notAIssue is an AI consulting firm in Quebec. We work with SMEs, professional firms, and nonprofits — often in Montreal, also in the regions, in person or remote. The job is the same either way. We help you actually use the tools you already have, or pick a reasonable first one, and lock that use into a way of working the team can repeat on Monday.
If you already bought Copilot, tried ChatGPT, or sat through a lunch-and-learn, and nothing held, that’s the mandate we take.
Who this is for
Bilingual Montreal buyers, and Quebec organizations that work in English or in mixed rooms. Leadership who need a clear read of what is worth doing this quarter. Managers who cannot invent a training program between two meetings. Working teams who are tired of pasting prompts from LinkedIn onto their own files.
Typical rooms:
- An SME in Montreal that turned Copilot on for everyone and still cannot say what changed.
- A professional firm that will not put client files into a consumer chatbot, and does not want an “agent factory” either.
- A nonprofit or association whose board asked about AI and nobody has a sober answer.
- A corporate team in Quebec that already “tried AI” and watched the curious people pull ahead while everyone else waited.
If you want a manifesto, we are the wrong call. If you want something concrete — a map, a trained team, a written process — see the services.
What this work is not
We don’t sell a magic model. We don’t run a research lab. We don’t replace your people.
We also don’t do the theatre that fills a lot of English search results for “AI consultant”: the 10× slide, the vision 2030, the pressure to buy a tool we resell. Our method is calm on purpose. Five steps, zero theatre. We start with your weeks, not the market’s models.
The tool is almost never the issue. ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini: most companies already have something. What stalls things is the fog. Nobody decided how it gets used, on which tasks, with which limits — or how that gets passed on.
What a mandate looks like
A useful AI consulting mandate in Quebec is not a software project. It is diagnostic, then training, then process. Adoption support sits on top so it holds after we leave. Law 25 sits in the work from the start, as a simple frame, not a scare.
1. Diagnostic and a 90-day roadmap
Where you actually are: tools already in place, real usage, risk, skills, leadership appetite. Targeted interviews with leadership, IT, and the people doing the work. A use-case map by impact and feasibility. Tool recommendations without a pointless catalogue. You leave with a prioritized 90-day plan, then a 12-month view. A clear map, not a wish list.
2. Training by role
Not a tour of “50 prompts of the moment.” Workshops built on your documents, emails, reports, and client objections. Leadership and the floor do not get the same workshop — on purpose. People practise. They leave with moves they can repeat, not just inspiration.
3. Process, then adoption
This is often where the real gain sits. We write how AI enters an existing process: a proposal, a file summary, a ticket, a contract review, a shift plan. Task by task: human / AI / review. Playbooks with examples from your context. Quality criteria and checkpoints. Then we stay in the picture long enough to coach internal champions, run short rituals, and hand off so you no longer need us.
That sequence is the offer. The services page spells out the six pieces, including responsible use and tool choice. The approach page is how we refuse orphan pilots and training in a vacuum.
Montreal, the regions, English and French
We’re based in Quebec. Workshops happen in person in Montreal and in the regions when the trip is worth it, or remotely when that is more effective. AI consulting in Montreal is a lot of our week. It is not the whole map.
A lot of Montreal organizations work in both languages in the same week. The English-speaking buyer still has to hire in Quebec: Law 25, professional files, client data that should not leave the building lightly, teams that will not sit through a generic webinar recorded somewhere else. That is the work.
We deliver workshops, playbooks, and policies in English for mixed teams, and in Quebec French when the room is French. Same method. Mixed teams are common; we adapt.
Formats that fit the size
We fit the size. Not the other way around.
30-day sprint. A short diagnostic, one team workshop, one process written down. Ideal for an SME that wants to stop circling the topic.
90-day program. Roadmap, cohort training, playbooks on two or three key processes, coaching the leads. The format we get asked for most.
Year-round support. For organizations rolling this out across several teams: governance, a training calendar, a quarterly review, useful watch.
What it costs depends on the number of teams and the length of the work. A framing sprint is not an annual rollout. We give you a range on the first call, before any written proposal.
Law 25 is in the work, not on a poster
Privacy as an afterthought is one of the usual binds. Without a simple frame, people either take risks with client data and trade secrets, or they use nothing. We write the version your teams can pin next to the screen: what can go into a tool, what stays internal, who signs off, how you document.
That is operational guidance — classification, roles, retention habits, tool settings — aligned with Law 25. We are not lawyers and we do not issue a legal opinion. If you need the checklist itself, see Law 25 and AI in Quebec.
What you get. What you will not get.
You get a clear read of your starting point, a prioritized action plan, teams who have practised on their own files, playbooks someone else can follow, and a usage frame legal can read without migrating.
You will not get an 80-page report nobody reads, an “AI vision” detached from this quarter, pressure to buy a tool we resell, or invented statistics to justify the work.
We don’t replace your teams. We give them a method. Your people stay in the middle. The tools follow.