For Canadian municipalities — under the formal-bid threshold
Municipal websites,
fit for Canada.
A custom Next.js municipal site, sized below your direct-award ceiling. No RFP, no procurement committee, no plugin supply chain.
Call first. Email second. Forms third. The principal answers the phone.
Quick qualify — direct-award check
A · 30 seconds
CA$9,800 sits inside Ontario’s CA$10,000 direct-award ceiling — CA$200 headroom, no RFP required.
FRAMEWORK — Municipal Act §270 — bylaw governs; $10K is the universal direct-award norm in the confirmed bylaw sample
Custom software for Canadian municipalities.
I build statically generated municipal websites using Next.js and modern deployment infrastructure. No PHP. No database. No plugin supply chain. The attack surface is a git repository.
Every site ships bilingual, WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, and optimized for Canadian hosting. Updates are atomic, reversible, and auditable. The principal signs every deliverable.
Why me.
Governance Platforms
Built front-ends for Waterworth, Muniworth, and The National Strategy Council — platforms used by municipal councils across Canada.
Under the threshold, over the standard.
All projects structured to fall beneath direct-award thresholds. No RFP required. No procurement committee. Your CAO can sign tomorrow.
Enterprise Background
Currently building senior-living enterprise software. Previously ran internal finance and led sales recruiting at a governance-tech firm — including senior municipal-finance hires who remain personal references.
PRINCIPAL
Jesse James
Full-stack developer and civic-tech builder. Previously de facto chief of staff at the governance-technology firm behind Waterworth, Muniworth, and The National Strategy Council, where I built all three platforms' front-ends, led sales recruiting, and ran internal finance reconciliation. Some of the senior hires from that period — including municipal-finance leaders in the BC capital region — remain personal references today.
I also build enterprise software for the senior-living industry, but this practice is exclusively focused on municipal and civic clients.
jesse@fitforgov.com · +1 250 415 5678
24/7/365 direct line. The principal answers the phone.
THE BRAND PROMISE
Fit or Forward.
If Fit For Gov is not the right team for the outcome your municipality requires, I will tell you that on the first call and connect you with the team that is.
The answer is always yes or forward. It is never yes-when-no.
FREE TOOLS — PRINCIPAL-LED, NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED
Four printed dossiers.
The website is the reconnaissance surface.
Enter any Canadian municipal URL. The routine reads what attackers can read — WordPress fingerprint, plugin inventory, exposed admin paths, security headers, TLS posture, email-spoofing risk — and returns a printed dossier.
Begin reconnaissance→02 · PROCUREMENT THRESHOLDSUnder the threshold, over the standard.
Look up the direct-award and competitive-bid thresholds that govern your jurisdiction — the CFTA 2026 schedule, BPS Procurement Directive, BC CPPM, TILMA, and Quebec's LCOM in one printed reference. With a printed brief for every province and territory.
Look up thresholds→03 · COUNCIL BRIEFINGA draft brief for council, in five minutes.
Three fields and the Practice produces a printed, dossier-styled briefing — naming the issue, citing the threshold that applies to your jurisdiction, and proposing the path forward. Yours to print or edit.
Draft a briefing→04 · GRANT PROGRAMSThe website, paid for by a program your municipality already qualifies for.
Enter your province, population, and project scope. The Practice returns a Council Briefing memo listing every grant program your municipality qualifies for — funder, deadline, eligible expenses, expected offset against the build cost. Verified against funder guidelines this week.
Find the grants→CONTACT
Call first. Email second. Forms third.
If your municipality runs WordPress and you want to discuss alternatives, I can usually take a call within the hour.