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Expertise is no longer sold by the hour: DigitalKin reveals its platform at VivaTech 2026

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:43:03 GMT

The Lyon-based deeptech startup launches the Hub that lets professionals turn their know-how into an autonomous AI business, without a single developer.

At VivaTech 2026, Europe's largest innovation event, DigitalKin chose the Hub France IA Village to publicly unveil its platform for the first time: a complete technology allowing professionals to transform their intellectual know-how into an operational, commercial AI service, including client acquisition, expert-grade deliverable production and billing, without hiring a single developer or spending thousands on marketing.

The billable hour: expertise's glass ceiling

An expert, no matter how brilliant, can only serve one client at a time. Thirty years of know-how, capped by a calendar and a daily rate. The consequence is well known: high-level intellectual services only reach those who can afford them. An entire segment of the market that needs these services never gets access, for lack of budget, network or simply availability.

And the dominant AI focus on internal productivity changes nothing: gaining a few efficiency points does not break through a model where value remains indexed to time spent.

AI served coders first. Now it's the experts' turn.

AI makes it possible, for the first time, to separate know-how from the time of the person who holds it. But seizing this opportunity remains reserved for those who master the technology. Without technical skills, without a dedicated team, the barrier to entry is considerable for professionals who want to exploit AI's full potential in their field.

DigitalKin tackles both problems head-on. Invest in AI before it's too late, yes, but without a budget of hundreds of thousands of euros or a technical hire on one hand, and without compromising on quality, security and business results on the other.

"Today, a professional who wants to build an AI business has two options: invest hundreds of thousands of euros in a technical team, or spend months mastering AI at the expense of what they do best. We created the third way: the expert keeps developing their expertise, the technology does the rest," says Sébastien Deschaux, Chief Science Officer and cofounder of DigitalKin.

Two proprietary technologies, born in Lyon

DigitalKin opens two proprietary technologies to the market.

Telos, a causal reasoning AI engine built on 6 years of R&D, works the opposite of classic generative tools: instead of producing content and hoping it fits the need, Telos starts from the client's business objective to deliver high quality, not generic answers. The result: expert-grade, tailored deliverables, calibrated to a precise business challenge. Over 12,000 users, approximately 90% satisfaction, dozens of enterprise clients.
Agentic Mesh, a multi-agent, multi-model agentic AI architecture capable of running complex missions end to end. This technology is embodied by the Kins: autonomous AI agents that execute missions with full transparency, under the control of the user and the domain experts who transfer their know-how to them.

From scarce expertise to abundant expertise

The process is straightforward. A professional shares their domain expertise with a Kin that evaluates the commercial potential of that know-how, builds their AI service, generates their digital storefront, and handles production and billing for end clients. The entire cycle runs autonomously on the platform.

The target for each service creator: €30,000 in monthly revenue on the Hub, but above all, making their know-how available to every business that needs it, online, 24/7, at a price that changes the market.

What shifts for the market: high-level intellectual services, previously accessible only to an elite, become available to a vastly broader base of companies. Services already live or in development on the Hub include Scientific Advisory Board preparation for biotechs, CE marking clinical dossiers for medtechs, brand positioning for SMEs and startups, business model design for entrepreneurs, scientific literature reviews for R&D teams, and state-of-the-art analyses for R&D tax credit applications.

Applications open at VivaTech

DigitalKin is opening this capability first to a select circle of early partners: domain specialists, consultants, sector experts. Professionals can join the waitlist at VivaTech 2026.

Among the first partners, branding agency Nikita launches SpoK SME & Startups Branding: an AI-powered brand positioning service designed for SMEs. A strategic engagement that traditionally costs several thousand euros in consulting fees.

"At Nikita, we've positioned over 100 major brands in 30 years. We know what makes a brand strong. With DigitalKin, we're making that expertise accessible to every SME that needs it, not just those that can afford an agency. SpoK is our know-how, amplified by AI, for those who never had access before," says Karine Jamroszczyk, Brand Strategist at Nikita.

