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Act. Innovate… on CSR #2 CSR doesn't come to life in a report. It comes to life in the choices we make every day. Every innovation, every investment is an opportunity to create value that's more durable, more responsible, and more meaningful.    In 2025, we focused our efforts on four priorities:  → Cut our carbon footprint and make our operations more sustainable  → Drive innovation and invest in diverse talent  → Hold ourselves to a high standard of digital responsibility  → Lead with integrity and build ethical, lasting relationships with all our stakeholders    This work is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, backed by transparent reporting of our ESG indicators on Euronext.    A CSR strategy is never finished. It has to be earned again in every decision and hold up to the people who rely on us.    Where do you think companies should be moving faster on CSR?  Share your take in the comments and explore Sidetrade's 2025 CSR Report. 👇

Innover. Agir… en matière de RSE #2    La RSE ne prend pas vie dans un rapport. Elle prend vie dans les choix que nous faisons au quotidien. Chaque innovation, chaque investissement sont des occasions de créer de la valeur. Une valeur plus durable, plus responsable et plus utile.    En 2025, nous avons concentré nos efforts autour de 4 priorités :  → Réduire notre empreinte carbone et renforcer la durabilité de nos activités  → Favoriser l’innovation et investir dans la diversité des talents  → Garantir une responsabilité numérique exemplaire  → Diriger avec intégrité et construire des relations éthiques et durables avec l'ensemble de nos parties prenantes    Cette démarche s'inscrit dans les Objectifs de développement durable des United Nations et s'accompagne d'une publication transparente de nos indicateurs ESG sur Euronext.    Mais une stratégie RSE n'est jamais terminée. Elle progresse grâce aux questions que l'on se pose et aux attentes de notre environnement.    Selon vous, sur quels sujets les entreprises devraient-elles accélérer leurs efforts en matière de RSE ? Partagez votre point de vue en commentaire et découvrez le rapport RSE 2025 de Sidetrade. 👇

The AI edge is shifting from how good your model is to what it costs to run it.    Most software vendors depend on third-party models, hyperscalers, and token-based pricing they don't control.    At Sidetrade, we took a different path: a private cloud, NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs, a proprietary Data Lake analyzing nearly $9 trillion in B2B transactions, and purpose-built AI models.    The result? We control the inference cost of our AI agents, while our customers' data remains fully isolated and is never used to train third-party models.    That strategy is already delivering measurable results in the first half of 2026:  → Bookings already 20% above all of FY2025  → €5.16 million in new ARR, up 112%  → €34.8 million in revenue, up 21% at constant currency  → Just three months after launch, our AI-native products already represented 33% of Q2 New ARR, generating €1.02 million   → 96 AI agents ordered over the half    Congratulations to every Sidetrader on a record-breaking half.  This is the start of O2C Intelligence, in action. 

Hand every developer a coding agent and your P&L won't notice. That's the uncomfortable finding in the McKinsey & Company explainer on AI and software development: individual productivity gains rarely reach the bottom line. The companies capture value by rebuilding how the work gets done. We reached that conclusion a year ago. So, we redesigned our operating model: AI-augmented pods; agents that validate requirements, write code, and run tests, with people directing and governing quality. Three people now deliver what took six. The Hackett Group Inc.® recognized this AI transformation with their 2026 Innovation Award, judged on demonstrated operational impact. It's the same principle we apply to Order-to-Cash: simplify the workflow, then let Aimie operate within it. What's the first process you'd simplify before automating it? 🔗 Link in the comments 👇 

Act. Innovate… on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) #1 AI no longer recommends, it acts. That's a major step forward. But it also means organizations have to own the impact of every action it takes. And performance only matters if it’s responsible, sustainable, and shared. That conviction shapes how we approach CSR: scope 3 emissions, mobilizing our value chain, purchasing and logistics decisions, lowering our energy demand, diversity, supporting our people, and strengthening the security of our infrastructure and processes. Our impact can, and should, be seen and measured. Today, we publish our 2025 CSR Report. Find it in the comments 👇 What are your CSR goals? 

You might think Aimie's out celebrating World AI Day.  So did we. Then her out-of-office landed.  Turns out "away from my desk" changed absolutely nothing. The cash collection kept running. The cash application kept moving. Cash kept flowing. Happy World AI Day, to the one team member who never actually clocks off. Act. Innovate. 

Shorter payment terms feel like control. The data says otherwise. That's the finding from Luke Hennerley, VP AI Operations at Sidetrade, in The AI Journal. By 2025, more than a third of the payment cycle sat past the due date, whatever the contract said. So, what do terms really tell you? What was agreed once. Delay tells you the harder thing: how a customer behaves, long after signing the contract terms. That's where most AI in finance breaks. An ERP only tells your side of the story. It shows how customers pay you, but not how they're paying other businesses. Without that broader context, AI reacts to overdue invoices instead of anticipating them. Our Data Lake gives Aimie a market-wide view of payment behavior, enabling action before risk materializes. If your AI only sees your own accounts receivable, how much of your customers' payment behavior is it blind to? 🔗 Link in the comments 👇 

Every company talks about culture. Ours occasionally involves… 🐾 #PawSquad made its return for Pet Appreciation Week. Dogs won on volume. Cats dominated the vibes, somehow landing 2 spots in the top 3 with a fraction of the entries. Make of that what you will. 🎳 Calgary hit the bowling lanes. Plenty of strikes were reported.. ⛳ Birmingham took on a golf course that looked more like an expedition than fairway. Several balls are presumed lost, along with a bit of pride. ⚽ Our FIFA World Cup prediction challenge is underway. Overnight, every desk has acquired its own football expert. Reality will arrive one match at a time. That's Life@Sidetrade this month. Swipe through to discover the #PawSquad top 10 below. Want in on this AI-native global team? We're hiring, check our open roles in the comments. #PeopleMakeSidetradeUnique 

"If you are not able to create your own intelligence, you are going to die." Olivier Novasque on the VivaTech stage, with Stéphanie Ortega Pansard-Taquet of KPMG France and Clément Bassat, CFA of Portzamparc Groupe BNP Paribas.  The question everyone was asking: is the SaaSpocalypse a myth or a reality? Our answer is both, depending on what you built. The SaaSpocalypse is real for one category of vendor: those whose moat was the login screen. It breaks down when you own data no agent can reach anywhere else. Sidetrade started building that data in 2015. The Data Lake now holds $9 trillion in B2B transactions and the behavior of 42 million companies. In March, US fund Briarwood Chase Management LLC (BCM) crossed 10% of our capital and named that data asset as the reason. The risk most software vendors miss is dependency. Rent your model from a third party, that vendor raises its price, and your margin, your client commitments and your product independence all move with it. So we own the chain. Our own data, our own models, our own compute. Sodexo, SUEZ, Accor, Sonepar and Securitas France selected Aimie on that basis. Compute is the price of entry, not the prize. Every tech giant owns more GPUs than we ever will. None own our Order-to-Cash data. 📷 François Escriva   

2/3 of late B2B payments have nothing to do with a customer's ability to pay. The cash is there. What is missing is timely execution during the Order-to-Cash cycle: the right action for the right customer through the right media at the right moment. That is the challenge Aimie was built to solve. Every autonomous agent has a beginning. This is the making of Aimie.