Updates on IMS app development, municipal software insights, and perspectives from the field on what Canadian municipalities actually need from their tools.
After years of working in building code administration and municipal inspections, the gaps in available software became impossible to ignore. IMS exists to fill those gaps — starting with the apps that solve the most common, most urgent problems: building permits, fire inspections, and asset management.
We're building in order of impact. The first apps to ship are focused on the permitting and inspection workflows that every municipality runs, whether they have two staff or two hundred.
Stay in the Loop →The fire inspection software market is dominated by enterprise tools priced for large departments. Most Saskatchewan volunteer fire departments are doing inspections on paper. IMS-Fire is being built for them — occupancy-based checklists, offline pre-incident plans, and owner-side deficiency reporting that doesn't require installing an app.
The most important architectural decision in IMS isn't any individual app — it's the shared property record that connects them all. A development approval carries its property data into a building permit. The building permit informs a fire pre-plan. Here's how it works and why it matters for your office.
Most municipal software on the market was designed for American jurisdictions or large Canadian cities. The NBC, SK Fire Code, provincial asset management requirements, and the reality of rural and small-town operations rarely drive the product roadmap. At IMS, they're the starting point.
Saskatchewan rural municipalities face a specific challenge: large geographic areas, limited staff, and growing provincial reporting obligations for infrastructure condition and capital planning. IMS-Asset Rural is being designed around those minimum requirements — simple enough for a two-person office, complete enough to satisfy the province.
Geographic information tools have historically required specialized staff and expensive software licenses. Modern cloud GIS changes that equation entirely. IMS-Map is being built as a shared layer across all IMS apps — permits, inspections, violations, and assets all plotted in one view, usable by any staff member.
Rural Saskatchewan has real connectivity gaps. An inspector on a remote property, a fire crew responding to a call, or a road crew assessing a culvert at the edge of cell coverage — these are not edge cases, they're the normal operating environment. Here's how IMS handles offline field work.
Get in touch and we'll keep you informed as each app launches.