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Orthoplex Solutions is a Toronto-based web and app development company founded in 2015. We specialize in scalable, high-performance, and secure digital solutions. Our services include web and mobile app development, cybersecurity, cloud solutions, integrations, and business technology consulting. With over a decade of experience and a team of experts holding PEng, MBA, and PMP credentials, we currently manage development, hosting, maintenance, and support for more than 400 active clients across multiple industries.

Orthoplex Solutions’s headquarters is located in Liberty Village, Toronto, Canada, at: 80 Atlantic Ave, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X9
Yes. While most of our clients are in Canada and the USA, Orthoplex Solutions also supports clients in Europe (UK, Italy, France) and the Middle East, delivering reliable web and mobile solutions internationally.
We work with a wide range of industries, including Healthcare, SaaS, Marketing, Non-Profits, Education, Automation, Manufacturing, Psychotherapy, Real Estate, Sports, and Pharmaceuticals. We welcome projects from any industry that fits within our technical expertise.
We begin by gathering all design, functional, and non-functional requirements and documenting everything for alignment. Once approved, we follow a clear process: design → development → testing → launch → maintenance, ensuring quality and transparency at every stage.

Orthoplex Solutions stands out through:

  • Niche technology expertise for optimized solutions, competitive pricing, and faster delivery.
  • Commitment to excellence, with over 400 clients and 650+ completed projects.
  • Long-term partnerships, offering continuous support, maintenance, and secure hosting to ensure top performance and reliability.
Yes. Our in-house teams include Brand Designers, UI/UX Designers, Frontend and Backend Developers, DevOps Engineers, and Cybersecurity Specialists, all coordinated by Project Managers and Product Owners. This collaborative structure ensures cohesive, well-integrated solutions.

We create accurate estimates with input from our developers, communicate timelines at kickoff, and track all work in ClickUp using Agile methodology. Each project is managed by a PMP-certified Project Manager who ensures milestones are met and potential delays are addressed proactively.

We maintain clear communication through:

  • A client portal for submitting tickets with screenshots and descriptions.
  • A dedicated email channel that reaches all project managers for quick responses.
  • Bi-weekly meetings during development for progress updates, feedback, and alignment.
We work with businesses of all sizes, from startups and family-owned companies to large enterprises and multinational corporations. Our approach scales to fit each client’s needs and growth stage.
Yes. We offer maintenance plans, support retainers, and ongoing development packages for long-term partnerships. Orthoplex currently manages web, app, hosting, and maintenance services for over 400 active clients who rely on us as their trusted technology partner.

UX / UI Design & Branding

UX design (User Experience) focuses on the structure, flow, and usability of a digital product, how users interact with it and how easily they can achieve their goals. UI design (User Interface) focuses on the visual layer, the look, feel, and interaction elements such as buttons, icons, and colors.  At Orthoplex Solutions, our UX and UI teams work together from strategy to execution. UX designers conduct user research, map user journeys, and build wireframes, while UI designers translate these insights into visually engaging and accessible interfaces. This collaboration ensures that every product we deliver is both intuitive and visually refined.
Yes. Our brand design team specializes in creating complete brand identities, including logo design, typography, iconography, color palettes, and marketing collaterals. We help businesses establish a cohesive visual identity that reflects their mission and appeals to their target audience.
Yes. We use Figma, Adobe XD, and other industry-standard design tools to create wireframes, prototypes, and design systems. These tools allow for collaborative design, real-time feedback, and seamless handoff to development.

Our UX research and discovery phase focuses on understanding users, business goals, and product requirements. It typically includes:

  • Stakeholder interviews and requirement gathering
  • User persona development and journey mapping
  • Competitor and market analysis
    Information architecture and wireframing
  • Usability audits and data-driven insights

This phase ensures every design decision is supported by user behavior, business needs, and technical feasibility.

Yes. We begin by auditing your current website or app, analyzing usability data, and identifying user pain points. Based on these insights, we redesign the interface to improve user experience, navigation flow, and engagement. After launch, we re-run analytics and usability testing to validate improvements and optimize performance.

