— Cognitive architecture & EBITDA recovery for mid-cap companies

Industrial continuity.Absolute asymmetry.

Peripheral AI architecture and EBITDA recovery for mid-cap companies (€20M – €150M). Three working demonstrators on your data. Fourteen days. Zero ERP intrusion.

Intervention capacity Q4 2026: 3 mandates per quarter

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From financial audit to prototype in production — zero ERP intrusion

Your net margin is your most vulnerable asset. We armour it.

Traditional firms bill six months of meetings to deliver a slide deck. We deploy autonomous layers on top of your legacy ERP in 14 days — eliminating manual entry and margin leaks without disrupting your core IT. Three mandates per quarter.

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The 4 silent haemorrhages of mid-cap companies

I
ERP friction
Re-keying and Excel exports around a core system nobody dares to change.
Re-keying and Excel exports, core system frozen.
II
Document entry
Orders, invoices and delivery notes processed by hand, line by line.
Orders, invoices, delivery notes processed by hand.
III
Memory loss
Thirty years of technical know-how scattered across unusable PDFs.
Thirty years of know-how in PDFs.
IV
Rigid fixed costs
Every rise in volume now requires an extra administrative hire.
Every rise in volume requires a hire.

II — General Management, CFOs & Private Equity Funds

A surgical extension of your ExCo.

We are not an additional IT vendor. We are the engineering arm of your Presidency. Zero load on your internal teams. Zero operational downtime.

I
Your Current Flows
Orders, invoices, costing, disputes: we isolate your bottlenecks to the euro.
We isolate your bottlenecks to the euro.
II
Your Real Data
Our engines are calibrated from D+4 on your own documents and your ERP nomenclature.
Engines calibrated from D+4 on your documents.
III
Total Sovereignty
Partitioned AES-256 environment in Europe. No data feeds a public AI.
No data trains a public AI.
IV
Guarantee at D+14
Live test before your ExCo. Below €150,000/year of proven gain, our balance is cancelled.
Below €150,000/year of gain, balance cancelled.

Engagement under a contractual guarantee of analytical result.

Schedule an audit

III — The 3 intervention bricks

Every critical process, automated without friction.

Three autonomous layers grafted onto the edge of your ERP.

Illustration

Ingestion / FA-2026-118734.pdfSlowed ×5

Specimen

Forges Spécimen SAS

ZI des Essarts, 00000 Spécimen-sur-Loire

SIRET 000 000 000 00000 · VAT FR00 000000000

Invoice

No.: FA-2026-118734
Date: 14/10/2026
Order: CDE-48213
Due: 30 days end of month

Delivered and billed to

Mécanique Spécimen SA

Purchasing, Dole site

Ref.	Description	Qty	Unit price	Amount
AX-904	Machined flange 42CD4 DN80	240	18.40	4,416.00
BR-2087	Ground shaft Ø60 h7 L420	60	96.7092.10	5,802.00
CT-1130	Bronze bushing CuSn12	120	14.75	1,770.00
TR-0442	Q+T heat treatment	1	640.00	640.00
VS-0318	A4-80 M12 stainless ×100	36	27.30	982.80
JT-7719	FKM 70 ShA O-ring	500	1.12	560.00
EM-0051	ISPM15 wooden crate	4	38.00	152.00
FT-0009	Chartered freight Lyon-Dole	1	285.00	285.00
CM-3100	EN 10204 3.1 material certificate	1	85.00	85.00
CD-0720	Dimensional inspection report	1	120.00	120.00

Received 16 Oct 2026
Accounts department

Total excl. VAT: 14,812.80
VAT 20%: 2,962.56
Total due: 17,775.36

Delivery note: 77102, 13/10/2026
Incoterm: FCA Lyon
Net weight: 1,284 kg
Payment: Bank transfer

Late payment penalties: 3 times the statutory rate. Fixed recovery fee: €40. No early payment discount.

OCR
Parsing
Matching
Export

0.00ingestFA-2026-118734.pdf · 1 p. · 300 dpi
0.12ocrconfidence 99.4% · 10 lines detected
0.24L01AX-904 240 × 18.40 4,416.00
0.29L02BR-2087 60 × 96.70 5,802.00
0.34L03CT-1130 120 × 14.75 1,770.00
0.39L04TR-0442 1 × 640.00 640.00
0.44L05VS-0318 36 × 27.30 982.80
0.49L06JT-7719 500 × 1.12 560.00
0.54L07EM-0051 4 × 38.00 152.00
0.59L08FT-0009 1 × 285.00 285.00
0.64L09CM-3100 1 × 85.00 85.00
0.69L10CD-0720 1 × 120.00 120.00
0.80checkL02 contract 92.10 ≠ billed 96.70
0.88gap+€276.00 excl. VAT on L02
1.00fixL02 reset to 92.10 · credit note requested
1.12margin22.9% → 24.3% on CDE-48213
1.28exportX3_IMPORT_118734.csv · 10 l. · sum OK

OrderCDE-48213
Delivery noteBL-77102
Price contractgap L02
Duplicatenone
VAT20% OK
IBANknown

Price gap

+€276.00corrected

Order margin

24.3%22.9% → +1.4 pt

Matched invoice

14,536.80€ excl. VAT, fixed

[ Sage X3 / SAP export ready — 1.8s ]

◎ I — ERP extraction & reconciliation

Predictive document ingestion

Instant reading of your PDF orders, complex invoices and scanned delivery notes. Automatic price-variance checks and an ERP-ready export in 1.8 seconds.

