Innovation. Engineered.

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Calgary innovation & venture studio

Innovation.Engineered.

We design, engineer and launch intelligent software platforms that solve meaningful challenges across education, finance, industrial operations and digital products.

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Calmatte app screen

App

Calgora

Status

Live

Category

Civic · City services

Platform

iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch

01 / 09App Store
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Apps delivered in 4 years

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Published on the App Store

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Ventures in the portfolio

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2026 CMS Deployments

Real products, in real hands — not concept slides.

Featured products

Three platforms, three stages of launch.

A diaspora finance platform in beta, a live recreation map for Calgary, and an agentic education platform still in the studio.

Coynitt
coynitt.ca
Beta TestingFinTech · Diaspora finance

Coynitt

The financial operating system for the African diaspora: one wallet for low-cost cross-border transfers, savings circles and community fundraising, routed by AI to settle in minutes.

  • Low-cost cross-border transfers
  • On-chain savings circles: chamas, stokvels, susus
  • Community fundraising
iOS · Android · WebVisit coynitt.ca
Sport Calgary
map.sportcalgary.ca
LiveCivic · Geospatial

Sport CalgaryInteractive Amenity Map

Every recreation centre, program and event in Calgary on one activity-filtered map, handing residents off to the operators who run each facility.

  • 1,286 facilities on real, live data
  • Filter by activity and neighbourhood
  • Built with Sport Calgary
Arisium
Agentic education OS
In The StudioEducation · Agentic AI

Arisium

A governed agentic education operating system: a team of AI agents grounded in provincial curriculum, orchestrated with autonomy tiers and human approval gates.

  • Grounded in provincial curriculum
  • Autonomy tiers
  • Teacher approval gates
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Also shipped from the studio

What we do

Full-arc product engineering — idea to launch, and beyond.

From a napkin sketch to a shipped platform, we cover strategy, design, engineering, and the long tail of keeping it alive.

Product Engineering

Production software that holds up — architected, built and maintained by the team that ships our own products.

Enterprise Platforms

Secure, scalable platforms for organizations that need real systems, not slideware.

Digital Products

Consumer and B2B apps people actually want to use — from first sketch to the App Store.

Product Strategy

Turn an ambitious idea into a sequenced, low-risk plan to build it and launch it.

Intelligent Automation

Governed, human-in-the-loop AI that acts with guardrails — not guesswork.

Platform Modernization

Bring legacy systems into the modern web without betting the business on a big-bang rewrite.

UX/UI Design

Design that makes complex products feel obvious.

Not sure where to start?

Let’s scope it

Innovation Lab

Where we prototype what’s next.

The Lab is our R&D surface. Some experiments become ventures, some become client case studies — all of them sharpen how we build.

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Agentic systems

Governed, multi-agent platforms with human approval gates.

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Watch-first experiences

Native Apple Watch products that work without the phone.

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Geospatial & data

Real-data maps, dashboards and the backends behind them.

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Governed AI

AI that acts inside guardrails — auditable and safe.

FAQ

Ask us something ambitious.

Straight answers on what we build, how we work and where AI fits, so you can bring us the idea that won’t leave you alone.

What does Appè Latte actually build?

Ambitious software, end to end: mobile apps, CMS and AI-crafted platforms, plus the strategy, design and engineering that carry them from first sketch to launch. We also modernize the legacy systems holding good teams back, one low-risk step at a time. With 11 ventures of our own in the portfolio, from diaspora fintech to agentic AI for education, we hold client work to exactly the same bar. And the unusual briefs are the ones we lean into.

What kinds of apps have you built?

Twenty-five apps delivered in four years, and the range is the point. Looya pairs Apple WeatherKit forecasts with an AR Sky View, and Calmatte is an AI wellness journal with private, encrypted storage. Close Circle shares live location with a trusted circle, Carte hands over a branded profile with one NFC tap, and Coynitt, a financial operating system for the African diaspora, is in sandbox testing now.

What platforms do you build for?

Wherever the problem lives: in a pocket, on a wrist, in a browser or across an entire city. We built the Sport Calgary Interactive Amenity Map, one front door to every recreation centre, program and event in the city, putting 1,286 facilities on real, live data. Behind it sits the CMS we built for managing those facilities, alongside a staff dashboard for participation and equity insight. It went from concept prototype to winning pitch to Phase 1 build, and you can explore it at map.sportcalgary.ca (opens in a new tab).

iOS, Android or both?

Both, and then some: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android and the web. We take builds right through App Store submission and release, with nine apps live on the App Store so far. Kova Run is native on Apple Watch, tracking GPS, heart rate, cadence and grade-adjusted pace while your phone stays in the drawer. Seven of our own apps, Kova included, are coming soon to Google Play.

How long does a project take?

Every idea has its own shape, so we measure yours before anyone talks dates. Discovery pins down the scope and what success looks like, then clickable prototypes let you shape the product while changes are still cheap. From there we ship in tested, reviewable increments, and at each phase you decide whether to continue, with something real in your hands.

What happens after launch?

Launch is when real users start teaching us things. We stay on for monitoring and maintenance, then plan the next phase with you, paced as the product earns it. Because every release ships documented, what comes next builds on solid ground, not guesswork.

How do you keep AI accountable?

We give AI real work and keep people in charge of it. Approval gates, guardrails and autonomy tiers set what an agent may do on its own and what waits for a human, every decision stays auditable and explainable, and data residency is the default. Arisium, the agentic education operating system taking shape in our studio, is built this way: a team of AI agents grounded in provincial curriculum, with a human at every approval gate.

How do we get started?

Start with the idea, however rough: a sketch, a problem, a hunch. Tell us about it through our contact form or at hey@appe-latte.ca, and we typically reply within one business day. Then we dig into the problem, the people it’s for and the constraints around it, before anything gets built.

Start a project

Let’s build something.

Have a product to ship or a venture to launch? Tell us what you’re working on. We typically reply within one business day.

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