Enterpriselivate has launched its first business planning tools for young entrepreneurs. The platform was founded in Toronto by Humber Polytechnic student Godswill Orji Kalu. The full set of tools is planned for launch in March 2027.
The launch comes as labour market data and employer surveys point to a tougher environment for young jobseekers in Canada. Randstad's Workmonitor 2026 found that 38 per cent of employers across 35 markets, including Canada, planned to hire fewer graduates because of AI.
Statistics Canada has also reported weaker hiring among younger workers. Its study found that hiring rates for workers aged 15 to 29 have fallen since late 2022, while employment among people aged 15 to 24 fell by a net 67,000 over August and September, leaving youth unemployment at 13 per cent in September. The agency did not link the slowdown to AI, noting that the decline began before generative AI tools became widely available.
Kalu, a final-year student in Advertising and Marketing Communications at Humber's Lakeshore Campus, said the business was built around a practical problem facing people trying to start out on their own without prior exposure to entrepreneurship.
The tools guide users through a series of questions about what they offer, who their customers are, why those customers would choose them and what is holding growth back. Where a prompt may be unfamiliar, the platform provides practical advice and clearly labelled examples. Users then review, correct and approve the resulting business profile.
Free verified accounts are available. Enterpriselivate says it verifies every member for security and fraud prevention.
For Kalu, the idea grew out of late-night work sessions on campus with fellow students trying to build businesses alongside classes and jobs. He linked that experience to a wider gap in access to basic guidance and workspace for people at the earliest stage of building a company.
"Whether it's AI or the economy, the first job is getting harder to land," said Godswill Orji Kalu, Founder, Enterpriselivate. "Young people need the means to hire themselves: practical guidance, tools they can use and somewhere to build."
The workflow
The current product focuses on helping founders structure early decisions that are often handled informally or left unclear in very small businesses. The platform asks users to define their offer, identify their customer base and pinpoint obstacles to growth before producing a business profile based on their answers.
Kalu said that approach reflects his view that many aspiring founders struggle not because they lack ideas, but because they lack access to basic business knowledge. He said that difference can depend heavily on whether someone grew up around family businesses or entrepreneurial networks.
"You can exploit a problem like this or explore it," said Kalu. "Exploiting it would mean selling young people one more app and walking away. We chose to explore it: to listen to young founders, learn what actually stops them and build around that, from the tools to a place to work."
Broader plans
Alongside the software tools, Enterpriselivate is planning a physical hub in Toronto for young and early-stage entrepreneurs. The proposed 12,000-square-foot site would operate around the clock as a pilot and include co-working and office space, business address services, photo and video studios, podcast production space, a 3D printer and a makerspace for founders working on physical products.
Verified members, including those on the free plan, would be able to use the studios without extra charges to photograph products, record promotional videos and produce podcast episodes. The hub is planned for the second quarter of 2027. Its location, exact opening date and detailed access terms will be disclosed at the end of Q1 2027.
Kalu recently sought advice from Ann Marie Vaughan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Humber Polytechnic, as he develops the business. He said one point from that discussion stayed with him: people who grow up around entrepreneurs often gain an informal education in the basics of starting and running a company.
He argued that this leaves others to learn alone through trial and error. The platform, he said, is intended to narrow that gap by making early-stage guidance easier to access for founders who do not have those networks.
"If you grew up around a business, you saw how it's done: how to register it, what to charge, where the first customer comes from," said Kalu. "If you didn't, you work it out alone, usually the hard way. We're building Enterpriselivate so that guidance is there for every young founder, not just the ones who grew up with it."