Rehab ? The DGSI (French FBI) is partially ditching Palantir for ChapsVision

The DGSI is gradually turning its back on Palantir and choosing ChapsVision, a French provider that was largely unknown until now. Behind this landmark decision for French digital sovereignty stands a discreet entrepreneur, a graduate of École Polytechnique, who has been patiently building what may become a European alternative to American data and agentic AI giants since 2019. Moving from a roll-up of companies to becoming a recognized leader in CRM, marketing automation, speech analytics, and conversational AI is now the second major challenge that Olivier Dellenbach's team will have to meet.

Is NP6 more effective than Brevo or Sarbacane (now Positive User)? Is Coheris better than Sellsy or Odoo? Is ArgonOS more capable, more rigorous, and easier to deploy than solutions from Thales or Daitaku?

ChapsVision and ArgonOS

ChapsVision is a tech group founded in 2019 by Olivier Dellenbach, a Polytechnique graduate and serial entrepreneur. The stated ambition is to build it into a major player in the world of AI and data, through both organic growth and targeted acquisitions.

ArgonOS is their flagship product: a "data operating system" that performs deep analysis through a holistic approach, where each data point interacts with the others. The data comes from open sources (OSINT), internal sources (provided by the client), and through ChapsVision's acquisitions — Elektron (interception specialist), Deveryware (digital footprint analysis: geolocation, digital fingerprints), and SYSTRAN (automated translation in over 60 languages). According to the company, relying on ArgonOS means maintaining total control over your information capital, hosted beyond the reach of foreign legislation.

The DGSI chooses ChapsVision and partially walks away from palantir

On Tuesday, June 16, 2026, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu confirmed that the DGSI would stop working with Palantir. ChapsVision — which had just joined the Next40 index the day before — will now partner with French intelligence.

This decision marks the partial end of nearly a decade of collaboration between French intelligence services and Palantir, in a context where digital sovereignty has become a central concern in European public policy. The announcement is all the more surprising given that the DGSI had renewed its contract with Palantir just last December for a three-year term. No timeline for ChapsVision's deployment has been communicated by the French Prime Minister's office.

Olivier Dellenbach: A less wealthy but respectable Alex Karp ?

A Polytechnique alumnus, founder of NAT Systèmes in 1987 and then eFront in 1999 (sold for over $1.5 billion in 2019), Olivier Dellenbach is not exactly unknown in the French tech world, even if his name rarely surfaces in the general press.

Think of him as a French Peter Thiel or Alex Karp — but without the ideological baggage and without the provocations. As soon as the eFront sale closed, he launched ChapsVision with a clearly stated ambition: build a credible European competitor to American and Chinese data giants. His method is that of a methodical serial acquirer — around fifteen acquisitions in just a few years, from Coheris to SYSTRAN, through Elektron and Deveryware — to reach €250 million in revenue with a target of €1 billion by 2028. There's also a personal dimension: his daughter Clara is deaf-mute, which led him to co-found the HappyCap Foundation, dedicated to children with cognitive disabilities. A quiet builder, driven as much by digital sovereignty as by deeply held human convictions.

Rehab : The French government wants to reduce its dependence on GAFAM and Palantir

The announcement of this second contract between ChapsVision and the DGSI arrives at a pivotal moment for the French state, which needs to reassure stakeholders of its intention to reduce its dependence on AI, surveillance, and data processing tools provided and deployed by Palantir, Google, Microsoft, and others. Beyond ChapsVision, very few actors in France or Europe are positioned to cover the same broad range of services as Palantir — which offers not just tools but also teams of engineers and specialists to implement and monitor them. Yesterday, Sébastien Lecornu also announced that more than 1.8 million government employees will gain access to an AI digital assistant called "l'Assistant," enabling them to consult documents and generate summaries. The tool is built by Mistral AI.

From holding company to market reference: The key challenge ahead

So far, the group founded by Olivier Dellenbach has accomplished two major tasks:

Raising funds on multiple occasions from partners including Tikehau, Geneo Capital Entrepreneur, and BPI France, and deploying that capital to acquire companies — each with an existing client portfolio, sometimes prestigious. That said, few significant new contracts with major clients have materialized. And in many sectors, the acquired companies are not necessarily the recognized performance leaders, according to our benchmarks.

Building a management team suited to the project's ambitions. Recently, Dellenbach appointed as Group CEO a seasoned executive well-versed in the long and often tortuous decision-making processes of public procurement: Silvano Sansoni (formerly IBM, an ENA graduate). Augustin Aoudjhane, former attorney and former Deputy Director at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, joined the group in October 2025 as Director of Public Affairs and Communications.

The new entity does not disclose its consolidated revenue. Olivier Dellenbach is featured in En-Contact's list of 100 key personalities — the best problem solvers in CRM, customer acquisition, and agentic AI (Bottin 2025).

A Few Companies Acquired by ChapsVision

NP6, a marketing automation tool, is less agile and less well-known than Brevo or Sarbacane, for example. Coheris, a somewhat dated CRM, posted €14.5 million in revenue in 2025. Decathlon has deployed a mobile POS solution from the ChapsVision group — but only in Spain. The former Bertin Technologies is less effective than Callity when it comes to monitoring and analyzing contact center conversations. At Rétif, NP6 and Volubile.ai are used to generate incremental revenue over the phone, with 120,000 outbound calls handled by AI.

In short, the visibility generated yesterday by the Prime Minister's tweet on X — the detox is underway :) — is welcome and puts ChapsVision in the spotlight. Like Kylian Mbappé last night, now it's time to deliver: to score decisive goals.

Where to meet them

ChapsVision will be at VivaTech today, June 17, on the French Tech and Business France stands.

On June 25 in Paris, the 3rd edition of the New Biz Forum brings together French specialists in agentic AI and customer acquisition.

The En-Contact Editorial Team

Cover picture, Le bureau des légendes, French tv show about the DGSE (French CIA) by Éric Rochant, Canal+.

Official ChapsVision Press Release Excerpt — June 16, 2026

(...) ChapsVision, a global reference in data intelligence and agentic AI, announces that its ArgonOS platform has been selected as part of the OTDH project. This decision marks a major milestone for French and European digital sovereignty, by prioritizing a trusted technology solution designed and operated in Europe.

OTDH is an innovation partnership initiated by the DGSI (Directorate General for Internal Security) aimed at providing France with a sovereign platform for the large-scale processing of heterogeneous data. This competitive dialogue, comprising two lots, involved multiple competitors and unfolded in several phases. From the call for tenders launched in 2021, ChapsVision won Lot 1 in late 2024, focused on data preparation, and then in June 2026, Lot 2, focused on making knowledge actionable through modeling, security, and visualization. The ArgonOS platform, whose capabilities span both lots, is now set to become the technological foundation on which not only the Ministry of the Interior but many other public administrations will rely for their critical data processing needs. (...)