Intelligence2day VS Elium

Elium's answer:

AI is only as good as the knowledge behind it, and that is the layer Elium works on.

Most tools store content. Elium governs it. Know-how spread across teams, tools and inboxes becomes one source of truth that is verified, current and permission-aware, and the same library answers your people and feeds your AI agents. Both see the same facts, and neither sees what it is not allowed to see.

Every answer is tracked, whether it was served, missed, or is going out of date. Gaps and drift are flagged and routed to a named owner, with a human in the loop, so quality is measured rather than assumed.

Elium also sits behind the AI tools you already run instead of competing with them. A Model Context Protocol server, a GraphQL API and a search API expose governed knowledge to Microsoft Copilot, Glean, Dust or an in-house assistant.

It is European by construction: built and hosted in the EU, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, with French hosting available on SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructure.

Elium's answer:

Your data stays in Europe. Elium is hosted in Belgium on Google Cloud, or in France on 3DS Outscale's SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructure for customers who need it. The company is European and independently owned, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, GDPR-compliant with a DPO and a data processing agreement. For a European buyer that is a shorter procurement conversation.

It complements your AI tools rather than replacing them. Elium is the governed knowledge layer behind Microsoft Copilot, Glean, Dust or an assistant you built yourself, reached through a Model Context Protocol server and APIs. You govern the knowledge once and reuse it wherever your people work. Nobody has to rip anything out.

Governance is the product, not a setting. Expiry reminders, gap and duplicate detection, review and approval workflows, and dashboards showing what was answered and what was missed. This is the part that breaks first as a knowledge base grows, and it is why global operations, customer service and IT support teams are the ones who get the most out of it.

Where Elium is not the right answer: a small team that wants a free personal wiki. The minimum is 10 users and the platform is built for organisations that need permissions, audit and multiple spaces.

Elium's answer:

Mid-sized and large organisations, mostly in Europe, where know-how is spread across sites, languages, teams and tools. More than 150 organisations use Elium, among them VINCI Energies, Fnac Darty, L'Oreal, SPIE, the Council of Europe and SNCF.

Three kinds of team get the most out of it:

• Global operations, keeping procedures correct and identical across countries and languages
• Customer service, answering faster and more consistently under time pressure
• IT support, cutting repeat tickets by making the answer findable the first time

The buyer is usually a knowledge, operations, customer service or IT leader, often with a small central knowledge team behind them. A deployment is one platform made of many spaces, one per team, so each team owns its own content while the organisation keeps a single governed foundation for its people and its AI agents.

It is a poor fit for individuals and very small teams: the minimum is 10 users, and the value is in permissions, review workflows and audit at scale.

Elium's answer:

The company was founded in Belgium in 2007 by Antoine Perdaens, Raphael Slinckx and Olivier Verbeke, under the name Knowledge Plaza. It took the name Elium in 2017. Antoine Perdaens is still the CEO.

The problem has been the same since the start: large organisations know a great deal, and almost none of it is where the next person needs it. Procedures live in one team's drive, the real answer lives in a colleague's head, and the official document was last reviewed three years ago.

Enterprise AI made that visible rather than solving it. An assistant built on scattered and outdated content gives wrong answers faster and with more confidence. So Elium concentrated on the layer underneath: making the knowledge itself governed, current and permission-aware, then serving it to people and to AI agents through the same rules.

Elium is headquartered in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, with an office in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. It is privately owned following a management buyout, and is used by more than 150 organisations and around 150,000 people. It was named a reference European provider for enterprise knowledge management in the Lecko 2026 study.

Elium's answer:

Elium is a cloud platform, delivered as SaaS or private cloud. The parts that matter to a buyer:

• Search runs on Elasticsearch, with per-field boosting, and permissions applied before results are returned.
• Hosting is European only: Google Cloud Platform in Belgium (europe-west1), with managed database services through Aiven. Customers who need French hosting run on 3DS Outscale, whose data centres are SecNumCloud, HDS and ISO/IEC 27001 qualified.
• AI answers call a language model hosted on Azure OpenAI in Microsoft's European region. Customer content is not used to train those models.
• Integration is through a GraphQL API, a search API, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI agents and assistants.
• Identity uses SAML single sign-on and SCIM provisioning, documented for Microsoft Entra ID and Google Cloud Identity.
• Clients: web app, native iOS and Android apps, and a Chrome extension that puts a sidebar on any web page.

Elium is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified at the organisation level and GDPR-compliant, with a DPO and a data processing agreement.

Elium's answer:

• VINCI Energies
• Fnac Darty
• L'Oreal
• SPIE
• Council of Europe
• SNCF

More than 150 organisations use Elium, with around 150,000 active users across 1,200+ teams, and a 98.8% renewal rate. Several large public-sector bodies and international organisations use it under agreements that do not allow us to name them.