Ask for the Moon has one objective: to make it easier to share knowledge, quickly and on a large scale, by connecting employees. To achieve this, it is developing a collaborative platform for managing critical know-how, based on Artificial Intelligence. The French start-up and its 25 employees aim to revolutionise the way in which major industrial groups share and disseminate knowledge. Convinced that people are the key to performance, Ask for the Moon quickly connects teams, making it easy for them to find accurate, reliable answers from the right people. GIFEN met up with Bénédicte Tilloy and Clément Dietschy, co-founders of the company, to find out more about their activities in the nuclear sector, their latest news and their vision.
What are Ask for the Moon's activities in the nuclear industry?
Ask for the Moon aims to help actors in the nuclear industry meet their industrial performance challenges by promoting effective maintenance and sharing of expertise.
From the transmission of knowledge between experienced employees and new collaborators to the dissemination of best practices from the ASN, we already support actors such as SPIE Nucléaire, Framatome, Eiffage Énergie Systèmes, Cegelec CEM, and Ekium in their activity ramp-up issues.
For example, we have been collaborating with Framatome for over three years to deploy our solution to 3,000 employees. This solution was first deployed within the Technical and Engineering Department. Thanks to our AI, the teams were quickly able to interact at the right time with the right contacts. They obtained precise answers to their questions, thus avoiding costly mistakes.
Ask for the Moon's approach is not to replace experts within nuclear companies with AI, but to make them even more powerful and faster with it. Our generative AI, through our ELM (Enterprise Language Model) engine, is designed to respect and understand the specific context of each company. Unlike generic chatbots, Ask for the Moon drastically reduces errors and approximations: it is the expert collaborators who respond and validate, assisted by AI but not replaced by it.- replace it.
Ask for the Moon has obtained the ISO27001 certification and the Nuclear Valley, Jeune Entreprise Innovante labels.JEI) and French Tech.
What is the current news for Ask for the Moon in the nuclear industry?
Ask for the Moon has co-developed with its clients, including Framatome, a new key capability: the Expert Mode. This has been tested with a few users since September and will be available to everyone in the fall.
With our Expert Mode, specialists can easily transform their documents into clear and structured question-and-answer formats, directly accessible to all their colleagues. Whether it's training a recent graduate or an employee transitioning from another field, the Expert Mode allows knowledge to be disseminated faster, farther, and more effectively. Specialists no longer need to constantly repeat the same information, and colleagues no longer waste time searching for it.
What are the medium and long-term development prospects for Ask for the Moon?
Ask for the Moon fully aligns with the challenges of scaling up, perpetuating know-how, and transforming the operating methods of the sector. While the lack of competent and qualified employees is seen as one of the major challenges for the industry in the coming years, we aim to become the trusted Artificial Intelligence solution for the nuclear industry to address this.
With a fundraising of 2.5 million euros from Matterwave Ventures and UI Investissement in the first quarter of 2024, we plan to invest 5 million euros in R&D in the next two years, recruit 40 new employees, and expand our deployment internationally, particularly in Scandinavia, Germany, and the United States.
