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Take your company to its next level.

We find your value creation levers, we prioritise them with your executive committee, then we work them through with your teams — using AI as the lever that multiplies the impact.

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01 — Our method

Forward Deployed Strategy

Four steps, held by a small team and powered by AI. The first two set the strategy. The next two go through our AI Studio, which builds the bespoke tools.

Strategy
AI Studio — where the others stop
01

Analyse

Interviews with executives, teams and the market; company data; benchmarks. Our agents read the whole corpus, not a sample.

The four or five subjects that make the value.

02

Structure

The trajectory, quantified, written with the executive committee: initiatives, owners, milestones, indicators. One document fit for the board, the investors and the teams.

A trajectory everyone can read.

03AI Studio

Build

The AI Studio builds the tools that move the plan forward, on your data and inside your processes: what took three days takes one. Alongside it, monthly review, decisions, subjects taken back in hand.

Tools in service, a plan that moves.

04AI Studio

Sustain

The tools built during the mission stay in service, your teams run them, the governance works without us.

An autonomous team, tools in service.

02 — What we do

Five ways to work together

01

CEO sparring partner

A peer at your side, so you do not decide alone.

  • Building the strategy and the roadmap
  • Helping you settle the key trade-offs
  • Cash, team, sales
  • The introductions that unlock things: experts, peers, partners

3 days / month · 12 months

02

Value creation plan

The development and growth trajectory of the company, built with your executive committee.

  • Top line: sales, marketing, pricing
  • Bottom line: operational performance, supply chain, organisation
  • Cash and financing

Structured into initiatives, each with an owner, quantified KPIs and deadlines to meet.

2 months half-time, then minimum 1 day / month

03

Buy-and-build: acquisition and integration

From target to day 180.

  • The integration thesis before signing
  • The first 15 days run day by day
  • Orchestrating the delivery of synergies: target organisation, systems, people

4 weeks before closing, then 1 to 3 days / week over 1 year

04

Operational performance

One specific subject whose performance has to change: sales, marketing, a supply chain process, a function that costs too much.

  • A quantified diagnostic, whole corpus read by AI
  • The right experts brought in on it
  • The improvement plan, then its rollout through to the result

2 weeks of diagnostic, 3 weeks of plan, then 1 day / week over 1 year

05

Restructuring

A company restructuring from A to Z, with AI as a lever.

  • A concrete plan at one week, 3 months and one year
  • Coordination of the advisers, lawyers and administrators
  • Interim management when the mandate calls for it

Diagnostic in 2 weeks. 100-day plan in 2 weeks. Then minimum 1 day / week over 1 year.

03 — The AI Studio

Everything is decided in the execution. So we build the tools.

The CHOC AI Studio builds, during the mission and on your data, the tools that put the plan to work. Three examples, born from an advisory mission.

The Helm
The Helm

The Helm

Born with Argos Wityu

Steering a fund’s portfolio: the thesis becomes a plan of initiatives, linked to actual KPIs and to the exit scenario.

See The Helm →
Lawesome
Lawesome

Lawesome

Born with Aconic Avocats

Legal research and drafting for a law firm, on official sources and its own files — every answer cites its references.

Diligence ESGMéthodeESRS couvertsExemple de rapportDemanderSmall & mid-cap · 4 joursLa due diligence ESGenfin proportionnéeà l'opération.Double matérialité par ESRS, maturitéargumentée, benchmark, priorités à KPI.Voir un rapportLa méthodeScore de maturité0 → 4E1 · ClimatE2 · PollutionE5 · CircularitéS1 · EffectifsG1 · ConduiteChaque score argumenté, et comparé à un pair du secteur4 jdu kick-off au rapport10ESRS passés au crible1pair comparéKPIsur chaque priorité
ESG due diligence

ESG due diligence

Born with Siparex

Double materiality, a maturity score argued line by line, KPI priorities: the diligence of large deals, delivered in four days.

Explore the AI Studio →

04 — Who does the work

The people who write the plan have already run one.

Each of us comes from the top strategy firms and has held an executive role inside a company under LBO. Senior partners, and a network of ad hoc experts brought in case by case.

The team →

05 — Our missions

The value created, mission by mission.

CVC Capital Partners
CVC Capital Partners × Panzani

Building the value creation plan after the buyout.

The impact. A structured plan — and a conviction: a plan lives through the internal owner who carries it.

Veolia
Veolia

Turning the alerts of a smart-metered water network into interventions that pay.

The impact. Written operating processes, and commercial losses recovered.

Parquest
Parquest × Tediber

Competitive position and strategic options of a digital brand in a new market context.

The impact. A clear reading of the market for the fund’s decision.

Groupe La Poste
Groupe La Poste × laposte.fr

A profitability path for the online business.

The impact. A profitability path and its costed plan.

PepsiCo
PepsiCo × Snacks France & Spain

Rebuilding the snacks plan for France and Spain.

The impact. A plan aligned across functions and countries.

Advent
Advent × IDEMIA

An executive committee offsite that ends with a plan and a horizon.

The impact. A shared plan, and a team that worked together.

Adeo
Adeo

Innovation and its launch into new countries, for the parent company of Leroy Merlin.

The impact. Concepts ready to be carried into new markets.

JLL
JLL

Designing and launching the value creation plan of an EMEA region of a global leader.

The impact. A transformation set on the right track.

Solvay
Solvay

Simplifying the product and customer portfolio of a chemicals business.

The impact. A portfolio focused on what creates value.

Argos Wityu
Argos Wityu × Hexvia · Demeco

The value creation plan built with the CEO and the executive committee, in 100 days.

The impact. A plan owned by the management team, and the trust for what comes next.

Macif
Macif × Crédit Expert

The strategic plan of a newly acquired subsidiary, and its synergies with the group.

The impact. A plan shared by the group strategy department and the subsidiary’s CEO.

AI Studio
AI Studio × Aconic · Lawesome

A law firm equipped with AI: platform and training.

The impact. Hours given back to the partners, and the AI Studio’s showcase.

   More missions →

Testimonials

Executives who had us alongside them.

« Excellent support from Louis-Jean throughout the development of our transformation plan: speed, efficiency, ability to synthesise, relevance and… humour! I highly recommend him. »

Benoît Drillon
Benoît DrillonCEO, Groupe Hexvia

« Speed, creativity, the ability to simplify complex situations, the ability to mobilise different stakeholders, high emotional intelligence and a hunger for concrete results. That is how to sum up six months spent with Louis-Jean, during which he supported the Group in designing and starting to deploy the VCP of an EMEA region. His presence was decisive in setting this transformation on the right track. Clearly an operational performance accelerator, with the guarantee of smooth integration thanks to his team spirit. »

Sébastien R.
Sébastien R.COO EMEA, JLL

« I had the pleasure of working with CHOC on a sensitive mission for our BU. Throughout the project, I appreciated the way we worked, in particular our strong cooperation and sharing of ideas. Louis-Jean’s kindness and his ability to blend into our executive group were much appreciated by the team. He is a dedicated and talented partner. »

Alexandre M.
Alexandre M.VP Strategy & Transformation, IDEMIA

« We worked with CHOC for a year. Louis-Jean’s strategic vision, rigorous methodology, organisational skills, interpersonal style and appetite for change were absolutely decisive in making a success of this initial phase, across every area of the business: sustainability model, integration of acquisitions, efficiency gains, and commercial development. »

Elisabeth C.
Elisabeth C.Transformation Director & Chief of Staff, Ecotone

Let’s talk about your challenges.

Growth that has hit a ceiling, a size to double, an acquisition to integrate, profitability to restore: tell us where you stand.

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