About Leav
We are fixing checkout for physical retail
Leav was founded in Montreal in 2023. Our team comes from retail technology, payments infrastructure, and computer vision. We set out to solve the queue problem for independent and mid-market retailers on Shopify without requiring expensive hardware or a custom app.
Why we started
The checkout queue is still unsolved for most stores
Large grocery chains and Amazon have experimented with checkout-free formats since 2018. But those experiments required millions of dollars in ceiling-mounted cameras, proprietary weight sensors, and custom hardware. They were not available to the other 99% of physical retailers.
By 2023, every shopper was already carrying the answer in their pocket: a smartphone with a camera and Apple Pay or Google Pay. The browser-based barcode scanning capability to make this work without an app had matured. Shopify had become the dominant POS platform for independent and mid-market retail.
Leav is the product that connects those three facts. No new hardware. No custom app. Shopify-native from day one.
The team
The people building Leav
Adrien Chaussec
CEO and Co-founder
Previously led product at a retail technology company building inventory management tooling for mid-market grocery chains. Adrien saw the checkout queue problem from the inside and decided to solve it from scratch with a browser-first approach.
Thomas Bouchard
CTO and Co-founder
Thomas built the barcode scanning and payment infrastructure that powers Leav. His background spans payments infrastructure at a large financial technology company and computer vision research at a top Canadian university program focused on object detection in constrained environments.
Priya Nair
Head of Product
Priya has spent her career helping early-stage commerce tools reach independent and specialty retailers. Before joining Leav, she led growth at two commerce-infrastructure startups serving the Shopify ecosystem and knows the challenges of getting new technology into physical stores.
What we believe
Our operating principles
Physical retail deserves better tools
Most checkout technology investment has gone to e-commerce for the past decade. Independent and mid-market physical stores have been left to manage with the same hardware they had in 2015. We are correcting that.
Simple to adopt beats powerful but complex
A feature that requires three weeks of IT setup and staff retraining will not be used. We design for the store owner who sets things up themselves, and we ship nothing that requires a consultant to deploy.
Loss prevention should not cost a fortune
Enterprise loss prevention systems cost tens of thousands of dollars per location. AI-powered item verification should be available to every Shopify retailer from the first month. That is what we built into Leav at every pricing tier.
Shopify is the platform, not the limitation
We built Leav to run entirely within the Shopify ecosystem. That means your existing catalog, your existing payments, your existing orders. We never require you to move data out of Shopify or run a parallel system.
Work with us
We are hiring in Montreal.
We are a small team building something new for physical retail. If you have experience in retail technology, payments, or computer vision and want to work on a product that ships to real stores, get in touch.