We follow your brand guidelines, build using global components and reusable design systems, and conduct extensive responsive testing across different devices and browsers. This guarantees consistent layouts, typography, and interactions everywhere.
Yes. Orthoplex follows WCAG and AODA accessibility standards. We use tools like Lighthouse, UserWay, and AccessiBe to detect and fix accessibility issues. We ensure AAA-level color contrast, keyboard navigation, alt text for images, and ARIA labels for interactive elements. Our accessibility-first approach ensures inclusivity for users relying on assistive technologies.
We validate designs through user testing, stakeholder reviews, and interactive prototypes. Feedback is gathered from clients and test users during the design phase to identify usability issues early. This ensures that final designs are validated, goal-driven, and ready for development with minimal iteration post-launch.
Orthoplex follows a mobile-first design approach, ensuring experiences scale up smoothly to larger screens. We use adaptive layouts, CSS grid systems, and media queries for fluid responsiveness, enhanced with JavaScript-driven dynamic resizing and conditional rendering. We optimize performance through lazy loading, asset compression, and scalable UI elements (typography, icons, and images). Every design undergoes cross-browser testing on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge to maintain consistent performance across platforms.

Web & App Development

Yes. Orthoplex Solutions develops both web applications and mobile applications using no-code platforms as well as fully custom-built solutions. We tailor our approach to fit your project’s complexity, scalability needs, and budget.
Yes. We handle the entire product lifecycle, from strategy, UX/UI design, prototyping, and development to testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. Our team ensures your digital product is market-ready, scalable, and aligned with your business goals.
Orthoplex builds a wide range of digital products, including marketplaces, AI-powered platforms, e-commerce stores, SaaS products, analytics dashboards, booking systems, social platforms, educational portals, healthcare apps, and enterprise tools. Each solution is tailored for performance, scalability, and a seamless user experience.
We use a diverse and modern tech stack, including WordPress, Webflow, ReactJS, Next.js, NestJS, React Native, Laravel, PHP, Node.js, AWS, Firebase, and Microsoft Azure. This flexibility allows us to choose the best technologies for each project’s requirements.
Yes. As long as the APIs are properly documented, our team can integrate third-party services, CRMs, payment gateways, analytics tools, and cloud systems seamlessly into your application.
We design every system with scalability, performance, and reliability in mind. This includes using modular architecture, load balancing, cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Firebase), and database optimization. We also conduct stress testing and performance audits to ensure the application performs smoothly under high traffic and data loads.
Yes. We specialize in building custom admin dashboards and data-driven portals that give clients full control over their platforms. These dashboards are designed with secure authentication, real-time analytics, and user management tools to streamline operations and decision-making.
Yes. We frequently work with startups to develop MVPs that validate ideas quickly and efficiently. Our process focuses on core functionality, rapid iteration, and scalability, allowing you to launch early, gather feedback, and evolve your product with minimal cost and time.
We use GitHub for version control, ensuring code integrity and collaboration across our development team. Our deployment pipeline includes staging environments, automated CI/CD workflows, and rollback mechanisms to ensure smooth and reliable releases.
Our in-house QA team creates detailed test cases combining manual and automated testing. Testing occurs at key project milestones, depending on complexity and scope. We then fix, optimize, and retest to ensure the final product is stable, secure, and bug-free.

We handle the entire app store submission process on your behalf, including Apple App Store and Google Play Store requirements. This covers app packaging, icon and asset preparation, compliance checks, description writing, and managing approvals to ensure a smooth and timely launch.

Yes. We provide ongoing maintenance, monitoring, and updates for over 400+ active client projects. This includes feature enhancements, bug fixes, performance optimization, and security updates to keep your product running smoothly long after launch.
Yes. We have extensive experience in app and system migrations. Our process involves technical scoping, risk assessment, phased migration planning, and execution with minimal downtime. We ensure smooth transitions while improving performance, maintainability, and scalability.

WordPress Development

Yes. Orthoplex Solutions has a dedicated team of WordPress developers who specialize in custom theme and plugin development, enabling fully tailored functionality and seamless integration with third-party systems.

We use a multi-layered optimization and security strategy, including:

  • Hosting on Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for dedicated performance
  • Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) for global speed
  • Caching and minification to reduce load times
  • Image optimization for format and size
  • Lightweight code structure and reduced plugins
  • SSL encryption, firewall protection, and regular security audits

This ensures every WordPress site we build is fast, secure, and reliable.

