Factory Bucket Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · London|London, ON · grants and contributions register · London North Centre

Factory Bucket Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 10 agreements; $1.2M value; 2 departments; 5 programs.

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10agreements
$1.2Mvalue
2departments
5programs

Largest agreements

815433$500Kvalue2019start2022end

The project will support additional development, product enhancement and sales of Factory Bucket's suite of software platforms globally.

AI Assistant for Application Builders$145Kvalue2023start2024end

Development of AI prototypes for Factory Bucket's transition from a 'Product-enabled service provider' to a 'Product provider'. The AI Assistant will allow manufacturers to develop applications on the Cohesiv platform.

No-code manufacturing business and production$110Kvalue2020start2021end

Development of a specialized no-code solution for manufacturers, with the first line of targeted applications specific to supply chain and production management.

Innovation Assistance Program$81.3Kvalue2020start2020end

The funding provided by the IAP program is intended to assist innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the start-up phase that cannot access existing commercial support related to COVID-19.

Cohesiv Go to Market$75.0Kvalue2022start2023end

The project aims to develop a new business process in which non-technical staff build, deploy and support industrial manufacturing applications to industrial manufacturing clients within a 12 week timeframe, supported by our ‘no-code’ rapid software development platform, Cohesiv, and a fixed size technical team.

AI QA automation$75.0Kvalue2025start2026end

Factory Bucket Inc. is adapting its CohesivAI platform, originally built for manufacturing, for use by Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

embedding AI agents$75.0Kvalue2026start2027end

AI agents product improvments

AI Assist: AI Pilot$67.0Kvalue2024start2025end

Factory Bucket Inc. will pilot test AI-powered production scheduling assistants through their CohesivAI platform.

Advanced Scheduler MVP$50.0Kvalue2019start2020end

The Advanced Scheduler will allow SME manufacturers to find an optimal way to schedule a new job so that they can effortlessly increase their throughput. They will also be able to quickly find out if they have the capacity to take on new jobs. Manufacturers will be able to respond with a reasonable due date in no time by temporarily plugging in the jobs.

Feasibility of Connecting Manufacturers to Suppliers and Partners with Oracle, eShip and Microsoft Dynamics$50.0Kvalue2021start2022end

Factory Bucket will be creating a dynamic data link for users to understand the activities and status of parts in a partner facility. Factory Bucket will use two manufacturers to learn about connecting them with their supply chain and the data interchange necessary to make this happen. This will inform ongoing efforts in building the Factory Bucket no-code platform, Cohesiv, to address a lack of insight into the manufacturing process supply chain.

Departments

National Research Council Canada9agreements$728Kvalue4programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Innovation Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – AI Assist

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario1agreements$500Kvalue1programs

Years

20261agreements$75.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
20251agreements$75.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20241agreements$67.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – AI Assist
20231agreements$145Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20221agreements$75.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20211agreements$50.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20202agreements$191Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Innovation Assistance Program
20192agreements$550Kvalue2programs
  • Business Scale-Up
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.