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Bilingual French-English DTC
Lifestyle, fashion, and homeware brands on Shopify Plus with parallel FR and EN storefronts. Hreflang setup, locale-aware lifecycle email on Klaviyo, Quebec language-law alignment.
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§ · location · montreal
Agency in Montreal.
Shopify, web platform, SaaS marketing site, and brand identity for Montreal, Mile End, and Quebec bilingual DTC, AI-SaaS, and creative-tech brands. Eastern Time, FR plus EN locale variants where the market warrants.
§ 01 · montreal context
AI capital of Canada. Bilingual brands.
Looking for a Shopify agency or AI-SaaS web developer near you in Montreal, Mile End, or the Plateau? Digital Heroes works with Montreal brands across the bilingual DTC, AI-SaaS, and creative-tech spectrum. Eastern Time coverage Monday through Friday 9 to 6 ET, weekly Friday demos, same-day Slack response, with 24/7 emergency support across our Delhi and Sydney offices. Montreal carries a distinct commerce gravity: the Mila AI institute and the Yoshua Bengio research lineage produce the densest applied-AI founder pipeline in Canada, the gaming and creative-tech studios cluster around Ubisoft Montreal and EA, and the bilingual French-English commerce market demands parallel FR and EN storefronts with hreflang precision. Our reference points include operator-led brands adjacent to Frank & Oak, Lolé, Moment Factory, or the Mila AI scaleup pipeline. Same Eastern Time as our New York office means full-day overlap and a 90-minute flight when in-person work makes sense.
§ 02 · three montreal patterns
Three Montreal archetypes we ship.
The Montreal mix concentrates around three repeatable patterns. Bilingual DTC shape, applied-AI SaaS shape, creative-tech shape; each carries a distinct content gravity and a distinct integration topology.
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AI/ML applied SaaS
AI tooling and applied-ML SaaS founded out of the Mila pipeline. Next.js marketing site, dashboard surfaces, public docs portals on Mintlify, evidence-led benchmark content.
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Gaming + creative-tech
Animation studios, interactive media, and creative-tech operators. Narrative-shaped product pages, marketing-site rebuilds, brand-system work, motion-aware design surfaces.
§ 03 · operating clock
Eastern Time. Full-day overlap.
Montreal runs on the same Eastern Time as our New York office. Same nine-hour working window, same Slack timing, 90-minute flight when in-person work makes sense.
§ 04 · services for montreal
Five services for Montreal brands.
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Bilingual Shopify Plus
Plus build with parallel FR + EN storefronts, hreflang routing, locale-aware lifecycle, Quebec language-law alignment.
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AI-SaaS marketing site + dashboard
Marketing site, dashboard UI, docs portal, integration surfaces for Mila-pipeline AI-SaaS.
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Web development
Next.js, Vercel, Stripe, integration-heavy custom builds for creative-tech operators.
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Web design system
Figma library, accessibility-baked, motion-aware patterns for animation-studio adjacency.
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Brand identity system
Logo, type, color, motion, voice, guidelines, bilingual brand-voice patterns, Figma library handoff.
§ 05 · shopify agency near me in montreal
Looking for a Shopify agency or AI-SaaS web developer near you in Montreal?
We work across Greater Montreal: Mile End, the Plateau, downtown Montreal, Old Port, Griffintown, plus Laval, Longueuil, and the West Island anglophone corridor. Eastern Time coverage Monday through Friday 9 to 6 ET, weekly Friday demos on ET, same-ET Slack response. We ship FR plus EN locale variants where the market warrants, with hreflang routing and Quebec language-law alignment baked into the build. Our reference points when shaping a Montreal engagement include operator-led brands adjacent to Frank & Oak, Lolé, Moment Factory, or the Mila AI scaleup pipeline; the Ubisoft-EA gaming corridor; and the bilingual lifestyle DTC operators serving both Quebec and cross-Canada English-speaking markets.
For technical depth, we ship inside Next.js, Vercel, and the Stripe billing primitives the Mila-AI SaaS operators rely on; for Shopify we work with Shopify Plus Markets for FR-EN locale routing; we plan in Figma and ship through GitHub; reporting flows through Looker Studio; we hold marketing-site LCP under 2.5 seconds against the web.dev Core Web Vitals rubric.
§ 06 · montreal questions
Five questions Montreal founders ask.
Do you have an office in Montreal?
Digital Heroes is a remote-first agency with HQs in New York and Delhi plus offices in London, Sydney, and Lucknow. We work with Montreal and Quebec brands on Eastern Time hours (9 to 6 ET, Monday through Friday) with same-day Slack response. We do not maintain a Montreal-local office and we will not invent one.
What kinds of Montreal brands do you typically work with?
Our typical Montreal fit is a $3M to $25M GMV bilingual DTC operator on Shopify Plus needing parallel FR and EN storefronts; an AI/ML applied SaaS founded out of the Mila pipeline that needs marketing-site rebuild plus a public docs portal; or an animation studio or creative-tech operator in the Ubisoft-EA-Moment-Factory orbit needing a brand-system rebuild.
Do you build AI-SaaS or only ecommerce?
Both. The Montreal mix is roughly 50 percent DTC and 50 percent SaaS or creative-tech. We ship bilingual Shopify Plus builds for Quebec and cross-Canada lifestyle operators alongside Next.js marketing-site rebuilds, dashboard UI work, and integration-heavy product surfaces for the Mila-pipeline AI-SaaS operators.
Will you fly to Montreal for kickoff or quarterly reviews?
Yes. Montreal is a 90-minute flight from our New York HQ. For retainer engagements we include quarterly in-person sessions either at the client location across Mile End, the Plateau, downtown Montreal, or Old Port, or at an agreed neutral spot. For one-off platform builds we typically include a launch-week trip and a 60-day post-launch review trip in scope.
How quickly can you scope a Montreal project?
30-minute discovery call gets booked typically within a week. Written scope plus fixed-price quote returns within 48 hours of that call. For bilingual Shopify builds we layer a 5 to 7 business day language-and-locale discovery phase to map FR and EN content surfaces, hreflang routing, and Quebec language-law alignment before the quote becomes binding.
§ 07 · scope the montreal build
Bilingual DTC + AI-SaaS. ET coverage.
30-minute call on ET. Written scope and fixed-price quote in 48 hours. In-person across Mile End, the Plateau, downtown Montreal, and Old Port for retainer engagements.
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