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Luke Sidney, contractor. Montreal, Quebec.
Software and agentic systems, built by one Montreal contractor for consultants who keep their own clients. A brief, a call recording or a half-formed idea is enough to start — deliverability and complexity get assessed before anything is quoted, and if it can't be built as described, you hear that first. The call, the evaluation and the quote cost nothing.
Three steps, drawn as the circuit they actually are. Your line with the client runs unbroken from the brief to the delivery. My line feeds the work from underneath and crosses yours without ever joining it.
A brief, a call recording, a half-formed idea. No spec required.
Deliverability and complexity assessed before a number is quoted. If it can't be built as described, you hear that first.
Your name on it. The client relationship stays yours, start to finish.
clevrstart · Montreal · Terms of engagement
These are the terms Luke Sidney builds under, written out in full so you can price your own work against them before we ever speak. Nothing below changes depending on who is asking.
Hourly rate
FromCA$85.00/ hr
Quoted to you, the consultant — not to your client. Billed from the day you accept, never before.
The thirty-minute call is free. The evaluation behind it is free. The soumission it produces — priced feature by feature, hours shown, contingency stated out loud — is free. So is every follow-up while you decide, for as long as you take. The meter starts the day you say yes and not one hour before it.
Bring a brief, a call recording, or a half-formed idea — no spec required. Deliverability and complexity are assessed first, and the quote follows from that. If the thing cannot be built as described, you hear that before you hear a price.
CA$85.00/hr is a wholesale rate, not a retail one. What you charge your client on top of it is your business and is never disclosed, questioned, or matched. The margin is the reason the rate is published this plainly.
The build is invoiced once, to the consultant, so your client sees a single supplier and a single line of accountability. Nothing splits, nothing arrives from a name they do not recognise, and no clevrstart paperwork reaches them.
clevrstart does not approach your client, does not market to them, and does not invoice them. The build happens behind you; the relationship, the contract and the invoice all remain yours.
Four systems, each catalogued with what can be verified about it. Most of this work ships under someone else's name, so the entries that belong to a client are listed the way a catalogue lists a work it cannot attribute — private collection, facts intact, name withheld.
The agentic operating system clevrstart runs on: intake, estimation, quoting, the build pipeline and the knowledge layer under them. Every other entry in this catalogue was produced through it.
A booking product built and shipped on that same system. It is not described here — it is running: the call you would book with clevrstart is booked through it.
Book a free callSystems commissioned by clients and delivered on the same foundation. They carry the client’s name and the client’s relationship; both stay where they belong, which is why this entry has a number and not a title.
Content platforms built for clients on the same foundation, shipped under their names. Listed here for what they establish — that the capacity has been used at this scale before — and for nothing else.
The catalogue lists only work that shipped. Entries without a name are withheld by agreement, not by omission — the same agreement that would cover yours.
clevrstart also builds and distributes its own software, and entrepreneurs, small businesses and individuals use it directly, with no consultant in between. That is a separate door from the contracting work described above, and nothing on this page needs to change for it. skedual is one you can use today.
Look at skedual, the booking product