About Girouard Conseil TI
An independent firm built to serve, defend, and advance.
Girouard Conseil TI was co-founded by Benjamin and Laura Girouard to give managers an independent, human, and truly client-side view of important IT decisions.
Our model comes from a simple belief: the best decisions happen when the client’s business is treated like it is our own.
Our origin
An IT advisory firm inspired by legal rigour and a defence mindset.
Girouard Conseil TI was not designed as a traditional technology firm. It was designed as an independent advisory firm, structured around the client’s interests, with the posture of a professional firm: rigour, independence, judgment, confidentiality, and responsibility.
What inspired the model
The framework comes from our shared background in law and policing.
- A culture of rigour, facts, and responsibility.
- A natural understanding of defending the client’s interests.
- A sensitivity to risks, consequences, and difficult decisions.
- A belief that independence must be real, visible, and protected.
What this changes for the client
The decision is analyzed as if the consequences belonged to us.
- We seek to understand the business before judging a solution.
- We question blind spots, risks, and avoidable costs.
- We reject generic approaches that treat every client the same way.
- We bring back a clear, defensible, client-side reading.
The co-founders
Two backgrounds, one shared posture: protect the client’s interests.
Benjamin and Laura are co-founders of Girouard Conseil TI. The firm is the result of a shared path, a defence mindset, and the decision to create an IT advisory model that is more human, more independent, and more responsible.
Co-founder
Benjamin Girouard
Strategic IT Advisor | Client-side analysis
Benjamin leads the IT analysis, governance, vendors, risks, projects, budgets, and important technology decisions. His role is to produce an independent reading that gives management more clarity before deciding.
His background strengthens the firm’s client-defence posture: understand the facts, challenge the recommendations, protect the organization’s interests, and move the right decisions forward.
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Co-founder
Laura Girouard
Former lawyer | Framework, rigour, and human approach
Laura is central to the creation of the Girouard Conseil TI model. Her experience as a former lawyer strongly inspired the idea of building an IT advisory firm like a professional firm: independent, rigorous, confidential, and centred on the client’s interests.
She brings the framework, the human sensitivity, and the depth of thinking behind the firm’s posture. Her influence is reflected in how we understand clients, analyze consequences, and treat each decision as if it affected our own business.
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Our DNA is not a marketing line. It is a way of taking care of the client’s decision.
We believe a good advisor does not treat an important decision like just another file. A good advisor understands what is truly at stake, defends what must be protected, and helps the right decision move forward with seriousness.
Serve with understanding
We take the time to understand the business, its constraints, operations, providers, and risks before producing an analysis.
- Understand the real context
- Avoid generic answers
- Translate IT into management language
Defend with conviction
Defending the client’s interests is at the centre of our posture. We challenge recommendations, blind spots, and decisions that deserve deeper analysis.
- Question risks
- Protect against conflicts of interest
- Keep the client at the centre
Advance with responsibility
We want the decision to move forward, but not in just any way. It must move forward with a clear reading, defensible options, and governable follow-up.
- Structure the options
- Clarify next steps
- Move the right decision forward
Our difference
We care too much to treat your organization like a simple mandate.
Girouard Conseil TI exists because we believe an important IT decision deserves more than a quick opinion or an interested recommendation. It deserves analysis that considers people, operations, risks, constraints, and the real responsibility carried by management.
We want to understand your business deeply enough to analyze decisions as if they had a direct impact on us. That level of involvement is what makes our approach human, serious, and different.
What we do
We do the independent client-side analysis.
- Clarification of IT issues;
- Analysis of risks, costs, and trade-offs;
- Challenge of vendor recommendations;
- Structuring of decisions and next steps.
Our independence
Our advice is not tied to what we could sell next.
- No resale of software, hardware, or services;
- No vendor commissions;
- No implementation mandate;
- No interest in making a project larger.
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