AI agency, France · Regulated professions & mid-market

We don't sell AI strategy.
We run the system.

synodic, adj. — of the cycle that brings a celestial body back to exactly the same point. That's the name. It's also the contract.

Synodique is a France-based AI agency. We don't sell a strategy: we build, deploy and operate custom systems that we already run ourselves, day in and day out — not a slide, a system in production. Built in France, working in French and English.

€2M+
real cash flow triangulated in production
8 days
assessment, scoped and delivered
€10k
fixed-price assessment, Diag Data IA format

Build.

Deploy.

Operate.

The context

A young French ecosystem, and a window worth taking

Artificial intelligence is no longer the preserve of large corporations or digital start-ups. Across the private sector, French companies of every size are equipping themselves. In January 2026, France Num — the government portal for business digitisation — found that 32% of French companies expect to adopt AI within the next twelve months but have not yet chosen a partner. That isn't a competitiveness problem or an agility problem; it's a problem of choice. Between a consulting firm that sells a vision and an integrator that sells a generic tool, few players actually build and operate the system that has to run, day after day, on real data.

That gap is where we work — not by promising innovation in the abstract, but by building, one company at a time, the specific system most organisations are still missing. We keep our contribution deliberately narrow and deep, the opposite of programmes that promise to help every company with the same tool regardless of size.

Approach

Practitioners before consultants.

There are two usual ways to sell AI to a company. Neither one builds or operates what it sells. Our approach in detail →

AI consulting firm

Sells a strategy

Audit, roadmap, recommendations — then they leave. Execution stays your problem.

No-code integrator

Sells a tool

A generic platform for you to configure yourself, with no knowledge of your business.

Synodique

Builds, deploys, operates

One precise process, rebuilt with custom AI agents — and we stay accountable for the result.

Who owns it

General management, IT, or the CFO — never one isolated department

Among the leaders this subject reaches, the first contact rarely comes from the same place. On a cash reconciliation, it's often a CFO who spots the bottleneck. On sorting inbound requests, it's a project lead or an operations manager — or the owner directly, in a leaner company. On a cross-cutting system, general management or IT makes the call. In every case, the assessment is the shared entry point — not a different offer depending on who reaches out.

What comes out of it often takes the form of dashboards the team can use directly — not one more tool to interpret, but an answer to the question they started with.

What we build

One process at a time, named by its use — never by its mechanics.

Every engagement takes one precise internal process and puts it into production. Never "your whole transformation" in one go. See all five systems in detail →

Proof

The lab that proves we can build it.

We never sell our own system — we sell the experience of building it and keeping it in production. The full case →

  • €2M+of real cash flow triangulated (bank × invoice × archive × email), in daily production.
  • 3 weeksto stand up a complete set — projects, finance, prospecting, team memory — then iterate on it continuously.
  • 100%of releases preceded by a systematic security review.
  • Hundredsof emails processed each day by our own engine, with no reported error.
Why it matters: a demo can be staged; a system that has handled real money for months cannot be dressed up. And knowing how to close what you open counts as much as building fast.

Behind these numbers: a prospecting engine that actually reads an email — in French — before it files it, not just spots a keyword; and a financial copilot that reconciles the bank, the invoice and the scanned paper archive without anyone having to think about it. And before anything reaches production, a systematic security review, every time, with the history of what has already been fixed.

The offer

Three steps. Never improvised.

Each step is bounded in time and in price, written before the first call. The offer in detail →

01
€10,000 excl. VAT8 days of work · 3–4 weeks

Assessment

Same format and same price as Bpifrance's public Diag Data IA framework. Day 1: a data-quality audit. Deliverable: the process mapped, bottlenecks costed, a roadmap — useful even if you stop there.

02
Fixed priceproject

Sprint

We build the custom system for the process identified, with a systematic security review before anything goes live on your side.

03
Recurringmonthly

Retainer

Maintenance, evolution, support: AI agents need follow-up that ordinary software does not.

