Koncile received the Start-up of the Year award during the 10th edition of ADRA’Up — a distinction that means a great deal to us, as it comes from ADRA, widely regarded as the most influential procurement network in France. It brings together procurement directors and managers from the country’s largest organisations, including groups such as LVMH and TotalEnergies. Being recognised by a community known for its high standards, maturity and spirit of collaboration gives this achievement particular significance.

Koncile is elected startup of the year by ADRA. The solution turns procurement documents into actionable data to detect savings, monitor at scale, and improve strategic decisions.

Photography: Jules Ratier and Hugues de Planta

Why Koncile is shaping the future of procurement

Koncile converts procurement documents — contracts, purchase orders, quotes, invoices — into structured, usable and verifiable data. The objective is simple: help procurement teams unlock the value of information still largely under-used today.

Currently, less than 20% of the data contained in procurement documents is actually exploited. Our ambition is clear: make 100% of useful information visible to manage spend effectively.

This approach has already led to tangible results for our clients:

a major retail company identified 4% hidden savings in 6 weeks thanks to automated analysis of contracts and invoices
a mobility group divided its supplier control time by three through the automatic structuring of purchase orders
more recently, we helped a client recover over €50,000 by reconciling a few hundred quotes and invoices

With structured data, procurement departments can now:

detect savings opportunities quickly — even those impossible to spot manually
automate large-scale, continuous controls
improve spend quality, reliability and compliance
make more strategic, informed and defensible decisions

This recognition from ADRA confirms that document data is still an under-leveraged strategic asset, and that activating it can profoundly transform the procurement function.

A meaningful recognition

Procurement documents too often remain unused in systems. At Koncile, we chose to wake them up.

This award also strengthens our commitment to supporting procurement teams toward a new era:

clearer, more transparent spend
more reliable controls
more structured governance
higher, measurable performance

ADRA selects only one start-up each year, and past winners (such as Malt, GoJob and Flowie) show how demanding the competition is. Since each start-up can only participate once in its entire existence, being selected among the most innovative solutions reinforces our determination to accelerate even further.

Acknowledgements

We extend our sincere thanks to Hugues de Planta, Managing Director of ADRA, and Cédric Le Savéant, a key organiser and facilitator within the procurement ecosystem. Their support, insights and trust played a major role in this journey.

We also thank all ADRA members for their warm welcome, their interest, and the inspiring discussions that followed this award.

Tristan Thommen

Co-founder at Koncile – Turn any document into structured data with LLMs – tristan@koncile.ai

Tristan Thommen designs and deploys the core technologies that transform unstructured documents into actionable data. He combines AI, OCR, and business logic to make life easier for operational teams.