The Socotec Group, a specialist in testing, inspection and certification for the sustainability of buildings and infrastructures, is integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its practices. It is launching BlueGen, its generative AI platform, which has been specifically trained in the context of business-side risk management and analysis. Deployed at the end of 2024 in the United States and the United Kingdom, BlueGen has been accessible in France since the beginning of the year, to nearly 8,000 employees. It will be deployed in all 27 countries in the first half of 2025.
"AI is already a strategic lever for gaining competitiveness. It is essential to our Ambitions 2028 plan," emphasizes Hervé Montjotin, CEO of the Socotec Group. It's an asset for our customers, who thus have analysis based on huge volumes of data, and AI in our processes thus guarantees credibility and reliability throughout a business process."
To structure this transformation, Socotec created an "AI Driving Hub" in 2024, an international governance body bringing together 30 business and data experts. Its mission is to steer AI projects, share best practices, and align the Group's strategic priorities.
At the same time, the group won a call for projects at the "AI Summit in Paris" with its "SOFIA" tool, an AI dedicated to detecting infrastructure fragility. Developed in partnership with CEA List and Sanef, "Sofia" will be presented on the L'Observatoire de l'AI platform, designed to promote responsible and collaborative AI.
