Regional offices and subsidiaries, opened where demand and talent justify it.
Today, one headquarters in Montreal. The next locations are decided region by region.
Every market has its languages, units, customs and expectations. A local team adapts our products and their content to the reality of the country.
Major partners expect a counterpart close at hand: in their language, in their time zone, able to follow distributors, organizations and authorities day to day.
Data protection, such as Law 25 in Quebec or the GDPR in Europe, taxation, labor law, standards for connected devices, international agreements and standards: every location follows local and international rules.
Relationships with the country's companies, distributors and institutions.
Answers in the country's language, during its hours.
Translation, local content and adjustment of features.
Where the country offers the talent, teams that build our products.
Making our products known and running the local community.
Finance, human resources and local formalities.
Each office is led on site.
It reports to leadership in Montreal.
The same tools, the same quality and the same data protection as headquarters.
We move forward in stages, from the lightest form to the most committed.
| Forme | When we consider it |
|---|---|
| Remote hiring | For a country's first talent, before any establishment. |
| Representative office | To prepare a market and meet partners. |
| Branch | When local activity begins. |
| Subsidiary | When local activity becomes significant and lasting. |
| Joint venture | When the country's law or the market requires it. |
Its size, its growth and the place our products can take in it.
Users, partners and organizations already interested.
Data protection, taxation, labor law and applicable standards.
The presence of engineers, researchers and artificial intelligence specialists.
Premises, support, guaranteed purchase volume, grants or funding.
How easy it is to work with our teams and our existing partners.
The country's political and economic stability.
The protection local law offers our technologies.
The tax treaties in force between the country and Canada.
Their market, their network and their customers, to launch an office's activity.
Premises, grants and help with setting up and hiring.
Talent and joint projects in artificial intelligence.
Their knowledge of the country, to build and grow an office on site.
Investors can also fund a local office.
Your proposal and your documents reach leadership.
Leadership checks that it matches our criteria.
If it does, a first video call with leadership.
Checks, additional documents and, if needed, a confidentiality agreement.
Made by leadership and confirmed in writing.
Creation of the office or subsidiary, then local hiring.
No. Our headquarters is in Montreal, and no other location is open to date.
No. Only a decision by leadership, confirmed in writing, commits the company.
No. It funds the local structure, without giving any stake in Obdurare Inc. To invest in Obdurare Inc., go through the page Partnerships.
Only for a limited period, and in exchange for specific targets set out in a written agreement.
The page Partnerships is about collaborations. This one is about opening a regional office or a subsidiary.
Every proposal is read by leadership.
Thank you. Leadership will review it; next steps will follow by email.