AI Audit in Perpignan: Where to Start in a Pyrénées-Orientales SME
Gary Bramnik1 October 2026 · 6 min read
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On Saint-Charles market, Europe's leading fresh-produce hub, traders work in several languages with volumes that explode every season. A few kilometers away, a coastal hotelier handles a hundred bookings a day in summer, often by phone in French, Spanish or English. In Roussillon cellars, winemakers line up shipping and traceability documents by hand.
These three Pyrénées-Orientales companies do not have the same trade. Yet they share the same bottleneck: hours of data entry and translation lost, precisely when activity is at its peak.
What an AI audit changes in Perpignan
The AI audit we offer across Pyrénées-Orientales starts from your seasonality, not from a feature catalog. In 45 minutes we produce three deliverables:
- A map of your flows: bookings, orders, quotes, cross-border documents, traceability. We single out the first process to automate, the one whose gain shows within the following week.
- An estimate before commitment: recovered hours per week, translated into working days then euros.
- The roadmap: what we automate, what stays manual, what never deserves investment.
Then we deploy agents on your existing tools: one agent qualifies and answers multilingual requests continuously, including weekends, another prepares invoices, credit notes and shipping documents, a third consolidates traceability without re-entry. Agents replace neither client relationships, nor negotiation, nor your business expertise.
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
We work with Spanish clients. Is that a blocker? No, it is an argument in favor: the agents we deploy handle requests in French, Spanish and English, 24/7.
Is it worth it outside peak season? The audit also helps prepare for high season: we automate before the peak, while activity allows it. It is the ideal time to launch a first agent.
Our teams are very small. Who handles all this? The expert is part of the setup: they configure, connect and train your teams on real cases. You install nothing yourself.
What if the agents turn out useless? The audit prices the gain before commitment. And cancellation works with 30 days notice, no justification.
Hiring, agency, or outsourcing: the real cost
| Cost item | In-house AI hire | External agency | Fractional AI Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary / fees | €75,000-95,000/yr | €30,000-60,000 | From €11,880 excl. VAT (1 day/month) |
| Licences & infrastructure | €1,500-3,000/yr | Included or billed with margin | ~€1,200/yr (at-cost for client) |
| Recruitment / onboarding | €5,000-10,000 | €0 | €0 |
| Time to first result | 6 months | 3-5 months | Under 30 days |
| Ownership of developments | The employee | Often captive to the agency | 100% owned by your company |
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.