LightOn and BearingPoint announced a partnership on Apr 29, 2025 to bring sovereign generative AI to public bodies

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LightOn, which makes the Paradigm generative AI platform, and the consulting firm BearingPoint announced a strategic partnership on Apr 29, 2025 to help public organisations adopt generative AI, according to a release LightOn published through France's market regulator, the AMF. The release said the partnership was meant to answer public organisations' specific sovereignty requirements, which it listed as security, control over infrastructure and data, and mastery of the technologies. It said the firms would offer public bodies a complete offering, from strategic framing to concrete use cases and change management.1^,2^,3^,4^,5

The release said the partnership drew on LightOn's technological expertise, whose Paradigm platform it described as designed and deployed in France, and on BearingPoint's proven experience in the digital transformation of the public sector. It said the solutions can be hosted on sovereign infrastructure, to give administrations a high level of protection and control over their sensitive data. Needs it listed include optimising internal processes, improving the relationship with users and automating low-value tasks. Several projects were already under study with French public institutions, the release said, in areas such as administrative documentation, assistance to staff and analysis of regulatory data.6^,7^,8^,9

Séverin de Crémiers, a partner at BearingPoint, said adopting generative AI is a major lever for modernising public action if it respects administrations' specific constraints on digital sovereignty. Laurent Daudet, LightOn's deputy chief executive (directeur général délégué), said the partnership aimed to promote a sovereign and secure solution to public services, to support the State in its digital transformation.10^,11^,12^,13

BearingPoint describes itself as an independent management and technology consulting firm with European roots and global reach, whose public sector team is made of consultants dedicated 100% to public clients. LightOn describes itself as founded in 2016 in Paris and as the first European generative AI company listed on Euronext Growth.14^,15^,16

The text we hold of the release is in French. The text we hold does not state the financial terms of the partnership, name any of the public institutions studying projects, or give a count of the projects under study.17^,18