The people doing the work.
Akashmaan Singh
I've worked with computers as long as I can remember, and somewhere along the way decided I'd rather build my own company than work for someone else's. Norvan Digital is that company.
I studied Computer Engineering at Northern College and started Norvan Digital after my first build went into production: a custom scheduling system for Westminster College in BC, where I was a student. The college's coordinator was running teacher schedules manually in Excel every two weeks. I'd been talking with the staff about my technical background, and when the operational problem came up, they asked if I could build a solution for it. I said yes, and built it.
That project taught me what running a small private institution actually looks like behind the scenes — and how badly the available software fits the work. Norvan Digital came out of that.
Zeeshan Naved Khan
Zeeshan has spent 25 years leading IT and digital operations inside organizations — and for the last three years, he has been doing exactly that at Westminster College, the same institution where Norvan Digital's first product went live.
As IT & Digital Lead and Campus Operations Lead at Westminster, he manages the operational systems, student services, scheduling, and compliance processes that the Norvan Digital ERP is built to replace. He knows what breaks, what gets worked around, and what a college actually needs from its software — not in theory, but because he has been solving those problems every day.
One of us builds the software. The other has spent a career inside the institutions it is built for.
Most institutions don't need more software. They need different software.
Small private colleges, training centres, and similar institutions don't have the budget or the appetite for enterprise platforms built for large universities. So they end up using small-business tools that almost fit, plus a stack of spreadsheets to handle everything those tools miss.
The gap between what generic software covers and what an institution actually needs is where most operational pain lives. A coordinator's bi-weekly Excel ritual. A registrar's compliance folder. A principal's monthly report rebuilt from five different sources.
Norvan Digital exists to close that gap — with software designed around how each institution actually operates, not how a generic platform assumes they should.
Small on purpose.
Norvan Digital is a two-person founding team today, with project collaborators when scope demands it. That's intentional, not a temporary state.
We're not building a 50-person agency that takes 30 clients a year. We're building a focused software company that takes on a small number of engagements per year and stays involved in each of them for the long term. Every system we build is designed to become a foundation we can extend — for that client, and eventually for similar institutions facing the same operational patterns.
That model means we say no to a lot of work. It also means the clients we say yes to get the full attention of the people actually building and backing the product.
Building toward vertical software for institutions.
Each system we build is designed to become more than a one-off project. The Westminster scheduling system was built multi-tenant from the first line of code — meaning the same system can run for other colleges with similar operational shapes. The College ERP is built the same way.
The long-term company is a vertical software business: purpose-built products for institutions where generic platforms don't fit. The path runs through colleges first, then into adjacent institutional verticals — schools, training centres, care homes, and others where operational patterns rhyme.
We're early. The work is real. The direction is set.
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