Ottawa is a steady, recession-resistant capital market — but it's split by a provincial border and frozen solid for a third of the year. SlabOS is the all-in-one platform that helps National Capital Region shops win more renos and new builds with faster 2D→3D quoting, hold margin with automatic slab nesting, and run the whole operation on one login — priced in Canadian dollars.
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The National Capital Region is one market that happens to sit in two provinces. South of the Ottawa River it's Ontario — established renos in Westboro, the Glebe, Old Ottawa South and Rockcliffe Park, plus relentless new-build sprawl in Kanata, Barrhaven, Stittsville and Orléans. North of the river it's Québec — Gatineau, Aylmer and Hull, often quoted and invoiced in French, under a different tax and pricing regime.
It's not a boom-bust town. Steady federal employment keeps the remodel pipeline full year-round, and government and institutional work runs alongside it. The shop that gets a clean, visual quote in the client's hands first — priced right the first time, on either side of the river — is the one that books the job.
Draw the job in 2D. The client sees it in live 3D.
Ottawa is among the coldest capital cities on earth. From December to March, deep freeze, snow days and salted roads compress the calendar — every template and install date has to be sequenced tight.
Federal offices, universities, hospitals and embassies mean larger jobs with more line items, documentation, and procurement steps than a single-kitchen reno.
A reno in Aylmer or Hull may be quoted in French and taxed under Québec rules, while the same crew installs in Kanata that afternoon. The system has to handle both.
Builders in Barrhaven, Stittsville, Kanata and Orléans want template-to-install turnarounds that hold closing dates across whole phases of a subdivision.
Century homes in the Glebe and New Edinburgh, and high-end kitchens in Rockcliffe Park, sell on a 3D render of the finished room — not a flat line drawing.
A template in Orléans, an install in Gatineau, a slab pickup off the 417 — and only a handful of bridges across the river. Crews and calendars have to be planned around the crossings, not just the clock.
Neighbourhoods, suburbs and the cross-river market are named only to describe the Ottawa–Gatineau region in general. SlabOS makes no claim about, and does not reference, any specific local fabrication business.
Draw the countertop in 2D and watch it render in real-time 3D as you go. Pricing updates live off your own price lists in CAD — edges, cutouts, thickness, splash — so the number is right the moment the design is, whether you're quoting Ontario or Québec rates.
A homeowner in the Glebe or a builder in Barrhaven sees the finished kitchen, not a flat sketch — and gets a number on the spot. When a federal posting and a fixed move-in date are driving the reno, the fast, professional, three-dimensional shop is the one that gets the deposit.
One login for the estimating desk, the 3D studio, the schedule, and the crew in the field.
A short Ottawa install season means you can't run jobs back like a year-round metro — so every job has to actually pay. SlabOS nests your pieces automatically — one click runs roughly 30,000 placement operations to find a best-fit layout that gets more out of every slab.
Moraware's stack has nesting too — but it's done by hand. Manual layout means padding "to be safe," and on big-vein quartzite or marble that yield you give away is exactly the margin you needed to win. Automatic nesting lets you bid sharper without bleeding profit when the calendar gives you fewer install days.
One click tests tens of thousands of placements per slab.
Canadian Countertops — a $12M/yr shop — used SlabOS nesting to underbid a $1M+ job and held their margin doing it. That win came two weeks into SlabOS, after 15 years on Moraware. The same automatic-yield advantage applies to every NCR bid, from a Westboro kitchen to a federal fit-out.
SlabOS clearly understands how to strike the right balance between fabrication and software. My only gripe: I didn't discover it sooner.
UI, integrations, performance, pricing ROI, sales features, support, onboarding, AI, the quoting engine, KPIs. Nothing to dislike — it's everything we've ever wanted.
CounterGo to quote, Systemize for jobs and the calendar, a separate Inventory product for slabs — re-keyed by hand.