+ Natively compatible with SAP, Sage X3, Cegid, Divalto & AS400 through CSV/XML isolates

Illustration

Private memory / encrypted index412,318 chunks · 1,536 dim.

What is the minimum margin on part #AX-904?

[1][2][3]

Sourced answer

Minimum margin on #AX-904: 18.5%, transport penalty included.

3 sources · top-k 3 · 0.8 s · no data outside the perimeter

◎ II — Private vector memory

Cloning technical expertise

Private indexing of your technical manuals, quote history and contracts. Your teams query the company’s entire memory in natural language and get an answer sourced to the page.

+ Partitioned AES-256 encrypted hosting — zero intellectual property leakage

Illustration

SIP/TLS · SRTP · G.711 ALine ADV-02 · inbound call

Timer: 00:42
Latency: 410ms
Sentiment: Neutral -> Resolved

Caller Agent

Transcript

CallerI need 12 pallets of AX-904 by tomorrow morning.

>Checking Lyon warehouse stock... 14 pallets available. Shipment confirmed tomorrow 06:00.

Actions

wms.stock(AX-904, LYON)14 pal.
tms.book(12 pal., D+1 06:00)confirmed

Latency budget

Listen118
Decide214
Speak78

◎ III — 24/7 operational cells

Voice agents & 24/7 support

Autonomous phone lines connected to your stock and schedules. B2B order taking, emergency triage and delivery tracking around the clock, without tying up your sales administration.

+ Absorb seasonal peaks at constant payroll

EBITDA erosion calculator

Revenue€50M Administrative staff47 Sector valuation multiple (4x to 9x EBITDA)6.5x

Estimated annual EBITDA loss on manual flows

€412,000 / year

Impact on your company’s valuation (6.5x multiple)

-€2,678,000

Equal to 7.1 administrative FTEs burned on tasks with no added value.

[ Recover this €412,000 of EBITDA in 14 days → ]

Assumptions: loaded cost of €55,000 a year, 15% of time on manual flows, document errors at 0.05% of revenue. FTE = administrative headcount × 15%. Multiple of your choice, 6.5x by default. Indicative estimate, to be confirmed on your figures.

Peripheral engineering (zero ERP intrusion)

The architecture your profitability demands, without the weight of integrators.

SAP · Sage X3 · Cegid · Divalto · AS400

Full audit of statutory accounts and loaded costs by division
Systemic mapping of information flows (Mermaid / BPMN)
Zero changes to the source code of your core ERP
Line-by-line ROI calculation auditable by your statutory auditor
GDPR impact analysis and full compliance with the EU AI Act
Ownership transfer or managed steering through External AI Direction

Financial impact matrix by sector

Industry & Plastics

Modelling target

+1.8 pts of EBITDA

B2B Trade & Distribution

Modelling target

-78% sales admin processing time

Transport, Logistics & Real Estate

Modelling target

+35% flow absorbed at constant FTE

Orders of magnitude targeted by the modelling, to be established case by case.

“The most profitable transformation is the one that never paralyses your operations.”

How we protect your assets ↓

IV — Sovereignty architectures & industrial secrecy

Where industrial secrecy is an architecture, not a promise.

IV — Our protocol

Black document and pen on a dark table under blind-striped light

Dark, symmetrical aisle of technical cabinets

Automated container port seen from above at night

Bilateral non-disclosure agreement signed before any exchange. Sealed compartment dedicated to your entity alone.

Zero-retention inference
AES-256 / TLS 1.3 encryption
EU AI Act compliance
Audits under strict NDA

— Timeline of an execution mandate

Fourteen working days. From signing the engagement letter to handing over your three working bricks before your Executive Committee.

Step I — Extraction

Strategic Ingestion

Delivery of 20 sample documents (orders, invoices) and 2 hours of targeted interviews with your business directors. Zero wasted meetings.

DAY 01 — 09:00

Illustration

Tax return audit · Form 2052€k

Account Label Y-1 Y Chg. Repetitive tasks

641 Salaries 6,840 7,190 +5.1% 23 %
645 Social charges 2,770 2,910 +5.1% 23 %
61/62 External charges 4,120 4,460 +8.3% 31 %

Audited base 13,730 14,560 +6.0%

Friction by department

Order entry
781,240 h/month
Accounting
54610 h/month
Logistics
61720 h/month
Step II — Autopsy

EBITDA Modelling

Loaded hourly cost of each friction point, and clean-room drafting of your 110-page Master Plan.

