It can. What matters is that the enterprise is active and commercial, producing goods or services, with substantial capital genuinely committed and at risk, and prospects beyond minimal support for the family. A licensed platform is a tool the business uses; the enterprise is judged on its own operations.
Explain the commercial activity supported by the licence
Describe the actual service, customer obligations, revenue model and resources supporting delivery. A lawful software-resale business is not disqualified merely because it resells access; it must still meet the E-2 business, investment, nationality and develop-and-direct requirements. Explain dependence on the platform and a realistic disruption response without pretending that changing vendors is always feasible.
The enterprise has treaty nationality if treaty nationals own at least fifty percent, so a Canadian holding exactly half meets that threshold. Owning every production machine is not an E-2 condition, but the applicant must show a genuine operating enterprise rather than borrow the contract manufacturer’s assets or employees. The enterprise must be active and non-marginal, possess qualifying treaty ownership, and be developed and directed by the investor through 50 percent ownership or operational control. A business that barely covers its own costs and supports the family only if the investor takes no salary is closer to marginal, and the five-year projection then has to carry the case.