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Software, Websites & Automation Built for London, Ontario Businesses

Global Maple System designs and builds custom software, websites and automation for businesses across London — from Downtown London to Hyde Park, Old East Village, Argyle and Innovation Park. We build the systems that let local manufacturers, health and life-sciences teams, agri-food processors, and financial and insurance firms run on less manual work.

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  • Downtown office vacancy hit 31.4% in Q3 2024 (highest of any major Canadian downtown), pushing businesses and landlords to rethink physical footprint and how they attract customers/tenants without simply expanding space
  • London has roughly 1,050 unfilled manufacturing job vacancies, so plants can't hire their way out of capacity gaps and are turning to automation and systems integration instead
  • 40% of Ontario manufacturers cite recruiting skilled workers as a significant barrier to adopting automation technology in-house, meaning most need an outside integration partner rather than building an internal automation team
  • Fast growth in agri-food processing (120+ companies, 7,500+ workers) is straining manual/legacy systems for inventory tracking, food-safety compliance and traceability as plants scale

AI & Automation · London

With around 1,050 manufacturing roles unfilled and most Ontario manufacturers lacking in-house automation expertise, AI-assisted systems integration lets London plants, agri-food processors and back offices get more done with the teams they already have, instead of waiting to hire their way there.

Doing business in London

London, Ontario runs on a mix of legacy industrial strength and newer digital ambition. Western University and Fanshawe College bring more than 50,000 students into the city each year, feeding a talent pipeline into anchor employers like London Health Sciences Centre, Canada Life, CAMI Automotive, Diamond Aircraft Industries and Digital Extremes. Global Maple System builds the software, websites and automation systems that let London businesses — from Downtown London to Hyde Park, Old East Village, Argyle and Innovation Park — turn that talent and momentum into working systems, not just plans.

Downtown London is under real pressure. Office vacancy in the core hit 31.4% in Q3 2024, up from 27.3% a year earlier — the highest rate of any major Canadian downtown. That statistic isn't abstract for the businesses and landlords occupying that space: it means competing for customers and tenants without simply adding square footage. A stronger website, a better booking or leasing system, or a customer-facing app can do more to fill a storefront or a floor plate than another renovation.

The pressure looks different on the manufacturing floor. London has roughly 1,050 unfilled manufacturing job vacancies, and manufacturing still accounts for 15.6% of employment across the London-Windsor corridor — automotive, aerospace and defence parts producers among them. Plants can't hire their way out of that gap, and close to 40% of Ontario manufacturers say recruiting skilled workers is what actually blocks them from adopting automation in-house. That's a systems-integration problem, not just a hiring problem, and it's one we build for. The city's agri-food sector — more than 120 companies and over 7,500 workers — is scaling fast enough that manual inventory tracking, food-safety compliance and traceability processes are starting to strain.

The same gap shows up in the back office. London's insurance and financial-services cluster, anchored by Canada Life at 255 Dufferin Ave., generates a steady stream of compliance-heavy data and integration work that smaller local firms and brokers have to handle without a dedicated engineering team. More broadly, Ontario's small businesses lag on technology adoption — which is exactly why federal CDAP grants of up to $15,000 now exist to fund websites, e-commerce and digitization for local SMEs. Whichever side of London's economy you're on, the work is the same: replace manual, brittle processes with software that holds up.

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What London businesses tell us

  • ✕ Downtown office vacancy hit 31.4% in Q3 2024 (highest of any major Canadian downtown), pushing businesses and landlords to rethink physical footprint and how they attract customers/tenants without simply expanding space
  • ✕ London has roughly 1,050 unfilled manufacturing job vacancies, so plants can't hire their way out of capacity gaps and are turning to automation and systems integration instead
  • ✕ 40% of Ontario manufacturers cite recruiting skilled workers as a significant barrier to adopting automation technology in-house, meaning most need an outside integration partner rather than building an internal automation team
  • ✕ Fast growth in agri-food processing (120+ companies, 7,500+ workers) is straining manual/legacy systems for inventory tracking, food-safety compliance and traceability as plants scale
  • ✕ Ontario's small businesses broadly lag on technology adoption per the province's 'Broken Links' findings, which is why government CDAP grants (up to $15,000) now specifically fund websites, e-commerce and digitization for local SMEs
  • ✕ Concentration of insurance and financial services around Canada Life creates a deep pool of compliance-heavy back-office and data-integration work that smaller local firms and brokers must handle without in-house engineering teams
What we build

For London's key industries

Advanced manufacturing (automotive, aerospace & defence parts)

London's advanced manufacturers — producing parts for automotive, aerospace and defence supply chains — are running plants against roughly 1,050 unfilled positions, in a corridor where manufacturing makes up 15.6% of employment. With close to 40% of Ontario manufacturers citing skilled-worker recruitment as their main barrier to automation, most plants need an outside integration partner rather than an internal automation team. We build the software and systems integration — production tracking, scheduling, machine and data connectivity — that let existing crews run more of the plant without adding headcount.

