Direct Leap is a Toronto-based research company focused on simulation software for space propulsion and lunar resource processing. The company develops and publishes software and research papers, with projects spanning aerospace, plasma physics, lunar resources, materials chemistry, and software tooling. Its plasma-sail modelling project simulates spacecraft propelled by solar wind and checks results against published research.

Another project adapts WarpX, a plasma-physics simulation code, to run on Apple Silicon graphics processors. For lunar exploration, the Regolith Pyrolysis Simulator models ways to extract oxygen and metals from lunar soil by heating it in a vacuum or using an electric current to melt it. OpenIMCC calculates how molten-rock components behave at high temperatures, supporting the regolith models.

Direct Leap also develops goal-flight, tools for managing long-running projects with AI coding agents and a second model reviewing changes. The company began in 2001 as a telecom engineering firm and built telecom systems until retiring that business in 2019. Its earlier work included calling and polling services, and its papers date back to 2002