Find a useful first project, understand the funding requirements and plan how your team will use it. Lime helps with project planning, technical application support and implementation.
FedDev Ontario’s business funding is interest-free and fully repayable. Eligibility and approval depend on the applicant, project and program requirements. Lime is an independent service provider. Read the funding guide
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Your staff may be copying details between systems, searching for information or preparing the same reports every week. Before choosing a tool or applying for funding, identify the process worth improving.
We help you assess the opportunity, define the work and decide what a sensible first project should achieve.
The same information typed into more than one place, by hand.
Answers that live in documents, inboxes or one person’s memory.
Hours spent assembling numbers before anyone can act on them.
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Our role
A free first conversation, then paid planning and implementation only where the project justifies it.
01 · Understand the fit
We review your business priorities and compare the proposed project with published funding requirements. You get a clearer view of the opportunity and the questions that need answering.
02 · Prepare the project
Through a paid planning engagement, we can help define the technical scope, milestones, supplier costs and measures of success. We also help organize the technical information needed for an application.
03 · Support the application
We explain the process and help you identify missing documents. You and your accountant remain responsible for the financial information. Your business reviews and submits the application.
04 · Put the plan to work
With an agreed implementation scope, Lime can connect systems, build the chosen workflow, test how it behaves and help your team use it. We define how progress will be measured before the build begins.
Lime connects websites, customer-management systems, automation and reporting. Our work includes MG Law’s lead-intake system and KUCHT’s Command Centre.
These examples demonstrate systems and integration experience. They are not presented as government-funded AI projects.
Systems experience · MG Law
Lime built MG Law’s intake system to capture, organize and route enquiries, making lead sources and quality easier to see. It connects the incoming enquiry with the firm’s intake workflow and legal system.
Systems experience · KUCHT
Lime’s KUCHT Command Centre brings sales, inventory, campaigns and visibility into a shared view, supporting decisions about products and marketplace activity.
Systems experience · iDesign
Lime’s iDesign Growth Intelligence brings Canadian and U.S. website performance together so the business can compare markets, brands and product categories.
Your proposal separates planning, application support, implementation, training, ongoing support and third-party operating charges, so you can see what each stage includes before you commit.
Stage 1
Discuss the main problem, approximate fit and a sensible next step.
Stage 2
Agreed technical scope, milestones, budget inputs and document-completeness support. FedDev does not reimburse application-preparation costs.
Stage 3
Separately scoped configuration, integration, development, testing and handover.
Stage 4
Agreed maintenance, support and improvements, with third-party costs (hosting, licences, AI usage) identified separately.
You and your accountant provide and verify the financial information. Your business reviews and submits the application and communicates with FedDev Ontario. We don’t offer unlimited free application writing, preferential access or guaranteed approval, and we keep application-preparation fees separate from potentially eligible implementation work.
Free planning kit · PDF
Use Lime's planning kit to choose a useful workflow, ask the right questions about costs and ownership, and prepare your team for a small pilot.
8 pages: choose your first project, understand the funding route, know what you are buying, prepare your team, and a one-page project brief.
Our questionnaire compares your answers with selected published requirements. It can identify potential fit and questions to resolve, but it cannot determine eligibility, and no one can guarantee funding. FedDev Ontario evaluates the complete applicant, project and supporting information against its official requirements.
Potential activities include substantive AI integration, improvements to data and digital infrastructure, relevant expertise, training, cybersecurity and change management. Each cost must be reviewed within the actual project. A list of possible activities is not approval of your proposal or of Lime’s fees.
No. The FedDev Ontario business stream discussed here is interest-free and fully repayable. It also requires an applicant contribution of at least 50% of eligible costs. Other programs have different rules and need separate checks.
Choose a business problem worth solving, measure its current cost and define a realistic improvement. Include data preparation, integration, staff time, training and continuing costs. Funding should support a sound investment rather than determine what you build.
The first 20-minute review is free. Detailed planning and application support, implementation, training and any ongoing support are paid according to the agreed scope. Your proposal should show what each stage includes and which third-party charges remain separate. FedDev does not reimburse the cost of preparing its application, and some technical work may qualify only when it is directly connected to an approved project.
No. Your business can apply directly. Lime offers optional planning, technical support and implementation services.
The decision to proceed is yours. A useful project plan should show a sensible scope and costs so you can assess whether to proceed independently, reduce scope or stop. Funding approval and a Lime engagement are separate decisions.
Review the actual agreement and eligible cost period before committing to work. Confirm responsibilities for claims, evidence and reporting, then implement against the approved scope and signed supplier agreement. Don’t assume every later expense is covered.
We will discuss the process you want to improve, the main constraints and a sensible next step. Detailed planning, implementation design and application support are separate paid engagements, agreed before work begins.
Lime Advertising is an independent service provider. We do not administer government funding or represent the government. Program terms, available funds and application outcomes can change.
