Built by an operator, proven on his own company first
Who built Certivo, why, and what running it on a real Alberta safety training company looks like ahead of a public launch targeting January 2027.
Built by an Alberta Training Company
Certivo was founded by Aaron Hoyte, owner of Ready 4 Everything Training & Supplies Ltd., an Alberta-based safety training operation. He built it because he needed it. Scattered scheduling across text messages, manual pay calculations in spreadsheets, and certifications that expired without anyone noticing.
He looked for software built for this industry. It didn't exist. So he built Certivo to run R4E first, then made it available to other training operations facing the same challenges.
Customer #0: from May 2026 through December 2026, R4E Training & Supplies runs its full operation on Certivo: 8 months of real classes, real instructors, real invoices, real cert audits, before we open the public launch in January 2027. Every Founders Member buys a platform that's been validated by the founder's own daily use.
How we work
Four commitments that shape every decision, from where the servers sit to who answers the phone.
You own your data
Export everything at any time, in open formats. Ownership is written into the contract, with a 30-day grace period on cancellation so nothing is ever stranded.
Built and hosted in Canada
Designed in Alberta, with compute in the Toronto region and PIPEDA handling by default. Encrypted at rest, full audit logging, SOC 2 controls mapped.
Proven on a real company first
The founder runs his own training company on Certivo before anyone else does. Every workflow is used in production for months ahead of public launch.
A direct line to the founder
Founders Members deal with Aaron, not a queue. Feature requests land on the roadmap with a name on them, and the first ten companies get a real vote.
The founder runs his own training company on Certivo.
Ready 4 Everything Training & Supplies Ltd. runs every class, certificate, invoice, and instructor schedule through Certivo, May 2026 through public launch in January 2027.
Real classes. Real instructors. Real certificates.
Not a demo tenant. Not synthetic data. Aaron's Alberta-based safety training company is running live operations on Certivo: booking H2S Alive, First Aid, and Confined Space cohorts; issuing ESC, Red Cross, and Energy Safety Canada-recognized credentials; invoicing oil-and-gas operators and construction GCs and taking their payment through Stripe.
Every friction point becomes a fix. Every workflow rough-edge gets sanded down. By the time Certivo opens to public sign-ups in January 2027, every feature will have been used in production by the founder for 8 months.
- Certificates issued via Certivo vs prior workflow
- Admin hours saved per cohort (target: 4+)
- Instructor utilization improvement
- Days-to-paid on invoice (target: <14)
Published quarterly as R4E hits each operational milestone.
This isn't marketing copy: Aaron's calendar entry for May 2026 reads "Run every R4E class through Certivo without falling back to Excel." A public Google Sheet logs every friction point so prospects can verify before signing.
The road to launch
Where Certivo is today and what happens between now and opening to the public.
- 1May 2026
Customer Zero goes live
Ready 4 Everything Training & Supplies moves every class, certificate, invoice and instructor schedule onto Certivo.
- 2Now
Founders Membership
The first ten training companies join at 3 months free, then 40% off Professional for life, and shape what ships next.
- 3January 2027
Public launch
Targeting January 2027, with slip risk into the second quarter. Founders Members are running on it well before then.
Who we build for
Safety training is a shared job between the people who deliver it and the people who have to prove it was done.
Related reading
First 10 customers: 3 months free, then 40% off Pro for life. Apply here.
Every module, from scheduling and certificates to invoicing and the client portal.
Export any time, Canadian compute, 30-day exit grace.
What is shipping between now and launch, and what Founders Members vote on.