Manual layout means padding for safety — yield you give away on every NCR bid, when the short season already limits how many jobs you run.
Glebe and Rockcliffe homeowners want to picture the finished job — a flat drawing doesn't sell the way 3D does.
DIY exports and spreadsheets to move your own history — so shops stay stuck.
If your Ottawa or Gatineau shop is on the Moraware stack — CounterGo, Systemize, and a separate Inventory product stitched together — SlabOS replaces all three with one platform, one login, one bill in CAD.
And the switch is done for you. We migrate accounts, contacts, quotes (with the actual drawings), jobs, activity history, calendar, and slab inventory. Canadian Countertops moved 20,000+ jobs and 18,000+ quotes in about four hours — quoting in SlabOS the same day. An NCR shop's switch looks the same: no data left behind, searchable from day one — and timed so it lands in your slow winter weeks, not your busy season.
“All of it came over in an afternoon — 18,000+ quotes and our full job history migrated in about 4 hours. Nothing was lost. We were quoting in SlabOS the same day.”
Book a demo and we'll draw one of your actual jobs in 3D, nest it onto a slab, quote it live off your price list in CAD, and show you the whole shop running on one screen.
One platform · one flat fee · unlimited seats · see pricing
Yes. The National Capital Region is a steady, recession-resistant market with year-round residential renos, suburban new-build volume in Kanata, Barrhaven, Stittsville and Orléans, government and institutional fit-outs, and a cross-river market in Gatineau, Aylmer and Hull. SlabOS is built for that: fast 2D→3D quoting to win bids, automatic slab nesting to hold margin on granite, quartz and big-vein quartzite, plus scheduling, a mobile crew app, slab inventory, a customer portal, and built-in AI — all on one login, priced in CAD. It works for a two-person shop and scales to a multi-crew operation running both sides of the river.
Yes. Moraware is three products — CounterGo for quoting, Systemize for jobs and the calendar, and a separate Inventory product for slabs — that you stitch together by hand. SlabOS replaces all three with one platform: quoting, live 3D, scheduling, the crew app, slab inventory, the customer portal, and AI under a single login and one flat bill in CAD. The biggest practical difference is nesting — Moraware nests slabs manually, SlabOS does it automatically — which is where Ottawa shops recover the margin they need when a short install season limits how many jobs they can run. See the full SlabOS vs Moraware breakdown.
It's done for you. We migrate your accounts, contacts, quotes (with the actual drawings), jobs, activity history, calendar, and slab inventory — your shop doesn't have to wrangle exports and spreadsheets. As a reference point, Canadian Countertops moved 20,000+ jobs and 18,000+ quotes across in about four hours and were quoting in SlabOS the same day. An Ottawa shop's switch follows the same path: nothing left behind, everything searchable from day one — and we can time it for your slow winter weeks so it doesn't touch your busy season.
Yes. SlabOS quotes off your own price lists in CAD, and the live pricing engine reflects your edges, cutouts, thickness and splash as you draw. Ottawa shops that also work across the river into Gatineau, Aylmer and Hull set up their own pricing to match how they invoice on each side — the platform stays the same whether the job is in Ontario or Québec, so one crew and one system can cover the whole capital region.
Ottawa's deep-freeze winter compresses the install calendar, so you run fewer jobs in the cold months and each one has to pull its weight. SlabOS nests your pieces automatically — one click runs roughly 30,000 placement operations to find a best-fit layout that gets more out of every slab. That recovered yield is real margin: it lets you bid sharper without cutting into profit, instead of padding the slab count by hand "to be safe." On big-vein quartzite and marble the difference is even bigger. See how nesting works.
Pricing is custom to your shop — one flat platform fee for the whole system (drawing, quoting, scheduling, inventory, crew app, portal, and AI) with unlimited seats, instead of paying per-product and per-seat across three separate tools. See the pricing page, or book a demo and we'll set the right plan for an NCR operation your size.
