AI Audit in Grenoble: Automate Industry Without Breaking the Workshop

Grenoble is used to precision: microelectronics, mechanics and laboratories live to the millimeter. Yet in the region's workshops, the documentation around production remains desperately artisanal. A machining subcontractor receives PDF specs that must be read line by line to prepare a quote. A service lab searches for certificates in uncontrolled shared folders.

These hours of entry, search and re-entry multiply in every industrial SME in Isère, including the technically most advanced. The AI audit we offer targets exactly this reservoir.

Why audit before automating a workshop

Automating an industrial process cannot be improvised: a bad agent that modifies the wrong file costs more than the re-entry it was meant to remove. The audit prevents this mistake upstream. In 45 minutes we produce three concrete deliverables:

• A map of document flows: specs, drawings, material certificates, compliance, quality claims. We identify the most expensive and safest flow to automate first.
• A gain estimate: recovered hours per week, translated into working days then euros, stated before any signature.
• The roadmap: what we automate, what stays human-readable by obligation, what remains manual. Prudence is part of the method.

Then we deploy agents that work inside your current tools: an agent extracts spec data and prepares draft quotes, another converts certificates and drawings into verifiable structured data, a third feeds the natural-language knowledge base your teams query. Agents replace neither your technicians nor your business know-how.

An expert on the team, not another tool

The audit is delivered through Fractional AI Direction: a senior AI expert works inside your company, 1 to 10 days a month, configuring, connecting and training your teams 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 production data is ultra-confidential. It stays isolated, accounts stay in your name, and professional plans do not retrain models with your data. We frame the sensitive perimeter from the audit.

Can AI read our technical drawings? Yes, agents extract and cross-check data from technical PDFs, certificates and drawings before processing. Reliability is chosen first from day one.

We respond to very demanding tenders. That is exactly where the audit pays: a draft quote in minutes instead of hours is a direct competitive advantage, quantified before any investment.

Can we try one process first? Yes, that is the method: one agent, one visible gain, then we expand. Cancellable with 30 days notice.

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

In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Atouts Numériques (co-funded by the Region and the EU via FEDER) covers up to 50% of consulting and software-integration costs, and MinaSmart (EDIH) supports AI agent prototyping. Nationally, Bpifrance's Diagnostic IA subsidizes 50% of a 3-to-10-day expertise mission, 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 owner in the region receives a double signal: automation pays off, and public funding covers part of it.

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