Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Quebec City
A startup founded inside the old city walls is a much smaller bet than Montreal's tech scene, run almost entirely in French, by a team still covering every job itself.
A smaller scene, where everyone already knows everyone
Québec City is the provincial capital first and a tech hub a distant second, its economy anchored by government and the insurance and financial services firms that grew up serving it. The startups that do get founded here are often started by someone who spent years at one of those larger institutions and decided to build something smaller and faster instead, in a French-language business environment where meetings, documentation and early customer conversations run in French by default far more than in Montreal.
Because the scene is compact, a five-person startup here is more likely than most to run into the same handful of local firms repeatedly, an early customer, a potential investor, a future hire, all circling back around in a smaller pool than Montreal's. That makes a clean, presentable board worth more than it might in a bigger city: the people evaluating the young company today may well be working with it again next year.
ShipSprint's Free plan covers 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, enough for a founding team to run its first stretch of work without a software cost. Past that, one subscription runs engineering, hiring, marketing and operations together, and status lives in a card's position on the board rather than in a written update, so it needs no translation either way.
Nobody in a small founding team has a spare half hour each morning to read through a whole project before deciding what matters most, so the default screen is "my day": today's items, a one-tap time log, and one tap to flag being blocked, which pulls in help directly rather than a message left waiting in either language.
What an early Québec City startup actually needs
5 users and 2 projects, free permanently, not a fortnight's access before the paywall shows up.
Engineering, hiring, marketing and operations each keep their own board and vocabulary, all under one subscription, so a small team doesn't reconcile four separate invoices in two languages.
There's no configuration project or onboarding call to book first. A board is usable the same day it's created, in French or English.
Decisions sit next to the work, with page history, so the reasoning survives past whichever founder happened to make the call.
"My day" is the default screen rather than a full board: today's assigned items, a one-tap time log, and a tap to flag being blocked, routed to whoever can help.
Free that's meant to be used, and a board that skips translation
A lot of software aimed at early founders is a trial dressed up as generosity, full access for two weeks and then a paywall right as the first real customer conversation is underway. That model punishes exactly the founder who most needs a genuinely free option here, where the total addressable local market is smaller than Montreal's and every early conversation matters more.
ShipSprint's Free plan has no clock running. Five users and two projects stay free for as long as the team's that size, with the same boards, time logging and wiki a paying team gets, none of it requiring a francophone-specific version, since status expressed through board position doesn't need translating in either direction.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in India and billed in rupees, a fact about invoicing rather than a claim to any presence in Quebec. Your card converts to Canadian dollars at the rate that applies on the day, and at current rates a seat lands well below most Canadian project tools.
Rien de tout cela ne dépend de la surveillance. Screenshots, keystroke logs and activity trackers simply aren't part of the product, whatever plan a workspace is on. A scorecard built from delivered work and hours a person logs themselves, adjusted for leave, is theirs to see, in either official language.
Questions from Québec City startups
Oui. Up to 5 users and 2 projects, no expiry date, no forced upgrade. A lot of early Québec City teams run their whole first year of building on it.
The product interface itself is in English. What works regardless of the working language is the board: status shows through column and position rather than through written updates that need translating.
No, by design. No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking, only work outcomes and hours logged by the person who worked them.
Team is ₹299 per user per month, or ₹2,899 per user per year, up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 per year, adding forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center, priority support, unlimited projects and SSO. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, sample project included, no card required. Full detail is on the pricing page.
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