Lyon is a working city rather than a headquarters city, and the AI problems reflect that. They arrive from people who make things — vaccines, molecules, components, deliveries — and who have a document trail behind every one of them that somebody has to read, check and keep for a very long time.
Lyon holds one of Europe's most concentrated life-sciences clusters, a chemical industry running down the Rhône, a broad manufacturing base, and the logistics that follows from sitting on the crossroads between northern Europe, Italy and the Mediterranean. Four industries, and in practice two kinds of project.
The first is document extraction where being wrong is expensive. Study reports, regulatory submissions, batch records, deviations, safety data sheets, supplier declarations. The naive version of this project — put the documents in a vector database and ask questions — produces a demonstration that impresses a steering committee and fails the first audit, because it cannot show where an answer came from and cannot say when it does not know. The version we build cites the page, refuses more often, and routes the uncertain cases to a named reviewer. That pattern is set out in clinical document intelligence, and the research-facing variant under life sciences research.
The second is operational: sensor histories, maintenance logs and quality records from plants that have been instrumented for longer than most software companies have existed. The data is there, the labelling usually is not, and the honest first step is often a month of establishing whether a signal exists at all before anyone commits to a model. Predictive maintenance and supply chain planning describe how those run.
Both kinds share a trait worth naming: the person who understands the data is a chemist, a QA lead or a scheduler rather than a data engineer, and the project succeeds or fails on how much of their time we get. We would rather have six hours with them than six weeks of documentation.
No. We have one office and it is in Barcelona. We travel to Lyon for discovery, for site visits and for handover. There is no local branch, no local partner and no local associate — if we say we will be at your plant, it is us.
No, and it is a fair thing to ask given how much French AI activity is concentrated in Paris. We are a small senior team and the people at the discovery workshop are the people who build the system. There is no bench to hand you off to, which is a limitation as much as a promise: if we are full, we will tell you.
It complicates it, and it is worth designing for explicitly rather than hoping. Mixed-language corpora need either a multilingual embedding model or per-language indexes, and the two behave differently when a French query should surface an English source. We test that case specifically, because it is the one that quietly fails and nobody notices for months.
Often, yes. Open-weight models have become good enough that extraction and analysis workloads can run on hardware in your own data centre with nothing leaving it, which is frequently what a validated environment wants anyway. The trade-off is that you own the GPUs, the capacity planning and the update cycle, and we will size those honestly rather than optimistically.
Published ranges on the pricing page, in euros and exclusive of VAT. The same for Lyon as for anywhere else — we do not price by postcode.
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