Situation — AI, digital and software projects

We want a tool built for our teams, but we are afraid of a project that never ends.

Context

Your teams juggle Excel spreadsheets, emails and software that doesn't fit your business. You have looked: no tool on the market suits the way you work.

You want a tool built for you. But you have heard of projects that go off the rails, providers who disappear and tools delivered half-finished.

The problem

  • A poorly scoped project doesn't stop: it gets bogged down. The investment goes on, the tool never arrives.
  • Meanwhile, your teams lose hours every week with the old tools.
  • If the provider is the only one who knows the project, you can no longer switch providers.

Case study

Real-life caseAugust 2026

Scribe software, French national police

In late 2015, the French national police launched Scribe, software for investigators to draft their procedural records. The project started with no feasibility study and no set budget. The project leads had no experience of IT projects.

The steering team shrank to a single person for more than a year, and the provider took over. Stuck at 36% completion in mid-2021, the project was abandoned.

In August 2026, the Cour des comptes (French Court of Audit) put the loss to the State at 30.21 million euros and convicted six former officials. According to the article, investigators lost around 15 million hours between 2022 and 2026.

The project was public and very large. Its causes, however, have nothing to do with size: a need never defined, oversight too thin, a provider left alone at the controls.

Read the sourceScribe software: 6 senior officials convicted — 75secondes (opens in a new tab)

Why us?

  • We start from the way you work: specifications and a clickable mock-up before the first line of code.
  • We split the project into stages: you see the tool take shape, and you stay in control at every step.
  • The code is delivered in a repository opened in your name: you are not locked into any provider, not even us.
  • We migrate your existing data, from Excel or your current software.

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