Le Beau Gesteby Cognivance

A European technology company born alongside industry

You anticipate the resilience of your know-how; we design the means for you.

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.

  1. Performance is transferred

    A machine is tracked, maintained and valued. Know-how should be treated just the same.

  2. Technology must understand the real work

    Industry is not just documents. It is made of trade-skills, decisions, situations and experience.

  3. Know-how as an asset

    What improves your production today also constitutes your industrial asset base of tomorrow.

Governance

The leadership team

Loïc Sbernardori, president of Cognivance

Loïc Sbernardori

President · Customer success

Karim Ben Khaled, AI leadership at Cognivance

Karim Ben Khaled

AI leadership

Antoine Alexandre, CTO of Cognivance

Antoine Alexandre

Chief Technology Officer

Advisory Board

Sandira Calviac, member of Cognivance's Advisory Board

Sandira Calviac

Cross-border Venture Capital specialist

Franck Tricot, member of Cognivance's Advisory Board

Franck Tricot

Market-acquisition specialist

Isabelle Valentin, member of Cognivance's Advisory Board

Isabelle Valentin

Former COO / industrial specialist

Stéphane Donninger, member of the Cognivance Advisory Board

Stéphane Donninger

CEO Astoïk

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.