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Critical software, taken from hard problem to shipped product.

Philippe Tremblay designs and delivers applications, data systems, integrations, and AI tools for Quebec businesses — end to end.

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  • Direct collaboration
  • End-to-end delivery
  • Québec, Canada

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Work that shipped.

Selected products and engagements across learning, research interfaces, native software, and systems integration — owned from problem framing through delivery.

01 Business website · Local services

Brille&Co.

Design and development of the website for Brille&Co., a residential cleaning service in Trois-Rivières. A welcoming presentation that introduces Bebby Nabila and makes it easy to get in touch.

  • Responsive layout for phones, tablets and desktop computers
  • Contact details revealed on demand to deter basic automated scraping
  • Automatic Cloudflare Pages deployment with each GitHub update
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Brille&Co. preview featuring Bebby Nabila and the French tagline Un intérieur qui brille.
02 Product engineering · Data interfaces

ARC Prize Foundation

Owned end-to-end implementation of visualization and data interfaces for the ARC-AGI benchmark, working with the team and Mike Knoop.

Role
End-to-end product engineering
Scope
Task exploration & model evaluation
Output
Interactive benchmark UI
  • Visual task explorer for abstract benchmark puzzles
  • High-density comparison matrices and metadata architecture
  • Research surface for navigating tasks and model performance
03 Systems integration · Research workflow

Zotero ↔ NotebookLM

Built for Julia Turc, founder of Storia AI: a cross-app sync system that sends Zotero collections to NotebookLM and brings source guides, source content, and notes back into Zotero.

Architecture
Stateless polling bridge
Modes
Consumer bridge & Enterprise API
Output
Bidirectional research workflow
  • Collection sync with remote-first duplicate detection and binary PDF uploads
  • Reverse import of source guides, source content, and NotebookLM notes
  • Reverse-engineered NotebookLM’s undocumented RPC endpoints and payload formats
  • Authenticated browser bridge over a localhost task queue — without storing credentials
04 Independent product · Language learning

PhraseLang

Designed and built a sentence-first language-learning product that combines listening, recall, speaking, and spaced repetition in one responsive practice loop.

Role
Creator, designer & engineer
Stack
React, TypeScript, SpacetimeDB
Output
Responsive practice & reading app
Sentence practiceFocused repetitions built around real language
Speech systemsRecorded and on-device voices across languages
Synced progressSettings, level, and review history across sessions
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PhraseLang signed-in practice dashboard
PhraseLang active sentence repetition session
05 Independent product · Native macOS

Snappy

Designed, engineered, and launched a native file and app search product built to stay sharp on million-file home directories.

Role
Creator, designer & engineer
Stack
Rust, React, Tauri, SQLite
Output
Signed & notarized macOS app
200 msSnapshot load to first search
3–5 sFull walk of ~1M entries
<250 msFilesystem change to result

First-party measurements on a roughly one-million-entry test corpus.

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Snappy macOS app search interface

Services

One critical outcome. Full ownership.

For Quebec businesses that need a senior product engineer to hold product intent, architecture, and delivery — without another chain of handoffs.

  • Product framingClarify the user, constraints, and smallest complete outcome.
  • Interface designMake complex states, data, and AI behaviour understandable in use.
  • Full-stack deliveryOwn the product from data model and APIs to the final interface.
  • Integration & shipJoin difficult systems, tune the critical path, deploy, and hand off.

Quebec roots

A local practice for local teams.

Sagesse Numérique mainly works with Quebec businesses that need to modernize operations, connect systems, or turn a demanding idea into a durable product.

French firstWork, documentation, and communication in French; English when the context calls for it.
Quebec business contextDirect collaboration shaped for local SMEs and technical teams.
One accountable partnerThe same person understands the problem, decides, builds, and ships.

About

Philippe Tremblay

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Sagesse Numérique is my independent Quebec practice. I work where product decisions, architecture, and implementation meet — especially when a small team needs someone to hold the whole problem.

Public work spans research interfaces, browser and desktop software, data-heavy applications, local systems, and the details that make ambitious products usable by people who did not build them.

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What needs to ship?

Share the product, the hard part, and where things stand. I will review the brief and reply directly if the engagement looks like a good fit.

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