DAY 04 — 14:00

Illustration

EBITDA model · sample€M, axis cut at 3.0
Step III — Machining

Assembling the 3 Prototypes

Machining of the 3 prototypes on your real documents. Load testing up to > 99% precision.

DAY 09 — 18:30
Illustration
Test bench · 3 prototypes

Extraction01

99,4

Memory02

0,8 s

Voice03

OK
- OCR Accuracy99.4%
- RAG Latency0.8 s
- Stress TestPassed
Step IV — Impulse

The ExCo Handover

Live test on your workstations, handover of the bound 110-page book and validation of an ROI > €150,000/year.

DAY 14 — 10:00

Account	Label	Y-1	Y	Chg.	Repetitive tasks
641	Salaries	6,840	7,190	+5.1%	23 %
645	Social charges	2,770	2,910	+5.1%	23 %
61/62	External charges	4,120	4,460	+8.3%	31 %
	Audited base	13,730	14,560	+6.0%

Silhouette seen from behind at a window, facing a city at dusk

Partner leadership & engineering

Every mandate is led personally by a Senior Partner, backed by our systems engineering cell. No junior consultant or salesperson between you and us. Business secrecy is absolute.

Strategic mandates office

Direct contact — mandats@meridien-architecture.com

“What destroys a mid-cap’s margin is never its industrial base. It is the thousands of invisible hours burned in the gaps of its information system.”

Engagement under non-disclosure agreement // Zero offshore subcontracting

V — ExCo counterparts

Three seats. One standard.

I
Presidents & Majority Shareholders
Asset valuation & EBITDA multiple.

Shareholder value
Every euro of EBITDA recovered counts at your exit multiple.
Decision
Fixed fee, 14 days, handover before your Executive Committee.
Risk
Balance cancelled below €150,000/year of proven gain.
II
General Management & CFOs
Immediate ROI, frozen fixed costs & compliance.

Accounting treatment
Fixed fees, invoiced in two stages: 50% then 50%.
No heavy CAPEX
No ERP changes, no development on the IT side during the Sprint.
Statutory auditor
Line-by-line ROI calculation, auditable by your auditor.
III
Private Equity Funds & Holdings
Operational due diligence, Mid-Cap portfolio turnaround (Europe / US) & IFRS/GAAP alignment.

Operational due diligence
Review of statutory accounts and loaded costs by division.
Portfolio companies
The same method, on real documents, before any rollout.
Confidentiality
Bilateral agreement signed before any exchange.

Competitive protection clause

Activating a Méridien mandate automatically locks an 18-month sector exclusivity: we refuse any engagement with your 3 direct competitors in your geographic market.

Financial guarantee protocol

Guarantee to identify €150,000 of annual savings.

01
Opening
50% of Sprint fees when the file opens.
02
Modelling
Line-by-line costing of the operational savings potential.
03
Demonstration
Model and prototypes presented to the Executive Committee at D+14.
04

50% on delivery. Below €150,000/year of proven gain, the balance is cancelled.

VI — Coverage

Industrial Europe.

Click a city

Hub register

Macro of a steel and bronze watch movement

Tomorrow’s profitability belongs to organisations that separate their business volume from their payroll.

VII — Pre-closing questions

Before our first meeting.

Why work in 14 days at a fixed price rather than as a classic consulting assignment?

Traditional firms bill for time: stretching work over six months pays them. Fixed fee, 14 days, a 110-page Master Plan, 3 prototypes on your data.

Our internal IT department is already overloaded. What will its workload be?

Strictly none during the Sprint: no development, no complex firewall opening, no ERP change. We need 20 sample documents and 2 hours of interviews with your business directors.

How does your €150,000 Financial Guarantee actually work?

50% when the file opens, 50% on delivery at D+14. Contractual guarantee: below €150,000/year of proven gain, the balance is cancelled.

Our business software is old (AS400, Sage X3, custom SAP). Is it compatible?

Yes: the older your ERP, the larger the ROI. Our bricks work upstream and downstream through CSV, XML, EDI or API, without touching the core.

What happens after day 14, once the deliverables are handed over?

Complete freedom. Your teams take the rollout in-house with the 110 pages, or our External Automation Direction mandate handles hosting, maintenance and evolution.

How do you guarantee that our accounts and industrial secrets do not leak into public AI?

No consumer interface: only Zero-Retention APIs from SOC 2 and ISO 27001 providers. Your data, encrypted in transit, is purged from memory immediately after inference.

What are your eligibility criteria for accepting a mandate?

Revenue between €20M and €150M, positive operating profitability. Request carried directly by the Presidency, General Management or the majority shareholder.

→ Check whether your company is eligible below

VIII — Accreditation request

Admission protocol.

Requirements to submit a file

Revenue above €20M
Decision-maker on the Executive Committee

Industrial continuity.Absolute asymmetry.

Your net margin is your most vulnerable asset. We armour it.

The 4 silent haemorrhages of mid-cap companies

ERP friction

Document entry

Memory loss

Rigid fixed costs

A surgical extension of your ExCo.

Your Current Flows

Your Real Data

Total Sovereignty

Guarantee at D+14