What The Tech?

Quebec has quietly become one of the most aggressive jurisdictions in North America for funding AI-driven R&D. In Part 1 of this Office Hours series, Boast's Joshua Martin (Quebec Sales Lead) and Mat Rutishauser join host Paul Davenport to break down what's changed: SR&ED's evolving treatment of AI work, Quebec's CDAE-IA program, CRIC, and what the 2026 SR&ED enhancements mean for AI companies specifically.

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In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Benhur Bosco, Founder of Blurrt, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur and filmmaker who spent the pandemic discovering that human connection—not content, not vanity metrics—is what actually matters.

What You'll Learn:

→ What happened to Benhur during the pandemic (isolation, ego death, and what came after)
 → Why social media failed to replace the "third s...

California is tightening its R&D tax credit cap. New York just overtook San Francisco as the country's top hub for new tech jobs. In Episode 1 of Office Hours, Boast's Ashley Crawford (Director of Customer Delivery) and Mfon Ubaha (Head of Partnerships) join host Paul Davenport to unpack both stories, plus EY's newest CFO survey on the "ownership gap" in R&D investment, whether AI is actually ready to handle your R&D ta...

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Salman Shawaf, Co-Founder of Yonovo, to discuss why SMBs are wasting thousands of hours chasing invoices—and how AI is finally automating collections.

What You'll Learn:

→ The invisible cash flow crisis: months-long payment delays, forgotten follow-ups, bad debt that compounds
 → Why salespeople hate being collection agents (and what it costs your business...

On the latest episode of What The Tech from Boast, we welcome to the show Float Co-Founder Ruslan Nikolaev. At Float, Ruslan and his team are building Canada’s smartest corporate cards, while combining banking, payments and spend management in one intelligent platform purpose-built for Canadian businesses.  

His team is on a mission to simplify business finance in Canada, with Float already being trusted by 7,000+ compani...

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Jessica Glowacki, CEO and Founder of EH!, Canada's local-first social network. After 27 years in tech, Jessica decided to build something distinctly Canadian, a platform designed to lift local communities instead of extract value from them.

Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering ...

On the latest episode of What The Tech, we welcome to the show Cleanlist AI Co-Founder and CEO Levon Adamyan! At Cleanlist, Levon and his team are building the world's smartest agents that run GTM for you, giving teams a powerful way to build and execute Go-To-Market playbooks at scale without needing engineers or complex workflows.  

Levon brings a wealth of experience work at all levels of GTM to his mission at Cleanlist, hav...

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Alyssa Mack-Lee, Founder and CEO of Blissminds, to discuss why women's cognitive health has been overlooked by the healthcare system and how she's building a movement to change that.

Blissminds: cognitive wellness products designed specifically for women through major life transitions. Not generic. Not one-size-fits-all. Formulated with bioavailable ingredients (DHA/EP...

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Matthew Dillon, CEO and Co-Founder of Limitless AI, to discuss how AI automation is changing customer discovery—and why the real competitive advantage isn't speed, it's learning.

What You'll Learn:

→ Why the customer discovery phase is moving from Google to AI search engines
 → How Limitless AI automates the first step of the customer journey while capturi...

If you have ever watched a new build drag on for months, balloon in price, and still feel like a custom prototype at the end, you already know the real problem with housing: the process does not scale. Today we sit down with Vikas Enti, CEO and co-founder of Reframe Systems, to talk about a different model for construction, one that borrows lessons from robotics, systems engineering, and manufacturing to make housing faster, cheape...

On this episode we welcome to the show Garrett Fritz, Partner and CTO at MetaCTO. Garrett brings more than 10 years of experience leading software development and digital transformation to his role at MetaCTO, where  his team helps business owners create new revenue streams, increase customer lifetime value and improve profit margins through mobile app design and development.  

Garrett is especially adept at helping non-te...

Here's how you know you're in the right place: You walk into a podcast studio in a shared co-working space in Calgary called Thin Air Labs. It's the kind of space where real work happens; not polished, not pretentious, just functional and full of energy. And it's become the epicenter of meaningful conversations about building tech companies in Canada. 

That studio is home to Tech Thursday; and Phil Burns, who created it, is the...

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Nyle MacLeod, Co-Founder of CondoScan, to discuss why condo buying is fundamentally different—and why most buyers have no idea what they're actually purchasing.

What You'll Learn:

→ Why buying a condo means you're buying into a corporation (not just a home)
 → The hidden documents and financial accounts that scare first-time buyers
 → How reserve f...

Robert Price had built something remarkable. At Axia, he helped grow a multi-billion dollar fiber optics company from the early days of cloud computing. Then, when the company sold, he'd earned the right to step back and think about what mattered. 

Instead, he wrote a $50,000 check. 

At the time, Robert was selling a home and buying another at the same time. By the end of closing, after all the broker fees, commissions, and...

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, recorded in person at Thin Air Labs in Calgary, we sat down with Sebastien Hiscock, Co-Founder of Purelend, to discuss how his company is using AI to fully automate the manual checks and underwriting that have plagued the mortgage industry for decades, and why the best AI solutions empower humans rather than replace them. 

Sebastien's path to founding Purelend is a masterclass ...

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, recorded in person at Tech Thursday in Calgary, we sat down with Omar Sabbagh, CEO of Bidaya AI, to discuss how his company is using AI to level the playing field for small and mid-sized firms bidding on government contracts 

Omar's journey to founding Bidaya is wonderfully nonlinear. He's a mechanical engineer by training who thought he'd be a biomedical engineer. Instead, he ...

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Varun Sehgal, CPA and Founding Partner of Think Accounting, to discuss how his firm's transformation from a traditional location-based practice to a cloud-first national firm changed everything, and how accountants play a critical coordination role in helping Canadian businesses maximize R&D tax credits like SR&ED. 

Varun's journey started at Er...

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Philipp Baumanns, Co-Founder and COO at telli, to discuss how AI voice agents are transforming B2C customer journeys, and why the most successful entrepreneurs focus on solving problems they've experienced firsthand. 

Philipp's journey started on the other side of the entrepreneurship equation. He worked in venture capital and private equity, looking at compani...

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Vlad Leytus, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AirDev, the global leader in no-code and Bubble.io development. Vlad shared how AirDev enables customers to build powerful custom web apps in a fraction of the time, cost, and effort of traditional agencies, and how R&D tax credits have been critical to their growth as a bootstrapped, US-based company serving hundreds of cl...