We didn't build a CRM. We engineered the operating system Canadian immigration practice deserves.
A vertical SaaS for RCICs and Immigration Lawyers. Pathway-aware from the schema up. Rules-driven, not vibes-driven. Hosted on AWS Canada Central. Built for the regulators you actually answer to.
The paperclip isn't decoration.
The E with the paperclip is what we do: digitize Canadian immigration documentation, bound to business logic, practitioner-authored rules, and real workflow. Not vibes, not prompts, not a foundation model's best guess.
AI is the hand. The RCIC is the mind.
Half-baked AI CRMs let a model invent your client's NOC, miscalculate CRS, or hallucinate spousal evidence. We don't. AI assists: drafts letters, summarizes notes, extracts OCR. Decisions stay with the licensed practitioner.
Premium software for premium practice.
We deliberately chose "Expat", the white-collar word for movement. ExpatReady is the white-glove tool for firms serving doctors, engineers, executives, and founders. Not a visa-factory CRM. Not a half-baked AI prefiller. Not an outsourcing-shop CRM.
We spent years inside Canadian immigration practice. Drafting retainers in Word. Chasing documents on WhatsApp. Tracking cases in spreadsheets. Copying client data into PDF after PDF after PDF.
The tools we had were either generic legal CRMs retrofitted for immigration, or US-immigration-first systems that didn't understand IRCC, CICC, or the Canadian pathway maze.
Both treated immigration practice as a use case to support. We think Canadian immigration practice deserves its own platform. Its own vertical SaaS, where every line of code, every model, every screen exists because the practice required it.
We're not consultants who wrote software. We're a mixed team: practitioners who own the rules and the taxonomy, engineers who own the platform, and operations leads who own the everyday workflow. Each discipline holds the pen on its part, and none of us defers to the other.
12 problems running an immigration practice creates. 12 modules that solve them.
ExpatReady isn't a CRM with immigration labels bolted on. It's the vertical SaaS for Canadian immigration practice, every feature exists because something specific was breaking your firm.
“Leads die in WhatsApp.”
A referral comes in. Three days later you remember to follow up. By then they've signed with another firm.
Every lead lands in a structured CRM with the Prospect Questionnaire. Pathway-routed. Channel-tagged. Nothing falls through.
Built different. Here's how.
Honest side-by-side against the four products Canadian immigration firms actually run today. Each cell was checked against the vendor's own marketing pages in mid-2026. “Partial” means they ship the capability but miss the Canadian-immigration specifics, gate it to higher tiers, or stop short of how we ship it. Not that it's unusable.
What we believe about Canadian immigration practice software.
Pathway-aware from the schema up
Every screen, form, and reminder is shaped by the Pathway → Program → Category → SubCategory → Logical Section taxonomy. The data model itself understands Canadian immigration, it's not a free-text field with rules sprinkled on top.
Two case models, because corporates exist
Individual cases and employer-sponsored corporate cases are both first-class. CorporateCase + Employees + master retainer + bulk forms live in one workspace, not as a Frankenstein of individual cases stapled together.
Client portal is core, not an upsell
Embedded in every plan. Clients sign retainers, fill the SQR, upload documents, pay invoices, and see real-time case progress, all on a portal scoped to their case only. No third-party stitching, no extra seats.
Audit log on every entity
Every create / update / delete writes to AuditLog. Who, when, IP, before/after. Immutable. For CICC audits, for client trust, for the 'who approved this?' moments that decide cases.
Rules over recipes
The RNA workflow engine + Logical Sections ship rules-driven from day one. 5 triggers, 4 actions, AND/OR conditions, date offsets. Your firm's process becomes configuration, not a feature request you wait on.
when passport.expiry <= 30 days
and case.status == "Active"
then notify(case.owner, channel:"email,sms")
task("Renew passport", offset:+7d)
timeline("Passport renewal due")Money is part of practice management
Retainer e-sign and Stripe deposit in one flow. Time and activity roll into invoices. Multi-office invoice numbering. Expenses tied to cases. Chasing money is not what you trained for.
Canadian infrastructure for Canadian practice
Hosted on AWS Canada Central. PIPEDA-aligned. CICC-aware. Designated Person workflow. Audit-defensible. Built for the regulators you actually answer to.
Built like vertical software, measured like one.
Real counts pulled from our IRCC taxonomy module, not made-up marketing numbers. They grow as we ship.
Built by practitioners. Engineered to last.
A mixed team: RCICs, Immigration Lawyers, software engineers, and operations leads. The taxonomy is ours. The rules are practitioners'. The engineering is solid. The AI is a helper, never the decision-maker.
Practising immigration consultants own the rules engine, the IRCC taxonomy, and the Logical Sections library.
Counsel own CICC compliance, audit defensibility, appeals workflows, and procedural-fairness handling.
Engineering owns the workflow processor, RNA queue, Stripe and form integrations, audit interceptors, and tenancy.
Ops own multi-office configuration, role hierarchies, plan and permissions, and white-glove migration.
Meet the founders behind ExpatReady.
If this sounds like your firm, we built it for you.
ExpatReady is the operating system for Canadian immigration practice. Made in Toronto by RCICs, Immigration Lawyers, software engineers, and operations leads who'd been waiting for it.
The operating system Canadian immigration practice deserves.
From $199 CAD/seat (annual). Unlimited cases. Unlimited client-portal users. No per-form or per-case fees. White-glove migration included with Practice tier and above.