TechFides
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 worksI'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.

One pays the bills. One pays a debt. The third keeps the work honest. They all draw on the same 25 years.
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 worksGlobal 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 LevoilaBoard 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 inquiriesMost 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.comIn 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.
501(c)(3) determination pending · public ledger · 75–85% local hiring
"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.
Notes from the work — running a small business in the AI era, building libraries and fortresses, and what 25 years across 30+ countries actually teaches you.
The first library I walked into changed me. The last fortress I will walk into will be the one we leave standing. Between those two doors is the life I was given.
Before Levoila, there was the Universal Learning Centre. Before that, a boy in Ferrier who had never seen a library until he was eighteen. The full story of how 500,000 readers came to be.
Just twelve percent of nonprofits are digitally mature — and those that are happen to be four times more likely to achieve their mission. The case for treating IT as core to the work, not overhead.
I read every message. If we're a fit, you'll hear back in a day or two. If we're not, I'll point you somewhere useful.
Medical, legal, auto, property, trades. Discovery call with TechFides — typically 20 minutes.
Steward tiers from $150. Heritage Patron from $25,000. Or nominate a site at risk.
Board work, speaking, advisory, press, ABC Gabon delegations. Send the brief — short is fine.