AI Audit in Nîmes: The First Step to Automate Gard SMEs

On the Grézan logistics zone, at the gates of Nîmes, a distribution company receives a stream of client orders by email, scanner and phone every morning. An assistant spends three hours a day opening, sorting and re-entering them. In Saint-Césaire, a freight forwarder lines up customs documents by hand. In the city center, a wholesaler keeps keying invoices into a spreadsheet.

Three Gard companies, three sectors, one observation: whole hours swallowed by repetitive data entry, away from selling and customer relationships. None of these owners has installed an AI agent yet, simply because nobody ever showed them, with numbers, what it would bring.

An AI audit, not a demo

The AI audit we offer Gard SMEs starts from a simple principle: we do not sell a tool first, we show where your time goes first. In 45 minutes, with your teams, we review your real flows. Concretely, the audit surfaces:

• The most expensive flow: orders, quotes, follow-ups, compliance. We single out the process to automate first, the one whose gain is visible in the first week.
• An estimate before commitment: recovered hours translated into working days, then euros.
• A zero-risk roadmap: automate, keep manual, skip forever.

Then we deploy agents on your existing tools: an agent logs orders received by email or PDF and updates your management software, another monitors supplier orders and triggers gradual follow-ups, a third prepares invoices and credit notes for human validation.

The agent does not replace your salespeople, negotiation, or customer contact. It removes re-entry and forgotten follow-ups. Nothing more, but that is huge.

An expert on the team, not another tool

The audit is delivered through Fractional AI Direction: a senior AI expert works directly inside your company, 1 to 10 days a month, configuring, connecting and training your teams. 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

Is the audit worth it for a very small business? Yes. That is exactly where it pays off most: an 8-person TPE spends the same hours on entry work as a 60-person SME, with no safety net.

What happens after the 45 minutes? You get the roadmap either way. If you want to move forward, we frame the first agent together, with no pressure.

We use very specific Gard and construction tools. Agents connect to your current tools. We impose nothing: we automate what already exists, not the other way around.

What if my team refuses the tool? There is no tool to adopt: the agent works inside the tools your teams already use. Hands-on training is part of the first days.

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

Occitanie has built some of France's most responsive schemes. The Plan IA Occitanie (€60 million) targets local SMEs directly, the Pass Occitanie covers up to 50% of consulting and integration costs, and AD'OCC supports digital roadmaps across the regional network, from Nîmes to Perpignan. Nationally, Bpifrance's Diagnostic IA subsidizes 50% of a 3-to-10-day expertise mission.

Using one of these channels, the net cost of a senior expert day drops below €500 excl. VAT. That is a double signal for owners: 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 Occitanie.