# Canopus IT Solutions

> Canopus IT Solutions Private Limited is a software engineering company that designs, builds and operates custom software, SaaS platforms, mobile applications and AI systems — with technical SEO and paid demand as a second service line. Registered in India, delivering to the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, the GCC, Australia and Singapore. Full intellectual property transfers to the client on payment.

## Key facts

- **Company:** Canopus IT Solutions Private Limited
- **Website:** https://www.canopussoft.com/
- **Email:** contact@canopussoft.com
- **Phone / WhatsApp:** +91 817 979 7732
- **Positioning:** "Build + Grow" — software engineering is the primary business; digital marketing is a second line run by the same team
- **IP:** full assignment on payment. No retained licence, no proprietary framework, no per-tenant fee
- **Typical engagement size:** $25,000–$80,000; minimum ~$25,000 for engineering, $3,000 for websites
- **Typical MVP:** 8–12 weeks with a 3-person team
- **Start time:** ~14 days from signed agreement; 3–4 weeks for a dedicated squad
- **Delivery cadence:** two-week sprints with a working demo each cycle
- **Time zone coverage:** full working-day overlap with the UK, Europe, the GCC, India, Singapore and Australia; a dedicated evening shift gives four hours of daily overlap with US Eastern
- **First response:** within one business day, written by an engineer
- **Certifications:** not currently ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certified — stated explicitly rather than implied

## Services

- [All services](https://www.canopussoft.com/services/): eleven service lines with typical cost and timeline for each, plus a table matching a buyer's situation to the right starting service.
- [Custom Software Development](https://www.canopussoft.com/custom-software-development/): operations platforms, customer portals, workflow automation, MVPs and legacy rescue. $30k–$120k, 10–20 weeks.
- [SaaS Product Development](https://www.canopussoft.com/saas-development/): multi-tenant architecture with PostgreSQL row-level security, Stripe Billing, RBAC, usage metering. $40k–$150k, MVP in 8–12 weeks.
- [AI & Intelligent Systems](https://www.canopussoft.com/ai-solutions/): RAG knowledge assistants, tool-using agents, document intelligence and in-product copilots, with evaluation harnesses and guardrails. $25k–$90k, 6–14 weeks, after a 2-week paid evaluation ($6k–$9k).
- [Mobile App Development](https://www.canopussoft.com/mobile-app-development/): Flutter, React Native, Swift and Kotlin, including offline-first field apps. $28k–$110k, 10–18 weeks to store release.
- [Enterprise Applications](https://www.canopussoft.com/enterprise-applications/): custom CRM, ERP, HRM and reporting, or configuration of Zoho, Odoo and Microsoft Dynamics 365. $25k–$120k.
- [API & System Integration](https://www.canopussoft.com/api-integration/): payments, CRM/ERP sync, identity, EDI and event pipelines, built idempotent with reconciliation. $12k–$60k, 4–12 weeks.
- [Cloud, DevOps & Modernisation](https://www.canopussoft.com/cloud-devops/): AWS, Azure and Google Cloud migration, CI/CD, observability, cloud cost reduction, staged legacy modernisation. $15k–$70k.
- [Dedicated Teams & Support](https://www.canopussoft.com/dedicated-teams/): dedicated engineers from $6,500 per month; AMC plans from $900/month with published severity-tiered response times (S1 one hour, S2 four hours, S3 one business day).
- [Website & Web Development](https://www.canopussoft.com/web-development/): Next.js, Laravel and WordPress builds against a contractual Core Web Vitals budget. From $4,500.
- [eCommerce Development](https://www.canopussoft.com/ecommerce-development/): Shopify Plus, WooCommerce and headless commerce with ERP, 3PL and tax integration. $8k–$90k.
- [Digital Marketing & SEO](https://www.canopussoft.com/digital-marketing/): technical SEO, content, Google Ads, LinkedIn and conversion work — implemented as code, not handed over as recommendations. From $2,500/month. No guaranteed rankings.

