Koncile named start-up of the year by ADRA
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.
.avif)
Koncile was awarded Startup of the Year at the 10th edition of ADRA’Up. This recognition is particularly meaningful to us, as it comes from ADRA, widely regarded as the leading procurement network in France. ADRA brings together procurement directors and leaders from some of the country’s largest organizations, including groups such as LVMH and TotalEnergies. Being recognized by a community known for its high standards, maturity, and strong culture of collaboration gives this award special significance.
Why Koncile is shaping the future of procurement
Koncile converts procurement documents — contracts, purchase orders, quotes, invoices — into structured, usable and verifiable data. This transformation relies in particular on optical character recognition, which makes it possible to convert complex and heterogeneous documents into reliable data that can be analyzed, controlled, and leveraged at scale.
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. 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, and higher, measurable performance. Achieving this shift requires robust and governable data foundations, which is precisely the role of intelligent document processing in modern procurement organizations.
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.
Real life insights on document automation
5 Best French OCR Solutions to Extract Data from Your Documents
French OCR solutions now make it possible to automatically extract data from your invoices, contracts, and accounting documents using optical character recognition, with hosting based in France. Here is a real comparison of all five OCR solutions, corrected against current 2026 figures where vendor claims had gone stale, covering what actually differentiates them beyond the fact that they are all hosted in France.
Document processing and fraud detection: build or buy?
Extracting and structuring document data, enriching it, detecting fraud: with AI, building your own end-to-end solution has never looked so simple. Buying off the shelf still often turns out to be the better option. Here are the thirty-nine difficulties to expect before you start.
In healthcare, an OCR is judged on what it flags, not on what it reads
Every OCR vendor advertises high accuracy rates, and most of them deliver. On a health document, that is not the right buying criterion. What counts is what the tool does when it is not sure, what it lets you verify, and what it guarantees about the data it handles.
Top Healthcare OCR Tools: HIPAA Compliance and What the Clinical Evidence Shows
Amazon Textract has been formally HIPAA-eligible since October 2019. Most healthcare OCR comparisons never mention that, or check which of the other four tools on their list actually offer a signed BAA. Here is a rebuild that checks compliance status directly, and looks at what the real clinical trials on ambient AI scribes actually found, not just what the marketing claims.
Best Accounting Software for Sole Proprietors and Freelancers in 2026
A freelancer sending a dozen invoices a month can blow through Xero's cheapest plan by week three, and a $19-a-month FreshBooks account caps out at five clients. The number on a pricing page is rarely the number you actually pay. Here is a real comparison of QuickBooks, Xero, Wave, and FreshBooks built for a business of one, not a growing team.