Three young entrepreneurs with big ambitions.
Oriana Solutions grew out of an entrepreneurship competition won while still in school. Less than a year later, we were delivering projects for a regional airline and a three-location restaurant group. Here's how we got there.
A competition won, then a company.
In 2025, our team won first place nationally at Défi OSEntreprendre, Quebec's largest entrepreneurship competition. The winning project was Quietnest, a mobile app designed and built from scratch.
Samuel Bergeron-Lagacé, now an Oriana co-founder, led that project while still a Computer Science Technology student at Cégep du Vieux Montréal. He received a $5,000 bursary at the 27th Grands Prix Desjardins gala, in the school stream, college category, along with a prize from the Fédération des cégeps.
It wasn't a school exercise. The app brought in more than 60 testers before launch. That's when we realized we liked building real products, and Oriana Solutions was born.
See the Quietnest case studyEstablished businesses trusted us.
We could have spent our first two years on five-page websites. That's not what happened.
Pascan Aviation
A regional airline serving Quebec and Atlantic Canada. An industry where close enough doesn't exist.
Le Balthazar
A three-location restaurant group, with menus, events and an identity to carry across the whole network.
A first client outside Quebec
Proof that what we build doesn't stop at the province's borders.
Among the first in Quebec to offer GEO.
When AI engines started answering in Google's place, most agencies kept selling classic search optimization.
We built an offering for it: making sure a business is understood, cited and recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot and Gemini. Then, when OpenAI opened advertising inside ChatGPT in February 2026, we were among the first Quebec agencies to prepare and run those campaigns.
We don't claim to have figured out a field that's two years old. We claim to have taken it seriously before the others did.
Our GEO optimization offeringWe sponsor the ones just starting.
We come from a student entrepreneurship club. That's where we tested our first ideas, in front of people who owed us nothing.
So we sponsor REEL, one of Quebec's most active student entrepreneurship clubs and a member of ACEE. We also sponsor local events, such as the 10-year class reunion at Collège Letendre, where our co-founder Mathieu Morin-Lamy graduated a decade earlier.
This isn't bought visibility. It's what we would have wanted to see back when it was us, in the room, with an idea and no budget.
Our cultureWhat others have written about us.
The Quietnest project, built by Oriana and led by Samuel Bergeron-Lagacé while he was still studying, was covered by several education and entrepreneurship organizations.
- Cégep du Vieux MontréalJune 16, 2025Samuel Bergeron-Lagacé receives a bursary at the Défi OSEntreprendre national galaA $5,000 bursary awarded at the 27th Grands Prix Desjardins gala, school stream, college category.
- Fédération des cégepsJune 2025Samuel Bergeron-Lagacé receives a Fédération des cégeps prize at the Défi OSEntreprendre national galaA prize awarded by the Fédération des cégeps at the same national gala.
- OSEntreprendre2025 national college laureateQuietnest project profile"Built for introverts, Quietnest is an app that helps manage social energy day to day." The project brought in more than 60 testers.
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