Industries We Serve

We've moved engineering teams for companies at every funding stage — from 4-person seed-stage teams consolidating in a co-working space to 30+ employee post-Series B waves relocating across provinces. Coordinated multi-employee relocations with consolidated billing, no annual minimums, and temporary storage for employees between leases. One project manager — Jordan Flett, who spent five years at Shopify Ottawa before joining Canadian Life — handles your entire team: scheduling, surveys, quotes, and post-move reporting in a single dashboard-style summary delivered to your HR or operations lead.

The problem most tech companies face is that enterprise relocation management companies (RMCs) require 25–50 moves per year as a minimum contract threshold. If you're relocating 6 engineers, you're either rejected outright or placed on a "small account" tier where response times slow and coordinator attention drifts. We built our corporate relocation program specifically for the 1–25 employee range — no minimums, no middleman markup, and the same project coordination whether you're moving 4 people or 24.

Key metric: Athena Robotics, 14 employees, Waterloo to Toronto, 6 weeks, $2,743 per move — 34% less than the next lowest corporate relocation services bid. Zero workdays lost. Three damage claims resolved within 10 business days.

Services highlighted:

• Corporate relocation (1–25 employees, no minimum contract)
• Furniture delivery for new office setups (bundled on return-trip logistics)
• Group move scheduling with staggered timelines to avoid bottlenecks
• Temporary storage — first 30 days free on group contracts
• Post-move reporting: cost per employee, timeline adherence, damage claim status

Original documents, chain-of-custody requirements, and confidentiality protocols — we've moved immigration case files, financial records, and medical archives with manifest-level tracking. Every box is sealed, numbered, photographed at origin and destination. A dedicated truck is assigned to the job (not mixed with other clients' belongings). A crew lead rides in the cargo area throughout transport. A digital manifest — including sequential box numbers, shelf destination assignments, and time-stamped photographs — is delivered to your office manager by end of day.

The protocol was developed by Diego Vasquez, our Operations Director, specifically for firms handling original identity documents. Most moving companies will tell you they can handle an office move. Very few will show you a documented chain-of-custody protocol before moving day — because they don't have one. We do, and it's been tested on 6,214 files without a single loss.

Key metric: Chen & Park LLP, 6,214 active immigration case files with original identity documents — passports, birth certificates, notarized paperwork. Zero lost documents. Single-day Saturday execution. $11,800 total — $7,200 less than the competing quote that came with no file security plan.

Services highlighted:

• Secure document moving with chain-of-custody protocol and photo audit trail
• Office consolidation (multi-site to single-site)
• Saturday/after-hours execution to minimize billable-hour disruption
• COI issuance within 24 hours of request
• Pre-labeled shelving destination maps for zero-confusion unpacking

We've furnished 5 café locations for NovaBrew Coffee Co. — receiving shipments from manufacturers at our Toronto warehouse, damage-inspecting every piece on intake (protecting your warranty claim before you take delivery), and dispatching crews to multiple sites on the same day. Crews handle full assembly including wall-mounting for banquettes, shelving, and display fixtures. Every item is verified against your purchase order before it leaves our loading dock, so discrepancies are caught at the warehouse — not on the floor of your café the morning before a grand opening.

This matters because manufacturer damage discovered after delivery becomes your problem — the manufacturer blames the mover, the mover blames the manufacturer, and you're stuck with a scratched countertop and a voided warranty claim. Our warehouse receiving protocol photographs every item upon intake, documents any damage with timestamped images, and files the claim on your behalf before the piece ever leaves our facility. That's the difference between a furniture delivery service and a logistics partner.

Key metric: 156 pieces to 3 NovaBrew locations in 1 day. Two manufacturer-damaged items documented at our warehouse before delivery — warranty claims filed and processed before the grand opening. Sam Ehrlich, NovaBrew's Director of Operations, has used us for three office moves and four café buildouts since 2022.

Services highlighted:

• Furniture delivery & installation (wall-mounting, assembly, hardware included)
• Warehouse receiving with damage inspection and photo documentation on intake
• Multi-site coordination on synchronized timelines
• Inventory verification against purchase orders before dispatch
• Return-trip logistics to reduce per-location delivery costs

Schools operate on fixed calendars — the summer construction window is non-negotiable, and teachers need access to their classrooms by a hard date that doesn't flex for a mover's convenience. We handle classroom furniture, learning materials, libraries, and fragile Montessori equipment with tagged, cataloged, barcode-tracked inventory so nothing ends up in the wrong room. Every piece is labeled with a room-destination code that matches a floor plan we develop with your principal or facilities manager before moving day.

