Founder · Technologist · Global Operator

I help businesses own their AI and I'm restoring what governments forget.

I'm Jacques. I spent 25 years building technology systems for Honeywell, Invensys, and Schneider Electric across more than 30 countries. Today I run TechFides, where small businesses install AI on hardware they own — no rent, no data leaving the building. And I chair Levoila, a global heritage trust restoring sites the world has abandoned.

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Jacques M. Jean
What I'm doing now

Three things have my attention.

One pays the bills. One pays a debt. The third keeps the work honest. They all draw on the same 25 years.

The Business

TechFides

CEO & Founder

Local AI for small and mid-size businesses. Medical offices, law firms, auto dealers, property managers, trades. We install AI on hardware you own — no rent, no data leaving the building.

How TechFides works
The Legacy

Levoila

Founder & Chair

Global heritage trust. Citizens nominate sites at risk. Stewards vote on what to save. We start in Haiti — at the Citadelle, Sans-Souci, and Fort Liberté — and we go where the world is forgotten next.

Stand with Levoila
The Boards

OVYNA · ABC Gabon · MUSA

Governance roles

Board Chair at OVYNA. Co-Chair (Founding) of the American Business Council Gabon, building U.S.–Gabon commercial bridges. Board Chair of MUSA Asset Management.

Board inquiries
TechFides

Own your AI.

Most small businesses are stuck renting AI from Big Tech. Every chat, every document, every customer record leaves the building. The bill keeps climbing. The data isn't yours. There's nothing you can hand to the next owner of the business.

TechFides installs AI on hardware you own, configured for your operations. The medical office that keeps patient records on premises. The law firm that can't put client data into anyone else's cloud. The auto dealer who wants the AI to outlast the next vendor lock-in.

See how it works at techfides.com
What's broken
  • You're renting AI from someone else's cloud.
  • Your patient files, contracts, and customer data leave the building every time you use it.
  • Your monthly API bill climbs every quarter — and you don't own anything when you're done.
What we install
  • AI runs on hardware you own — Mac, Windows, a Pi, or a server.
  • Your data never leaves your office.
  • Flat installation fee. Optional retainer. No surprise bills.
Levoila — The Global Heritage Trust

When the governments forget, the world remembers.

In 1805, formerly enslaved Haitians built the largest fortress in the Western Hemisphere — proof that a free Black nation could build whatever any European court could build. Two centuries later, the Citadelle has no security, no oversight, no one in charge. On April 11, 2026, Haitian children died there.

Levoila is what I'm doing about it. A citizen-led trust where anyone can nominate a site, the world votes on what to save, and every dollar is traceable on a public ledger. We start in Haiti. We go where the world is forgotten next.

Phase One — Haiti
  • Citadelle Henri Christophe
    UNESCO · Milot, Haiti
  • Palais Sans-Souci
    UNESCO · Milot, Haiti
  • Fort Liberté
    17th-century bay fortress · Nord-Est
Next in the global vote
GhanaGabonEgyptEthiopiaMexicoJordanDominican RepublicJamaica

501(c)(3) determination pending · public ledger · 75–85% local hiring

The short version

How I got here.

"I was eighteen years old the first time I walked into a library."

I was born in Ferrier, in the northeast of Haiti. I came to the United States as a teenager and spent the next twenty-five years building enterprise technology for companies people have heard of — Honeywell, Invensys, Schneider Electric — across more than thirty countries. I learned what real systems look like at scale. I also learned that none of it had been built for the people I came from.

So I started building. A few years ago, three small libraries went up in northern Haiti — in Pilate, in my hometown of Ferrier, and in Ouanaminthe. They taught me that small, well-built things change everything around them. That lesson became TechFides: small businesses don't need a cloud the size of a country. They need AI that lives in their office, on hardware they own, doing exactly the job they hired it to do.

Levoila is the bigger answer to the same question.

The libraries were a beginning. Levoila is the legacy I am building now — a global heritage trust for the buildings my ancestors made, and for every site the world has stopped tending. The Citadelle, where Haitian children died in April because no one was in charge. Sans-Souci. Fort Liberté. And then everywhere a government has forgotten what its own people made. That is the work that has my attention now.

Languages
English · French · Kreyòl · Spanish · Portuguese
Education
Carnegie Mellon · U. de Guadalajara · Harvard exec
Credentials
Six Sigma Black Belt · PMP · ITIL