We are deliberately narrow. We do not bid on what we cannot deliver senior.
Federal, provincial, municipal, Protected B + bilingual + AODA from day one.
HIPAA, PHIPA, provincial residency, clinical-grade audit trails.
OSFI E-23, OCC, FINTRAC alignment. Replayable model decisions.
Ministry-of-education programs, accessibility-first learning platforms.
Regulated industries that need senior delivery without big-firm overhead.
Everything else is a sub-discipline of one of these four.
Turn scattered data and AI ideas into governed, useful systems your team can trust. Strategy, RAG, agents, evaluation, and audit-ready evidence from day one.
Read moreBuild secure portals, workflows, dashboards, and internal tools around how your organization actually works. Web, mobile, API, microservices, sequenced for compounding leverage.
Read moreModernize infrastructure, reduce operational risk, and keep critical systems stable after launch. Self-hosted Kubernetes, SOC 2-aligned controls, named on-call ops.
Read moreClarify what to build, what to avoid, what to buy, and how to sequence digital investments. Discovery, modernization roadmaps, vendor evaluation, and technology due diligence.
Read moreStrategy, build, data, run, evaluate, enable, govern, and industry frameworks. Not a single button; a full supply chain.
Use-case discovery, ROI modelling, buy/build/partner decisions.
RAG, agents, fine-tuning, multi-modal.
Retrieval, lakehouse, vector stores, feature stores.
Inference infrastructure, observability, cost control.
LLM evals, benchmarks, red-team, hallucination detection.
Prompt libraries, enterprise training, copilot enablement.
Responsible AI policy, bias audits, model cards, Canadian AIDA + US NIST AI RMF.
Government, banking, insurance, health, retail, logistics.
Representative anonymized engagements. Client references and audit evidence available under NDA during procurement.
Designed and shipped a secure investor and portfolio-reporting platform for HCCM Capital Management. SSO with role-based views, audit-grade activity logs, KYC-aware document vault, and a reporting layer that survives every quarterly close. Hand-back package includes architecture, runbooks, and a security questionnaire ready for institutional LPs.
Built a replayable retention agent over an existing CRM. Compliance reconstructs any agent action from append-only logs in minutes, with the model card, the prompt version, and the data context all linked. Replaces a multi-week root-cause exercise.
Sovereign on-premises deployment of a policy-drafting copilot. No customer data left the perimeter; ATIP requests are answered with a one-click replay; the team retained full ownership of every model decision through bilingual interfaces.
Built for senior buyers, auditors, regulators, and the successor teams who inherit the work.
Most enterprise software is shipped to make buyers feel safe at signature. We exist to build the second kind: software that makes organizations stronger a decade after handover. We believe what an organization builds today decides what it can defend tomorrow, and that regulated leaders deserve digital craftsmanship they own, not a vendor they cannot leave.
AI, software, cloud, and digital platforms for regulated organizations in Canada and the United States. Audit-ready by design, bilingual by construction, delivered with a named senior lead from kickoff to handover.
We are a senior team of proven entrepreneurs with more than fifty years of combined experience across technology, government consulting, and enterprise delivery. We took five years to figure out which kind of work is worth our calendar, and we wrote it down so we keep ourselves honest.
We say yes to: work where the success metric is the same in year one and year ten. To buyers who want to be told the truth before they want to be told it will close. To systems where key decisions can be replayed long after launch. To teams who treat bilingual delivery as architecture, not as a translation pass.
We say no to: staffing-firm work, demo-driven sales, AI tools that hide their training data, sovereign-by-marketing platforms, and any engagement that requires us to bend the principles below. We have walked away from real revenue to keep this list short.
Senior people on the work, not on the pitch. The person who scopes your project is on the standup.
EN+FR parity from architecture, not a translation pass.
Replayable decisions, append-only logs, and audit evidence built in from day one.
One named delivery lead from kickoff to handover. No staff swap, no escalation queue.
These are not slogans. They are the filter every Wouessi engagement is run through. When the work would require bending them, we say no.
We give buyers the real picture, even when the polished version would close the deal faster.
Customer data stays inside the customer's perimeter, unless they explicitly authorize otherwise.
A year of leverage every quarter, for the businesses that decide to grow.
We design systems so key decisions can be replayed with the context available at the time.
The person who scopes your project is on the daily standup. No staff swap, no escalation queue.
Think in decades. Ship in sprints. We build platforms your team can operate without depending on us.
1,000+ trainees served across Canada and the US since 2021. Cohort and self-paced learning. Bilingual. Outcomes the ministry can show on a budget line.
Half-day to two-day workshops. Decision frameworks, governance posture, and the questions to ask vendors.
30 to 300 learners. Cohort + self-paced. EN + FR. Ministry-grade reporting.
Engineering and content teams trained on WCAG 2.2 AA, AODA, and Section 508 with hands-on lab.
Best when scope is clear and outcomes are testable.
Custom scopedBest for discovery, evolving scope, or platform work.
Senior bench, by weekBest for six-month-plus build-out with named senior staff.
Named delivery leadBest when both sides agree on a measurable target.
Outcome defined in contractEvery engagement is custom-scoped against your buyer constraints, sovereignty boundary, and timeline. We share a tailored proposal after a twenty-minute fit call.
A senior at Wouessi reads your note and replies with three questions.
We listen first. We name what we are and are not the right partner for.
You receive a one-page written recommendation. Yours to keep, no obligation.
Our 90-second brand film is in final editing. Until it lands, the fastest way to see how we work is a twenty-minute fit call. Same story, in your context.
We are vendor-aware, not vendor-locked. We choose what fits your buyer constraints, not what fits our resume.
Talent partners, certification bodies, and procurement networks that vouch for the way we work.
Rodrigue Fouafou is the founder and CEO of Wouessi. He sits in your standup, signs every scope, and stays accountable from kickoff to handover. The person who scopes your project is the person you meet on day one.
No surprise rituals, no rebadged Agile theatre. The same five-step shape, sized to your scope.
We clarify the business problem, the users, the risks, and the constraints. We say no when the diagnosis points elsewhere.
We map the workflow, architecture, data model, and delivery path before writing the first line of production code.
We ship in focused increments with senior technical oversight. Every increment is observable, accessible, and reversible.
We document, train, and hand over systems your team can operate without us. We are not optimizing for our own retention.
We improve the platform with evidence, not guesswork. The platform compounds in a year of leverage every quarter.
Yours to keep. Yours to share with auditors, regulators, or the next team. We design for your independence from us.
The interview log, the constraints map, and the risks identified before scope was signed.
A current-state and target-state architecture your engineers can read, evolve, and present to procurement.
Top risks, owners, and the mitigation we plan to ship for each. Updated weekly, kept after handover.
Threat model, data flows, secrets handling, and the residency boundary we promised your auditor.
A single, signed deliverable that says: you can run this without us, and here is exactly how.
Saying yes to one of these would erode the work we say yes to. We have walked away from real revenue to keep this list short.
Tell us what you are trying to build. We will confirm whether Wouessi is the right partner, suggest next steps, or point you to a better fit.
Wouessi is a Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) certified business. Our certification supports the supplier diversity programs of Canadian banks, government departments, and enterprise buyers in North America.
