AI Audit in Aix-Marseille: 45 Minutes to Price Your First Agent

Around the Marseille-Fos port, a freight forwarder processes several hundred documents a day: freight quotes, transshipment invoices, route sheets, customs compliance. Every line is re-entered into an aging system, and code errors are sorted out over the phone. At the Arbois technopole or in the Aix-les-Milles zones, the same symptoms repeat: salespeople prepare quotes instead of selling, ops re-enter documents instead of checking.

In France's second metropolis, the problem is not a lack of material, but a lack of method. And method starts with an audit.

What an AI audit changes in Aix-Marseille

An AI audit is not a lecture on generative AI. It is fieldwork, with your teams, on your real processes. In 45 minutes we produce three things:

• A map of your flows: data entry, follow-ups, quotes, compliance, customs. We rank what costs most in time and errors.
• A price for the first agent: recovered hours per week, translated into working days, then euros. You know exactly what the investment returns before committing.
• The roadmap: first project, next projects, and what stays manual, in full transparency. AI does not replace business expertise or negotiation.

Once the perimeter is set, we deploy agents on your existing tools: one agent qualifies quote requests and prepares draft quotes, another checks customs documents before validation, a third consolidates traceability without re-entry.

An expert on the team, not a consultant who leaves

The audit is delivered through Fractional AI Direction: a senior AI expert works directly in your teams, 1 to 10 days a month, configuring, connecting and training on real cases. From €990 excl. VAT/month for one day, decreasing to €750/day at ten days. Cancellable with 30 days notice.

How it starts

The 45-minute audit is free and non-binding. The first agent goes live within 30 days.

Possible extras: Claude Pro ($20/user/month) and sometimes an automation platform (20 to 50 €/month), opened in your company's name, no commission.

FAQ

Our customs documents are too sensitive for AI. On the contrary: accounts stay in your name, data stays isolated, and professional plans do not retrain models with your data. Compliance is framed from the audit.

We are a large structure. Does this apply? The offer targets SMEs of 10 to 250 employees. For larger structures, the audit at least helps you decide, with full knowledge, what deserves investment.

Why start with the "first agent" instead of a full plan? Because one profitable agent funds the next. We avoid the grand project that lasts six months and dies midway.

What if we already have an AI provider? The audit remains useful: it gives you a grid to evaluate what the provider actually brings, and a reference figure to compare.

Hiring, agency, or outsourcing: the real cost

Hiring answers a permanent, full-time need with the risk of delay and departure. An agency bills days without transferring know-how. Fractional AI Direction brings a full function, adjustable from 1 to 10 days a month, cancellable with 30 days notice, keeping everything built in your name.

Grants to fund your audit and your agents

Across Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, several public programs cover up to 50% of these projects: the Plan SUD IA from the Sud Region, the European Move2Digital program (EDIH) and the Chèque Transition Numérique. Nationally, Bpifrance's Diagnostic IA covers 50% of an expertise mission of 3 to 10 days, exactly the format of an automation audit.

Using one of these channels, the net cost of a senior expert day drops below €500 excl. VAT. An SME hesitating on ROI receives a double signal: automation pays off, and public funding covers part of it.

This is exactly what we identify during the free 45-minute audit: the fastest channels to activate for your company, based on its sector, size and location in the region.