AI integrator, vendor or consultant: who should implement AI in your company?
Pick the one who understands how your company works, wires AI into the tools you already use, and sticks around to keep it current. A software vendor sells you a product to configure, a consultant makes recommendations, an integrator installs what you spec out. At Saména, engineers look at your processes, build agents wired into your tools and maintain them on a subscription.
Integrator, vendor, consultant: who does what?
All three can help you implement AI, and each leaves you with a different amount of work.
- A software vendor sells an AI product, often per seat. It's ready right away, but configuring it for your tasks and training your teams is on you.
- A consulting firm studies your processes and makes recommendations. Implementation often goes to another provider, or back to you.
- An integrator or IT services firm installs and connects what you describe, on a fixed quote. Someone on your side has to write the spec and manage the project.
Who understands your processes?
A useful agent follows a specific way of working: how you put a quote together, what you check in a client file, who gets which email. Whoever installs it needs to have seen that.
Ask whether they looked at your real files and talked to the people who do the task before proposing anything. If they pitch a solution at the first meeting, they're probably installing the same thing everywhere.
Who connects AI to your tools?
Your data already lives somewhere: file storage, email, industry software. An AI tool that makes you copy everything elsewhere won't stay up to date.
Saména reads SharePoint, OneDrive or Dropbox in read-only mode, only in the folders you pick, and your files stay where they are. Your email and business software can be connected too, as custom work. You grant access in two clicks, without sharing a password.
Your teams find the agents in the Saména app, and also in Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot. People who already use one of these assistants keep it.
Who maintains it after launch?
An installed agent changes all the time: new files land, another team wants in, a new use shows up. With an integrator on a fixed quote, each change falls outside the scope and gets billed separately. With a vendor, reconfiguring is on you.
At Saména, your agents keep evolving on one monthly subscription for the whole company, with unlimited users and a dedicated point of contact. The page "AI agency, freelancer or subscription: who should build your agents?" compares these models.
Can AI run on your own servers?
Yes, if you want it to. Saména can run on your servers or on a dedicated instance.
Otherwise, servers are in France and the database is in the European Union. What Saména retains from your documents is encrypted with a key unique to your company, and the master key is stored outside the database. You choose the model: Claude, models from OpenAI, or Mistral if you prefer a French model. It runs in Europe and keeps none of your data. Everything is deleted on request.
How do you compare offers?
Ask each provider the same questions:
- Who looked at how we work, and is it the same person who builds?
- Which tools does the AI connect to, and do our files get copied somewhere else?
- Who updates it when our files or teams change, and at what cost?
- Do we pay per user, or for the whole company?
- Can we start with one department and a first agent?
Frequently asked
- Is Saména an AI integrator?
- Saména builds agents and connects them to your tools, the way an integrator would. Its engineers first look at how you work, then stay on to keep the agents evolving on a subscription.
- How long does it take to implement AI?
- With Saména, one call, then access granted in two clicks: two weeks after the call, a first agent is running.
- Do we need an IT director to install an AI agent?
- No. You need someone who can grant access to the chosen folders, and someone who knows the task. Saména's engineers handle the rest.
- Which tools can be connected?
- SharePoint, OneDrive and Dropbox, in read-only mode. Your email and business software can be connected as custom work, on request. The page "AI connected to SharePoint, OneDrive or Dropbox: how does it work?" explains the connection.
- What does an installation cost?
- A setup fee based on the volume of your documents, then a monthly subscription for the whole company, priced on the agents built for you. We share numbers on the discovery call, which is free and comes with no commitment.
- What if we stop?
- Your files never left your folders. What Saména built from them can be deleted on request.
Book a demo: in 30 minutes, we work out with you which agent to install first, and which tools to connect it to.
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