A lot has happened since Canzan’s November Update. We’ve been researching open-source infrastructure options, setting up servers, and deciding on architecture. Starting a business takes a lot of work, and we’re baking our learning into our products as we go.

Open Source

Open source isn’t just an economical choice; it represents freedom. Canzan will always commit to making our code available to the public where appropriate and ready for a pull request. We’re deciding on a great open source business model that puts you first and Canzan’s sustainability second.

Principles

Outstanding achievements come with great principles. Canzan has settled on four product principles:

  1. Affordability
  2. Portability
  3. Quality
  4. Security

Affordability

We believe small businesses deserve a leg up. We keep prices as low as possible by leveraging open source, optimizing our architecture, and giving you cheap hosting options.

Portability

We don’t believe in vendor lock-in. We’ll make it easy to integrate your products if you’re new or coming back. Your data is yours, and we’ll keep our hands off it. If you tire of Canzan, we’ll make leaving easy.

Quality

We believe you don’t have time for bugs, and neither do we. We run our software through rigorous testing and throw it in the water to see what happens. We chaos test our software until we have complete confidence it will perform like a champ.

Security

We believe in a zero-trust model for software. Bad actors try to steal your data in today’s digital jungle. Canzan puts the security of your data at the forefront of product development.

Beyond product principles, we’ve defined leadership principles. Our leaders have high integrity, persistence, and curiosity; we put your needs first.

What’s Next?

We’re working on core infrastructure like user management and deployment strategies. Once nailed down, we’ll pivot to building the Canzan Lift marketing platform. We plan to offer a private beta, so follow our social feeds if you want in.

We hope you have a wonderful spring, and we look forward to serving you soon!