( Applied AI · Paris )
AI automation for small businesses
Crénage is a web and AI studio in Paris that builds automations, AI agents and website assistants for small businesses, only where they save time or win clients. Every project starts with a fixed-price AI audit at €450, delivered in 5 working days and deducted from the build if you go ahead, and every agent keeps a person in control wherever a mistake would matter.
( In short )
- AI audit
- €450, fixed, in 5 working days
- Builds
- Quoted after the audit, running costs included
- Control
- You approve anything sent to a client
- Transparency
- Assistants always say they are AI
- Your data
- GDPR, and never used to train models
- Ownership
- Workflows, prompts and code are yours
What can AI do for a small business?
Take over the repetitive work that eats your week. Sort incoming emails and enquiries, draft replies and quotes, pull the details out of invoices and forms, summarise calls, keep your CRM up to date, and answer the questions visitors ask your website at 11pm.
The common thread: tasks with clear rules, done many times a week, where a person can check the result in seconds. That is where AI saves real hours today. Anything that needs judgement or carries legal weight, AI prepares and a person decides.
Three lanes
What we build, depending on what the audit finds:
- 01Automations and agents: sorting, drafting, reading documents and updating your CRM, with a human sign-off
- 02AI on your website: an assistant that answers from your own content, search that understands questions, quote calculators
- 03AI audit: a ranked, priced list of where AI pays back in your business
Where AI doesn't belong
If a form, a spreadsheet formula or a better page does the job, that is what we will build. A chatbot added to look modern usually costs more trust than it saves time, and an AI that sends emails nobody reads first is a liability. We would rather talk you out of a purchase than build it badly.
What's in the AI audit
Five working days, at a fixed €450:
- 01One or two calls to map how work really flows today
- 02Your repetitive tasks, with the hours they take each month
- 03Opportunities ranked by payback, each with build and running costs
- 04The risks, data and legal points to settle first
- 05A recommended first project, ready to quote
How much does AI automation cost?
The audit is €450, fixed, and deducted from the build if you go ahead. Builds are quoted line by line: a simple automation costs far less than a custom agent. Running costs, meaning the AI usage and the hosting, are shown before you commit, and for most small businesses they stay between a few euros and a few dozen euros a month.
( How it works )
From audit to a working agent
- 01
Audit
Two calls and five working days to find where AI pays back, ranked and priced.
- 02
Prototype
The first automation running on your real examples, so you see results before the full build.
- 03
Build and test
Limits, logs and human sign-off built in, tested on the hard cases before anything reaches a client.
- 04
Launch and review
Live in your tools, then a monthly look at what it did, what it cost and what to improve.
No, and that isn't the goal. AI takes the repetitive part of the work off people's desks so they spend more time with clients. Wherever a mistake would matter, a person approves the result.
We use business AI services that don't train on your data, handle everything under the GDPR, and can keep data in the EU when you need it. Sensitive details can be masked before they ever reach a model.
€450, fixed, delivered within 5 working days. If you go ahead with a build, the audit fee is deducted from it.
The right one for each job: models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Mistral, chosen for quality, cost and where your data needs to stay. You are never locked into one provider.
No. Most automations work with the tools you already have: your inbox, your CRM, your forms and your current site. If the site itself is what holds you back, we will say so.
Since 2 August 2026, the AI Act requires chatbots to tell people they are talking to an AI. Every assistant we build does, and we document what each system does and which data it uses.
Ready for a website that actually works?
Strategy, design and code working as one system. Tell us what you need and hear back within 24 hours.