We build the systems we recommend.
Karven's founders spent years shipping commercial AI products before starting the firm. We bring that experience to every project: the judgment of people who have already taken AI from idea to something a business runs on every day.
Founder-led and senior.
Karven is run by its two founders. We design the systems and the strategy together, and we work with you directly from the first call through launch. The people you meet are the people who do the work.
We build production AI: document intelligence, retrieval systems, agents, and automation, on Claude, GPT, open-source models, and custom ML where it fits the problem.
We work from Monaco and Paris, across France, Italy, and broader Europe, in English, French, and Italian.
Senior team on every project Trilingual — French, English, Italian EU-native — GDPR-aware, AI Act-ready
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Four principles behind every project.
We ship to production
Every engagement ends with working software your team uses. You can measure what it does from the first sprint — time saved, errors caught, work moved forward.
We tell you the truth early
On the first call, we tell you where AI fits your problem and where it falls short. When a simpler tool would do the job, we point you to it. Our reputation depends on the systems that succeed, so we take on the ones that will.
We hand over what we build
Your team learns the system as we build it, through pair sessions, documentation, and hands-on workshops. When the engagement ends, you own the system and can improve it yourselves.
We build for European rules
GDPR and the AI Act shape the build from day one: full audit trails, decision explainability, and EU data residency. For teams working across the France-Italy-Monaco corridor, we work fluently across French, Italian, and Monegasque requirements as part of the engagement.
Built for the mid-market.
Mid-market companies run real operations with real complexity, but they rarely have an in-house AI team to build production systems against them. The expertise sits in big consultancies priced for enterprise budgets, or in individual developers who can prototype but not deliver something a business depends on.
That gap is where we work. We bring the senior engineering a mid-market company can't justify hiring full-time, on a fixed scope and a timeline measured in weeks. One clear process, a system live and tested, and a team you deal with directly the whole way through.
It's where AI earns its place fastest — enough volume to matter, enough speed to prove it, and a team close enough to the work to get it right.
Tell us what you're trying to solve.
We'll tell you where AI fits, and if it does, we'll build it.
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