Enough to move forward, without starting over.
Who funds, who guides, what to buy here, and what to run your AI agents on.
Funding
Public programs Quebec SMBs can use to fund an AI project.
Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative (RAII)
CED program for developing and commercializing AI solutions. Runs to March 31, 2031. In July 2026, $13.85M went to 63 Quebec organizations.
Call for AI and quantum technology projects
Collaborative industrial research and entrepreneurship support, for consortia of Quebec businesses.
CDAEIA tax credit
Development of e-business integrating artificial intelligence. Tax credit on eligible salaries.
ESSOR program
Investment support to improve productivity and competitiveness, including digital projects.
NRC IRAP
Technical advice and funding for Canadian SMBs that innovate. Often the first door to knock on.
SR&ED
Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credit. Retroactive on eligible work.
Mitacs
Subsidized research internships with graduate students. Useful to start a project without hiring.
AI transformation
Quebec partners who guide companies through adoption: assessment, strategy, deployment and training.
Moov AI
Montreal applied-AI consultancy, now part of the Publicis group. Strategy, data science and production deployment.
Victrix
AI, cybersecurity and data consulting. Microsoft Copilot adoption and governance.
Gestisoft
Analysis, strategy and deployment of AI solutions in the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem.
Quebec software
Software built here, where AI is the core of the product.
Coveo
AI search and personalization for commerce, customer service and internal tools. Publicly traded, based in Quebec City.
Botpress
Platform for building and deploying AI agents. US$25M Series B, roughly 120 people.
Vention
Industrial automation platform: design, simulation and control of robotic cells. Raised C$150M in January 2026, with Investissement Québec and NVentures, NVIDIA's venture arm.
Zetane
Agentic platform for document-heavy processes: proposals, contract review, compliance checks. Structured workflows rather than prompts.
Keatext
AI text analytics for customer feedback: reports and recommendations drawn from comments across every channel. Founded in 2010.
Korbit
AI code review wired into GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket: bug detection, pull-request descriptions and feedback during development.
Agentic platforms
The orchestrators our customers run. Agent Libre supplies flat-rate throughput behind whichever one you pick.
Claude Code
AI coding agent for the terminal and the IDE.
Cursor
Agentic code editor.
Cline
Open-source AI agent for VS Code.
Windsurf
Agentic development environment.
Factory.ai
Autonomous AI development agents for teams.
Devin
Autonomous AI software agent from Cognition.
Aider
Pair programming with an AI agent, from the command line.
OpenCode
Open-source terminal AI coding agent.
OpenHands
Open-source platform for AI development agents.
Goose
Extensible local AI agent, released by Block.
OpenClaw
Local-first personal AI agent, wired to messaging apps and local tools.
NemoClaw
NVIDIA's open-source reference stack for running OpenClaw on open models.
Paperclip
AI multi-agent orchestration: org charts, budgets and governance.
Pi
Local-first command-line AI coding agent from the Open GSD project: plans, implements in Git worktrees, verifies, and tracks project state.
GSD
Spec-driven context-engineering framework. Drives other AI agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — through a phase loop, isolating research and planning in fresh-context AI subagents.
Harness
The harness is everything you build around the model : the memory, the tools, the interface, the recovery after an error. It is written once, it belongs to you, and it is not re-billed per use.
Letta
Open framework for stateful AI agents. Memory is persisted in a database and survives restarts, machine moves and months of inactivity. Formerly MemGPT.
Goose
Extensible local AI agent, released by Block. Connects to your tools over MCP and runs on the model you choose.
Cherry Studio
Cross-platform desktop client for Windows, macOS and Linux. One native window in front of every model API you use, with a knowledge base and MCP tool calling.
LibreChat
Self-hostable chat interface wired to every major provider from a single menu. MIT licence.
Open WebUI
Self-hosted interface for local and remote models. Takes MCP servers as tool providers: files, databases, web search.
Mem0
Memory layer for AI agents: extracts, stores and retrieves what matters from one conversation to the next, without rebuilding the pipeline.
AnythingLLM
All-in-one app from Mintplex Labs: your documents, retrieval-augmented generation and AI agents, with nothing leaving your machine.
Zep
Agent memory built on a temporal knowledge graph: every fact keeps the window when it was true, and when it was superseded.
AI gateways
A gateway sits between your AI agents and the providers : one API, budgets, logs, failover. That is where a flat-rate throughput plugs in, without touching your code or your processes.
Tetrate
Enterprise AI gateway built on Envoy. The Agent Router service adds self-serve routing, per-team cost attribution and automatic failover.
agentgateway
One gateway for service, model and MCP traffic. Created by Solo.io, then donated to the Linux Foundation under the Agentic AI Foundation.
Envoy AI Gateway
The first open-source AI gateway built on Envoy Gateway (CNCF). Version 1.0 in June 2026: one API in front of sixteen providers, plus an MCP gateway.
Kong AI Gateway
The Kong API manager extended with model-specific plugins. The natural choice if you already run a Kong mesh.
Portkey
Smart routing, virtual keys, budgets and cost observability. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks in April 2026.
LiteLLM
Lightweight gateway: one common API in front of a hundred-odd providers, with request caching. Widely deployed on the developer side.
Cloudflare AI Gateway
A proxy layer between your applications and the providers: caching, rate limiting and analytics, on Cloudflare's network.
Helicone
Open-source gateway between the agent runtime and the model: tracing, per-session costs, semantic caching and unified routing.
This page is a list we put together ourselves. Nobody pays to appear here, and we have not audited each organization’s work. Funding programs change: always confirm amounts and criteria at the source.
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