"Building an AI business is not about automating what you do internally and gaining a few productivity points. It's about amplifying the value you bring to your clients: making it more accessible, more available, more rigorous. Millions of professionals worldwide hold know-how that entire markets need. We give them the means to reach those markets, and in doing so, put their expertise at the service of everyone," says Emmanuel Théry, CEO and cofounder of DigitalKin

Meet DigitalKin at VivaTech Paris Expo Porte de Versailles | June 17-20, 2026 | Hub France IA Village | Hall 7 | Stand 2F14-005

About DigitalKin Founded in Lyon in 2023 by Emmanuel Théry and Sébastien Deschaux, DigitalKin is a deeptech startup specializing in business-applied agentic AI, backed by CCI Lyon, Hub612 and member of the NVIDIA Inception program. Its mission: enabling experienced professionals to make their know-how accessible to all through autonomous, reliable, expert-grade AI services, without requiring any technical skills.

In 2026, your expertise deserves better

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:53:18 GMT

What happens when everyone uses the same AI? Discover how the Kins protect your singularity in 2026.

What happens when everyone uses the same AI?

This question is the driving force behind DigitalKin . For two years, we have been building an ecosystem where human expertise and technological power reinforce one another, moving away from standardisation. We created the Kins : expert AI agents designed to encapsulate and amplify your unique skills for the rest of the world.

In 2026, we are going further:

The DigitalKin Hub is becoming the benchmark for experts who want to differentiate themselves durably. ‍
Expansion of the ecosystem toward complex and highly strategic business processes. ‍
Reinforced support for companies in their quest for singularity.

The only remaining challenge? Spreading the Kins widely around us, and you.
Thank you for being part of this adventure

How do our AI agents for R&D and Innovation transform your daily work?

Our expert AI agents are not just standard tools; they are designed for scientific excellence. Already adopted by over 1,500 users in 2025, they are evolving to meet the most stringent requirements of research and engineering.

For your R&D projects, our Kins now feature advanced capabilities:

Literature Review and SOTA (State of the Art): Exhaustive and systematic analysis of scientific databases, patents, and academic publications. ‍
Academic Traceability: Every statement is referenced with rigorous precision, making the work fully auditable. ‍
R&D Tax Credit Support: A valuable partner for establishing the state of the art required for your R&D tax credit claims (such as CIR in France). ‍
Real-time Collaboration: Your Kin’s report adjusts instantly based on your feedback.

The result? Researchers and engineers are freed from weeks of manual literature search to focus on interpretation and innovation.

They talk about us: A committed ecosystem

In 2025, DigitalKin was supported and showcased by major players in the innovation landscape.

Toward an exceptional 2026

The entire DigitalKin team wishes you a brilliant year alongside your future digital colleagues. It is time to release the full potential of your expertise and create the impact you deserve.

DigitalKin's CEO on Lyon Décideurs: "Making expertise accessible and abundant"

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:29:47 GMT

Emmanuel Théry shares DigitalKin's vision on Le Journal Éco - Lyon Décideurs - building a digital workforce that encodes real expert know-how into autonomous AI agents.

Emmanuel Théry, CEO and cofounder of DigitalKin, was the guest of Jean-Pierre Vacher on Lyon Décideurs' Journal Éco to discuss how the Lyon-based startup is redefining AI for businesses.

Beyond AI assistants: a true digital workforce

"At DigitalKin, we develop AI agents capable of executing complex tasks in full autonomy, with unmatched reliability," Théry explained. The distinction matters: where others build AI assistants, DigitalKin builds a genuine digital workforce. "Our agents already analyze hundreds of scientific publications simultaneously for major pharmaceutical companies, with expert-level precision."

