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The AI agent for business start-ups: from the questionnaire to the single window

A founder spends more time hunting for information than building the project, and an adviser spends more time re-explaining the same rule than working on the business model. Your agent runs the questionnaire, fills in the business plan and forecast templates, prepares the single-window filing document by document, and keeps a checklist of start-up aid in which every line carries its official source and its date. Hosted in France, deployable under white label. General information — not legal advice; the adviser approves.

Hosted in France Founders' files protected GDPR & AI Act: governed deployment The adviser approves

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Live in two to four weeks
Start-up support · hosted in France
Léa Marchand's file is ready for your review. Questionnaire complete, three-year forecast built, single-window filing assembled with 7 documents out of 8 — the certificate of filiation is missing, and I asked her for it again yesterday.
And one calendar point I am flagging today rather than in three weeks: if she declares her start of activity on 1 October, the ACRE application must be filed with Urssaf within the following 60 days — the cut-off falls on 30 November.
⛓ Sourced · entreprendre.service-public.fr, ACRE page updated 01/07/2026 · urssaf.fr
Wasn't ACRE automatic?
It was, until 31 December 2025. Since 1 January 2026 the application must be filed with Urssaf, within 60 days of the declared start-of-activity date.
What I bring you to settle it: the text of the official page, its update date, the list of situations that open the entitlement and the application form. What is yours, and what I hand back to you in two minutes instead of two hours: establishing that she qualifies. Her eligibility depends on her personal circumstances — you establish it, you date it, you sign the support record.
✎ Framework · general information, sourced and dated — the adviser approves
Local inference · no data outside the EU
Data hosted in France
Sovereign by designLocal inference or hosting in France
GDPR & AI Act: governed deploymentTraceability & human supervision
TurnkeyDesigned, installed and run for you
The adviser approvesGeneral information, never personalised advice
✦ In brief

A Blue Lemon Agent start-up support agent runs a guided questionnaire with the founder, fills in the business plan and forecast templates while displaying every assumption and where it comes from, prepares the single-window filing document by document, and keeps a checklist of start-up aid in which every line carries its official source and its update date. It can be deployed under white label for a support network or an accountancy practice. Hosted in France, on local inference or an isolated resource, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity. General information — not legal advice; the adviser approves. Live in two to four weeks.

100 %
hosted in France in the target architecture
0
transfer outside the EU in the target architecture
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capabilities ready to deploy, from questionnaire to registration
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eligibility asserted without the adviser's approval

Benchmarks describing our offer, not results measured at a client. How much you gain on your own files is confirmed by a pilot on your own flow of founders.

The context

Why information has become the founder's first obstacle

Since 1 January 2023 every formality of creation, modification and cessation goes through the single electronic window operated by the INPI, the business formality centres having been abolished. The rule has been simplified; access to it remains a profession — and it keeps changing.

! The stake

A founder looks for information where it is most visible, rarely where it is accurate: forums, copied blog posts, undated articles. A support network does know the rule — but spends a considerable share of its time re-explaining it once per founder, chasing a missing document and catching up on a deadline already gone. And the law moves: ACRE, granted automatically until 31 December 2025, has since 1 January 2026 required an application to Urssaf within 60 days of the start of activity. A rule learned last year is a trap this year.

Our answer

The agent takes on what repeats: the scoping questionnaire, the business plan and forecast templates with their assumptions on display, the assembly of the single-window filing document by document, and the aid checklist in which every line carries its official address and its update date. It works in general information: it brings the text, the date, the conditions to check — never the assertion that a given founder qualifies. Applying the rule to the case, judging whether a project stands up and signing the support record remain the adviser's work. It is that separation that makes the tool deployable under white label without exposing the network.

The decisive point

A founder's file is a personal file: sovereignty & compliance

Family circumstances, resources, employment history, a project not yet public: a start-up file concentrates personal data and a business project that nothing justifies exposing. Here is how our architecture protects them.

Local inference

The agent can run on a machine inside your organisation: no founder's file and no identity document leaves the network.

Hosting in France

Otherwise, a dedicated, isolated resource hosted in France under French law — your founders' files: processing and access within the European Union targeted by the architecture.

Reduced extraterritorial exposure

Architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity: a business project not yet filed stays out of reach, including from a US host based in Europe.

General information, never advice

Every rule is returned with its official address, the update date of that page, and the list of conditions to check. Applying it to the founder's case is the adviser's, who signs it.

Partitioned white label

Deployed in the colours of your network or your practice, with your templates and your vocabulary. One organisation's files are never visible from another.

AI Act: governed deployment

Strictly a support agent; no eligibility asserted, no document handed to a founder without approval; traceability and human supervision end to end.

