Diagnose
We clarify the business problem, the users, the risks, and the constraints. We say no when the diagnosis points elsewhere.
About Wouessi
Founded 2021 in Toronto, with operations now in Arlington, Virginia. We exist for the leaders who want to leave the system better than they inherited it, and the teams that intend to still be proud of it five years from now.
Our convictions
Three things we will not negotiate.
Sovereign by construction
Customer data does not leave the customer’s perimeter. Self-hosted is the default, not the upgrade. When a buyer asks us to bend on this, we tell them why we cannot, then we recommend a firm that will.
Audit-ready by design
Decisions a system makes are designed to be replayable beyond launch, with the context the model had at the time.
Bilingual from day one
EN+FR parity is not a translation pass. It is the architecture and it is enforced in the build.
Leadership
The humans behind the systems.
Rodrigue Fouafou
Founder & CEO
Founded Wouessi in Toronto in 2021, with operations now in Arlington, Virginia. Five years spent figuring out which work is worth our calendar, then writing it down to stay honest. Stanford GSB executive education. CAMSC-certified diverse supplier. The accountable name on every engagement, and the one you call when something goes sideways.
Anita Ankeli
Operations & Programs
Operations and program delivery. The reason engagements land on schedule and stay on schedule. Manages the calendar that says no to work that does not fit our principles.
Senior Advisory Council
People who hold us to our principles.
Three senior advisors who challenge our scope, our pricing, and our promises before our clients ever do.
Dan Matalon
Senior Advisor
Enterprise sales & partnerships
Pamela Moko
Senior Advisor
People, culture & leadership
Reggie Nugent
Senior Advisor
Federal procurement & compliance
Our people
Voices from inside the firm
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I’ve been provided with the opportunity to grow my skillset through endless support and meaningful projects.
Jasmine M.
Project Coordinator · Calgary, AB, Canada
Partners and procurement networks
More than 25 organizations move with us.
Funders, accelerators, councils, legal counsel, cloud partners, and AI platforms who challenge the work and help us deliver it across two countries.
29+Partner organizations
5Continents touched
2Federal jurisdictions
5Years building
Neurallabs AIPower GroupNRC IRAPCanExport SMEsCanNorStartup CanadaStartup YMMToronto Region Board of TradeMaRS Discovery DistrictCommunitechCommunautoStanford GSBRiipenWouessi UniversityBEBCCAMSCCBCCNMSDCDLA PiperTokio Marine HCCZensuranceAWS Partner NetworkMicrosoftGoogle CloudOpenAIAnthropicHubSpotRocksteady ConsultingYoshi Idea
Neurallabs AIPower GroupNRC IRAPCanExport SMEsCanNorStartup CanadaStartup YMMToronto Region Board of TradeMaRS Discovery DistrictCommunitechCommunautoStanford GSBRiipenWouessi UniversityBEBCCAMSCCBCCNMSDCDLA PiperTokio Marine HCCZensuranceAWS Partner NetworkMicrosoftGoogle CloudOpenAIAnthropicHubSpotRocksteady ConsultingYoshi Idea
Five years, three jurisdictions
The road that brought us here.
A short timeline of how Wouessi grew from a Toronto founding into a senior, bilingual, cross-border firm with named clients in regulated industries.
2021
Founded in Toronto
Wouessi Inc. federally incorporated April 8, 2021. First mandate inside a regulated Canadian buyer the same year. The firm starts senior, by choice.
2022, 2024
The first thousand learners
Wouessi University begins delivering bilingual cohort programs with college and ministry partners. By end of 2024 we have served 1,000+ trainees with Riipen-network placements across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia.
2024
Procurement-ready in Canada
CAMSC certification A-11298. CIBC and TD supplier-diversity panels. Toronto Region Board of Trade · TAP Tech 2024 alumnus. CanExport SME closed (NRC IRAP).
2025
United States operations
Wouessi LLC formed in Delaware, June 26, 2025. Arlington, Virginia office opens. SAM.gov ACTIVE, CAGE 1Z1Z9, UEI RMU6LK3W6NZ5. DLA Piper counsel both jurisdictions.
2026
Stanza-46 announced
Sovereign AI control plane in pre-alpha. Early-access opens Q3 2026, GA November 1, 2026. Three Canadian bank pilots live. The firm now ships AI, software, cloud, IT consulting, and training under one bench.
Today
One bench, two passports
Senior delivery across 16 regulated industries. Bilingual at the architecture layer. 10 anonymized case studies. Named references available under NDA during procurement.
Where we operate
Two offices, three jurisdictions, one bench.
Wouessi Inc.
Toronto, Ontario · Canada
Federally incorporated April 8, 2021 · CAMSC A-11298
Wouessi LLC
Arlington, Virginia · United States
Delaware, June 26, 2025 · SAM.gov ACTIVE · CAGE 1Z1Z9
Industries
Where we have shipped real systems, not just slides.
Banking · OSFI Schedule I & II
Insurance · provincial regulators
Healthcare · HIPAA & PHIPA
Public sector · Protected B
Education · Ministry-level
Retail · DTC + omnichannel
Aerospace · Tier-1 supplier
Manufacturing · Industry 4.0
How we work
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Five steps. The same five every time.
No surprise rituals, no rebadged Agile theatre. The same five-step shape, sized to your scope.
Design
We map the workflow, architecture, data model, and delivery path before writing the first line of production code.
Build
We ship in focused increments with senior technical oversight. Every increment is observable, accessible, and reversible.
Transfer
We document, train, and hand over systems your team can operate without us. We are not optimizing for our own retention.
Compound
We improve the platform with evidence, not guesswork. The platform compounds in a year of leverage every quarter.
What you receive
Every engagement comes with a hand-back package.
Yours to keep. Yours to share with auditors, regulators, or the next team. We design for your independence from us.
Discovery notes
The interview log, the constraints map, and the risks identified before scope was signed.
Architecture diagram
A current-state and target-state architecture your engineers can read, evolve, and present to procurement.
Risk register
Top risks, owners, and the mitigation we plan to ship for each. Updated weekly, kept after handover.
Security and data-handling notes
Threat model, data flows, secrets handling, and the residency boundary we promised your auditor.
Handoff package
A single, signed deliverable that says: you can run this without us, and here is exactly how.
What we do not do
The list of mandates we walk away from.
Saying yes to one of these would erode the work we say yes to. We have walked away from real revenue to keep this list short, and we plan to keep walking. The people who join Wouessi join the firm that says no.
- We do not sell AI where a workflow fix is enough.
- We do not build platforms your team cannot maintain.
- We do not hide junior delivery behind senior sales.
- We do not treat accessibility, privacy, or security as afterthoughts.
- We do not staff a project we cannot deliver senior.
- We do not promise outcomes we have not engineered the evidence for.