Why 360 Vid fits Saguenay
Built for the Aluminium Valley, in French first.
Saguenay is a city of 144,723 residents in the 2021 Census, the urban centre of a census metropolitan area of about 161,567 people and of the wider Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. Formed by the 2002 merger of Chicoutimi, Jonquiere, and La Baie, which remain its three boroughs, it is the heart of Quebec's government-designated Aluminium Valley, home to Rio Tinto smelting operations, the Grande-Anse deep-water port, a forestry and pulp sector, and the Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi. In 2026 Rio Tinto began commissioning a US$1.5 billion AP60 smelter expansion at the Complexe Arvida in Jonquiere. That is concentrated industrial and public-sector demand in a French-first market. We serve it as a Canadian service-area provider, not a local office, and we do not claim Saguenay clients we have not earned.
The format is already proven in the region. Regional tourism and hotel bodies coordinated to produce 360 and virtual-reality imagery for regional congress centres and venues, and regional directories publish virtual tours of Saguenay-area attractions and accommodations. These are cited examples of an established local market, never 360 Vid clients, and none of that activity covers the industrial-facility or municipal-procurement lanes we lead in. They are a live demand signal for the consistent capture, accessibility, schema, hosting, and multi-site scale a one-off gallery does not deliver.
Quebec's Charter of the French Language, amended by Bill 96, makes a credible French surface a procurement and compliance reality, not a nicety. We deliver native French and English, not machine translation. We carry $5M commercial general liability and errors and omissions cover, are ISN prequalified for industrial sites, and are WCB covered in Alberta and Saskatchewan, with provincial workers-comp registration arranged per engagement.