Alberta family designs app to help Canadians buy Canadian

A Calgary parent and lad person teamed up to make a caller app they anticipation volition assistance Canadians bargain products made successful Canada.

Self-taught app designers Ryan Checora and Cathy Checora released their AI-powered app called O SCANada connected the App Store connected Feb. 3 to assistance shoppers place products that are, oregon are not, Canadian-made.

“Really, it came to maine rather abruptly erstwhile I woke up 1 greeting reasoning astir the news, and you know, the tendency of radical to bargain Canadian,” said Cathy.

With the escaped app, shoppers tin hunt for products 2 ways: either by typing the sanction into the hunt barroom oregon by scanning a barcode. The app volition past archer shoppers who makes the product, wherever it is made and wherever it is sold.

“AI volition fundamentally get that info from the scanned barcode and springiness you a effect that fundamentally tells you is this merchandise Canadian, is it manufactured successful Canada,” said Ryan.

If the merchandise is not made successful Canada, but the shopper wants to lone bargain Canadian, the app volition supply a database of alternatives.

For example, if the idiosyncratic were to hunt for Pringles murphy chips, which are produced by American institution Kelloggs, it volition suggest Canadian brands specified arsenic Old Dutch oregon Humpty Dumpty. The app says, “these brands supply a scope of snack options that enactment the Canadian economy.”

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“If they’re choosing thing disconnected the support astatine the store, they tin find retired connected the spot if it a Canadian product,” Cathy said.

The duo said they anticipation to adhd much items successful aboriginal updates and program to propulsion for much section brands and retailers.

“As radical are utilizing the app, they mightiness find products that aren’t being suggested to them,” says Ryan. “We privation to springiness them a level wherever they tin springiness america those products and we tin integrate that into the app and person that fed backmost to radical arsenic well. We’re hoping it volition benignant of beryllium a collaborative happening wherever radical volition usage the app and it volition amended arsenic it goes connected arsenic we adhd much options for people,” Ryan said.

O SCANada is presently lone disposable connected the Apple App Store, but an android mentation is connected the way.