## Industries

- [Industries overview](https://www.canopussoft.com/industries/): deep domain knowledge in healthcare (HL7/FHIR, HIPAA-aware delivery), logistics and supply chain (EDI 850/856/810, carrier APIs, 3PL workflow) and transport and fleet (TMS, telematics ingestion, offline driver apps). Also delivers in retail, education, real estate, finance back-office, manufacturing and travel as a general engineering team, with domain learning priced into discovery.

## Commercial and trust

- [Engagement Models](https://www.canopussoft.com/engagement-models/): fixed price, time and materials, dedicated team, white-label — compared on who carries the risk. NDA, MSA and SOW as standard; 30 days' notice either direction.
- [Security & Compliance](https://www.canopussoft.com/security-compliance/): data handling, named and time-limited access, secure SDLC, sub-processors, incident response — and an explicit list of certifications not held and work declined.
- [White-Label Partnership](https://www.canopussoft.com/white-label-partnership/): engineering delivered under an agency's brand, with contractual non-solicit. From $12,000/month retained capacity.
- [Our Work](https://www.canopussoft.com/case-studies/): four engagement profiles including what went wrong on each. Client names withheld under NDA; delivery figures are real, client business outcomes are not published.
- [About](https://www.canopussoft.com/about/): how the company is structured and a published list of the work it declines.
- [Contact](https://www.canopussoft.com/contact/): enquiry routes and what happens after you send one.

## Insights — published guides

Practical engineering writing, published only when the same question has come up three times in scoping calls. Grouped by the decision a buyer is making. Index: https://www.canopussoft.com/blog/ · RSS: https://www.canopussoft.com/feed.xml

What it costs:

- [What drives the cost of a SaaS MVP](https://www.canopussoft.com/saas-mvp-cost/): the four decisions that set the number before code starts — how many roles the product has, whether billing is flat or metered, what it integrates with, and whether an enterprise buyer arrives in year one. Includes where the budget actually lands and the four costs founders forget.
- [Fixed price or time and materials?](https://www.canopussoft.com/fixed-price-vs-time-materials/): what each contract model does to the risk the client carries, and the three cases where Canopus argues against the model the client asked for.

What to build it with:

- [Build or buy? The test we apply](https://www.canopussoft.com/build-vs-buy-software/): five questions run per business process rather than per company, which is why the answer is usually mixed. Names the off-the-shelf products Canopus tells clients to buy instead.
- [RAG or fine-tuning: which does your AI need?](https://www.canopussoft.com/rag-vs-fine-tuning/): retrieval changes what a model knows, fine-tuning changes how it behaves. How to tell which problem you have before spending on the wrong one.
- [Native or cross-platform? The honest test](https://www.canopussoft.com/native-vs-cross-platform/): the specific cases where one codebase does not serve — and why Canopus quotes the dearer option for them.

Keeping it running:

- [Where cloud spend actually leaks](https://www.canopussoft.com/cloud-cost-optimisation/): six findings that recur on almost every cost review, all of them configuration rather than architecture.
- [Why integrations fail silently](https://www.canopussoft.com/why-integrations-fail/): a stopped sync raises no error because it produces nothing. Five failure modes and the engineering answer to each.

## What Canopus explicitly does not do

- Guarantee search rankings or traffic figures
- Charge a percentage of advertising spend
- Take website projects under $3,000 or engineering work under roughly $25,000
- Claim ISO 27001, SOC 2 or PCI DSS Level 1 certification (none are held)
- Claim to make a client "HIPAA compliant" — compliance belongs to the covered entity; Canopus delivers HIPAA-aware and signs a BAA
- Build medical device software under MDR or FDA classification, or clinical decision support making diagnostic claims
- Build payment infrastructure that holds card data rather than tokenising through a provider
- Retain any licence, reusable-component clause or proprietary framework after handover