About · Ocean Data
The quiet specialistbehind calmer companies.
Bruno Pouliot has spent 15+ years helping construction and professional-services companies remove friction from their daily work. His philosophy fits in one sentence:
One company. One truth. Every person gets exactly what they need to do their best work.
Bruno Pouliot
Founder, Ocean Data · Zoho CRM Certified
The story, briefly
He doesn't sell software. He returns Fridays.
Bruno's journey started on the basketball courts of Québec — discipline, resilience, teamwork. Then three years in Lyon studying international marketing, where he discovered the gift that still defines his work: making complexity simple.
Through the 2010s he led major accounts at companies like Ricoh Canada and AMJ Campbell. Behind every process he met the same thing — a person weighed down by work about work. The quote chased by phone. The spreadsheet named final_v7. The evening spent making three systems agree.
So in 2017 he founded the practice that became Ocean Data. The method hasn't changed since: start with one critical process, make it flow, measure the capacity it returns — then expand. Today he works between Montreal and Miami, still doing the same thing: giving people their time back.
Zoho CRM Certified Administrator
Verified certification — one of six Zoho credentials behind the work. The paperwork matters less than the practice, but you should never have to take either on faith.
Capacity stories
Not implementations. Hours, handed back.
RFI answers in hours, not days
Horizon Construction connected their record — in six weeks, RFI response time dropped 43% and decisions stopped waiting on inboxes.
43% faster RFI response · Horizon Construction
Technicians back on customer work
A field-service team stopped feeding the office and started serving customers — utilization rose from 47% to 82% once the paperwork moved to the system.
47% → 82% technician utilization
Payment cycles cut to twelve days
With delivered work flowing straight into invoices, the payment cycle shortened from 45 days to 12 — cash arriving while the work is still warm.
45 → 12 days payment cycle
Real outcomes from engagements delivered since 2017.
The teams behind the 647
Zoho CRM and Zoho One — customized, implemented, and still running.
A partial roster of the 647 Zoho One implementations delivered since 2017.
The depth, for those who want it
Fifteen years, four disciplines, one quiet engine.
Open any drawer. The craft is real — it just never asks for your attention.
Fifteen years inside the Zoho ecosystem — CRM, Projects, Books, and the 45+ unified apps around them. Bruno designs the whole operating picture, not just the tool in front of you.
Why Bruno's story sticks
Sticky copy
He doesn't sell software. He returns Fridays.
Visual idea
A desk at 5:01pm, laptop closed, coat on — while the systems keep working.
15-second film
Fifteen years compressed into one recurring scene: a different office each year, the same relieved exhale.
Why it sticks
A person, not a platform. One promise, repeated and kept: capacity returned, measured, yours.
"It's never been about tech for tech's sake. It's about freeing people from the noise of inefficiency — so they can focus on growth, vision, and impact."
— Bruno Pouliot