The questions directors actually ask us
The same ones come up in every first call, and several of them call for an answer few companies are willing to put in writing. So we have written them down here.
What exactly does Edicore build?
The artificial intelligence that belongs to one company: a system fed by its history, its files, the software it already runs on, and the way its director makes decisions. It is not a generic assistant installed on your premises. It is made of your material, and it would not work for anyone else.
We do not replace your tools with ours, and we do not hand over a turnkey project whose upkeep then becomes your problem.
What does it cost?
You pay nothing up front. We carry the cost of building it, and we are paid on the gains the AI actually delivers, measured with you rather than claimed by us. If it produces nothing, we earn nothing.
No price appears anywhere on this site, and that is deliberate: the variables that set our remuneration have no reason to be the same for an industrial mid-cap and for a services group. They are agreed together before we start, and revised afterwards whenever both parties agree to it.
Does this AI belong to us?
No, and we would rather write it plainly than let you believe otherwise. It lives with our collaboration, and its use ends if that collaboration ends.
This is not a penalty clause, it is a technical consequence. A company AI is not a deliverable you install and forget. Your offering shifts, your teams change, your tools evolve — without constant upkeep it starts answering beside the point within months. Left alone, it would stop serving you anyway.
Your material, on the other hand, stays yours: nothing that goes into your AI feeds a product sold on elsewhere.
Where does our data go?
It serves your company and no one else. Your files, your exchanges and the way you arbitrate do not feed a product resold to other businesses: what we build inside your company has value only inside your company.
This is the same discretion we sell. You will find no client logo anywhere on this site — the companies we work with do not appear here and never will.
How long before it is of any use?
A first useful version in weeks rather than quarters, on a deliberately narrow scope, chosen because it matters to you and not because it makes for a good demo.
Building the whole thing, however, is counted in years and in five stages: understanding the company, building, driving adoption, measuring, and growing it. The first stage is the longest, and it is the one no fixed-scope engagement ever takes the time to do.
How is this different from a consulting firm?
A supplier bills days. It earns the same whether the project succeeds or not, and it leaves once the order is closed.
We commit for the long term and our remuneration is indexed on real gains. We stay once the tool is in service — the part of the work nobody wants to take on, and the part that decides whether the AI is still useful two years later.
How is this different from an off-the-shelf AI tool?
Your competitors can subscribe to the same tools you do, on the same day. An AI made of your own way of working is not something anyone can buy: it would not exist without you.
That is also why it gets adopted. A generic tool is abandoned within weeks — not out of resistance to change, but because it understands nothing about the work your teams actually do.
Do you take a stake in our company?
No. We do not enter your capital and we do not ask for shares. The relationship is a multi-year collaboration contract, and nothing else.
Is this going to cut jobs?
We do not promise to cut jobs, and we do not sell it as an argument. What the AI takes on is the repetitive work nobody ever enjoyed doing, and the information your teams spend their time hunting down.
The subject that interests us more is knowledge that evaporates: what your company knows lives inside people’s heads, and people leave. Your AI captures that tacit knowledge and makes it transferable.
Do you have client references to show?
None, and that is a commitment rather than a gap. What we see inside a company belongs to that company.
What we show instead are our own ventures: Full Moon Africa, Communauté Provence Énergies, VisitCasamance, Ambassadeurs de Casamance and Ambassadeurs de Provence. We created them and we run them. They are not client references, they are our own houses — and they are where the way of working we are proposing to you has been tested for years.
Who do you work with?
Directors of large SMEs and mid-cap companies, in France and in West Africa.
The method needs time at the outset and genuine access to the company: it assumes a director who decides, not a committee arbitrating a tender.
Where do you operate?
Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Nice, Dakar and Ziguinchor.
This is a commercial presence, not a set of branch offices with staff on the ground. We would rather write it down: a company that claims five locations and has none is caught out at the first meeting.
Who is behind Edicore?
Marc and Bruno. Marc spent twenty-five years growing companies, from the field to the board; he is not an engineer, and that is deliberate, because building a company’s AI first requires being able to read that company. Bruno designs and develops the platforms in the portfolio and builds the agents.
Edicore is a family company. We choose few partners, and we stay.
How do we start?
With a thirty-minute video call. No demo, no free diagnosis designed to end in a quote: a conversation about your company, about what is costing you time, and about what an AI that knew you could change.
You leave with our reading of it, said plainly, and our view on what would be worth building first. If we see nothing serious to do, we will tell you during the call.
Everything else is discussed case by case. It is the first subject of the call.