You anticipate the resilience of your know-how; we design the means for you.
Performance is transferred
A machine is tracked, maintained and valued. Know-how should be treated just the same.
A European technology company born alongside industry
Software for analysing industrial know-how
Specialised LLM creators
Born of an ambition, built in the field
In industry, an essential part of performance sits neither in procedures nor in software. It lives in the experience of the women and men who know how to observe, decide, adjust and pass it on.
Cognivance was built to make this richness visible, understandable and transferable, and to serve industry's operational excellence. The technologies were created in partnership with manufacturers who tested and proved the solution in their workshops and on their lines, to target the differentiating factors.
Since the first research work in 2023, we have been combining artificial intelligence, work analysis and industrial expertise to treat know-how as what it really is: a strategic asset.
Our story
First R&D
2023
- Birth of the concept, launch of R&D
Founding
2024
- Founding of the company, pilot programmes with manufacturers
Go-to-market
2025
- First commercial sales of the software
Technological sovereignty
2026
- Creation of our first proprietary AI models
2024
Founding of the company
+50
Know-how already turned into assets
+500k€
Non-dilutive funding secured at pre-seed
22
Months of R&D before go-to-market
Manifesto
What we stand for
Le Beau Geste rests on three convictions. They come before the features: they say why trade-skills, decisions and knacks deserve to be treated as an asset base.
Technology must understand the real work
Industry is not just documents. It is made of trade-skills, decisions, situations and experience.
Know-how as an asset
What improves your production today also constitutes your industrial asset base of tomorrow.
Governance
The leadership team
Advisory Board
Our ecosystem
Thank you to those who fund, research and build with us — a local, scientific and human network around Cognivance.
Financial supporters
Région Grand Est
It supports industrial innovation in Grand Est and backed our first steps.
Réseau Initiative Grand Nancy
Honour loans and local support for entrepreneurs in Greater Nancy.
Scientific partners
CaMéX-IA
An excellence campus in Grand Est, dedicated to AI and the digitalisation of trades.
Université de Lorraine
Our academic base, from research through to talent development.
We like working with
La Forge
A communications agency that shapes Cognivance's voice and materials with us.
L'Empreinte du Jaguar
Helps our clients to identify, develop, transmit and secure their know-hows with the Le Beau Geste method.
Want to take part in preserving industrial know-how?
We are always looking for talent passionate about securing and transferring know-how. See our openings or send us a speculative application.