Canadian marketplace infrastructure · Current Pre-Release v1.15
Trust infrastructure for Canadian commerce.
Maple Market is a Canadian marketplace built around helping shoppers understand how meaningfully Canadian a product is while giving sellers credible verification, checkout, logistics, refunds, discovery, and operating workflows.
Problem
Canadian buyers and sellers need a more trustworthy way to identify, discover, and support meaningfully Canadian products without relying on vague labels, fragile social posts, or generic marketplace categories.
Role
I define the product strategy, marketplace mechanics, verification model, implementation plans, and technical direction, then use AI-assisted development workflows to move the project from concept into a working v1.
Selected decisions
- Use trust infrastructure as the core differentiator rather than treating Canadian identity as simple branding.
- Keep public UX friendly while maintaining deeper internal verification logic.
- Prioritize seller credibility and buyer confidence before trying to force marketplace scale.