The thesis
Across Québec, thousands of healthy businesses in hospitality, food, services and trades hold their towns together. Most have never had the tools, capital or growth thinking that startups take for granted.
What grows a startup also strengthens these businesses: better software, AI that clears the admin, sharper marketing and a partner who has scaled teams before. The difference is that your business already works. The job is to make it more resilient and more valuable, not to reinvent it.
This is regeneration in its most literal sense: good businesses that stay rooted and thrive for another generation. We start close to home, in the Eastern Townships, Québec.
Themes
Places to stay, eat and gather. The businesses that make a region worth the drive.
Service companies with loyal customers and room to grow with better systems.
Producers and makers with a brand worth taking further.
Businesses that bring people together: memberships, events, retreats and gathering places.
Studio companies here
Premium urban rappelling experiences. Every city has an edge, and gravity favours the bold.
Watch and care for second homes and chalets in the Eastern Townships, so owners can be away with peace of mind.
Remote-work retreats that bring founders, investors and operators together in inspiring places worldwide.
What we look for
How the studio helps
Every service below comes from a role Joaquim has actually held. We picked the ones founders in this sector ask for most.
Agents that take over admin, reporting, support and back-office work, so a small team operates like a large one.
Experience · Runs a fleet of dozens of AI agents across his own businesses. Co-founded the AI inference platform Gatewayz.ai.
AI agents for prospecting, outreach, qualification and follow-up, wired into a clean CRM. Your pipeline keeps moving while the team sleeps.
Experience · Builds and runs AI lead-generation and outreach agents across his own companies.
Positioning, brand, messaging and a plan tied to revenue, from the first campaign to a full marketing function.
Experience · Led an 8-figure brand launch at L’Oréal Canada. CMO at TrustSwap. Youngest person ever on the Canadian Marketing Association’s Martech Council.
Organic growth through content, search and editorial. An audience you own instead of rent.
Experience · Built The Alternative Ways to 1M+ monthly views through SEO.
Hiring plans, recruiting pipelines, onboarding and the HR foundations you need before you need them.
Experience · Scaled MLG Blockchain from 4 to 120 employees in 9 months. Built the HR function at Secure Digital Markets as it grew from 9 to 40.
Leading your team through growth, reorganizations and new systems, including the human side of adopting AI.
Experience · COO through hypergrowth at MLG Blockchain. Installed HR and marketing systems as Chief of Staff at Secure Digital Markets.
Communities, memberships, retreats and events that turn customers into advocates.
Experience · Co-founded Remote Work Villas’ retreats. Built token communities at TrustSwap and Alpaca Network.
One-on-one coaching on clarity, energy, decisions and life design, so the person running the company keeps growing too.
Experience · Certified life coach who works with founders and executives on mindset, energy and alignment.
Your business already works. Our job is to clear the admin, bring in customers and build a team that runs without you in every room.
Other sectors
Robots and autonomous systems moving from the lab into the field, and the software that runs them.
02AI-driven discovery, lab automation and the platforms that make biology faster and cheaper to engineer.
03Automating the physical economy with AI, software and machines: manufacturing, logistics, construction and agriculture.
04The space economy after the launch revolution: data, communications, in-orbit services and the software that ties them together.
05Market infrastructure, tokenized real-world assets, stablecoins and healthy token communities.
06Payments, capital-markets technology and financial services rebuilt for global, remote-first customers.
07AI agents, applied AI and agentic autonomous organizations (AAOs): companies where humans and AI agents share the work under one rulebook.
Work with the studio
Tell us what you’re building and what you need. We read every application, and every founder gets an answer.
