Experience with national health resources, registries, and accessible information platforms.
Digital product studio
Build, release and manage what you need most.
KBD helps organizations plan, design, build, launch, and support resilient web and mobile application systems.
- Since
- 2010
- Based in
- Canada
- Focus
- Web, mobile, AI
Discovery, UX, engineering, QA, release coordination, and iteration under one production rhythm.
Application work across responsive web, native mobile, connected devices, machine learning, and emerging interfaces.
Maintenance, analytics, triage, updates, and support for products that need to keep improving.
Our mission
Deliver an advantage to your team and great digital products to the world.
KBD is a one stop solution for digital needs, combining strategy, UX, engineering, maintenance, and long-term support for businesses, institutions, and public-sector teams.
Services
Build better
digital services.
Create useful applications, put AI to work, and improve the systems your team and customers rely on.
Web & Mobile Apps
Build customer portals, public-facing services, and iOS and Android apps around the people who use them.
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AI Agents & Automation
Connect your knowledge and tools to answer questions, support intake, and reduce repetitive work.
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UX & Product Design
Make complex tasks easier to complete. Explore ideas, test prototypes, and design clear, useful interfaces.
Explore product design
Security
Find weaknesses in accounts, permissions, code, and configuration. Prioritize fixes and verify the improvements.
Explore security
Accessibility
Remove barriers in navigation, content, and forms through accessibility reviews, practical fixes, and testing.
Explore accessibility
Modernization & Support
Update aging systems, connect APIs, resolve issues, and keep your application useful as requirements change.
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Selected work
Complex digital products, built with real-world constraints
Selected engagements where KBD brought product thinking, engineering execution, and post-launch discipline together.
Government of Canada
Canada's Food Guide
- Challenge
- Bring one of Canada's most recognizable public health resources into a renewed digital experience.
- Our work
- KBD helped design, develop, test, and launch the digital Food Guide, including bilingual content management, API work, and training for content teams.
- Results
- Nearly 1 million visits in the first 48 hours. 30,000 downloads after launch.
Health product reporting platform
Health Product Shortages Canada
- Challenge
- Modernize a government-provided legacy platform for industry reporting and administration.
- Our work
- KBD improved reporting and administration, notification workflows, accessibility, usability, and security, with mobile work for iOS and Android.
- Results
- Launched in 2026. A modernized platform for health product reporting and administration.
Digital publishing · Android
Dow Jones — Barron’s
KBD worked with the Barron’s and Wall Street Journal teams on the Barron’s Android app from 2014 to 2016, with features for discovering news, saving articles, sharing content, and managing notifications.
The preview shows the current app, which has evolved since KBD’s engagement. View on Google Play (opens in a new tab).
Sports retail
Warrior eCommerce
KBD worked with Warrior on responsive eCommerce design and development, including product search, shopping cart, credit-card payments, and customer accounts.
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University of Toronto
Physiotherapy Bridging Program
A branding, content, and website overhaul for the Physiotherapy Bridging Program, with redesigned information architecture and navigation for prospective applicants.
Registry platform
Veterinary Health Products
A Veterinary Health Product notification platform with role-based access, review and approval workflows, document versioning, and internal messaging.
IoT prototype
Smart Table
Raspberry Pi and mobile software for a private metal and smart-device manufacturer.
AI & machine learning
Machine Learning for Safety Reports
A proof of concept for categorizing handwritten safety reports using natural language processing and machine learning, with a reported F1 score above 0.95.
Read the Machine Learning case study
Health data & automation
Canadian Clinical Drug Dataset
Automated monthly dataset generation and improved data pipelines for a client supporting Canada’s PrescribeIT e-prescribing infrastructure.
Read the Clinical Dataset case study
Mobile & connected hardware
EEG 101
An interactive neuroscience learning suite built with InteraXon and NeuroTechX, connecting native mobile apps with Muse brain-sensing hardware.
Read the EEG 101 case studyCapabilities
A practical stack for products that need to ship, scale, and stay healthy.
AI & Data
Mobile & Devices
TV, VR & Interactive
Back-End & Infrastructure
Verification & Support
Clients
Trusted by public institutions, healthcare teams, and growth companies
About KBD
Innovation, optimization, and client success since 2010.
KBD has worked through the mobile revolution, wearables, IoT, machine learning, and AI. The team specializes in creating, maintaining, and supporting web and mobile application systems.
KBD analyzes existing assets, implements improvements, and facilitates growth through strategic partnerships and third-party integrations.
Agents
A useful new member of your team.
Answer questions. Guide customers. Make room for the work that needs you.
We build AI agents around your knowledge, tools, and workflows. Start with a conversation, then explore what an agent could do for your business.
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