M-POWER Consultants Inc. | Montreal, Quebec

Clarity before technology.
Capacity
before more tools.

We help leaders of small and mid-sized businesses reduce repetitive work, adopt AI responsibly, and give their teams room for the work that matters. In person in greater Montreal, live remote anywhere, in English or French.

Maryse Montagne

We help leaders of small and mid-sized businesses bring clarity to how work, tools, and AI fit together.

M-POWER is an AI advisory and facilitation practice. Not a software company. Not a technical implementation firm.

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We teach practical skills and a working method

Two hands-on workshops: your team learns to use AI tools well on its own real work, and your leaders learn a step-by-step method to choose and plan your best improvements yourselves.

We set up your AI employees

Specialized AI employees that support your team, take repetitive work off their plate, and give time back for the work that needs judgment. You stay in control.

We help you choose where to start

A half-day session with your leadership team: find the work that is slowing your team down, choose where to start, and leave with a practical way to keep moving.

Three patterns that slow organizations down.

Most small and mid-sized businesses and professional firms are navigating AI without a clear starting point. If your week sounds like this, you’re not alone.

Daily friction

“The same work keeps coming back.”

Your people are busy all day, but information gets re-entered, follow-ups depend on memory, and leaders get pulled into things that shouldn’t need them.

Hidden risk

“People are using AI here, but we don’t really know how.”

AI use is scattered and informal. Everyone has their own habits, nobody shares what works, and there’s no shared guidance on what belongs in a tool and what doesn’t.

Stuck at the start

“We should be doing more with AI, but where do we start?”

The pressure to act keeps growing, but there’s no internal AI team, no time to test everything, and no appetite for a big technical project.

This is where M-POWER comes in

We help you create clarity, build practical structure, and adopt AI responsibly, starting with your Smallest High-Impact Move.

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Three ways to work with us

Simple, structured services designed to help you move forward clearly, without heavy projects, without unnecessary complexity, and with human validation built into the process.

Learn

Workshops

Learn how to use AI effectively as a team.

Two practical 2-hour workshops, for groups of up to 12:

  • AI Fundamentals: get better answers from the AI tools your team already uses and make fuller use of their capabilities in real work.
  • BASE Method Fundamentals: learn to use the BASE Method to identify where AI can create real business value and choose the best place to begin.

$1,500 per workshop

Set up

AI Workforce Onboarding

A configuration service of specialized AI employees that support you and your team.

  • We configure three of the six AI employees for your organization (Executive Assistant, Social Media Manager, Receptionist) to reduce repetitive tasks and support your team’s daily work.
  • We build their shared business context and set up your first three AI employees on real tasks.
  • Your team learns how to give them directives, review their work, and use them within real processes.

Starting at $1,900

Flagship

Prioritize

AI Leadership Alignment Session

Find the work that is slowing your team down, choose where to start, and leave with a practical way to keep moving.

  • A half-day working session with your leadership team, guided by the BASE Method.
  • We map where time is lost and weigh your use cases for value, risk, and complexity.
  • You leave with your first move chosen and a clear way to keep going.

$3,500 per session

All prices in Canadian dollars, plus applicable taxes. Prices include delivery by video call or in person in the Greater Montreal area. Elsewhere in Canada, in-person delivery is available with travel costs added. AI Workforce Onboarding is delivered remotely.

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Start anywhere.

Each M-POWER service operates independently and gives you clarity, impact, and real capacity to move forward.

Complementary services are available to support your progress, deepen a use case, or structure a next step.

The BASE Method

The BASE Method is M-POWER’s approach for turning operational friction into practical, measurable improvement, starting with work reality, not tools.

Start small. Prove value. Expand with control.

B

Build from Reality

Understand how work actually happens today, where friction is, and who’s affected.

A

Align on What Matters

Agree on the outcome that matters most, the right first move, and who owns it.

S

Start Small

Choose your Smallest High-Impact Move: the most impact for the least risk, complexity, and time.

