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Software and Automation Built for Summerside, Prince Edward Island

Global Maple System is an AI-first software, web and automation studio that builds practical tools for Summerside business owners in aerospace, food processing, manufacturing, tourism and the trades. We help you do more with the team you already have.

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  • Acute seasonal and skilled-trades labour shortages force owners to cover shifts themselves or scale back hours, especially in tourism, food processing and manufacturing
  • An aging workforce means decades of institutional knowledge are retiring out with no documented processes to replace them, prompting Holland College's new FutureWorks P.E.I. initiative to plug the gap
  • Downtown and waterfront small businesses are under pressure to modernize their customer-facing presence as part of the City's 10-year Downtown Waterfront Transformation plan and its dedicated Small Business Activation Team
  • Summerside Electric's grid runs close to peak capacity in winter, with the city warning customers of possible 'roving' outages, creating operational continuity risk for businesses without backup or monitoring systems

AI & Automation · Summerside

With PEI facing a shortfall of more than 6,000 skilled workers by 2035, Summerside's aerospace, food processing and manufacturing employers have a clear window to automate scheduling, documentation and production tracking now, before that labour gap forces harder trade-offs.

Doing business in Summerside

Summerside is one of Prince Edward Island's fastest-growing communities, with a 2021 census population of 16,001 — up 7.9% since 2016. That growth is showing up everywhere: on the aerospace maintenance, repair and overhaul floors at Slemon Park, in the food and beverage processing plants that anchor the local economy, along the storefronts of Downtown Summerside's Water Street, and at the working waterfront around the Port of Summerside. Global Maple System builds the software, websites and automation that let Summerside business owners keep pace with that growth without burning out their teams.

Growth brings its own pressure. Owners across tourism, food processing and manufacturing tell us the same thing: seasonal and skilled-trades labour is hard to find, so they end up covering shifts themselves or scaling back hours just to get through a season. At the same time, an aging workforce is retiring with decades of institutional knowledge that was never written down — a gap serious enough that Holland College launched its FutureWorks P.E.I. initiative to help close it. Software that documents process, schedules people and automates the repetitive parts of a workday isn't a luxury here; it's how a lean team stays open.

Downtown and waterfront businesses face a second kind of pressure: the City's 10-year Downtown Waterfront Transformation plan and its dedicated Small Business Activation Team are pushing Water Street merchants to modernize how they present themselves to customers, online and in person. And every winter, Summerside Electric's grid runs close to peak capacity, with the city warning of possible roving outages — a real operational continuity risk for any business that depends on point-of-sale systems, refrigeration monitoring or production lines staying online.

Meanwhile, aerospace and manufacturing tenants at Slemon Park and the Summerside Business Park are expanding into an industrial park that's nearly full, straining back-office, scheduling and production systems that were built for a smaller operation. With Prince Edward Island projected to be short more than 6,000 skilled workers by 2035, the businesses that automate now — rather than waiting to hire their way out of the gap — are the ones that will keep growing comfortably.

Sound familiar?

What Summerside businesses tell us

  • ✕ Acute seasonal and skilled-trades labour shortages force owners to cover shifts themselves or scale back hours, especially in tourism, food processing and manufacturing
  • ✕ An aging workforce means decades of institutional knowledge are retiring out with no documented processes to replace them, prompting Holland College's new FutureWorks P.E.I. initiative to plug the gap
  • ✕ Downtown and waterfront small businesses are under pressure to modernize their customer-facing presence as part of the City's 10-year Downtown Waterfront Transformation plan and its dedicated Small Business Activation Team
  • ✕ Summerside Electric's grid runs close to peak capacity in winter, with the city warning customers of possible 'roving' outages, creating operational continuity risk for businesses without backup or monitoring systems
  • ✕ Fast-growing aerospace and manufacturing tenants at Slemon Park and the Summerside Business Park are expanding into a nearly-full industrial park, straining back-office, scheduling and production systems built for a smaller scale
  • ✕ Provincial projections point to a shortfall of more than 6,000 skilled workers by 2035 across manufacturing, construction, bioscience and digital/technical services, pushing employers to automate to do more with fewer people
What we build

For Summerside's key industries

Aerospace maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO)

Slemon Park is home to Prince Edward Island's largest aerospace company, StandardAero, which employs more than 445 people at its Summerside MRO facility, alongside other aerospace tenants at the park. Operations at that scale run on tight maintenance schedules, parts tracking and compliance documentation, and the margin for manual error shrinks as headcount grows. We build scheduling, inventory and reporting software that fits around existing MRO workflows, so growing teams can track more work without adding proportionally more administrative staff.

