The Béluga suite · 7 modules
A complete suite.
A complete suite.
Nothing sent outside.
The tools you use every day, operated in Québec on open foundations. Click a module to see what it does, what it replaces, and why you come out ahead.
Module 1
Courriel
Replaces · Gmail · Outlook · Microsoft Exchange
Professional mailboxes on your own domain, compatible with the clients you already use. Your email lives in Québec and is never analyzed for advertising.
What's included
- Custom domainyou@yourorg.qc.ca, with guided DNS verification (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
- Undo send and send later30 seconds to catch an email sent too fast, scheduling up to 30 days ahead.
- Server-side filters and vacation replySieve rules applied on the server, away message with a date range.
- IMAP/SMTP compatibleOutlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird — with individually revocable app passwords.
- One-step Apple setupa signed profile installs mail, calendar and contacts on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
- Built-in migrationOAuth connection to Gmail, Outlook and Microsoft 365, or any IMAP server — messages and folders preserved.
Customer benefit
Your email never leaves Québec. No targeted advertising, no automated reading of your messages.
Attachments up to 50 MB. Save them to Files in one click, or attach a cloud file without re-downloading it.
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Module 2
Fichiers
Replaces · Google Drive · OneDrive · Dropbox
Professional cloud storage: folders, internal and external sharing, versions, search inside document content. Everything stays in Québec.
What's included
- Files up to 5 GBresumable uploads that survive a dropped connection, integrity checked on arrival.
- Automatic versioningevery overwrite keeps the previous version — roll back whenever you want.
- Sharing by person or by linkviewer/editor roles per person, controlled public links.
- Search inside contentfull text across your PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, not just file names.
- 30-day trasheasy recovery from accidental deletion, permanent purge afterwards.
- Desktop apptwo-way sync on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Customer benefit
Your files stay in Québec. Share with confidence, without going through the U.S. cloud.
The Béluga desktop app syncs a local folder with your cloud, the way you're used to.
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Module 3
Docs
Replaces · Google Docs · Notion
A real-time collaborative editor: write together in the same document, without conflicts or attachments multiplying over email.
What's included
- Live multi-user editingreal-time cursors and presence, continuous saving — no “Save” button.
- Block-based editorheadings, lists, tables, images, code — reorganize with a drag and drop.
- Anchored commentsattached to the exact passage of text, with threads and resolution.
- Libraries and subpagesorganize the team's documents into hierarchical collections.
- Granular sharingview or edit, by person or by link.
- Unlimited documentson every plan, including the free one.
Customer benefit
Collaborate without emailing attachments. Your documents never leave our Québec servers.
Transcripts of your recorded meetings land automatically in Docs, ready to be reworked.
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Module 4
Calendrier
Replaces · Google Calendar · Outlook Calendar
Personal and shared calendars, synced with your devices over the CalDAV standard. Schedule without exposing your agenda to ad algorithms.
What's included
- Personal and team calendarsshare organization-wide or in groups.
- Invitations and account-free RSVPguests reply through a simple link, even without a Béluga account.
- Recurring eventsfull rules (every 2 weeks, 3rd Tuesday of the month, etc.).
- Real CalDAV syncan event created on your iPhone shows up in Béluga, and vice versa.
- iCalendar (.ics) import/exportimport existing calendars, export anytime.
- Québec holidays and birthdaystwo automatic calendars, drawn from your contacts.
Customer benefit
Schedule without exposing your agenda to ad algorithms.
Create the video-meeting link right from the event — guests click, the meeting opens.
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Module 5
Contacts
Replaces · Google Contacts · Outlook Contacts
Address books synced over the CardDAV standard — natively compatible with iPhone, Android and Outlook, no extra app.
What's included
- Personal and shared contactsprivate books and organization books visible to the team.
- Groupsorganize your contacts by project, team or type.
- vCard and CSV import/exportyour existing contacts transfer in a few clicks, and leave just as freely.
- Native CardDAVautomatically synced with your iPhone, Android or Outlook.
- Autocomplete everywherein mail and calendar, your contacts suggest themselves.
- Custom fieldsmultiple phones, addresses and dates, notes specific to your work.
Customer benefit
Your contacts are not used to train the AI models of U.S. giants.
Contact photos, birthdays surfaced in the calendar, CSV export for your tools.
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Module 6
Réunion
Replaces · Zoom · Microsoft Teams · Google Meet
Professional video meetings in the browser: waiting room, screen sharing, recording and transcription. Guests join through a link, with no account or install.
What's included
- HD video and audioin the browser, with background blur and camera and mic selection.
- Guests without accountsa link is enough; the waiting room lets you admit who enters.
- Screen sharingfull screen, window or tab.
- Announced recordingevery participant is notified — it's deliberately impossible to do discreetly. The file lands in Files.
- Automatic transcriptionwith speaker identification, delivered as a Docs document with meeting notes.
- Built-in chatmessages and links exchanged during the meeting, kept with it.
Customer benefit
Every participant is notified when recording starts — it's deliberately impossible to do discreetly.
Up to 50 participants depending on the plan. Transcription uses Mistral AI (France), only if you record.
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Module 7
Convo
Replaces · Slack · Microsoft Teams Chat
Team messaging built on the open Matrix protocol, end-to-end encrypted by default. Your conversations no longer flow through Microsoft or Salesforce servers — and even we can't read them.
What's included
- End-to-end encryption by defaulton every conversation — messages are encrypted before they leave your device.
- Team channelspublic or private, by project, department or topic, isolated per organization.
- Direct messages1:1 or group conversations, including with contacts at other Béluga organizations.
- Encrypted file sharingattachments are end-to-end encrypted too.
- Open Matrix protocola documented standard, not a proprietary silo.
- On mobile with Element Xthe reference Matrix app on iPhone and Android.
Customer benefit
End-to-end encrypted by default: even Béluga cannot read your team conversations.
External collaboration is possible and governed: your administrator decides who can talk to whom.
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In development
Matelot
Replaces · Microsoft Copilot · Google Gemini
Matelot is Béluga's built-in assistant — and it's still in development. We'd rather show you what already exists: meeting transcription, and connectors that let the AI assistant of your choice work with your Béluga data, under your control.
What's included
- Available today: meeting transcriptionrecorded meetings become a notes document with a speaker-identified transcript.
- Available today: AI connectors (MCP)plug the assistant of your choice into your Béluga mail, files, calendars and contacts.
- Individual consenteach user decides whether to enable connectors for their own account.
- Admin controlyour organization can disable AI connectors globally, with one switch.
- In development: Matelotsummarizing, drafting and search directly in the suite. No promised date until it's ready.
- Never trained on your datayour content trains no model — ours or anyone else's.
Customer benefit
We don't sell imaginary AI: what's in development is labeled as such.
Want to follow Matelot's progress? We write about it on the blog, at the real pace of development.
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One sign-in.
One invoice. One Béluga.
The seven modules work together from day one: a single sign-in, native sharing between modules, no integrations to configure.