E

Evaluate, Embed, and Expand with Control

Review real results, keep what works, and expand only what has earned it.

BASE in Practice

Learn the method

BASE Method Fundamentals Workshop

A practical method your team can use again.

Apply the method

AI Leadership Alignment Session

Clarify your priorities and choose the first move.

An AI advisory practice based in Montreal, working in English and French.

M-POWER Consultants Inc. helps leaders of small and mid-sized businesses understand where AI can create real value and move forward without adding chaos, starting with the Smallest High-Impact Move.

Maryse Montagne, Founder of M-POWER Consultants

Maryse Montagne

Operational Clarity | Better Decisions | Responsible AI

Montreal, Quebec

I founded M-POWER after 25 years in the technology sector, working across project coordination and management, sales development and management, strategic partnerships, and executive leadership roles.

I understand the operational friction leaders face, having been directly exposed to these challenges in contexts of growth, transformation, and organizational alignment: disconnected systems, duplicated work, knowledge concentrated in the hands of a few people, and teams expected to adopt new tools without a clear structure.

My work is not about adding technology. It is about helping organizations put in place the structure, practical guardrails, and leadership alignment needed to better frame the use of AI, reduce confusion, and support better decisions.

Experience

25 years of experience in technology

Certifications & Affiliations

Questions leaders often ask before starting

Do we need to be technical to work with M-POWER?

No. M-POWER is designed for leaders and teams who want practical clarity, not more technical complexity. We start with your business priorities, workflows, and team reality before talking about tools.

What if we are not sure where to start with AI?

That is often the best place to start. We help you identify where time is being lost, where work is repetitive, and where AI could support your team in a useful and realistic way.

Will this turn into a big technical project?

Not unless there is a clear business reason for it. The goal is to start with focused priorities, simple structure, and practical next steps before making larger technology decisions.

Do you implement AI tools for us?

M-POWER is not a custom software development firm. We help clarify use cases, prepare the structure, guide setup and adoption, and work with tool providers or technical partners when needed.

Do you work with the tools we already have?

Yes. We start by looking at what your team already uses and where there may be underused features, duplicated work, or unclear ownership. The goal is not to add more tools unless there is a clear reason.

Is this about replacing people?

No. The goal is to reduce repetitive work and give people more space for judgment, communication, decision-making, and higher-value work. Human review and ownership remain important parts of the process.

What’s the difference between the Workshops, the AI Workforce Onboarding, and the AI Leadership Alignment Session?

The Workshops (your team and your leadership): two practical 2-hour workshops. AI Fundamentals helps your team improve the quality and consistency of their work with the AI tools they already use. BASE Method Fundamentals helps your leadership decide where AI can genuinely help and how to move forward without complexity.

AI Workforce Onboarding (you and your employees): an operational service. Three specialized AI employees configured for your business (Executive Assistant, Social Media Manager, Receptionist) support your team with repetitive tasks and real daily work. Your team learns to direct them, review their work, and integrate them into your processes.

The AI Leadership Alignment Session (your leadership): a strategic service. A half-day to clarify your AI priorities, evaluate your use cases (value, risk, complexity), and choose your first high-impact action. Guided by the BASE Method, it helps you leave with a clear decision and a concrete way to continue the cycle.

What happens after the first engagement?

Every first engagement is designed to create real impact. You leave with clear deliverables, practical tools, and assets your team can use immediately.

You gain a precise understanding of what AI can already do for you, along with documents and processes you can apply internally to keep moving forward on your own. From there, two paths are possible:

1. Move forward internally. Your team can continue with what we built together. The tools, AI employees, and methods you receive are designed to be used autonomously.

2. Go deeper with M-POWER. If you want to optimize your AI employees’ work, structure a next step, or go further with a use case, monthly support or a more complete engagement is available, based on your needs and pace.

The first engagement gives you clarity, impact, and real capacity to move forward. You then choose the next step that fits your organization.

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