What Goddard Consulting Inc. does

Goddard Consulting Inc. is a private Canadian professional services firm founded in 2003 and headquartered on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, that delivers consulting and customized training in advanced modeling, simulation, data analysis, and visualization software. The firm serves clients across financial services (asset managers, hedge funds, energy trading firms, real estate managers), automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, mining, and process industries, with engagements completed across Canada, the United States, Australia, and the UK/Europe.

The firm's core technology stack is anchored in the MathWorks MATLAB and Simulink ecosystem (including associated toolboxes and blocksets, code generation via Simulink Coder, fixed-point arithmetic implementations, and S-Functions in m-code and c-code), supplemented by Python (Numpy, Pandas), C, C++, Java, VBA, R, and execution environments including CUDA-enabled platforms, real-time targets, and large-data environments such as Databricks. Service offerings include derivatives pricing using lattice methods, Monte Carlo simulation with variance reduction, and finite difference methods; control system design spanning system identification, PID tuning, H-infinity loop shaping, Kalman filtering, and state observers; and custom software development that integrates mathematical algorithms, GUIs, database/datafeed connectivity (including CQG-MATLAB COM integration), and custom report generation. The firm also maintains a public, extensive tutorial library on these topics, which functions as both an educational asset and an inbound marketing channel.

The business operates as a founder-led professional services practice, with Phil Goddard as President and Principal Consultant serving as the single named contact. Revenue is generated through quote-based consulting engagements and on-site small-group training courses; pricing is not publicly disclosed. The firm holds a Controlled Goods Directorate registration under Canada's Defence Production Act, enabling work on controlled goods and technologies aligned with US ITAR. There is no standalone software product, no public API, no mobile app, no disclosed parent company, and no external funding history.

Name

Goddard Consulting Inc.

Legal name

Goddard Consulting Inc.

Website

https://goddardconsulting.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Goddard Consulting Inc. is a private, founder-led Canadian consultancy providing MATLAB/Simulink modeling, simulation, control system, and financial engineering services, plus customized on-site training, to clients in financial services, automotive, aerospace, telecom, and process industries across North America, Australia, and Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Technical consulting and training services (numerical computing, modeling, and simulation)

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Instrumentation, Controls & Automation Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Financial Management & Performance Improvement Consulting (BPAHACAF), Software Development (Programming, Frameworks, Dev Tools) (EDABAFAA)

Keywords

• MATLAB consulting services
• Simulink modeling and simulation
• Financial engineering software
• Control system design services
• Custom software training

Headquarters

HQ city

Shoreham

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Specialized consulting services developing advanced modeling, simulation, data analysis and visualization software for clients across various business sectors. Services include developing high fidelity models of electro-mechanical engineering systems, designing advanced embedded control laws, implementing financial analysis and risk management applications, and developing high resolution image visualization software.
2. Software Training Services: Customized training courses tailored to client requirements, covering fundamental and advanced aspects of MATLAB, Simulink, Python, C, C++, Java, VBA, and R. Courses are typically taught in small groups at client sites and are hands-on designed to maximize information transfer and knowledge retention.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Goddard Consulting develops custom advanced modeling, simulation, data analysis, and visualization software applications for clients across financial services, automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, mining, and process industries. The work is built primarily on the MATLAB and Simulink platform from The MathWorks, supplemented by Python, C, C++, VBA, Java, R, and deployment on CUDA-enabled, real-time, and large-data (Databricks) environments. In parallel, the firm delivers customized on-site software training courses covering these tools and provides a public library of tutorials on financial engineering and control system design.

Product overview

Goddard Consulting Inc. is a consulting and training services company specializing in MATLAB and Simulink. Its portfolio includes consulting services for advanced modeling, simulation, data analysis, and visualization across multiple industries; software training services with customized courses; and an extensive library of free educational tutorials. The tutorials cover Simulink essentials (model building, simulation, visualization), financial engineering (option pricing, econometrics, portfolio optimization), control system design (PID tuning, Kalman filtering), and CQG-MATLAB API integration. The company does not offer a standalone software product but rather professional services and knowledge transfer.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• MATLAB and Simulink Consulting Services Custom consulting services developing advanced modeling, simulation, data analysis, and visualization software applications using the MATLAB and Simulink suite (and associated toolboxes/blocksets), Python, C, C++, VBA, and related tools, for clients across financial services, automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, mining, and process industries. Engagements either augment a client's application development effort or deliver a turnkey application.
• Software Training Services Customized training courses delivered at client sites in small groups, covering fundamental to advanced and client-specific topics in MATLAB, Simulink and their toolboxes/blocksets, Python (including NumPy and Pandas), C, C++, Java, VBA, and R. The courses are hands-on and designed to maximize information transfer and knowledge retention.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The MathWorks (MATLAB and Simulink)coreTechnology or IntegrationGoddard Consulting specializes in using the MATLAB and Simulink suite of numerical analysis software from The MathWorks, along with all associated Toolboxes and Blocksets. The company's core expertise lies in application development using MATLAB and Simulink, and training courses are primarily based around these tools.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Tessella (now part of Capgemini Engineering): Tessella, now operating under Capgemini Engineering, was a long-standing scientific computing and MATLAB/Simulink consulting firm delivering advanced modeling, simulation, and data analytics to industrial and research clients—closely mirroring Goddard Consulting's offerings across control systems and computational engineering.
• d-fine: d-fine is a European quantitative consulting firm specializing in mathematical modeling, financial engineering, and risk analytics, frequently using MATLAB/Python for derivatives pricing, portfolio optimization, and econometrics—the same core use cases Goddard delivers for its Financial Services clients.
• Quintessa: Quintessa is a technical consultancy providing mathematical modeling, simulation, and software development for complex engineering and environmental systems—a directly comparable profile to Goddard's modeling-and-simulation services for engineering clients.
• Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG): NAG provides numerical computing software and consulting services for scientific and engineering applications, including optimization, statistics, and financial mathematics—directly comparable to Goddard's modeling, simulation, and numerical analysis consulting work.

Broad incumbents

• PA Consulting: PA Consulting is a large technology and engineering consultancy offering quantitative analytics, control systems, and digital engineering services. It overlaps with Goddard's aerospace/automotive and financial services consulting work but operates as a full-service firm rather than a niche MATLAB specialist.
• Ansys: Ansys is a broad simulation software platform used across aerospace, automotive, and industrial control system design. It overlaps with Goddard's simulation and modeling services at the enterprise end of the market and competes for the same engineering talent pool.

Emerging players

• Wolfram Research: Wolfram Research develops Mathematica, a competing symbolic/numerical technical computing system used in engineering and quantitative finance. Its enterprise consulting and computational resources target similar control systems and financial modeling buyers.
• Maplesoft: Maplesoft produces Maple, a symbolic and numeric computing platform competing with MATLAB in engineering and finance modeling. Their consulting-adjacent offerings and education-focused tutorials overlap thematically with Goddard's engineering and financial engineering practice.

Others

• MathWorks: MathWorks is the creator of MATLAB and Simulink, the central platform on which Goddard Consulting builds its expertise. While not a pure peer, MathWorks also offers its own professional services and partner ecosystem and is the principal technology partner that defines Goddard's market niche.
• OSE Engineering / OSIsoft (now part of AVEVA): AVEVA (incorporating OSIsoft) supplies industrial data infrastructure, simulation, and engineering analytics used in process industries, mining, and manufacturing—client segments where Goddard delivers process modeling and simulation consulting.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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