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Costs, funding, Quebec laws, MVPs, AI: sourced guides, written by a team that builds and runs its own products.
02Guides
To decidebefore you build.
- FundingFunding a software project in Quebec: SR&ED, NRC IRAP and the CDAEThree programs come up in every conversation: SR&ED, NRC IRAP and the CDAE. None of them automatically funds “an app”. Each targets a specific kind of work or company, and mixing them up is expensive.By Équipe Maison GR
- ComplianceQuebec's Law 25: what it concretely changes in your applicationLaw 25 is not only for lawyers and privacy policies. Several of its obligations play out in the software itself: at scoping, in the database and in the interface.By Équipe Maison GR
- ComplianceBill 96: must your website and app be in French?Largely, yes. A business's commercial publications in Quebec must be written in French, including on its website, and Bill 96 strengthened the obligation to serve customers in French.By Équipe Maison GR
- ProductThe MVP guide: launch the smallest version that proves somethingAn MVP is not a sloppy version of your product. It is the smallest version able to answer one precise question: do people use, and pay for, what you believe they want?By Équipe Maison GR
- Artificial intelligenceIntegrating AI into your product: from use case to productionMost AI projects fail between the demo and production. The demo answers ten chosen questions well; production must answer thousands of unforeseen questions correctly, at a reasonable cost.By Équipe Maison GR
- ComplianceOntario's job posting law: what it requires of your hiring softwareSince January 1, 2026, Ontario's Employment Standards Act sets new rules for publicly advertised job postings. As with Quebec's Law 25, several of these obligations play out in the software itself: when a job is published, and after every interview.By Équipe Maison GR
03Glossary
The wordsof the trade.
- AI agent
- An AI system that chains several steps and uses tools (search, database, email) to complete a task, with human approval where the risk calls for it.
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- AI copilot
- An AI assistant built into a work tool, suggesting actions or text the user accepts, edits or rejects.
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- API
- An interface that lets two pieces of software exchange data: your app with Stripe, your CRM or an AI model, for example.
- Bill 96
- The law that strengthened Quebec's Charter of the French language: service in French at all times, contracts of adhesion in French, commercial publications in French, including on a website.
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- CDAE
- Quebec's e-business development tax credit. It targets companies in the information technology sector and is calculated on their eligible employees' salaries.
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- Data portability
- The right, since September 22, 2024 in Quebec, to obtain one's computerized information in a structured, commonly used technological format.
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- Hreflang
- A tag telling search engines which language versions of a page exist, so French speakers see the French page and English speakers the English one.
- Law 25
- Quebec's law modernizing personal information protection: a designated person in charge, privacy policy, assessments, consent, incidents and portability.
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- LLM (large language model)
- An AI model trained on large amounts of text, able to understand a request and write a response. It powers assistants such as ChatGPT or Claude.
- Multi-tenant
- An architecture where one piece of software serves many customers, each isolated in its data. It is the usual model of a SaaS.
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- MVP
- Minimum viable product: the smallest version of a product, used by real customers, that validates a hypothesis before investing more.
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- NRC IRAP
- The National Research Council's Industrial Research Assistance Program: advice, connections and funding for Canadian SMEs that innovate.
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- Ontario job posting rules
- The Employment Standards Act requirements in force since January 1, 2026 for job postings by employers with 25 or more employees: pay range, AI disclosure, existing vacancy and a 45-day follow-up with interviewed applicants.
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- PIA (privacy impact assessment)
- The privacy impact assessment required by Quebec's Law 25, notably for any project to develop or redesign an information system involving personal information.
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- Programmatic SEO
- Creating many useful pages from structured data (for example, one page per job and city), each carrying real information.
- Progressive web app (PWA)
- A web app installable on a phone's home screen, working without going through the App Store or Google Play.
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- Prototype
- A mock-up, often clickable, used to test a flow with users before writing production code.
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- RAG
- Retrieval-augmented generation: the AI first searches your documents, then writes its answer from what it found, with the sources.
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- SaaS
- Software as a service: software hosted online that customers access by subscription instead of installing it.
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- SR&ED
- The federal Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax incentive program: a deduction or tax credit on qualified research expenditures.
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- Webhook
- A message a service sends automatically to your app when an event happens, such as a successful Stripe payment.
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