AI consulting · Nice and the French Riviera
AI consulting firm in Nice: from mapping your processes to agents in production
GiLabs is an AI consulting and engineering firm registered in Nice. For SMEs, mid-caps and professional firms in Nice and on the French Riviera: your processes mapped on your premises, the gain costed in euros, then the agents and applications built and shipped to production inside your own systems. In French or in English.
- Sophia Antipolis, Antibes
- Nice Workshops on your premises
- Monaco
Nice: a service economy made of small organisations
Nice has 357,737 residents (INSEE, 2023 population) and 16,327 active establishments at the end of 2024. Three quarters (74%) are in trade, transport and services, 11.3% in construction, 11.2% in public administration, education, health and social work, and 3.3% in industry.
It is a fabric of small organisations: 85% of these establishments employ fewer than ten people. That leaves 2,401 with ten employees or more, 393 of them with fifty or more. Most AI projects that pay for themselves sit in that bracket, because a process there occupies enough people for its cost to be measurable.
A service economy handles documents, requests and case files far more than parts. Bookings and group enquiries in hospitality, accounting documents and deeds in professional firms, quotes, delivery notes and invoices in trade and construction: repetitive flows, already written down, and therefore measurable. That is where an AI agent pays, provided someone first looked at what the process really costs.
Three situations we see often in Nice
None is unique to the city. They are simply more common here, because of what the local economy is made of.
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Hotels, tourism, events
Inbound requests in several languages, packed into a few months, and group quotes rebuilt by hand every time. An agent sorts them, drafts the reply and the quote from your rates, and leaves the decision to your team. The gain shows in response time and in requests no longer lost in high season.
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Accountancy, law and notary firms
Documents arriving by email, scan and upload, to be filed, read and re-keyed, under professional secrecy. Document extraction and filing can be automated with a processing chain hosted in the European Union and human validation on every batch.
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SMEs and mid-caps running line-of-business software
An ERP, a SQL Server database, a .NET application written ten years ago, and around it spreadsheets and re-keying. AI goes inside that estate rather than next to it: reading inbound documents, running checks, producing the monthly report without copy and paste.
What being local changes
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Mapping happens on your premises
You understand a process by watching the people who run it, their screens and their binders. Mapping workshops take place in your offices, in Nice and the surrounding metropolitan area, with the teams involved. What you see on site does not come across on a video call.
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So does the debrief
The costed roadmap is presented to your management in person. That is when you decide what gets built, what gets stopped and what waits: it deserves a table rather than a shared screen.
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Development is done remotely
Once the scope is agreed in writing, development does not need your offices. You follow progress in your own code repository and in short check-ins. Go-live and team training happen on site again.
The AI ecosystem on the French Riviera
Before choosing a supplier, a business in the Alpes-Maritimes can get informed for free through public bodies. They sell nothing and are worth the visit.
- Maison de l'Intelligence Artificielle : a demonstration and awareness centre opened in 2020 in Sophia Antipolis by the Alpes-Maritimes Department, with workshops for professionals.
- CCI Nice Côte d'Azur : the local chamber of commerce: business support and local economic data.
- 3IA Côte d'Azur : the interdisciplinary AI institute led by Université Côte d'Azur, on the research and training side.
Frequently asked questions
Is there an AI consulting firm in or near Nice?
Yes. GiLabs is a French company registered in Nice (SIREN 108 308 214), with its registered office in Bendejun, in the hills north of Nice. Its founder, Yann Gilliot, lives in Nice and works on client premises in Nice, the metropolitan area, the rest of the French Riviera and Monaco. The firm maps processes, costs the gain in euros, then builds the agents and applications itself.
AI agency or AI consulting firm: which one for a business in Nice?
An agency usually starts from a tool or a product to build: a chatbot, an app, an automation. A consulting firm starts from your processes, to find out which one is worth reworking and which one should simply be stopped. If you already know what to build, an agency fits. If the question is where AI would pay in your business, start with the costing. GiLabs does both stages, which removes the handover between the one who recommends and the one who builds.
Do you work on our premises?
Yes for the mapping workshops, the roadmap debrief, go-live and team training, in Nice, the metropolitan area, the French Riviera and Monaco. Development is done remotely. For a business elsewhere in France, everything is done remotely, with a visit when the project warrants it.
Do you work in English?
Yes. Workshops, deliverables and documentation can be in French or in English, which matters on the Riviera where many teams and owners are international.
Does our data leave Europe?
You decide, and it is agreed in writing before the work starts. For a firm bound by professional secrecy, the processing chain is hosted in the European Union, without exception. For other businesses, European hosting is offered whenever you ask for it. In every case the code and workflows are yours and run in your environment.