What depends on the architecture chosen These points are not general guarantees: they are settled deployment by deployment, in the quotation.

  • The applicable location is that of the architecture set out in the quotation and verified before commissioning.
  • Local execution is announced only for the configuration explicitly described and accepted in the quotation.
  • The applicable isolation depends on the deployment mode set out in the quotation; no dedicated isolation is presumed.
For publicly funded bodies that archive identity documents and proof of resources, SecNumCloud and retention periods configured per document category are available. A single architecture is designed to answer both the GDPR and extraterritorial exposure. Designed for deployment in line with the GDPR and the AI Act, after the processing, roles and context-specific risks have been assessed.
Demonstration

See the agent at work

4 real situations, taken from those that come up most often. Pick one: the exchange unfolds as it would in your organisation.

A scripted demonstration. These exchanges show how the agent behaves — its sources, its refusals, what it leaves to your teams. Nothing is sent from this page, no model is queried here, and the matters named are fictional. That is precisely what we promise your data.
The behaviours shown here — monitoring, automation rules, routing and reminders — are configured with you during deployment, from your tools, your rules and your thresholds.
The architecture points named in these exchanges — location, local execution, isolation, encryption, role-based access, logging — are not a guarantee attached to the demonstration: they are those of the architecture set out in your quotation, and verified before commissioning.

The company in this demonstration

Fictional company

Élan Entreprendre — an association supporting business start-ups and takeovers

Sector
Publicly funded start-up and takeover support, including two partners served under white label
Headcount
31 staff, including 9 start-up advisers and 2 funding officers
Public served
Founders and buyers in a rural département and its main city, 640 supported a year
Order of magnitude
3 meetings per founder on average, 11 weeks from the first meeting to registration
Tools in place
A founder-tracking tool, an in-house template library, the INPI single window, the Urssaf portal
Who decides
The start-up adviser approves every document handed to a founder and signs the support record
Room for improvement
Of 640 files, 128 came back at least once for a missing document and 41 founders let the ACRE application window lapse

Élan Entreprendre supports 640 founders a year with nine advisers, and additionally serves two partners under their own brands. Advisers spend a large share of their meetings re-explaining rules that are identical from one file to the next, while files go backwards for a missing document. The agent is connected to the founder-tracking tool, to the template library and to the official sources; it prepares, it dates and it sources. No document reaches a founder without an adviser's approval, and their name is on it.

This company, its figures and the exchanges that follow were invented for the demonstration. They illustrate a common situation; they describe no real client.

Start-up support · hosted in France
I reread your 640 files for the year. Your 41 lapsed ACRE windows are not spread at random: 34 of them concern founders who declared their start of activity BETWEEN two meetings — that is, out of your sight.
What I counted:
· 128 files out of 640 came back at least once for a missing document — the most frequent being the certificate of filiation, 61 times.
· 41 founders let the ACRE application window lapse. Since 1 January 2026 that application is no longer automatic: it is filed with Urssaf within 60 days of the declared start-of-activity date.
· Average time from first meeting to registration: 11 weeks. Among the 128 files with a missing document: 16 weeks.
The gap that explains the 34: the founder leaves the second meeting, declares the activity three weeks later on the single window, and the third meeting falls beyond the 60th day. Nobody forgot anything: the clock started outside your calendar.
My proposal: that the scoping questionnaire record the intended start-of-activity date at the first meeting, that I calculate the 60-day cut-off and raise it to the adviser at D−45, D−15 and D−5. The rule is public; it was the calendar that was missing. diagnostic_640-files.pdf128 missing documents, 41 ACRE windows lapsed
⛓ Sourced · 640 files from the tracking tool · entreprendre.service-public.fr, ACRE page updated 01/07/2026 · urssaf.fr
One more questionnaire — founders will not fill it in. What does it bring that is different?
It is not filled in by the founder alone in front of a screen: it is run, question after question, and it stops where it has nothing useful left to ask.
How it works: 38 questions in the catalogue, never 38 asked. The path branches on three forks — nature of the activity, whether employees are envisaged, and the founder's employment situation. A founder of a service activity with no employees sees 19; someone taking over a going concern sees 31.
What it records and your meetings were letting through:
· the intended start-of-activity date — the one that starts the 60-day clock;
· the founder's employment situation, which appears among the situations listed on the official ACRE page — I hand it back to you with the page and its date; it is you who establishes whether it opens the entitlement;
· the documents the formality will require, requested at the first meeting rather than at filing.
What the adviser receives: a one-page write-up, the answers ordered as in their own template, and the list of what is still missing.
What I measured by replaying it over your 640 files: the certificate of filiation would have been requested at the first meeting in 61 files out of 61, and the ACRE cut-off would have been calculated in 612 files out of 640. The remaining 28 had no intended start-of-activity date at the first meeting — and for those I do not invent one: I ask again. guided-questionnaire_38-questions.pdf3 forks, 19 to 31 questions asked
⛓ Sourced · 640 files replayed, the association's templates, list of situations published on entreprendre.service-public.fr
Local inference · no data outside the EU

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Use cases

What the agent actually does, from the first meeting to registration

Each use corresponds to a capability we configure with you, on your own templates. All of them work in support: the adviser approves.

