A conviction born in Poitiers in 2018. A Data & AI company now present as far as Montreal.
DPLIANCE has been designing and operating Data & AI solutions since 2019.
Our story began around data protection, continued with the development of our own software, and then moved into automation and artificial intelligence projects.
That path still explains the way we build today: start from actual uses, keep data to what is necessary, and think about production from the design stage.
From software editor to Data/AI agency
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2018
A conviction before a company
It all starts in Poitiers, at a Startup Weekend. Hichem and Florian defend an idea rare at the time: giving individuals back control over their data. Three days of hackathon, a "Tech" prize awarded by the jury, and a lasting conviction. The SPN, the regional network of digital professionals, supports their first steps through its Start Innov' Academy acceleration programme.
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2019
Founded on GDPR field work
The GDPR has just come into force and organisations are working out how to comply. DPLIANCE is created to answer that, with one of the first GDPR compliance software products in France. It now equips more than 500 organisations, across mainland France and its overseas territories, through a national network of specialised agencies. Five years in daily contact with companies, local authorities and their sensitive data.
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2022
Products as proving ground
To prove data can be leveraged while respecting each individual, we build our own solutions: Mirage Analytics, Complio, Cookilio. Designed, built and operated end to end, hosted in Europe. The same year, DPLIANCE joins the Neoloji Technopole Grand Poitiers.
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Then
Data at the service of decisions
Our products teach us to work with data, to inform decisions: segmenting, predicting, classifying. We then go one step further with hyper-personalisation, fully automated A/B testing. A website's content adjusts to the visitor's profile and tests its variants continuously.
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2025
The Dis-ADEME turning point
We miss out on a public grant because we fail to spot an eligibility criterion. On the other side of the counter, the same problem exists at scale: ineligible applications by the hundreds. We turn it into a solution: a case-screening agent that pre-assesses funding applications to relieve ADEME's caseworkers. It wins the Dis-ADEME challenge, and the agency then asks us to take it into production.
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Then
Setting course for Canada
Florian, co-founder and CTO, moves to Montréal, a return to familiar ground for the founders, trained at Polytech Tours and at UQAC in Québec. DPLIANCE is welcomed by the Digihub in Shawinigan, then by Le Camp in Québec City. The agency now operates on both sides of the Atlantic, under GDPR and Law 25 alike.
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Today
AI that ships to production
Industrialisation of the ADEME solution continues. At i3 Impulsion, the insurance sector's applied research hub, we develop our hyper-personalisation. A website whose content automatically adjusts to each visitor's profile. Eight years since the conviction born at the 2018 Startup Weekend, seven years since DPLIANCE was founded in 2019. The agency now serves organisations where data is sensitive, from Poitiers to Montréal.
Two founders. One obsession: production.
Two co-founders, on both sides of the Atlantic. Hichem carries the vision and the relationship with clients; Florian designs the architecture and takes solutions through to production. Depending on the project, the team expands with data experts, as on the Dis-ADEME challenge. This tight organisation has one concrete consequence: your project goes from scoping to production without changing hands.
Hichem Ammar-Boudjelal
CEO
Co-founder. Has carried the DPLIANCE vision since 2019: proving you can leverage data and AI while respecting privacy and sovereignty. Previously an external consultant for LVMH and Axa, including an international POC won in 2017.
Florian Gadal
CTO
Co-founder, based in Montréal. Architect of DPLIANCE's solutions, from the first line of code to production, and everything that happens after. He developed the applications of the Barreau du Québec, the province's bar association, and anchors the agency in North America.
Three convictions. One direction.
Privacy has to shape the architecture
Data protection is not only a matter of legal documentation. The information collected, the suppliers involved and the purposes of the processing have to shape the technical choices from the design stage.
Sovereignty is a question of control
We aim to make explicit where data sits, which suppliers are involved and what the reversibility terms are. The point is not to rule out a technology because of where it comes from, but to know precisely what dependencies it creates.
Data has to produce measurable value
We are not trying to collect more. We are trying to make better use of the information genuinely needed for a decision, an automation or a service.
A Data or AI project? 30 minutes with an engineer is enough to know.
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