Yes. We regularly build WordPress websites using Elementor Pro, Divi, and other page builders based on client preference. Our builds are lightweight, flexible, and fully editable by clients post-launch.

A custom WordPress build is designed from the ground up, either:

  • Using a page builder (like Elementor) without a theme for maximum customizability, flexibility, and easy content management, or
  • Built on top of a lightweight Full Site Editing (FSE) theme for high performance and scalability.

Template-based builds, by contrast, rely on pre-designed themes and often have limitations in layout control, design consistency, and speed optimization. At Orthoplex, we recommend the approach that best fits your performance, design, and budget goals.

Yes. We work extensively with WooCommerce to build eCommerce stores with multi-currency, multilingual, advanced shipping, tax rules, email customization, and payment gateway integrations. We ensure your online store is optimized for speed, conversion, and security.
Yes. We integrate WordPress with HubSpot, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, Zoho CRM, and other systems. If a tool supports API integration, webhooks, or WordPress plugins, we can connect it seamlessly to automate and streamline your workflows.
Yes. Our team builds custom plugins and themes from scratch to deliver unique functionality that standard solutions can’t provide. This ensures better performance, maintainability, and security.
We’re experienced with multilingual WordPress sites using WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress. Our team also supports RTL (Right-to-Left) languages like Arabic and Hebrew, ensuring perfect layout and translation consistency across all versions of your site.

Yes. We make WordPress websites compliant with accessibility and privacy regulations by:

  • Installing AccessiBe for automated accessibility compliance (WCAG & AODA)
  • Following PIPEDA best practices for secure data collection
  • Including a privacy policy page and proper cookie consent tools on all sites
Yes. We partner with WP Engine and GoDaddy to provide managed WordPress hosting. We can host your website directly or manage your existing hosting account to ensure uptime, performance, and security.
Yes. Every website we build is fully responsive, tested across all screen sizes, browsers, and operating systems. We ensure your content displays perfectly on mobile, tablet, and desktop for a seamless user experience.

Web Maintenance

Our maintenance service includes regular backups, security updates, codebase and plugin updates, and 24/7 uptime monitoring to ensure your website remains secure, stable, and high-performing.
Update frequency depends on each project’s requirements and service plan, ranging from daily to weekly updates and patches as needed.
Yes. We continuously monitor uptime, load times, and overall performance to detect and resolve issues before they impact users.
Yes. We maintain automated backup schedules and have disaster recovery policies in place to quickly restore your website in case of an outage or data loss.
Yes. We can troubleshoot and fix issues on any website, even those we didn’t build. In these cases, work is billed hourly since the complexity and scope of fixes can vary.
We prioritize based on urgency, typically responding within 1–8 hours for urgent items, 4–16 hours for medium priority, and 24–48 hours for routine requests.
Yes. We provide performance, uptime, and security reports to keep clients informed about their website’s health and ongoing improvements.
Yes. Through our ongoing development and support packages, clients receive dedicated monthly hours for content updates, data entry, design enhancements, or new feature development as needed.

Compliance

We build every website following AODA and WCAG 2.1 best practices from the start. Our team tests accessibility using tools like Lighthouse and UserWay, then optimizes accordingly to ensure full compliance. For projects requiring full accessibility automation, we can implement AccessiBe, an AI-powered accessibility solution.
Yes. We can audit your existing website, implement accessibility best practices, and install AccessiBe to ensure compliance with WCAG and AODA standards.

PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) is Canada’s federal privacy law that governs how businesses collect, use, and disclose personal information.

Orthoplex ensures PIPEDA compliance by:

  • Using secure form submissions (HTTPS & SSL)
  • Limiting data collection to necessary fields
  • Implementing data encryption and storage safeguards
  • Providing a clear privacy policy and consent mechanisms
  • Offering data access and deletion options for users
Yes. Orthoplex has successfully developed, launched, and maintains multiple HIPAA and PHIPA-compliant websites and web applications. While some requirements fall under the client’s responsibility, we ensure compliance through technical safeguards, cybersecurity measures, proper documentation, and policy alignment, making us one of the leading healthcare web and app developers in North America.

