From a single salary calculator to a full digital studio — here's how infinit5 came to be and where we're going.
Every product we've built started with a real frustration. Here's the honest story.
As an IT project manager based in Toronto, I kept running into the same problem every tax season: finding a Canadian salary calculator that actually used current provincial tax rates. Every tool I found was either US-focused, showed outdated 2022 brackets, or was buried under a mountain of ads. So I built one. Just for myself, to solve a real problem.
What started as one salary calculator grew into a small collection of tools — date calculators, word counters, percentage calculators. The philosophy was simple: useful tools should be free, fast, and private. No signups. No ads. No data collection. The domain was registered, the tools were launched, and real Canadians started using them.
The vision expanded. If one salary calculator was useful, what about 86 tools covering every aspect of Canadian and US personal finance? RRSP calculators, TFSA tools, mortgage stress test calculators, CPP estimators, capital gains tools, budget planners — all with verified 2026 rates for every Canadian province and territory. NexaTools was born at nexatools.infinit5.com and grew to 86 tools and a finance blog with 28+ guides.
With AI becoming genuinely useful, we built two products that solve real problems. ClearSign lets anyone upload a contract and get a plain-English risk analysis — no lawyer required for the initial review. RoastMyIdea gives founders honest, brutal AI feedback on their business ideas before they invest months of effort. Both are powered by Claude AI and free to try.
The same skills that built NexaTools, ClearSign, and RoastMyIdea are now available to small businesses across Canada and the US. Web development, AI automation, SEO strategy, custom tools — we offer the quality and craft of a big agency without the enterprise price tag. The free tools stay free forever. The studio is open for business.
Not buzzwords. These are the actual principles that shape every product and every client project we take on.
Every tool we build processes data client-side. Nothing you enter into our calculators leaves your browser. We don't sell data, we don't run trackers, and we build the same standards into client projects.
We built 86 tools and 28 blog posts in months, not years. Speed matters — but not at the cost of quality. Every page we publish is SEO-optimized, mobile-first, and accurate. Fast doesn't mean sloppy.
We're based in Toronto and we understand the Canadian market. Provincial tax differences, CPP/EI rules, RRSP/TFSA limits, OSFI stress tests — we don't just guess, we get it right because we live it.
Our core tools will always be free. This isn't a freemium trap. We believe access to accurate financial information shouldn't depend on your ability to pay for a subscription.
We don't add AI as a feature. We think AI-first from the start. ClearSign and RoastMyIdea are built around AI capabilities, not bolted onto existing products. Our client work reflects the same approach.
Every product we build is designed with intention. No generic templates, no cookie-cutter layouts. Whether it's a tool, a blog post, or a client website — we design for the specific context and audience.
A lean studio, not a bloated agency. Real work, done properly.
After years working in technology and IT project management in Toronto, I got tired of watching small businesses overpay for mediocre digital work — or worse, go without because "it's too expensive." I also got tired of using online tools that were slow, US-focused, ad-heavy, and wrong about Canadian tax rates.
So I started building. First one calculator. Then 86. Then a finance blog. Then AI products. Then a studio. infinit5 is the result of that frustration turned into something useful. Everything I build, I build the way I'd want it built for myself — accurate, fast, private, and actually helpful.
When I'm not building tools, I'm thinking about what small businesses actually need from their digital presence — and how to deliver that without the agency overhead and six-month timelines.