Published on 26 October 2026
Four views of the business
Steering opens on four cards: economic, social, environmental, cash, each with its change against the previous financial year. Below, the intermediate management balances over three financial years, and the base 100 trend for turnover, headcount and emissions.
This is not a carbon footprint, nor an expert's report: it is a reading of the company through its own figures, for management, restricted to the steering permission. Payroll figures name individuals, and they never leave the instance.
Every figure says where it comes from
An indicator is compared across three financial years, and one click unfolds its formula, its components and the accounts used, from the largest to the smallest. An empty cell says why: to be imported, not found in your account labels. Management can switch off the indicators that mean nothing to them, for everyone.
The economics go as far as what a banker looks at: financial autonomy, debt, repayment capacity, cash, working capital requirement, self-financing capacity, profitability ratios, and three health scores presented as benchmarks calibrated outside France, with their band, never as a verdict. Customer and supplier payment days are calculated on the real days in the financial year.
A financial year in progress cannot be compared with a full year: it is read at a comparable date, each balance against the same date in the previous year, with a year-end projection if the trend holds. Cash is compared, not projected.
What deserves a look
Rules, written in advance and with no artificial intelligence, watch your figures: equity below half the share capital, negative net cash, clients paying later, margin slipping while turnover rises, debt jumping, payroll costs drifting, and the quality of your data itself. Each finding carries its severity, its explanation, the figures that triggered it and the question to ask yourself.
Two rules bring payroll and accounting together: social security returns that do not describe the same company as the company record, and declared payroll that does not match booked payroll. A finding is not a diagnosis: a rule has fired, and you take a look.
The file analysis, written by your agents
The financial analyst writes the reading of the economics, the HR manager the reading of the workforce, the environment officer the reading of the environment, and the assistant pulls it all together: the overall picture, the most important points, what the three areas say to each other, the risks, the actions, the questions, the limits.
Each agent receives only the engine's figures and the findings, and a proofreading step compares every amount in its text against those figures: an exact amount is validated, a rounding is tolerated, an amount absent from the data is removed, and an analysis that invents too many of them is rejected rather than shown. The signature, always automatic, says what the proofreading checked. An agent on pause is shown as on pause, and the summary is produced without it.
Your data: a file, or your software connected
The simplest way: upload the entries file for each financial year and your monthly social security returns (DSN), exactly as your software exports them. Steering recalculates for the chosen year and the two before it.
The most comfortable way: connect your accounting software and your payroll in your resources, with your credentials checked before they are saved. The general ledger then comes across on its own, at the pace you set, and the payroll months with it. With the accounting software connected, the energy and fuel invoices attached to the entries are read: the footprint speaks in kilowatt hours and litres rather than in euros. It is an estimate, and the page says so.
ACD and Silae are connected today, and running on real client files.
Your sector, to see where you stand
Three ratios for the financial year, the value added rate, the margin rate and the investment rate, sit next to the ones INSEE (the French national statistics institute) publishes for your sector, with the gap, the year of the data and a link to the source. An order of magnitude, not a standard; the block does not appear for a sector INSEE does not cover.
The accounting and tax references used in the analysis are dated and say when to check them against the official source, which always prevails.
What it doesn't do
It does not replace your expert-comptable (chartered accountant) or their advice: it reads, it flags, it writes a reading signed as automatic, and you decide. It does not measure your footprint, it estimates it, by the monetary method and then from your bills once it reads them. And it is not yet in service at a client: we show it during a call, on a data set built for the demo, with six financial years and a team.
