SINCE 2019
We Are Aleia
[a·lé·ia]
NOUN, FEMININE
Nobody spells it right the first time. We stopped correcting people somewhere around 2021.
Serious digital.
Not so serious people.
THE AGENCY
Founded in Montreal.
Working worldwide.
We do the thinking and the making. Strategy, design, code, content, and the deeply unglamorous layer underneath that keeps it all standing.
One team, seven time zones, one very long-running argument about spacing.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Most list the same five values. Here are three.
Yes, we know. Every agency has one.
Creativity
[ THE ONE EVERYBODY CLAIMS ]
Ideas that solve the problem. Not ideas that win a prize and leave you with a site you can't update.
Innovation
[ THE ONE EVERYBODY MISUSES ]
Would we still use this tech if nobody could see we'd used it? If no, it doesn't ship.
Humility
[ THE ONE NOBODY LISTS ]
We're often wrong on the first try. Much better to find that out in week two than at launch.
We are not one culture pretending to be global
Seven places. Three working languages. One shared allergy to bad spacing.
Our team is Quebecois, French, Moroccan, Tunisian, Caribbean and a few passports we keep forgetting. That is not a diversity slide — it is the reason the work travels. Someone in the room has already lived the market you are trying to reach.
We work in French, English and Arabic, and we design for people who read in all three. A layout that sings in Montreal can fall flat in Doha. We learned that the expensive way, so you don't have to.
Montreal
--:-- LOCAL
Head office. Five languages in one kitchen. Winter builds character.
France
--:-- LOCAL
Where a two-hour lunch counts as strategy work. It often is.
Morocco
--:-- LOCAL
Design that reads right-to-left as well as it reads left-to-right.
Tunisia
--:-- LOCAL
Engineers who debate architecture the way others debate football.
New York
--:-- LOCAL
Our stress-test market. If it lands here, it lands.
Martinique SXM
--:-- LOCAL
Caribbean pace, Caribbean standards. Both higher than you think.
Qatar
--:-- LOCAL
Projects at a scale that makes everyone else measure twice.
PHILANTHROPY
Some of our work are causes
We give before we receive. Our accountant has opinions about this.
We take the risk, we own it, and we do it again next year.
01 / The causes
FUNDED IN PART OR IN FULL
IBCR
Children's rights, turned from a signed text into something that actually happens on the ground.
MONTREAL · WORLDWIDEMédecins du Monde
Care for the people the health system quietly left off the list.
INTERNATIONAL
Fondation Archery
Talent is spread evenly. Opportunity isn't. They spend ten years fixing that, one teenager at a time.
FRANCE02 / Supporting the community
CULTURE, PEOPLE, NOISE
Not only causes. Also the cultural things — everything that brings people together and makes a scene louder than it was last year.
Nuit d'Afrique
The festival that takes Montreal hostage every summer, in the nicest possible way.
MONTREALPrintemps Numérique × MTL Connecte
One spring of digital festivals across the city, and a mission to get young people into tech careers before someone tells them it isn't for them.
MONTREAL
Podcasthon
One week where podcasters everywhere hand their microphone to a charity.
WORLDWIDEStartups & creators
Founders and creators with more ambition than budget. We take some of those on at cost, and a few for free.
WHEREVER YOU AREGood cause, small budget, big cultural idea?
Ask anyway. Worst answer: not this year.
Built With Care [And Coffee]
Aleia is probably working on something right now.
Fascapple Glass
Dalet
Ludia
⚠ WARNING !
Enough about us
Tell us what you're stuck on instead. Much better conversation. Side effects may include a great product.
I Accept the Risk ↗