Food and beverage processing

Summerside's food and beverage processors, including dairy operations like Amalgamated Dairies Limited on Water Street, run on production schedules where a shift-coverage gap or a lost batch record has real cost. Seasonal and skilled-trades labour shortages hit this sector especially hard, pushing owners to cover shifts themselves. We build production scheduling, quality-tracking and reporting tools that reduce the paperwork burden on supervisors and make it easier to onboard seasonal staff quickly, without needing them to master a complicated system on day one.

Advanced and light manufacturing

Manufacturing tenants at Slemon Park and the Summerside Business Park are expanding into industrial parks that are close to full, which means back-office, scheduling and production-tracking systems built for a smaller operation start to strain. We build the software layer that scales with a growing shop floor — production scheduling, inventory visibility and reporting — so expansion doesn't mean drowning in spreadsheets or losing track of orders during your busiest quarters.

Information technology and smart-grid/energy tech

Summerside's own grid runs close to peak capacity through the winter, with the city warning of possible roving outages — a reminder that energy and IT infrastructure here are under real, visible pressure. For local IT and energy-tech businesses, that means customers increasingly want monitoring, alerting and continuity tools they can trust. We build the dashboards, integrations and automation that let smart-grid and energy-tech teams monitor systems in real time and respond before a small issue becomes downtime.

Tourism, hospitality and retail

Water Street and the Summerside waterfront are the public face of the city's 10-year Downtown Waterfront Transformation plan, and the City's Small Business Activation Team is actively pushing local merchants to modernize their customer-facing presence. That's compounded by seasonal labour shortages that make it hard to staff a full front-of-house team year-round. We build booking systems, e-commerce storefronts and websites that let a lean tourism or retail team look sharp and take orders around the clock, even when the floor is short-staffed.

How we help

Built for Summerside businesses

Seasonal Staffing & Scheduling Automation

Built for tourism, food processing and manufacturing businesses covering shifts themselves when seasonal or skilled-trades labour runs short — automated scheduling and shift-coverage tools that make a lean team go further during peak season.

Process & Knowledge Capture Systems

As an aging workforce retires, we build simple documentation and training tools that capture how your most experienced people actually do the job, complementing efforts like Holland College's FutureWorks P.E.I. initiative before that knowledge walks out the door.

Modern Websites & E-Commerce for Downtown & Waterfront Businesses

Aligned with the City's 10-year Downtown Waterfront Transformation plan and its Small Business Activation Team, we build modern, customer-facing websites and online stores for Water Street and waterfront merchants ready to modernize.

Continuity & Monitoring Tools for Winter Grid Risk

With Summerside Electric's grid running close to peak capacity in winter and roving outages a real possibility, we build monitoring and alerting systems that flag problems with refrigeration, production lines or point-of-sale before an outage becomes a loss.

Back-Office & Production Systems for Growing Industrial Tenants

As Slemon Park and the Summerside Business Park fill up with expanding aerospace and manufacturing tenants, we build the scheduling, inventory and reporting systems that let a growing operation keep control of its back office instead of outgrowing it.

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Industries we serve in Summerside

Aerospace maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) Food and beverage processing (frozen potato products, dairy) Advanced and light manufacturing Information technology and smart-grid/energy tech Tourism, hospitality and retail Skilled trades and construction

Serving businesses across Slemon Park, Summerside Business Park, Downtown Summerside (Water Street), Summerside waterfront / Port of Summerside.

Summerside questions, answered

Yes. We work with businesses of every size across Summerside, from downtown Water Street retailers to larger employers at Slemon Park and the Summerside Business Park. Most projects start small — a better website, a booking system, one automated workflow — and grow from there.

We can design systems with offline-capable point-of-sale, local data caching and automated alerts, so a Summerside Electric roving outage doesn't mean losing orders or production data. We'll talk through your specific setup before recommending an approach.

We build for the reality of seasonal and skilled-trades labour shortages: simple interfaces a new hire can learn in a shift or two, not a week of training. If your team is stretched thin, the software needs to make their day easier immediately, not add a learning curve.

Yes — this is one of the most common requests we hear in Summerside as an aging workforce retires. We build straightforward documentation and process tools that capture institutional knowledge in a usable format, addressing the same gap Holland College's FutureWorks P.E.I. initiative is working on from the training side.

Start with whichever process is causing the most pain right now — scheduling, inventory, order tracking or reporting — and we'll scope a system around that first, then expand it as your operation grows into the space.

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