Four positions, a nine-criteria comparison, and the list of what we are not. A guarantee you cannot verify is not a guarantee.
The home page sums them up. Here is what each one commits us to in a mission.
Applied AI is our only trade, from first analysis to production. When a need falls outside that frame (round-the-clock on-call duty, high-volume operations, national framework agreements), we say so at the diagnostic and point you to the right people.
The repository is handed over versioned, with its tests and architecture documentation. A third party's ability to take it over is verified before production. That is what the reversibility guarantee covers, described further down this page.
Every system is built for long-term operation: monitoring and alerts, execution logs, automated tests, a handover plan, a 5-year continuity plan. The full inventory of the eight delivered items is on the Development page.
100 % French hosting at Scaleway, GDPR compliance from the design stage, Zero Data Retention on sensitive processing. The detail, including what we do not guarantee, is in the Sovereignty section below.
Ailix Consulting itself uses flow orchestrators such as N8N, self-hosted and with exportable definitions. What it refuses is building a business application inside a platform you cannot leave, with licenses that grow with the number of users.
| Criterion | No-code platform | Classic development | Ailix Consulting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability in production | limited | very good | very good |
| Development speed | fast at first | slow | +40 % vs classic development |
| Development cost | medium | high | −40 % vs classic development |
| Usage and license costs | high, grows with volume | low | low |
| Customization | bounded by the platform | total | total |
| Vendor lock-in | high | none | none |
| Code ownership | no | yes | 100 % client-owned, delivered documented and versioned |
| Scalability | constrained | maximal | maximal |
| GDPR compliance | depends on the vendor and hosting location | total | handled at design time, data hosted in France |
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On reliability, customization and scalability, Ailix Consulting claims nothing beyond classic development: it is the same code. The gap is in entry cost and delay, which its internal production chain reduces. The +40 % and −40 % are measured on its own projects, at equal code quality, and do not come from trimming the delivered scope.
Your data stays in France at Scaleway, outside the reach of the Cloud Act.
Minimization, traceability and the right to erasure built in from the design stage.
On sensitive processing, model providers keep nothing after execution, and your data trains no third-party model.
The source code is handed to you, documented and versioned. Your teams take over maintenance whenever they decide.
Ailix Consulting is not a certified health-data host (French HDS certification). For health data, it designs the architecture and installs it at an HDS-certified host, in France.
Ailix Consulting provides no round-the-clock on-call duty. Monitoring, logs and alerts ship with the system. Interventions happen during business hours.
Ailix Consulting is tied to no model provider and switches when a better one comes out. Some models run outside Europe. The list (which ones, for which processing, under which conditions) appears in the scoping note and is decided with you before production.
The source code is handed over versioned, with its tests and architecture documentation. Your teams can take it over. So can a third-party provider, and its ability to do so is verified at the Verification step, before production. No proprietary license, no imposed platform, no clause that conditions this takeover.
The five steps, the GO / NO-GO decision at the end of the second, and the three reasons that make us answer no.
Read the methodWhat does not rest on our word alone: the partners we operate with, and the public schemes that frame our missions.
Partner accounts open with Anthropic and OpenAI, with no exclusivity and no volume commitment, and with Scaleway for the 100 % French hosting of our systems.
Ailix Consulting holds the French CII accreditation: eligible work you entrust to us can qualify for the innovation tax credit.
The Montpellier Business & Innovation Centre ranks among the world’s best public incubators in the UBI Global index.
Listing application in progress with Bpifrance. Once granted, the Data AI diagnostic will be co-financed for eligible companies.
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