About

A support floor that never closes.

A support floor that never closes.

Canto was founded in 2024 by two people who ran those floors and wanted the night shift answered. We are 28 people in Lisbon and Toronto.

Three colleagues laughing across a meeting table, one taking notes beside an open laptop.
A woman in a linen blazer smiling at her laptop in a sunlit office, one hand raised in a small fist pump.

Mission

Answer the night shift while the floor sleeps.

Support floors close at night, and their customers do not. We built Canto so the first turn is always answered.

Every channel answered at every hour

Calls, chats and emails held in one thread

Mornings start with summaries, not a backlog

What we hold to

Three rules we
do not break.

They were written before the product was, and every argument about a feature since has been settled against them.

They were written before the product was, and every argument about a feature since has been settled against them.

Human handoff

A person takes over with the summary already written.

Sources

Every answer names the document and version it read.

One transcript

Every turn and action, searchable and exportable.

How we work

Two offices that hand the day to each other.

Lisbon opens the day and Toronto closes it. Between the two, someone who builds Canto is always at a desk.

Lisbon and Toronto, five hours apart

One handoff between offices, every day

Every engineer takes a shift on the floor

Two colleagues side by side at a desk, working through something on one laptop in soft daylight.

The team

The voices
behind Canto.

The two who started it, and the people you will meet in a first month.

The two who started it, and the people you will meet in a first month.

Portrait of Mariana Quintela, cofounder and chief executive of Canto, in Lisbon.

Mariana Quintela

Cofounder and CEO, Lisbon

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Portrait of Mariana Quintela, cofounder and chief executive of Canto, in Lisbon.

Mariana Quintela

Cofounder and CEO, Lisbon

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Portrait of Vikram Sandhu, cofounder and chief technology officer of Canto, in Toronto.

Vikram Sandhu

Cofounder and CTO, Toronto

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Portrait of Vikram Sandhu, cofounder and chief technology officer of Canto, in Toronto.

Vikram Sandhu

Cofounder and CTO, Toronto

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Andre Mensah

Voice engineering, Lisbon

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Portrait of Andre Mensah, voice engineering at Canto in Lisbon.

Andre Mensah

Voice engineering, Lisbon

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Grace Lam

Conversation design, Toronto

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Portrait of Grace Lam, conversation design at Canto in Toronto.

Grace Lam

Conversation design, Toronto

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Nadia Boateng

Support operations, Lisbon

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Portrait of Nadia Boateng, support operations at Canto in Lisbon.

Nadia Boateng

Support operations, Lisbon

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Portrait of Evan Marchetti, data science at Canto in Toronto.

Evan Marchetti

Data science, Toronto

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Portrait of Evan Marchetti, data science at Canto in Toronto.

Evan Marchetti

Data science, Toronto

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Portrait of Mariana Quintela, cofounder and chief executive of Canto, in Lisbon.

Mariana Quintela

Cofounder and CEO, Lisbon

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Portrait of Vikram Sandhu, cofounder and chief technology officer of Canto, in Toronto.

Vikram Sandhu

Cofounder and CTO, Toronto

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Portrait of Andre Mensah, voice engineering at Canto in Lisbon.

Andre Mensah

Voice engineering, Lisbon

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Portrait of Grace Lam, conversation design at Canto in Toronto.

Grace Lam

Conversation design, Toronto

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Portrait of Nadia Boateng, support operations at Canto in Lisbon.

Nadia Boateng

Support operations, Lisbon

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Portrait of Evan Marchetti, data science at Canto in Toronto.

Evan Marchetti

Data science, Toronto

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Careers

Pull up a chair.

Pull up a chair.

Remote inside Portugal or Canada, or a desk in either office.

Remote inside Portugal or Canada, or a desk in either office.

Start today

Put Canto on the line
and stop missing calls.

One agent on every channel, from the first day. Start a 14-day trial with no card, and go live in a day.

Canto Overview dashboard: resolution rate, first response time, CSAT, conversation volume, channel split and live conversations

Start today

Put Canto on the line
and stop missing calls.

One agent on every channel, from the first day. Start a 14-day trial with no card, and go live in a day.

Canto Overview dashboard: resolution rate, first response time, CSAT, conversation volume, channel split and live conversations

Start today

Put Canto on the line
and stop missing calls.

One agent on every channel, from the first day. Start a 14-day trial with no card, and go live in a day.

Canto Overview dashboard: resolution rate, first response time, CSAT, conversation volume, channel split and live conversations

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