Included in your agent The 7 capabilities essential to this promise are included, at no extra cost.
From 580 € excl. VAT / month

Guided questionnaire

Project scoping run question by question, chasing what is missing — and the write-up ready for the adviser.

Business plan template

Your own template filled in with the founder's answers, section by section, with no blank page.

Forecast with assumptions on display

Every line carries the assumption that produces it and where it comes from; no projection is shown without its basis.

Single-window filing

The documents the formality requires listed, chased, checked and assembled before filing on formalites.entreprises.gouv.fr.

Deadlines that cannot be caught up

The 60-day ACRE application window and the other dates with irreversible effect, calculated and flagged before they fall.

Sourced and dated aid checklist

National and regional schemes, each with its official address, its update date and its conditions to check.

White label for a network

In the colours of your chamber of commerce, chamber of trades, support association, incubator or practice, with your templates — and strict partitioning between organisations.

Controls and safeguards These 3 controls are built into the agent: they frame what it does, whatever plan you pick. They are not chosen and are not added to your order.
Human validation, exceptions and escalation Status, safe closure and audit trail Data protection, rights and human oversight
What the agent must be connected to This connection is required for the agent to work. It concerns your information system and is scoped during the audit.
Integration with existing tools without double entry
The gain

How much time per start-up file?

By taking on the questionnaire, the formatting of the forecast, the chasing of documents and the upkeep of the aid checklist, the agent returns to the adviser the time for the business model. Actual gains depend on your volume of founders and the variety of legal forms you support.

Scoping the project and collecting information
Today · in meetings
Questionnaire run, write-up ready
Formatting the business plan and forecast
Today · done by hand
Template filled, assumptions on display
Assembling and chasing filing documents
Today · by successive chasers
Documents listed, chased, checked
Keeping the aid documentation current
Today · irregular
Sourced and dated checklist
A qualitative, non-contractual comparison: the proportions shown illustrate how the work shifts towards the support itself, they represent no measurement. Every output of the agent is reviewed and approved by a competent adviser, the only person entitled to apply a rule to a founder's case.
How it works

The stages of your AI agent project

1

Audit & scoping

15 minutes to target the use case with the best return.

2

Quote or direct sign-up

A catalogue offer is bought online; a specific need gets a costed quote.

3

Design

We design the agent and its guardrails.

4

Integration & testing

We connect your tools to the agent, which is itself hosted in France.

5

Rollout

Going live and training your team.

6

Operation

Continuous supervision and improvement.

Pricing

A start-up support agent, installed and run for you

An agent built on your templates and your vocabulary, connected to your founder-tracking tool, deployable under white label. Prices excluding VAT — annual subscription, the time it takes for the gains to settle.

Agility

Setup + controlled subscription

6,480 € excl. VAT setup
then 580 € excl. VAT/month — you invest at installation and pay a reduced subscription. Ideal for keeping the cost under control over time.
  • Installation, configuration and training for your teams
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, a dedicated and isolated resource
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The simplest Serenity

All inclusive, no setup fee

940 € excl. VAT /month
all inclusive, immediate start. No upfront investment: a single subscription. Ideal for starting quickly and simply.
  • Setup included (installation, configuration, training)
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, managed end to end
Order →
100% Sovereign

