About
Where knowledge connects.
Sinaapse is a new Nova Scotia company that builds practical document-intelligence systems. We start with invoices and receipts because that's where small and mid-sized organizations lose the most time.
Our name
In Inuktitut, sinaa is the floe edge, where landfast ice meets open water. We joined it with synapse, the point where signals connect. The name is a story about connection. It isn't a claim that we offer cultural or traditional-knowledge technology.
What we believe
- Be useful, not flashy. One workflow done well beats a dozen demos.
- A person stays in control. AI reads and suggests. People decide.
- Show the source. Every answer links back to the document it came from.
- Say what's true. We're early. We'll tell you what we've built, what we haven't, and what we don't know yet.
Where we are today
We incorporated in Nova Scotia in October 2026. We don't have clients, case studies or a finished product to show yet, and we won't borrow anyone else's results. Our first systems are being built now, and the assessment is how a new client finds out whether we can help.
Team
Who you'll work with
Jean Allen
President
Jean is Inuk and a beneficiary of the Nunavut Agreement. She leads the company's direction and governance, and your contract and privacy questions come to her.
Michael Simpson
Cofounder and technical lead ยท Vice President, Operations and Secretary
Michael is a former senior data scientist specializing in AI engineering: AI workflows, document and invoice intelligence, and evaluation testing with confidence thresholds and cost controls. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a BSc in Economics from the University of New Brunswick, and is a Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate.
Cody Allen
Vice President, Business Development
Cody leads business development.
Sinaapse is a majority Inuit-owned, woman-led Nova Scotia company. That describes who owns and leads it. Our work is document intelligence.