Expertise made accessible and abundant

Théry laid out the company's core ambition: "Our goal is to make expertise accessible and abundant. By encoding the most specialized human know-how into autonomous agents, we enable companies to multiply their expertise without limits."

This vision goes beyond productivity gains. It is about fundamentally changing who can access world-class expertise, and at what scale. A scientific literature review that once took months can now be delivered in minutes. The quality standard is maintained by the expert whose methodology is encoded at the core of each Kin.

A startup that moves fast

Founded in 2023 in Lyon with a team of ten, DigitalKin has already attracted major clients across pharmaceuticals, industrial R&D and scientific research. A member of the NVIDIA Inception program and winner of French Tech Seed, the company is preparing to scale commercially with industrial, scientific and medical organizations.

Emmanuel Théry spoke on Le Journal Éco, Lyon Décideurs. Full video interview available on lyondecideurs.com. Originally published December 31, 2025.

AI and ethics: inside Lyon's rising agentic AI ecosystem

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:16:53 GMT

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The Lyon deeptech turning AI into expert AI agents that are reliable, personalized and truly useful

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:25:57 GMT

Lyon Entreprises met DigitalKin's CEO to understand how the startup is building a new generation of AI agents that amplify human expertise instead of replacing it.

In Lyon's fast-moving tech landscape, DigitalKin is one of those companies that moves fast. Founded in 2023, this ten-person deeptech startup carries an ambitious vision: let anyone transform their expertise, whether scientific, technical or industry-specific, into a tailor-made AI agent. A deceptively simple idea that addresses one of the biggest challenges in AI today: making it truly reflect the singularity of the people and organizations that use it.

Why most AI projects fail

For DigitalKin's team, the diagnosis is clear. Most AI projects fail not because of a lack of technology, but because of a lack of personalization. The mistake, they say, is forgetting context, specificity, the unique know-how that defines every organization. The companies that succeed are those that start from their DNA, from what makes them different, and amplify it through artificial intelligence. The team's core message: AI should not flatten. It should reveal.

A platform already in action

It is with this philosophy that DigitalKin recently launched its new platform. From digitalkin.com, users can already test a first agent capable of producing, in full autonomy, scientific literature reviews. This is work normally reserved for experts: analyzing thousands of studies, verifying sources, cross-referencing data, understanding what science actually says about a precise subject, such as the efficacy of a cancer drug. The agent does it step by step, without hallucinations, drawing on published literature, patents and scientific publications. A rare promise in a world where approximate answers are still far too common.

Already adopted by major organizations

Though still in its early days, DigitalKin already counts several major clients. In the Lyon region, the company works with Groupe SEB, Boiron laboratories and several pharmaceutical companies. Healthcare is becoming a key growth sector, driven by use cases where precision and reliability are non-negotiable. For the team, the coming months will be decisive: the goal is clear, accelerate commercially with industrial, scientific and medical organizations.

AI that amplifies, not replaces

DigitalKin is positioning itself as a leader in expert AI: reliable, contextualized, and above all useful. AI that does not replace human knowledge, but amplifies it at a scale previously impossible.

Originally published by Lyon Entreprises, November 21, 2025. Full video interview available on lyon-entreprises.com.

AI as a cognitive exoskeleton: DigitalKin and Luc Julia on the future of human expertise

m.boisis@digitalkin.ai — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:29:33 GMT

At a Medef Lyon Rhône roundtable, DigitalKin's cofounder Emmanuel Théry and AI pioneer Luc Julia debated whether AI will replace human expertise or amplify it.

Will AI multiply our potential or make human expertise obsolete? That was the question at "Ça Match," a roundtable hosted by Medef Lyon Rhône at La Sucrière on September 16, 2025.

On stage: Luc Julia, Franco-American AI specialist widely regarded as one of the grandfathers of Siri, now Chief Scientist at Renault. And Emmanuel Théry, cofounder of DigitalKin, the Lyon-based startup building autonomous AI agents for high-stakes professional work.

