Montréal: the hub linking Europe and North America

Why Montréal

People often ask us about Tokyo. Rarely about Montréal. That’s a misreading of the model.

Montréal is not a representative office. It’s the hub that makes Follow-the-Sun complete. Without a North American link, you have two time zones talking to each other. With Montréal, you have a continuous chain: when Paris closes, Montréal is mid-afternoon. When Montréal closes, Tokyo opens.

The time-zone bridge, concretely

A team in Montréal shares the morning with Paris and the afternoon with the US West Coast. For a European client with users in North America, it’s the location that covers both markets without night shifts.

This is not theoretical. A major Canadian telecom operator means around a hundred people on the Abbeal side, on a Vue 2 to Vue 3 migration. A major bank in the Montréal market means a cloud-native mobile app that has passed one million downloads. A North American cable operator is also supported from Montréal. These projects work because the teams are on site, not because we outsourced at a distance.

Bilingual, and it matters

Montréal works in French and English without friction. For a French client targeting the North American market, the team doesn’t have to switch working language. For an English-speaking client, the same the other way around. Few cities offer that with a real pool of senior engineers.

Law 25: compliance is not optional

Since 2024, Law 25 has governed personal information in Québec, with requirements close to the GDPR. A product that touches Québec users must comply with it. We delivered a FinTech Law 25 compliance project in six weeks. Having a team on site that knows the framework avoids discovering the problem in production.

Who it’s for

A hub in Montréal makes sense if you target the North American market, if you have users on both sides of the Atlantic, or if you want nearshore with real time-zone overlap rather than offshore twelve hours out of sync.