Amidship

Amidship is a product and engineering studio in Canada that takes on software problems generic tools cannot handle. Typical work includes workflows full of exceptions and constraints, systems stitched from several integrations, and AI projects that have to become dependable production software. Its founder and principal, Rida Al Barazi, stays close to the work, and the firm sets itself apart from large consultancies and staff-augmentation shops.

What Amidship offers

• Consultations — short sessions on hard software and product problems.
• Opportunity sprints and AI pilots — time-boxed work to test a workflow or AI idea.
• Prototypes — early versions of custom products and services.
• Architecture and delivery leadership — senior design and oversight from the principal.
• Ongoing development — long-running engineering for client software, including a fundraising platform.
• Own products — PDFSight for AI document reading, Agentify for running AI agents inside an application, and BranchBox, an open-source tool for parallel development environments.

Who it works with

Organisations with messy, high-stakes software needs, including public-sector bodies; it points to a Government of Canada supplier profile.

Key facts

• Based in: Canada
• Leadership: Founder and principal Rida Al Barazi, with more than two decades in software and product
• Languages: Site published in English, French and Arabic