"AI is our augmented intelligence"

For Luc Julia, the answer is clear: humans create AI and use it. Not the other way around. He sees cooperation, not competition. AI helps us do certain things better, or do things we simply couldn't do before. But it remains specialized, task-focused, and fundamentally dependent on human direction.

"AIs work with what we already know, on existing data. They don't invent anything. They follow our prompts and go searching for ideas that already exist. AI is, in fact, our augmented intelligence," Julia explained.

"AI becomes a cognitive exoskeleton"

Emmanuel Théry agreed, and pushed the idea further. DigitalKin builds what he calls "digital colleagues" for expert professionals, particularly in R&D. These are not generic chatbots. They are specialized multi-agent systems that integrate each expert's specific methodology, knowledge that is not publicly available.

"An expert always has a precise way of handling a subject. It's not ChatGPT that can help, you need specialized agents," Théry said. "Our Kins are multi-agent systems that seek the best of each model and integrate human expertise that isn't public. The expert is fast but limited by time. AI is fast and frees the expert for other tasks. AI becomes a cognitive exoskeleton."

The ROI problem, and why most companies get it wrong

Both speakers addressed a striking reality: while 80% of companies have tested AI and 40% have deployed it, only 5% report a clear return on investment, according to a recent MIT study. The reason, they argued, is not that AI doesn't work. It's that most deployments are not deeply integrated into the company's actual processes and context.

The competitive advantage of AI doesn't lie in raw productivity gains. It lies in a true symbiosis between AI and human expertise, where each amplifies the other's potential.

Creative destruction, not job destruction

As for the fear that AI will destroy jobs, Luc Julia was direct: "We don't know anything yet. But for me, we're in a typical period of creative destruction that comes with every major technology shift, and it ends with a net positive balance."

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Preserving what makes companies unique with agentic AI

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:22:11 GMT

At the MEDEF "Ça Match" event in Lyon, DigitalKin's CEO presented how Kins protect and amplify the singularity of each organization, in a world where generic AI tends to standardize.

On September 16, 2025, the MEDEF Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes gathered 2,000 business leaders at La Sucrière in Lyon for "Ça Match," its flagship innovation event. Among the speakers: Emmanuel Théry, CEO and cofounder of DigitalKin, the Lyon-based startup pioneering agentic AI for high-stakes professional work.

The standardization risk

As AI adoption accelerates, a paradox is emerging. The more companies rely on the same generic AI tools, the more their outputs, analyses and decisions start to look alike. For organizations whose competitive advantage lies in proprietary methods, specialized knowledge or unique expertise, this convergence is a strategic threat.

"The question is no longer whether AI will transform our businesses, but how to prevent it from making them all identical," Théry told the audience.

Kins: AI that amplifies singularity instead of erasing it

DigitalKin's approach stands in direct contrast to generic AI. Its Kins are multi-agent systems designed to reproduce and amplify the methods specific to each expert and each organization. Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model, every Kin is configured with the client's own ontology: their vocabulary, their methodology, their decision criteria, their quality standards.

"Our Kins don't replace human expertise. They multiply it," Théry explained. "A Kin without real expertise behind it is just another chatbot. A Kin carrying your methodology becomes something no competitor can replicate."

Already adopted by leading organizations

DigitalKin counts among its early clients companies such as Boiron laboratories and a major household appliance manufacturer. These organizations report a significant multiplication of their capacity to produce complex strategic documents, while maintaining or improving their usual quality standards.

A humanist vision of AI

A winner of the French Tech Seed program and member of NVIDIA Inception, DigitalKin asserts an exacting and humanist vision of AI. In a landscape where fears of skill loss and thought standardization are growing, the company offers a clear response: build AI agents that valorize internal specificities rather than erase them.

The technology is built on three principles: full configurability by the user, complete traceability of every action, and human validation at every critical step. The result is AI that professionals can endorse and stand behind.

