Montreal

Montreal businesses, Montreal problems

Montreal’s business base is unusually varied — manufacturing, logistics, professional services, retail, a dense technology and creative sector, and a very large number of small firms running on infrastructure that grew organically over a decade.

That last category is where most of our work sits. A company of twenty to two hundred people, with a server that someone’s cousin set up, backups nobody has tested, a website running plugins abandoned years ago, and an increasingly urgent sense that this is not sustainable.

What we typically get called about

Ransomware and active incidents. The call usually comes on a Friday. Containment, forensic scoping, restoration from clean backups, and the documentation your insurer will require. See cybersecurity.

Backups that have never been tested. The single most valuable few hours we spend with a new client: restore something real and time it. See infrastructure.

A hacked website. Usually an out-of-date plugin or a reused administrator password. We remove the malware and identify the entry point, because cleanup without root cause means it returns. See WordPress development.

AI, cautiously. Montreal companies are under real pressure to adopt AI and reasonable uncertainty about the data implications. We map the workflow, deploy where it pays, and answer the data questions in writing first. See AI and automation.

Bilingual, in practice

Documentation, incident reports and compliance material are delivered in French or English. For Quebec businesses this is not a nicety — it affects what you can hand to staff, insurers and regulators.

Working across the region

We are based on the South Shore, minutes from the island, and work across Montreal, Laval and the surrounding region. For remote work, geography is irrelevant; for incident response, being nearby matters.