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We’re a Labour Relations practice that builds its own tools, forged on the front lines of the workplace: software for grievances, bargaining, arbitration and day‑to‑day operations, and training for regulated sectors.
— What we believe
Most Labour Relations work still runs on someone’s inbox and someone’s memory. We think the discipline deserves better. So we practice it, and we build the software we always wished existed.
— Our systems
Four systems, one philosophy: each began as a tool we needed ourselves, built for the people who do this work.
Every decision, defensible.
One home for the whole discipline: grievances, collective agreements, investigations, arbitration, compliance and accreditation. Every deadline, document and decision in reach.
One engine. Many domains.
The training platform behind seven regulated professions: Labour Relations, long‑term care, retirement homes, hospitals, human resources, digital skills and financial technology. One engine, each domain built around its own legislation.
Raspberry CompassOperations ticketing for the people who run buildings.
Requests come in, get routed, and get resolved. Maintenance, IT and supply tickets across every site you run: role‑based views, a full audit history, and your choice of hosted by us in Canada or on hardware you own.
Intelligence on Ontario’s labour arbitrators.
Know the decision-maker before you walk in. Arbitrating.ca turns public award data into clear, defensible insight on Ontario’s arbitration landscape.
— See it work
Every case follows a path of deadlines, documents and decisions. Watch one move: step it forward, or jump to any stage.
Illustrative: real steps and timelines follow each collective agreement.
We build what we practice — and practice what we build.
— The practice
A Labour Relations practice and a software studio, feeding each other: what we learn at the table shapes what we build, and what we build sharpens the practice.
We bring two decades of hands-on Labour Relations counsel to the table: grievance strategy, collective bargaining support, workplace investigations, and the hard conversations in between.
We design and engineer Labour Relations software end-to-end: the same systems we rely on daily. When they’re ready, we’ll bring them to organizations that need them.
Matt LaframboiseFounder & Principal
— Who’s behind it
Two decades in Labour Relations, spent inside the work rather than adjacent to it: grievances, bargaining tables, investigations and arbitration.
The Raspberry Company exists because the tools never matched the discipline. Deadlines lived in someone’s inbox, precedent lived in someone’s memory, and the software on offer tracked headcount rather than the actual work of Labour Relations. So the practice started building its own.
Every system here was built to solve a problem encountered firsthand, then tested against real cases before it was ever offered to anyone else. That’s the whole idea: the practice keeps the software honest, and the software makes the practice sharper.
The habit doesn’t stop at Labour Relations. Outside the four systems above sits Merlin, a set of desktop applications that replace the ones this company would otherwise rent: diagramming, documents, the books. None of them runs on a subscription. Most stay in‑house; one or two may find a wider audience.
— How we work
No lengthy discovery decks. We start from the real problem and move.
Tell us what’s not working: a grievance strategy, a bargaining round, or a process still run on binders and spreadsheets.
We shape the work around how Labour Relations actually runs, grounded in two decades at the table, not a generic playbook.
Hands-on counsel, software built end-to-end, or both. Because we run these tools ourselves, they keep getting sharper.
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Let’s build better work.