Precision

What legally counts as a mid-market company

It isn't a matter of opinion: French law — the PACTE Act — sets the threshold, and INSEE applies it, sorting companies into four categories: micro and very small businesses, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), mid-market companies, and large corporations. Three criteria classify each one — headcount, annual revenue, balance-sheet total. A mid-market company (in French, an entreprise de taille intermédiaire, or ETI) employs between 250 and 4,999 people, with revenue under €1.5bn or a balance sheet under €2bn; below that it's an SME, above both thresholds a large corporation.

The distribution makes the category striking: of the millions of companies in France, the overwhelming majority are micro and small businesses, and large corporations number in the hundreds — between them sit only about 4,400 mid-market companies. Few, but decisive: whether based in the Paris region or across the country, they carry a share of exports, employment and growth out of all proportion to their number. A mid-market company is neither a large SME nor a small multinational: it has its own decision rhythm — neither the endless purchasing cycle of a big group nor the tight budget of a very small firm.

The category itself is recent — created by the 2008 economic modernisation law and completed by the PACTE Act — and so is its ecosystem: Bpifrance, France's public investment bank, exists precisely to widen SMEs' and mid-market companies' access to finance (lending, accelerator programmes, dedicated savings vehicles), while its research arm and independent think tanks document a productive base too large for aid designed for small businesses, and too small to structurally interest the biggest firms.

Who it's for

Two profiles. Never a third.

The three options

Hire, outsource, or build

Faced with a process to automate, a decision-maker really weighs three options. Hire — but the market for data and AI talent is tight, hiring is slow, and a single profile rarely covers the whole spectrum. Outsource to a firm — expertise arrives fast, but it leaves with the invoice, and dependence sets in. Or the third way, ours: build the system with you, then let it live on your side — your teams operate it day to day, and we stay in support to maintain it and make it evolve.

In other words: outsource what is built once, internalise what is used every day. That, to us, is the only split that doesn't create artificial dependence — in either direction.

Who it isn't for

Neither a generalist small business nor a large group

We say it as plainly as the rest: a small business with no budget for AI isn't our target, and neither is a large group with a 12-to-18-month purchasing cycle. Big corporations and groups generally have their own in-house teams or framework agreements with major firms — not terrain where our format (a short assessment, a fixed-price sprint) makes sense. Plenty of agencies promise to serve companies of every size; we don't. Our target isn't an industry: it's a company size and a type of process. A fast-growing SME approaching the mid-market thresholds, on the other hand, is already part of the conversation — what matters, in the end, is the trajectory and the process, not the size of your company today.

Frequently asked

What we get asked most

What makes Synodique different from other AI agencies in France?

Most AI agencies sell a strategy or a generic platform. Synodique builds, deploys and operates the system itself, based on what we already run in-house — our own lab, Cockpit.

What does Synodique offer?

Five recurring types of system: a financial copilot, a qualification engine, a company memory, a compliance assistant and an onboarding assistant — always built custom for a precise process, never as a generic platform.

How do I get in touch, and what are the terms of engagement?

Every engagement starts with an 8-day assessment at €10,000 excluding VAT, modelled on the format of Bpifrance's public Diag Data IA framework. Write to [email protected] describing the process that costs you the most today.

What is a mid-market company (ETI)?

A mid-market company — in French, an entreprise de taille intermédiaire (ETI) — is a category defined by the PACTE Act and applied by INSEE: between 250 and 4,999 employees, with annual revenue under €1.5bn or a balance-sheet total under €2bn. France has roughly 4,400 of them.

What is the difference between an SME and a mid-market company?

An SME employs fewer than 250 people and stays under €50m in revenue (or €43m in balance-sheet total). Above those thresholds, and up to 4,999 employees, a company becomes a mid-market company — often with a different decision rhythm.

What criteria distinguish micro, small, mid-market and large companies?

Four categories defined by headcount and cumulative financial thresholds: micro (fewer than 10 employees), SME (fewer than 250 employees, under €50m revenue), mid-market (250 to 4,999 employees, under €1.5bn revenue or €2bn balance sheet), and large corporations above those thresholds.

Contact

A process that's costing you? Let's talk.

Tell us about the process that costs your company the most today — no endless form, a direct conversation with the team that will build the system. We reply within 12 hours, in English or in French.

Write to [email protected]