For schools undergoing renovation, we've developed gymnasium-based storage-in-place logistics that keep everything on-site during construction phases — eliminating the cost of off-site storage and the risk of items being separated from the school environment. When construction wraps, we redistribute everything to the correct rooms based on the barcode manifest. Teachers walk into a fully furnished classroom, not a pile of unlabeled boxes.

Key metric: Greenfield Montessori School — 12 classrooms, 2,400 individual pieces (including glass sensory materials, wooden manipulatives, and custom-built shelving units), 14-day construction window, 1 broken item. On time. On budget. $8,200 total — including storage-in-place logistics for the full renovation period.

Services highlighted:

• Internal facility moves and classroom reconfiguration
• Storage-in-place logistics during renovation (gymnasium staging)
• Fragile material handling (glass, wood, sensory equipment, musical instruments)
• Summer-window scheduling with hard deadlines and backward-planned timelines
• Barcode-tracked inventory with room-destination coding

We partner with settlement agencies and immigration lawyers to provide structured relocation support for arriving families. Landing Kits delivered within 24 hours of arrival — loaner mattresses, cookware, linens, and a high chair so you're not sleeping on the floor your first night. Port-to-door container delivery from Montreal, Halifax, or Vancouver with customs broker coordination to expedite clearance. Neighborhood orientation guides customized to your landing city in 8 languages, covering everything from grocery stores that carry ingredients from home to pediatric clinics accepting new patients.

The program includes 90-day phone support covering tenant insurance setup (the thing your landlord requires and nobody mentions at the airport), utility activation, school registration, provincial health coverage applications, and transit pass acquisition. The entire program was designed by Amara Okonkwo, who relocated from Lagos to Toronto in 2012 and spent her first two weeks sleeping on an air mattress waiting for a container stuck in Montreal. She built the program she wished someone had built for her. Read more about the program specifics on our newcomer relocation assistance page, or download the free Newcomer's First 90 Days in Canada guide from our Resource Hub.

Key metric: 400+ families served since 2018. The Afolabi family — five members arriving from Lagos on a Provincial Nominee visa — had their container delivered in 18 days vs. the 30–45 day average for unassisted newcomers. Landing Kit deployed within 24 hours. Children enrolled in school within 1 week. Total cost: $4,200.

Services highlighted:

• Newcomer relocation assistance (full-service program)
• Landing Kits (mattresses, cookware, linens, high chair — delivered within 24 hours)
• 8-language support: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, Igbo, Mandarin, Hindi
• 90-day settling phone support
• Customs broker coordination for delayed containers

Companies with 5–100 employees sit in a frustrating gap: too small for enterprise relocation management companies (which require 25–50 move annual minimums and charge 15–25% middleman markups) and too complex for residential movers (who can move your couch but can't coordinate 8 employee relocations on staggered timelines with consolidated invoicing). We handle 1–25 employee relocations with dedicated project management, consolidated invoicing, and coordinated timelines — no minimum contract size, no middleman markup, and no annual commitment.

Your 4-person team moving from Ottawa to Toronto gets the same project coordination as a 25-person wave: one point-of-contact project manager, video surveys for each employee, binding quotes within 48 hours, temporary storage for employees between homes, and a post-move report your finance team can actually use. We also bundle furniture delivery for new office setups on return trips, reducing per-item delivery costs. Read our blog post on why enterprise RMCs don't work for startups for the full cost breakdown.

Key metric: Average per-employee cost on group moves: $2,743. Enterprise RMCs quoted 34% higher for the same scope — and required a 50-move annual minimum. Our minimum: 1 employee. David Osei at Paystack North called the consolidated invoicing "the first time my accountant actually praised a vendor."

Services highlighted:

• Corporate relocation (minimum contract: 1 employee, no annual commitment)
• Office moving with IT disconnection/reconnection coordination
• Furniture delivery for new workspace setup (bundled on return trips)
• Consolidated invoicing and post-move reporting (cost per employee, timeline adherence, damage status)
• Temporary storage — first 30 days free on group contracts