At VivaTech 2026, Europe's largest innovation event, DigitalKin chose the Hub France IA Village to publicly unveil its platform for the first time: a complete technology allowing professionals to transform their intellectual know-how into an operational, commercial AI service, including client acquisition, expert-grade deliverable production and billing, without hiring a single developer or spending thousands on marketing.
The billable hour: expertise's glass ceiling
An expert, no matter how brilliant, can only serve one client at a time. Thirty years of know-how, capped by a calendar and a daily rate. The consequence is well known: high-level intellectual services only reach those who can afford them. An entire segment of the market that needs these services never gets access, for lack of budget, network or simply availability.
And the dominant AI focus on internal productivity changes nothing: gaining a few efficiency points does not break through a model where value remains indexed to time spent.
AI served coders first. Now it's the experts' turn.
AI makes it possible, for the first time, to separate know-how from the time of the person who holds it. But seizing this opportunity remains reserved for those who master the technology. Without technical skills, without a dedicated team, the barrier to entry is considerable for professionals who want to exploit AI's full potential in their field.
DigitalKin tackles both problems head-on. Invest in AI before it's too late, yes, but without a budget of hundreds of thousands of euros or a technical hire on one hand, and without compromising on quality, security and business results on the other.
"Today, a professional who wants to build an AI business has two options: invest hundreds of thousands of euros in a technical team, or spend months mastering AI at the expense of what they do best. We created the third way: the expert keeps developing their expertise, the technology does the rest," says Sébastien Deschaux, Chief Science Officer and cofounder of DigitalKin.
Two proprietary technologies, born in Lyon
DigitalKin opens two proprietary technologies to the market.
- Telos, a causal reasoning AI engine built on 6 years of R&D, works the opposite of classic generative tools: instead of producing content and hoping it fits the need, Telos starts from the client's business objective to deliver high quality, not generic answers. The result: expert-grade, tailored deliverables, calibrated to a precise business challenge. Over 12,000 users, approximately 90% satisfaction, dozens of enterprise clients.
- Agentic Mesh, a multi-agent, multi-model agentic AI architecture capable of running complex missions end to end. This technology is embodied by the Kins: autonomous AI agents that execute missions with full transparency, under the control of the user and the domain experts who transfer their know-how to them.
From scarce expertise to abundant expertise
The process is straightforward. A professional shares their domain expertise with a Kin that evaluates the commercial potential of that know-how, builds their AI service, generates their digital storefront, and handles production and billing for end clients. The entire cycle runs autonomously on the platform.
The target for each service creator: €30,000 in monthly revenue on the Hub, but above all, making their know-how available to every business that needs it, online, 24/7, at a price that changes the market.
What shifts for the market: high-level intellectual services, previously accessible only to an elite, become available to a vastly broader base of companies. Services already live or in development on the Hub include Scientific Advisory Board preparation for biotechs, CE marking clinical dossiers for medtechs, brand positioning for SMEs and startups, business model design for entrepreneurs, scientific literature reviews for R&D teams, and state-of-the-art analyses for R&D tax credit applications.
Applications open at VivaTech
DigitalKin is opening this capability first to a select circle of early partners: domain specialists, consultants, sector experts. Professionals can join the waitlist at VivaTech 2026.
Among the first partners, branding agency Nikita launches SpoK SME & Startups Branding: an AI-powered brand positioning service designed for SMEs. A strategic engagement that traditionally costs several thousand euros in consulting fees.
"At Nikita, we've positioned over 100 major brands in 30 years. We know what makes a brand strong. With DigitalKin, we're making that expertise accessible to every SME that needs it, not just those that can afford an agency. SpoK is our know-how, amplified by AI, for those who never had access before," says Karine Jamroszczyk, Brand Strategist at Nikita.
"Building an AI business is not about automating what you do internally and gaining a few productivity points. It's about amplifying the value you bring to your clients: making it more accessible, more available, more rigorous. Millions of professionals worldwide hold know-how that entire markets need. We give them the means to reach those markets, and in doing so, put their expertise at the service of everyone," says Emmanuel Théry, CEO and cofounder of DigitalKin
Meet DigitalKin at VivaTech Paris Expo Porte de Versailles | June 17-20, 2026 | Hub France IA Village | Hall 7 | Stand 2F14-005
About DigitalKin Founded in Lyon in 2023 by Emmanuel Théry and Sébastien Deschaux, DigitalKin is a deeptech startup specializing in business-applied agentic AI, backed by CCI Lyon, Hub612 and member of the NVIDIA Inception program. Its mission: enabling experienced professionals to make their know-how accessible to all through autonomous, reliable, expert-grade AI services, without requiring any technical skills.
