UNKNOWNS · RESEARCH, STRATEGY & DESIGN · PARIS

We design digital services that truly meet people’s needs.

A strategic design agency combining social sciences, design and technology to help organisations understand, decide and act in a world that AI is rewriting.

Manifesto

AI changes everything.
Except what matters most: understanding people.

Two revolutions are already under way for businesses.

Outside, with your audiences: your customers no longer land on your websites. They ask an AI agent, get a synthesised answer and move on without ever seeing your logo or reading your content. Disintermediation isn’t a future threat: you can already measure it in your analytics today.

Inside, with your teams: AI is already creeping into your processes, often spontaneously, uncoordinated, even hidden. Yet most AI projects never get past the POC or pilot stage. That’s not a technology problem, it’s a problem of acceptance and adoption.

The good news: AI doesn’t replace experts. It reveals how differently people relate to trust, autonomy and decision-making. That is exactly where we come in.

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Our services

Three main ways to work with you.

We combine social science research, design practice and a considered use of generative AI to create solutions that generate real value. Our deliverables are concrete: insights, tested concepts, deployed agents.

Poster for the film Quest for Fire (1981)
1981
Quest for Fire
Fire as a breakthrough
Poster for the film The Name of the Rose (1986)
1986
The Name of the Rose
Knowledge as power
Poster for the film Modern Times (1936)
1936
Modern Times
The human in the machine
Poster for the film The Social Network (2010)
2010
The Social Network
Social ties reconfigured
YOU
ARE
HERE
Poster for the film Her (2013)
2013
Her
AI as a relationship
Case studies

Four recent engagements.

Whether for long-term engagements or short sprints, for large corporates or specialist organisations, our teams work independently or side by side with your in-house teams.

Sector expertise

Five fields of work.

We have studied people’s behaviour in each of these fields and learned the vocabulary, players, markets and regulatory constraints specific to each. An asset for moving fast without oversimplifying.

AI Observatory

A long-term research programme.

Ethnography, academic monitoring, quantitative modules… step by step, we are building an observatory that documents how generative AI is really used in France. Contact us for up-to-date insight summaries and on-demand presentations for your teams.

Get in touch

Let’s talk about the question you are exploring.

An email, a coffee in Paris, a video call? The first conversation lasts thirty minutes and costs nothing. We always reply, and we’re really rather nice.

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