On site, you own it

10,240 € excl. VAT setup
then 777 € excl. VAT/month · + hardware from 2,491 € (one-off purchase, in addition) — a sovereign computer installed on your premises, maintained remotely. Models run locally, your data returned at the end of the contract. 36-month commitment.
  • Hardware installed on your premises (you own it)
  • French / European AI models run locally
  • Secure remote maintenance (Pro support included)
Order →
Not included in the packages: AI consumption (model tokens), re-invoiced at real cost with no margin, and tracked in real time in your client area. Maintenance and supervision subscription for an initial term of 12 months for the Agility package, 24 months for the Serenity package and 36 months for the 100% Sovereign package, renewable; support levels (SLA 72 h / 24 h / 4 h) optional. Bespoke development, additional integrations or exceptional volumes are quoted separately. Support Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Prices exclude VAT.
AI model: none of the AI models offered currently carries a fixed surcharge. When the selected model carries a cost, that cost is shown when you choose it, before you order, and re-invoiced at the cost incurred, with no mark-up; usage is billed at the publisher's price. Publishers' prices are published in US dollars: the amount re-invoiced is the amount in euros actually borne by Blue Lemon Agent on the publisher's invoice, at that invoice's exchange rate, with no commission or mark-up.
Included components and additional components Components included in the base offer: the Blue Lemon Agent software foundation, the AI models listed in the order journey, the standard channels (Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp Business, email, website chat, calendars, Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace, file storage, market VoIP telephony, professional social-media pages and accounts, Google Business Profile), hosting in France for the package chosen, backups, supervision, updates and support. If adapting the AI agent to your constraints, your needs or your requests requires other paid components — a third-party publisher's software licence, paid API access to one of your applications, hosting of health data, for which French law requires an HDS-certified host (art. L. 1111-8 of the French Public Health Code), SecNumCloud-qualified hosting, a speech synthesis service, particular hardware —, they are offered to you as an option or on quotation and re-invoiced at the cost incurred; nothing is committed without your written agreement. Where the artificial intelligence model you choose entails an additional cost, that cost is shown to you before you order and re-invoiced to you at the cost incurred, with no margin.
What to expect
Go-live 2 to 3 weeks
Agent designed, channels connected, team trained.
Steady state 4 to 7 weeks
After a few weeks of real use, once the agent's behaviour matches what you expect. Indicative estimate, adjusted to the options you keep. It is not a delivery commitment.
Our commitment

Four guarantees that matter for a support network

General information, never personalised adviceThe agent returns the rule with its official source, its date and its conditions to check. It asserts no eligibility and qualifies no individual situation: the adviser approves and signs.
Founders' files stay with youLocal inference or an isolated resource hosted in France; no identity document, no unfiled project entrusted to a foreign third party, no content used to train a model.
Data in France, under French lawFiles, documents and forecasts: minimisation, configured retention periods and location in France, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.
Human supervision & traceabilityEvery document handed to a founder carries the name of the adviser who approved it and the date of that approval, as the AI Act requires.
Frequently asked questions

Your questions, our answers

Does the agent give legal or tax advice?
No, and that is the rule everything else is built on. It returns general information: the applicable text, the official address where it is found, the update date of that page, and the list of conditions to check. It never asserts that a given founder meets those conditions, does not recommend a legal form or a tax regime, and does not pronounce on whether a project stands up. Applying the rule to the case and signing the support record belong to the adviser.
How does the agent stay current when a rule changes?
Every line of the checklist carries the official address it is drawn from and the update date of that page; the agent revisits them and flags the pages that have moved since it last read them. ACRE illustrates the point: granted automatically until 31 December 2025, it has since 1 January 2026 required an application to Urssaf within 60 days of the declared start-of-activity date. An undated checklist would have gone on announcing that it was automatic.
Where are formalities filed?
On the single electronic window for business formalities, operated by the INPI. Since 1 January 2023 the formalities of creation, modification and cessation of activity must be carried out there online, whatever the legal form or the activity; the business formality centres have been abolished. The agent prepares and checks the filing — identity document, declaration of non-conviction and certificate of filiation, proof of business address, proof of professional qualification for a regulated activity — and then a human files it.
Does the forecast produced commit our organisation?
The forecast is a formatting of the founder's assumptions, and every line displays the assumption behind it and where it comes from. The agent compares those assumptions with the files your organisation has already supported in the same activity, and flags the gaps. It does not validate a funding plan and does not conclude that a project stands up: the adviser judges that and signs the document handed over.
Is white label possible?
Yes. The agent is deployed in the colours of your network — chamber of commerce, chamber of trades, support association, incubator, business nursery — or of your practice, with your templates, your vocabulary and your approval rules. Partitioning is strict: one organisation's files are never visible from another, and every document handed over carries the name of the adviser who approved it.
Is founders' data protected?
Yes. The agent is hosted in France, on local inference or an isolated resource, with the deployment objective of processing and access operated within the European Union and an architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity, in compliance with the GDPR. Identity documents and proof of resources have retention periods configured per category, and the files are not used to train a third-party model.
How long does deployment take?
Two to four weeks depending on the connections (founder-tracking tool, template library, official sources to monitor), after a free audit that scopes the perimeter, then a design, integration and testing phase before go-live.
Let's talk

Let us size the potential on your flow of founders

15 minutes to scope your file volume, your templates and your white-label needs — hosted in France, supervised, no commitment.