We prioritize data privacy and security through:

  • Encrypted databases and SSL-secured communication
  • Role-based access control (RBAC) for data management
  • Regular vulnerability scans and penetration testing
  • Secure authentication and session management
  • Compliance with PIPEDA, GDPR, and applicable data protection standards

This ensures user information is protected across every layer of the system.

Yes. Orthoplex follows PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) requirements to secure online transactions. We use encrypted connections, tokenized payments, secure gateways, and regular vulnerability assessments to maintain full PCI DSS compliance.
We use Lighthouse and UserWay for automated accessibility testing. For advanced compliance and ongoing monitoring, we integrate AccessiBe for AI-powered accessibility enhancements.

Integrations

We integrate CRMs, booking systems, external databases, payment gateways, shipping and logistics systems, inventory management tools, and more. If the third-party service provides well-documented APIs or webhooks, we can connect it seamlessly to your platform.
Yes. We frequently integrate WordPress, web apps, and SaaS platforms with HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, ActiveCampaign, and other CRM systems to sync leads, automate workflows, and improve marketing performance.

Yes. We have experience integrating Stripe, PayPal, Moneris, Authorize.net, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and other secure payment systems that meet PCI DSS standards.

Yes. We integrate Mailchimp, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, and other marketing tools for every product that requires analytics or campaign tracking. The tracking codes are provided by your marketing team and configured securely by ours.

We use event-driven architecture and webhooks to enable real-time data exchange between connected systems. Our team configures background synchronization queues and API polling mechanisms to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and speed across all platforms.

Yes. We design and develop custom APIs with REST or GraphQL architecture, complete with authentication, versioning, and full technical documentation to enable secure integration between internal or external systems.
We secure all integrations using encrypted communication (HTTPS/TLS), token-based authentication, and access control policies. To monitor performance and detect anomalies, we use Grafana, Sentry, and Prometheus, ensuring integrations remain stable, secure, and fully observable in real time.

Cybersecurity

Orthoplex Solutions uses advanced monitoring and security tools like Grafana, Sentry, and Prometheus to detect and prevent cyber threats. We implement Google reCAPTCHA for bot protection, perform continuous library updates, use secure AWS infrastructure for data storage, and apply end-to-end encryption across all systems.
Yes. We provide continuous, proactive monitoring and real-time threat detection to ensure system integrity and minimize potential vulnerabilities.
We use industry-leading standards such as AWS KMS, SSL with AES-256 encryption, SHA hashing, Firebase Auth, AWS Cognito, JWT, Supabase Auth, and Azure SSO—or any other method required by the client’s security needs.
Yes. We conduct in-depth security audits and penetration testing to identify and address potential weaknesses before they become risks.
We adhere to strict data privacy protocols, including encryption at rest and in transit, access control policies, and secure coding practices that minimize data exposure risks.
Yes. We provide and configure SSL certificates to ensure all websites operate securely over HTTPS.
All credentials and access keys are stored in an encrypted secrets management system and a secure company-wide password vault to prevent unauthorized access.
We use optimized database services like AWS RDS and MongoDB Atlas for high availability, load balancing, and auto-scaling, ensuring reliable performance even under heavy traffic.
We use encryption, network isolation, role-based access control, and continuous monitoring to ensure sensitive data is always protected from unauthorized access or accidental loss.

Business

We integrate with your existing systems to automate manual workflows, reduce repetitive tasks, and improve reporting and visibility across your operations.
Yes. We design and develop custom internal tools and automation platforms tailored to your business goals and processes.
Yes. We build real-time dashboards and analytics tools to help teams visualize key metrics and make data-driven decisions.
We provide user training, comprehensive documentation, and ongoing support so non-technical staff can manage, update, and operate digital platforms with confidence.
Yes. Our experts audit your existing processes and recommend automation strategies that save time, reduce costs, and increase efficiency.
We start with a detailed discovery session to understand your business workflows, tools, and challenges. Our team then conducts a digital audit, identifies inefficiencies, and provides a tailored roadmap outlining recommended improvements, integrations, and automation opportunities to enhance performance and scalability.

Michael Salib, P.Eng, MBA

CEO & Co-founder

Michael Salib Orthoplex Solutions CEO

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