Emmanuel Théry spoke at "Ça Match," organized by MEDEF Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes at La Sucrière, Lyon, on September 16, 2025.

DigitalKin and CCI Lyon Métropole partner to advance agentic AI for research

m.boisis@digitalkin.ai — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:29:33 GMT

The Lyon Chamber of Commerce invests in DigitalKin through CCI Capital Croissance and joins forces to accelerate the adoption of transparent, controllable AI in scientific research.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses compete - 73% of leaders believe AI will strengthen their teams' performance. Yet adoption remains slowed by a lack of internal expertise, technical complexity and ethical concerns.

CCI Lyon Métropole Saint-Étienne Roanne, which represents 170,000 businesses across its territory, has positioned itself as a strategic partner for companies navigating this transformation offering awareness workshops, tailored audits and hands-on support to help organizations deploy AI with clarity and purpose.

As part of this commitment, CCI Capital Croissance, the Chamber's investment arm, has chosen to invest in DigitalKin, a Lyon-based startup redefining the standards of AI for high-stakes environments such as scientific research and healthcare, where reliability and transparency are non-negotiable.

A new generation of AI: controllable, traceable, endorsable

DigitalKin's platform enables organizations to create and configure autonomous AI agents — Kins — capable of executing complex tasks while guaranteeing full traceability, human control and result reliability. Built on a multi-agent architecture that stands in direct opposition to traditional "black box" AI, the technology delivers complete visibility over how AI operates:

Kins are configurable and controllable — professionals define their own methodology, rules, decision thresholds and validation checkpoints. They are traceable and transparent — every action generates detailed reports, allowing professionals to review and justify each step. They are endorsable — the combination of control, traceability and human validation means experts can fully stand behind the results their AI produces.

Proven results in scientific research

In a recent joint communication, Philippe Valentin, President of CCI Lyon Métropole, and Emmanuel Théry, cofounder of DigitalKin, illustrated this approach through a concrete use case: scientific literature review.

Results already observed: a literature review that would take a human researcher months is completed by a Kin in under 20 minutes. Total research exploration time is divided by 10, allowing teams to cover more ground and spend more time advancing their core work. Scientific rigor is maintained without compromise — the Kin guarantees full transparency over its research, analysis and writing process.

"Kins allow researchers to apply their methods with unmatched precision, automatically document every step, and obtain fully defensible results," said Emmanuel Théry. "A researcher can integrate their personal methodology into the system, have our agents execute it, then verify that everything was carried out according to their scientific expectations. The result becomes fully endorsable by the expert."

Beyond research: growing adoption across sectors

DigitalKin's technology has already been adopted by leading organizations across several industries: pharmaceutical research for protocol execution and documentation, R&D tax credit applications, academic research for literature reviews and methodological analyses, and industrial R&D for innovation project management with full decision traceability.

"Artificial intelligence is an unavoidable digital revolution, but every company must approach this turning point with clear-headedness: understand, test, surround yourself with the right partners. That is also how we are adopting it within our own CCI," said Philippe Valentin, President of CCI Lyon Métropole Saint-Étienne Roanne.

About DigitalKin Founded in 2023 in Lyon, DigitalKin is pioneering transparent agentic AI for high-stakes work. A member of the NVIDIA Inception program and backed by leading French innovation partners, the company is currently raising a Series A to accelerate the international deployment of its technology. DigitalKin's mission: create a symbiosis between human expertise and artificial intelligence, where technology amplifies human capabilities while remaining under full, transparent control.

About CCI Lyon Métropole Saint-Étienne Roanne With 100 elected members and 185 mandates across various institutions, CCI Lyon Métropole represents 170,000 businesses. It supports their development and transitions, acts for territorial performance and attractiveness, and advocates for business interests in public decision-making. www.lyon-metropole.cci.fr

Kins: AI agents that integrate expertise and human intelligence

m.boisis@digitalkin.ai — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:29:33 GMT