Fractional CTO for Quebec founders and operators. Hiring a permanent CTO at the wrong stage burns 12 to 18 months and a chunk of equity. A fractional engagement gives you architecture decisions, hiring plans, and investor-ready technical strategy at the cadence the business actually needs.
Quebec runs on the Montreal AI cluster, a deep SaaS bench, and a gaming industry with real scale, with Quebec City adding insurtech and govtech on top. It is also the strictest privacy jurisdiction in Canada by penalty exposure. Quebec Law 25 reaches up to $25 million CAD or 4 percent of worldwide turnover, whichever is greater, which is a different order of magnitude from PIPEDA. Section 12.1 requires meaningful disclosure when a decision is based exclusively on automated processing, and that lands squarely on AI products.
Most firms selling compliance in Canada know SOC 2 and hand-wave Law 25. We deliver both, bilingually where required, and we know the detail that matters: privacy impact assessments, data-portability windows, and the CAI’s breach-reporting expectations. If you sell in Quebec and into the US, you are running two regimes at once, and they are cheaper to scope together than to discover one at a time.
Hiring a permanent CTO at the wrong stage burns 12 to 18 months and a chunk of equity. A fractional engagement gives you architecture decisions, hiring plans, and investor-ready technical strategy at the cadence the business actually needs.
For the full service detail, see the Fractional CTO page. For fixed-price productized engagements, see pricing.
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