Pillar Incentive · Calgary, AB · Est. 2026
Dreaming the Future
Think. Build. Run.
Strategy, brand, and the systems that run a business — thought through, built, and operated. Calgary, Alberta.
The founder
Nick Kernaz spent fifteen years building with his hands — and years more rebuilding his life from about as far down as a life can go. What he carried out is a rare kind of sight: he sees the friction in a system before anything else — the cracks that people fall through, the doors that quietly mean no.
Pillar Incentive is that sight put to work — client builds that fund the machine, and ventures that give people the leverage they’re currently denied. Dreaming the future — and waging war on poverty and pain.
Read the full story →15+
Years in trades & construction
3
Client builds delivered
5
Ventures in motion
What I do
Three things happen here. Most clients need one. The ones who grow need all three.
01
Positioning, brand, marketing direction, business development. The thinking that decides whether the build is worth making, and what it should be. It comes with the part nobody asks for: I walk into a business and see the dead loops, the missed dollars, the thing everyone stopped noticing three years ago. I fix those whether they’re on the invoice or not.
02
Websites, B2B software people log into every day, and full ventures from first mockup to live product. Brand, site, systems, end to end. Designed and shipped in days, not months, and built to be owned, not rented.
03
Automation that takes over the repeat work: the quoting, the follow-ups, the paperwork. Then the systems that keep it running after launch. Most people hand over a deliverable and leave. I operate the machine.
Client work
Real businesses, real builds — these are the actual sites, not mockups. Every one designed, coded, and shipped end to end.
The ventures
Things I’m building because they need to exist.
Incarcerated
Canada
Every Prairie facility, five answers each — visits, money, mail, video, family time. Verified against official sources, receipts attached. Families get handed a different rulebook at every institution. This is the one wall that keeps the file on all of them.
Live · incarceratedcanada.ca
↗Clicket Ticket
Experience & Travel Auctions
Ultra-luxury charity experience auctions. Real-time bidding on donated travel, events, and athlete access — 70% to the charity, every time.
Building · Phase 1 validation
↗TSP
Timeless Streetwear Project
Premium streetwear rooted in identity and craft. Timeless cuts, intentional drops, zero filler. Community-first from day one.
Building · Contest live
↗Yes I Can
Initiative
AI Resource Navigator
An AI navigator that connects people to the help that already exists — benefits, programs, and community supports — in plain language, in minutes.
Live · i-can.app
↗Honey
The AI You Can Just Phone
A voice assistant that works on any old landline — built for my grandpa, and only for him for now. No app, no account; his phone number is the password. She remembers his equipment, walks him through fixes one step at a time, and stops talking the moment he says her name.
Building · In family testing
↗"The universe tells a story. We are characters who have remembered we are also the author."
— Nick Kernaz, Founder
Businesses with a problem, builders with a plan, and people who want to put something real into the world. This is for you. No pitch deck required.
Selling something? Don’t.
Location
Calgary, AB · Canada
Studio
pillarincentive.com
Slogan
Dreaming the future.