Canadian Take-Home, Modeled in Real TimeWeb · Cloudflare-hosted

Know your take-home before payday.

Multi-jurisdictional Canadian tax math, a CRA-method RRSP planner, and variable-pay simulations — all in one private workspace. Federal, provincial, and territorial brackets handled, every cheque.

Pay-Sidekick

Problem & Solution

Built for what actually goes wrong

Pain point

Generic salary calculators that gloss over province-specific brackets, CPP/EI ceilings, and partial-year deductions.

Value pillar

Multi-jurisdictional Canadian tax math kept up-to-date through 2024–2026 — Federal, provincial, and territorial brackets included.

Pain point

Modelling variable pay (commissions, bonuses, overtime) and seeing how a one-time RRSP top-up actually moves your bottom line.

Value pillar

CRA-method RRSP planner and variable-pay simulator project month-by-month cashflow with payoff snowballing for installment debts.

Deep technical features

What ships in the box

Multi-Jurisdictional Tax Engine

Federal, provincial, and territorial brackets through 2024–2026, with CPP and EI ceilings, basic personal amount, and provincial credits handled automatically.

CRA-Method RRSP Planner

Models contribution limits, carry-forward room, and the marginal-rate refund of a top-up so you can compare a payroll deduction vs. a lump-sum at year-end.

Variable Pay & Cheque Snowballing

Project commissions, bonuses, and overtime cheque-by-cheque, then snowball CRA installments and consumer debt against the resulting cashflow.

Security & Compliance

Built on enterprise-grade infrastructure

Pay-Sidekick is built around a private workspace — only you see your salary, deductions, and projected cashflow. Identity runs on Clerk (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR). All numerical data lives in a tenant-isolated D1 partition on Cloudflare's global network; no third-party analytics on the calculator pages.

Clerk identity (SOC 2 + GDPR)Tenant-isolated D1Cloudflare Workers edgeNo third-party analytics on calculators
Network

Cloudflare global edge — innate DDoS protection, zero cold-starts.

Identity

Clerk (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR) for multi-tenant fleets; PBKDF2 for single-tenant apps.

Subprocessors

Cloudflare & Resend (SOC 2 Type II) · Stripe (PCI-DSS Level 1).

Product roadmap

From foundation to fleet scale

  1. Phase 1Shipped

    Foundation — Tax Engine + Vault

    • Multi-jurisdictional bracket engine through 2024–2026.
    • Standalone Clerk auth + D1 + admin per the 2026-05 pivot.
    • Variable pay and RRSP planner UI shipped at pay-sidekick.vibeprosoft.com.
  2. Phase 2In progress

    Cheque Snowballing — Cashflow Projection

    • Cheque-by-cheque payoff projection for CRA installments.
    • Consumer debt snowballing against variable-pay scenarios.
    • Federal credit / provincial credit auto-detection.
  3. Phase 3Next

    Scale — Multi-Year Modelling

    • Multi-year RRSP / TFSA / FHSA contribution-room modelling.
    • Self-employed tax modelling and quarterly installment planning.
    • Year-end T4 reconciliation and slip generation.

Ready to bring Pay-Sidekick into your stack?

Talk to our team about deployment, custom SLAs, and integration with your existing identity and observability stack.