Denver & Colorado
Software development for Denver, from one time zone over.
Elarion is a Vancouver practice that builds custom software for companies across Canada and the United States. For Denver that means an hour of time difference, a direct flight when the work calls for it, and the analyst who writes your specification on every call.
We do the business analysis first — what the system actually has to do, agreed in writing — and then build it. Most software projects fail before anyone writes code.
What you are actually buying
- A specification before a price
- Nobody quotes your build until what it has to do is written down and you have agreed it. That document is yours — you could take it to another vendor — and it is the reason the number does not move later.
- One person accountable
- The analyst who writes the specification runs the calls, leads the engineers who build it and stays on it until it ships. You are not introduced to a team and then handed to an account manager.
- A full working day of overlap
- We work Pacific Time, an hour behind Denver. A question asked at nine in the morning is answered that morning, which matters because requirements work is a long sequence of small questions.
- On site when the work is physical
- If the requirements live in a dock, a depot or a production floor, we come and watch the work done — about two and a half hours direct. If they do not, we do not bill you for the trip.
What Denver companies come to us for
Six kinds of work, each with a page that goes further.
Distribution and logistics
Denver is a freight and distribution hub, and the software underneath that work is usually an ERP plus a decade of spreadsheets. Orders, inventory, picking, dispatch, proof of delivery and the invoice at the end — connected, so nothing is keyed twice.
Manufacturing and industrial operations
Production, inventory, lot and batch tracking, and reporting that has to reconcile with what actually shipped. Usually a custom application integrated with the ERP rather than a replacement for it.
Field service and dispatch
Scheduling, crews, work orders, job costing and the hand-off to payroll and billing — built around how the day actually changes rather than how the plan said it would.
CRM and ERP work
A custom CRM where how you win and serve clients is what sets you apart, or Salesforce, HubSpot and Dynamics 365 configured around a written specification. On the ERP side: integrations, reporting and the automation that grows up around it.
Regulated and professional practices
Case and matter management, document workflows and AI that answers from your own sources, with audit trails, retention rules and access control designed in rather than retrofitted.
A build in trouble
A vendor that did not deliver, an inherited codebase, a project past its date and over its budget. A fixed-fee code audit and assessment comes first; the options and the decision come after.
Colorado and cross-border rules, designed in
The Colorado Privacy Act
Colorado gives residents rights of access, correction, deletion and portability, and the right to opt out of targeted advertising, sale and certain profiling — including through a universal opt-out signal. Higher-risk processing calls for a documented data protection assessment. All of that is far cheaper to satisfy in the specification than in a finished system.
Where the data actually lives
A Canadian supplier building your system raises a fair question about residency. Hosting region is a decision we make with you and write down — US-region hosting is the usual answer for US clients — rather than whatever a platform defaulted to.
Cross-border, written down
Who processes what, where, under which agreement, and what happens at the end of the engagement. It goes in the specification and the contract so your counsel reviews a document rather than reconstructing an arrangement.
Our guide to privacy by design covers the design patterns; the obligations differ by jurisdiction. Not legal advice: confirm the position with your privacy officer or counsel.
Straight about the local part
Most “software development in your city” pages are the same page with the name swapped. Here is what is actually true of ours.
- What we do not claim
- No Denver office, no Colorado address, and no organisation in our career history is based in Colorado. We are a Vancouver practice that works for US clients, and a page implying otherwise would be worth less than this one.
- So why read on
- Because for analysis-led work the question that matters is whether the person writing your specification understands your operation, and the things that decide that are time zone overlap, who actually shows up on the call, and whether they have built this kind of system before. On all three we would rather be judged than on a postcode.
- What does transfer
- A decade of business analysis in asset-intensive and regulated operations — supply chain, maintenance, dispatch, payroll and finance — in environments where getting the requirements wrong is expensive. Those problems are not Canadian.
- Where to start
- A free call, then a fixed-fee piece of analysis small enough that you can judge us on it before anything larger is committed. That is the same first step we offer in Vancouver.
Questions US buyers ask
- Do you have an office in Denver?
- No. Elarion is based in downtown Vancouver, Canada, and works with US clients remotely, travelling when the work needs it. If your requirement is a supplier with a Colorado address, we are not it, and we will say so on the first call rather than three weeks in.
- What are the working hours overlap?
- We work Pacific Time, which is one hour behind Denver. Our whole day overlaps your whole day. That is the practical difference between a Canadian supplier and an offshore one at a nine- or twelve-hour offset.
- Will our data be stored in Canada?
- Only if that is what you want. Hosting region is decided in the specification, and for US clients the usual answer is US-region hosting. Either way it is a written decision rather than a platform default, and your counsel sees it before anything is built.
- How does contracting and payment work?
- A Canadian operating entity contracting in English, invoicing in US dollars, under a fixed price against a written specification. Cross-border engagements of this kind are ordinary; your counsel will have seen the shape before.
- Can you come on site?
- Yes, and for analysis-led work on a complex operation we will recommend it. Denver is a direct flight of about two and a half hours from Vancouver, and travel is agreed up front as part of the scope rather than appearing on an invoice later.
- Do you know US regulations in our industry?
- We know how to design software against a regulatory requirement — collection limits, retention, audit trails, access control and the documentation a reviewer expects — and we have done it under Canadian privacy law and in public-sector governance. We do not hold ourselves out as experts in your specific US regulator, and we will work from your compliance team’s requirements rather than guessing at them.
- Why would we not just hire locally?
- Sometimes you should, and we will say so. If the work is small and well defined, or it needs someone in the building every week, local is simpler. We are worth the conversation when the problem is that nobody has yet written down what the system actually has to do.
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