The context.
Six years of sales archives sitting unsorted on a shared Dropbox. Quotes, meeting notes, creative briefs, contracts, supplier files. Nobody could find a thing.
"We were losing half a day per week per person looking for a quote or rebuilding a client file," recalls Vincent, the founder. "And the more we grew, the worse it got."
The trigger.
A lost bid because a reference file couldn't be found in time to respond. The founder looked for a solution without a heavy IT project: no CIO on staff, no patience for a six-month wait, no budget for a consulting firm.
We didn't want yet another piece of software to train on. We wanted the archives to speak. — Vincent R, La Coque
The rollout, day by day.
- Friday · D0Forgeron3 demo (20 min). Ingestion launched on the full Dropbox archive: 6 years, 14,000 files, ≈ 28 GB.
- Saturday · D1Ingestion completed overnight. First assistant configured: Quotes. Vincent asks questions, adjusts the guardrails.
- Sunday · D2Five more assistants configured: Meetings, Comms, Voice-of-customer, Accounting, Steering. About one hour per assistant on average.
- Monday · D3Team onboarding in a 15-minute team meeting. Everyone opens a link and asks a question. Nobody installs anything.
- Month +1Measured: 15 hours saved across the team per week, on average. Three new hires without growing the back office.
The six assistants.
Quotes knows the catalog, the price grid, past references. Produces a proposal ready to sign. Meetings — transcribes, summarizes, extracts decisions. Voice-of-customer — reads reviews, emails, NPS. Comms — applies the tone and visuals. Accounting — reads Sage invoices, flags overdue payments and margins. Steering — strategic meeting brief in two minutes.
The result, six months later.
The team uses the assistants every day. No "AI wow factor" — it has become invisible. When someone has a question about the history, they open it, ask, and get back to work.
We loaded six years of archives on a Friday. By Monday the team was querying the history in plain language. Nobody needed training, nobody re-entered a thing. — Vincent R, founder of La Coque
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