Artificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses compete - 73% of leaders believe AI will strengthen their teams' performance. Yet adoption remains slowed by a lack of internal expertise, technical complexity and ethical concerns.
CCI Lyon Métropole Saint-Étienne Roanne, which represents 170,000 businesses across its territory, has positioned itself as a strategic partner for companies navigating this transformation offering awareness workshops, tailored audits and hands-on support to help organizations deploy AI with clarity and purpose.
As part of this commitment, CCI Capital Croissance, the Chamber's investment arm, has chosen to invest in DigitalKin, a Lyon-based startup redefining the standards of AI for high-stakes environments such as scientific research and healthcare, where reliability and transparency are non-negotiable.
A new generation of AI: controllable, traceable, endorsable
DigitalKin's platform enables organizations to create and configure autonomous AI agents — Kins — capable of executing complex tasks while guaranteeing full traceability, human control and result reliability. Built on a multi-agent architecture that stands in direct opposition to traditional "black box" AI, the technology delivers complete visibility over how AI operates:
Kins are configurable and controllable — professionals define their own methodology, rules, decision thresholds and validation checkpoints. They are traceable and transparent — every action generates detailed reports, allowing professionals to review and justify each step. They are endorsable — the combination of control, traceability and human validation means experts can fully stand behind the results their AI produces.
Proven results in scientific research
In a recent joint communication, Philippe Valentin, President of CCI Lyon Métropole, and Emmanuel Théry, cofounder of DigitalKin, illustrated this approach through a concrete use case: scientific literature review.
Results already observed: a literature review that would take a human researcher months is completed by a Kin in under 20 minutes. Total research exploration time is divided by 10, allowing teams to cover more ground and spend more time advancing their core work. Scientific rigor is maintained without compromise — the Kin guarantees full transparency over its research, analysis and writing process.
"Kins allow researchers to apply their methods with unmatched precision, automatically document every step, and obtain fully defensible results," said Emmanuel Théry. "A researcher can integrate their personal methodology into the system, have our agents execute it, then verify that everything was carried out according to their scientific expectations. The result becomes fully endorsable by the expert."
Beyond research: growing adoption across sectors
DigitalKin's technology has already been adopted by leading organizations across several industries: pharmaceutical research for protocol execution and documentation, R&D tax credit applications, academic research for literature reviews and methodological analyses, and industrial R&D for innovation project management with full decision traceability.
"Artificial intelligence is an unavoidable digital revolution, but every company must approach this turning point with clear-headedness: understand, test, surround yourself with the right partners. That is also how we are adopting it within our own CCI," said Philippe Valentin, President of CCI Lyon Métropole Saint-Étienne Roanne.
About DigitalKin Founded in 2023 in Lyon, DigitalKin is pioneering transparent agentic AI for high-stakes work. A member of the NVIDIA Inception program and backed by leading French innovation partners, the company is currently raising a Series A to accelerate the international deployment of its technology. DigitalKin's mission: create a symbiosis between human expertise and artificial intelligence, where technology amplifies human capabilities while remaining under full, transparent control.
About CCI Lyon Métropole Saint-Étienne Roanne With 100 elected members and 185 mandates across various institutions, CCI Lyon Métropole represents 170,000 businesses. It supports their development and transitions, acts for territorial performance and attractiveness, and advocates for business interests in public decision-making.
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