Technology at the service of Québec.
Understanding technology, artificial intelligence, computing and energy. To build and decide better.
First role. As an engaged citizen, I have been writing for more than 15 years about Québec politics, technology, our public institutions, energy and a vision for the future. This site is also my personal blog.
Second role. As a technology advisor, I like a challenge. I help companies and organizations with web development, business development, AI and transformation. Those that need to adapt, transform and decide. Those that are worn down by heavy bureaucratic and administrative work.
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After 15 years as an entrepreneur, I understand what entrepreneurs live. I have built companies in several fields, web marketing, web development, import-export with China, IT infrastructure, data centres, sales and investment. I know the software you use and the work you do. You can get in touch for a consultation or a mandate.
This site is also my personal blog. My texts are free and appear first on Facebook, where an algorithm decides who sees them.
Here, each text is published in full, with its figures, numbered references and bibliography, so that a reader, a journalist or an elected official can go back to the source. The texts and studies are written in French. This English page presents the work, the main studies and the services.
Artificial intelligence, web and content.
A role distinct from the texts published on this site. Artificial intelligence and automation, web development and social media management, for businesses, organizations and public administrations in Québec. Every mandate begins with an assessment of your needs, with a clear written deliverable and timeline.
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How I work
Each company keeps its data at home. I build an isolated and encrypted environment, with your own access. Sensitive data, yours and your clients', stays on your network or in your cloud, never mixed with another client's.
I combine local models for what is sensitive and external models such as Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT when useful, through a single controlled gateway that removes sensitive data, limits destinations and keeps a log. No irreversible action runs without your approval. Everything is designed for Québec's Law 25, your data stays in Canada and you keep ownership and control of it.
I always start by assessing your needs. Then we decide together on the mandate and how to price it. Everything is done case by case, according to the scope of the work.
Web development
I design or rebuild your website, then automate it with artificial intelligence. Domain name, hosting, security, search engine optimization, mobile speed, Law 25 compliance, newsletter and payments. A site you then manage yourself, ready for automation.
Implementation
Rolling out the selected automations with your team, step by step. Tool configuration, connection to your software, employee training and measurement of results before and after.
Monthly support
Follow-up of the tools in place, adjustments and new automations as needs arise. Can include automated management of your social media with quality content and upkeep of your website.
AI business diagnostic
A meeting with management, an analysis of your tools, processes and team, then a written report. What can be automated, the expected time and cost savings, the tools to adopt and those to set aside, Law 25 precautions and the order in which to proceed. Report delivered in two weeks.
Work samples
This site, hotte.ai, was designed and launched with artificial intelligence tools, under my direction. Custom theme in French and English, studies with charts and numbered references, PDF report, newsletters, online payments, domain and email security, audience measurement without advertising cookies. I also designed the rental site tremblant-chalet.com, with online booking and dynamic pricing. It is the same work I do for my clients.
Free guide
Artificial intelligence in a Québec SME, where to start. A practical guide for executives, offered to newsletter subscribers, in French.
Book a meeting
Write to me at contact@hotte.ai or book a meeting. I work in French and English, remotely, by phone, Google Meet, Teams or Zoom.
Services page in French or write to contact@hotte.ai.
Four pillars for Québec.
Protecting Hydro-Québec and our institutions
I firmly believe in the vision of Jacques Parizeau, Jean Lesage and René Lévesque, who nationalized our hydroelectric dams, and in protecting our water and natural resources.
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I also believe our data centres and computing power should be publicly owned, since they use our natural resources and our water, in partnership with Hydro-Québec. Our natural resources and our institutions belong to Quebecers and must be run by them and for them.
Masters in our own house
Our forests, water, minerals and energy are the common heritage of the Québec nation.
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We should develop them ourselves, process them here and keep the profits at home, instead of selling them cheaply to foreign interests. A territory protected, developed and inhabited by those who live there.
The Québec Computing Corporation
A Crown corporation to own our data centres and computing capacity, host Québec's public data, support research and sell computing power, running on our clean electricity, as Hydro-Québec did for electricity in 1962.
Artificial intelligence serving Québec
Automating repetitive work, modernizing government and business, and training workers from declining industries for the jobs of tomorrow.
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AI is a lever for productivity and wealth if Québec masters it instead of renting it.
Studies and proposals.
In-depth documents with figures, methodology and numbered references. The studies on wind power and on the Québec Computing Corporation are available in English. The other documents are in French.
Latest texts, in French.
October 12, 2026Pour en finir avec l'éolien au Québec, troisième partie
October 12, 2026Pour en finir avec l'éolien au Québec, deuxième partie
October 11, 2026Pour en finir avec l'éolien au Québec
October 11, 2026Nominations partisanes. Ce que sont devenus la Caisse de dépôt et Investissement Québec
October 10, 2026L'Alberta et le référendum du 19 octobre
October 10, 2026Un projet économique pour le Québec
Jean-François Hotte
Jean-François Hotte is a technology advisor and engaged citizen. He has fifteen years of experience in information technology, IT infrastructure and data centres, with international clients, notably in Asia. He founded and ran three companies, Kontenu in web development and digital marketing, a data centre infrastructure consulting firm and a computer hardware import company.
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For fifteen years he has written on energy, technology, institutions and Québec's economy. A former columnist for the Métro newspaper, published in Le Devoir, he is followed by more than 17,000 people on Facebook. He initiated the Québec Computing Corporation, a proposed Crown corporation for digital sovereignty presented to political party leaders and the media in 2026. Read the study. His civic work is non-partisan and free.
As an advisor, he works with companies, organizations and public administrations on artificial intelligence, automation, web development and content. He works in French and English, remotely. The texts published on this site are commissioned by no one.
Get in touch.
For a mandate, a question or an online meeting, an email is all it takes.
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