Essential Designs
Custom web, mobile and AI software for healthcare, resources and industrial clients
Skills & Services
About
Essential Designs builds custom software around the way a client's business already works. Its services cover web applications, mobile apps, business platforms, UI and UX design, software support, and AI and automation. The firm works from city offices across Canada and the United States, including Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Los Angeles and San Diego.
The firm lists healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, construction, financial services, and energy and natural resources as its main sectors. Its published case studies include a safety and access web application for a mining company's contractors, a mobile overdose-response app built with a provincial ambulance service, and a technical services portal for public agencies and suppliers in the infrastructure sector.
On AI, the firm adds AI and automation to client systems where it can cut manual work and running costs. It also uses AI-assisted tools in testing to find bugs and edge cases. Two of its location pages are dedicated to AI development in Vancouver and Toronto. The team often takes on rescue work, stabilising software that is unfinished or underperforming, and stays on as a long-term development partner.
Portfolio
Teck: contractor safety and access web app
Paper-based vendor tracking on mine sites was replaced with a web app for safety forms, approvals and access control.
Lifeguard: overdose response mobile app
An iOS and Android app, built with a provincial ambulance service, that dispatches help if a user does not check in.
Good Roads: technical services portal
A SaaS portal that connects public agencies and suppliers to manage service approvals in one place.