Projects that drift and costs out of control
IT budgets and infrastructure bills that grow every year with no clear view of the return, and strategic deliveries that keep slipping.
Strategic IT management advisory · SMEs
Take back control of your technology investments.
Monessor helps SME leaders reduce technical debt, prioritize critical projects, govern artificial intelligence and deliver custom tools, with the discipline of regulated financial services. Our clients typically have between $5 million and $100 million in revenue, in manufacturing, distribution or services.
Where technology stops being a lever and becomes a risk
Technical debt and critical dependencies
Complex, fragile core systems (ERP, CRM, in-house applications) kept running by a few key people or a single vendor, with no fallback.
AI under pressure, without a business case
Pressure to adopt artificial intelligence with no measurable return, at the risk of spending heavily without creating operational value.
A strained dialogue between finance and IT
A finance team focused on margins and the balance sheet, facing technical teams absorbed by day-to-day firefighting.
Starting point
IT Maturity Diagnostic and AI Alignment
A 2-to-3-week engagement that gives your leadership team a complete view of the state, risks and potential of your technology.
From $12,500, fixed-scope engagement.
Architecture and technical debt review
An independent look at the stability of core systems, failure risks and total cost of ownership.
AI use-case matrix
The processes you can automate in the near term, each with its estimated financial return, rather than projects driven by hype.
Governance and vendor contract review
An independent view of vendor quotes, cloud costs and supplier dependencies, ahead of renegotiation.
18-month roadmap
A clear, prioritized and costed plan, ready to present to your leadership team.
A first concrete gain
Custom Software Solutions
Built with AI, delivered with every discipline a real software product needs.
A custom tool that removes one specific friction point, delivered in weeks with the rigour of a software product.
From $15,000, fixed price, in 2 to 6 weeks.
AI, at two levels
In the tool
The tool can read invoices, classify documents, normalize data or answer questions about your company’s data.
To build it
AI speeds up development, which makes a custom tool affordable for an SME. Engineering rigour keeps the result reliable and easy to maintain.
Examples
Automate a repetitive accounting task
For example, entering and reconciling supplier invoices.
Prepare your data for an ERP or CRM
Clean, normalize and prepare data before it is imported.
Add an extension to your ERP or CRM
For example, a quote calculation or a missing report.
Build a small internal tool
To save a team time, or to set your company apart with its clients.
The rigour, with no blind spots
A measured gain before any code
A short 2-to-3-day scoping step, always included, pins down the friction point and measures the expected gain before any development.
Security and personal information by design
Access, data and compliance with Quebec’s Law 25 are handled from the start, not as an afterthought.
Tests, documentation and handover
The code is tested and documented, then handed over to your team, with the option to train internal champions.
Your code, your data
The code and the data belong to you and are hosted in your environment.
Every discipline of a real software product
A reliable tool takes more than code. Here, one accountable person covers each discipline:
Solution architecture
The tool integrates with your existing systems and stays available, fast and secure as the company grows.
Software development
Tested, readable and documented code.
DevOps
Deployment, monitoring and backups from day one.
User experience
By the founder of the UX centre of excellence at a leading Canadian capital markets organization: a tool teams actually adopt.
IT governance and cybersecurity
By a former IT director: access, data and risks stay under control.
Scope and limits
- Small applications only: 2 to 6 weeks, at a fixed price.
- Beyond about $40,000 or 6 weeks, the engagement is split into phases or handed to a development partner.
- Optional monthly support and maintenance, price on request.
- Optional internal champions training: one or a few staff learn to use, evolve and maintain the tool, and to spot the next AI gains. The goal is your autonomy, not dependence on us. Price on request, or included in larger projects.
- Monessor resells no software and takes no commission: third-party tools are chosen for you and in your name.
After the diagnostic: a step-by-step path
The diagnostic sets the direction. A first concrete gain, a custom tool or a vendor selection, produces quick results. Fractional IT leadership is the natural next step, once trust is established.
01
IT Maturity Diagnostic and AI Alignment
2 to 3 weeks · from $12,500
The recommended starting point: where you stand, technical debt, risks and the roadmap, AI included.
02
Custom Software Solutions
2 to 6 weeks · from $15,000
A tool that removes one specific friction point. It can also be the starting point when the problem is already known.
03
Vendor selection and arbitration
4 to 8 weeks · from $15,000
Neutral requirements, a managed tender, an objective choice and negotiation, free of conflicts of interest.
04
Fractional IT leadership
Monthly · from $8,000 a month
A seat on your leadership team, about one day a week, to steer execution, guide the teams and report to leadership.
Targeted engagements and critical situations
Core software selection (ERP, CRM)
A neutral assessment of your needs, requirements, a managed tender and negotiation, shielded from reseller pressure.
Independent selection of AI partners
An assessment of your data maturity and high-return use cases, to choose the right partners without buying into unrealistic promises.
Transaction technology due diligence (sale, acquisition, succession)
The real value of digital assets, system stability and technical debt, assessed to secure the transaction.
Regaining control from technology dependence
Recovering access, source code and data, so you keep your freedom of choice with your vendors.
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No commissions. No software resale. Entirely on your side of the table.
Monessor resells no software (SaaS, ERP) and takes no vendor commissions: it is paid by its clients only. When it builds, it builds targeted tools, not platforms, and you own the code; the diagnostic can just as well recommend an off-the-shelf product.
Every engagement is led personally by Alex Turcotte, Managing Partner. When an engagement calls for highly specialized expertise, Monessor brings in a specialist from its network.
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