re communicative and responsive. They’re problem-solvers.”
Tim Trytten / Alberta Emergency Management Agency
Recent Blog Posts
The effects of an underpowered technology infrastructure on notification speed
In an earlier post, Hop to it…the hops a notification message takes, we outlined the hops a notification message takes to reach a mobile device and the effect those hops have on notification delivery speed. To recall, there were four
Get to the points! How to create bullet points in a UILabel
Your target audience likely consumes a lot of content on mobile devices, so naturally you want to provide tones of valuable detail in your app. It’s critical that you present that content in a way that user can easily read
Hop to it...the hops a notification message takes
In our post "Who likes queues anyway?", we introduced the first factor affecting the speed of app notifications from the time of sending to the time of receiving. This post talks about a second factor, the hope, or steps, the
Pump up the volume! Control volume for audio on iOS using Swift
In most circumstances, you'll want audio playback to use the volume settings on the device - users are typically not going to be happy if they turn down their volume, then hear something loud. But occasionally there may be a
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