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 turn that 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 instructions from LinkedIn onto their own files.
Typical clients:
- 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 mass-produced AI agents 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, like a trained team and a written process, see the services.
What this work is not
We don't sell a magic model, and we don't replace your people.
We also skip what fills many English search results for "AI consultant," like the 10× slide, the 2030 vision, and pressure to buy a tool we resell. Our method is simple, in five steps. We start with your work week, not with trendy models.
The tool is almost never the issue. Most companies already have ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, or Gemini. What stalls things is that nobody decided how to use it, on which tasks, with which limits, or how to pass it on.
What a mandate looks like
A useful AI consulting mandate in Quebec is not a software project. It is a diagnostic, then training, then process. We follow up after training so it holds after we leave. Law 25 is part of the work from the start, as a simple frame.
1. Diagnostic and a 90-day plan
We look at where you are, which covers the tools in place, real use, risk, skills, and whether leadership wants to move. We interview leadership, IT, and the people doing the work. We rank the work by expected effect and difficulty, and recommend tools without a long catalogue. You leave with a 90-day plan and a 12-month view.
2. Training by role
We don't walk through "50 trendy instructions." We build the workshops on your documents, emails, and reports. Leadership and the teams do not get the same workshop, on purpose. People practise and leave with ways of working they can repeat.
3. Process, then adoption
This is often the most useful step. We write down how AI fits into a process you already have, like a quote, a file summary, a ticket, a contract review, or a shift plan. For each task, we decide what the person does, what the AI does, and who checks. We write work guides with examples from your work, with quality criteria and checkpoints. Then we stay long enough to coach your internal leads and hold short check-ins, until 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 explains why we refuse pilot projects with no owner, and training that has nothing to do with your work.
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. Much of our work is in Montreal, but not all of it.
A lot of Montreal organizations work in both languages in the same week. An English-speaking buyer still hires in Quebec. That means Law 25, professional files, client data that should not leave the building lightly, and teams that will not sit through a generic webinar recorded elsewhere.
We deliver workshops, work guides, 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 adapt to the size of your company.
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. A plan, cohort training, work guides on two or three key processes, coaching the leads. The format we get asked for most.
Year-round follow-up. For organizations that want to extend this to several teams: usage rules, a training calendar, a quarterly review, a short note on what changed in the tools.
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 sense of price on the first call, before any written quote.
Law 25 is in the work, not on a poster
Thinking about privacy too late is a common problem. 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.
It is practical guidance on classification, roles, retention habits, and tool settings, in line 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, and what you don't
You get a clear read of your starting point, a prioritized action plan, teams who have practised on their own files, work guides someone else can follow, and a usage frame legal can read, without changing systems.
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. We start with your people. The tools come after.