Agri-food & food processing

London's agri-food sector has grown to more than 120 companies employing over 7,500 people, and that growth is outrunning the manual systems many plants still rely on. As volumes climb, spreadsheet-based inventory tracking and paper-based food-safety and traceability processes become a liability rather than a shortcut. We build inventory, compliance and traceability software that scales with production instead of slowing it down, so growth doesn't outpace the systems meant to control it.

Health & life sciences

London's health and life-sciences ecosystem — anchored by London Health Sciences Centre and part of a cluster of more than 100 companies, hospitals and organizations employing over 25,000 people — runs on coordination between clinical, administrative and research systems. We build software and automation that connects those pieces: scheduling, data workflows and custom applications that reduce manual handling without asking clinical or research teams to change how they work.

Insurance & financial services

Canada Life's London headquarters at 255 Dufferin Ave. anchors a deep local cluster of insurance and financial-services work, and that concentration creates a steady supply of compliance-heavy back-office and data-integration projects for the brokers and smaller firms around it — most without an in-house engineering team to handle them. We build the custom software and system integrations that keep that data moving accurately and on the right side of compliance.

Digital media & technology

More than 400 companies and 16,100-plus employees make up London's technology and creative sector, alongside studios like Digital Extremes and a steady pipeline of graduates from Western University and Fanshawe College. For a market this dense with technical talent, we build the production-grade software, tooling and AI-assisted automation that let growing local tech and media companies ship faster without over-hiring.

How we help

Built for London businesses

Manufacturing Systems Integration

For plants facing London's roughly 1,050 unfilled manufacturing roles, we build the production tracking, scheduling and machine-data integration software that lets existing teams run more of the operation — the outside automation expertise that close to 40% of Ontario manufacturers say they lack in-house.

Websites & Digital Storefronts

With Downtown London's office vacancy at 31.4% — the highest of any major Canadian downtown — businesses and landlords need to attract customers and tenants without expanding their physical footprint. We build websites, booking systems and customer-facing apps that do that work.

Agri-Food Inventory & Traceability Software

London's agri-food sector has grown past 120 companies and 7,500 workers, and manual inventory tracking and food-safety documentation are straining under that growth. We build inventory and traceability systems designed for scale, not spreadsheets.

Compliance & Back-Office Integration

The insurance and financial-services cluster around Canada Life generates compliance-heavy data and integration work that smaller local firms and brokers have to handle without a dedicated engineering team. We build and integrate the systems that carry that work.

CDAP-Eligible Digitization Projects

Ontario's small businesses broadly lag on technology adoption, which is why CDAP grants of up to $15,000 now fund websites, e-commerce and digitization work for local SMEs. We scope and build projects that fit within that funding.

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Industries we serve in London

Advanced manufacturing (automotive, aerospace & defence parts) Agri-food & food processing Health & life sciences Insurance & financial services Digital media & technology Post-secondary education & research

Serving businesses across Downtown London (Downtown London BIA), Old East Village, Hyde Park, Argyle, Innovation Park.

London questions, answered

No — we work with businesses across London, including Downtown London, Old East Village, Hyde Park, Argyle and Innovation Park, whether you're in a storefront, a plant or an office.

We can scope a website, e-commerce or digitization project to fit within CDAP funding, which covers up to $15,000 for eligible Ontario small businesses — you'd still apply for and manage the grant itself.

That's the situation a lot of local plants are in, with around 1,050 manufacturing roles unfilled across London. Systems integration and automation let your current team cover more ground; we handle that integration work directly, since most manufacturers don't have that expertise in-house.

Yes — London's insurance and financial-services cluster around Canada Life involves a lot of back-office and data-integration work that has to hold up under compliance requirements, and that's a common project type for us.

Book a discovery call and tell us what's slowing your business down — a manual process on the plant floor, a compliance-heavy back office, or a website that isn't pulling its weight. We'll scope the project from there.

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