Ask for the Moon

What Ask for the Moon does

Ask for the Moon is a Paris-based deeptech company, founded in 2018, that builds a generative AI platform for industrial knowledge management. The platform enables industrial organizations to create specialized AI assistants grounded in expert-curated source documents, using a proprietary Deep GraphRAG architecture, an ontology-based Knowledge Graph, and a document ingestion pipeline that preserves context across text, schemas, and visuals. Its core differentiation is the combination of an "I don't know" abstention capability, human validation workflows, and a continuous learning loop that routes unanswered questions to subject-matter experts and re-ingests validated responses — a design tailored to regulated industrial environments where AI hallucinations are not acceptable. The platform is LLM- and hosting-agnostic, supporting on-premise and private-cloud deployments, and holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification. Productized use cases cover sales performance, technical support and maintenance, compliance and standards adherence, and expert digital twin creation. Named customers include EDF, Orano, Framatome, Airbus Atlantic, Eiffage, DEF, and SID, concentrated in French nuclear, energy, aeronautics, construction, fire protection, and technical distribution.

The company sells through a direct enterprise field-sales motion, with a demo-first funnel and a dedicated Operations Engineer supporting deployment. Pricing is structured as three subscription tiers — Standard at €5,000/month (1 use case, 1 AI assistant, 500 responses/month, 1 Expert Access, SSO, 12-month minimum), Premium (3 use cases and assistants), and Custom (on-premise or private cloud deployment with bespoke integrations into Teams, internal knowledge bases, PLM, ERP, and custom LLMs, plus dedicated team support) — with add-on capacity available. The Standard entry point and minimum 12-month commitment are explicitly framed around delivering a first ROI within four weeks, paired with expert validation, ROI projection, and comparative analysis versus internal solutions. In March 2024 the company closed a €2.5M seed round co-led by Matterwave Ventures and UI Investissement, with proceeds earmarked for approximately 40 new hires, continued R&D, and geographic expansion into Scandinavia and Germany. In March 2025 the company launched a packaged Hyper-Specialized AI Assistant offering at Global Industrie 2025, signaling a transition from bespoke pilots to a productized go-to-market.

Name

Ask for the Moon

Legal name

Ask for the Moon

Website

https://home.askforthemoon.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ask for the Moon is a Paris-based deeptech company that sells a generative AI knowledge management platform — built on a proprietary Deep GraphRAG architecture — to industrial enterprises, enabling expert-curated AI assistants, validated human-in-the-loop workflows, and on-premise deployment for regulated environments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Knowledge Management Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Enterprise AI Data & Knowledge Platforms (Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs) (HDAEANAH), Conversational AI Platforms (chat/voice bots, orchestration) (HDAAAFAC), AI Integration & Orchestration Platforms (Connectors, Workflow, iPaaS for AI) (HDAEANAI)

Keywords

• Industrial knowledge management
• Generative AI platform
• Enterprise AI assistants
• Knowledge graph technology
• Expert document Q&A

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription SaaS - Standard Tier: Monthly subscription for 1 case of use with 1 AI assistant, Q&A between peers functionality, 500 responses per month, 1 Expert Access, and SSO integration. Minimum 12-month commitment with payment upon order.
2. Subscription SaaS - Premium Tier: Monthly subscription for 3 cases of use with 3 AI assistants and 3 Expert Accesses. Includes all Standard features plus additional assistants and expert access points.
3. Subscription SaaS - Custom Tier: Enterprise tier including Premium features plus choice of deployment (On Prem, Private Cloud), custom integrations with Teams, AI agents, internal knowledge bases, PLM, ERP, and dedicated team support.
4. Add-on services: Additional Assistants, Answers, or Expert Accesses available as add-ons for customers needing more capacity beyond their base tier.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Ask for the Moon builds a generative AI-powered knowledge management platform that enables industrial organizations to create hyper-specialized AI assistants based on expert-curated source documents. The platform retrieves, synthesizes, and generates answers to natural-language questions, while routing unresolved queries to relevant subject-matter experts whose validated responses continuously enrich the AI knowledge base. The core platform uses Deep GraphRAG architecture combined with ontology and knowledge graph technology to provide precise, sourced answers in industrial environments where reliability is critical.

Product overview

Ask for the Moon offers a unified generative AI knowledge management platform — the Ask for the Moon AI Assistant Platform — which comes in three pricing tiers (Standard, Premium, Custom) and supports four named use-case modules: Sales Performance, Technical Support, Compliance Support, and Expert Digital Twin. The Standard and Premium tiers provide cloud-hosted SaaS access, while the Custom tier adds on-premise or private cloud deployment options along with bespoke integrations into Teams, internal knowledge bases, PLM, ERP, and custom LLMs. All tiers include the core platform capability: AI assistants that retrieve and generate answers from expert-curated documents, with a collaborative loop where unresolved questions are routed to subject-matter experts whose validated responses enrich the AI over time. Additional capacity can be added via per-unit add-ons (extra assistants, answers, expert accesses).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ask for the Moon AI Assistant Platform A generative AI-powered knowledge management platform that allows industrial organizations to create hyper-specialized AI assistants based on expert-curated source documents. The platform connects employees with reliable, sourced answers and routes unanswered questions to relevant subject-matter experts for collaborative resolution. The platform is LLM-agnostic and supports multiple deployment options (Azure Paris, On Premise, Private Cloud) with ISO 27001 security certification.
• Sales Performance AI Assistant AI assistant module designed to increase sales representatives' average deal size by helping them find the best product recommendations, speed up sales pitch and meeting preparation, and analyze client requests and requirements. For commercial teams selling complex technical products in industrial environments.
• Technical Support AI Assistant AI assistant module for technical support and maintenance teams that helps technicians find appropriate set-up or maintenance procedures, understand product functionality and anomalies, and anticipate and avoid errors. For technical support and maintenance personnel in industrial organizations.
• Compliance Support AI Assistant AI assistant module that helps employees quickly query standards and compliance requirements, compare documents and verify compliance, and surface the right procedures and solutions. For compliance and quality assurance teams in regulated industrial environments.
• Expert Digital Twin AI Assistant AI assistant module that enables subject-matter experts to share their know-how at scale by making reference documents easily accessible, letting AI answer simple common questions, and reserving expert input for complex and unprecedented questions. For subject-matter experts and knowledge management teams.
• On-Premise / Private Cloud Deployment Deployment option providing sovereign hosting within the customer's own infrastructure for organizations with strict data residency, security, or compliance requirements. Default hosting is Microsoft Azure in Paris.
• Custom Integration Services Bespoke integration services connecting the Ask for the Moon platform with Microsoft Teams, internal AI or LLM systems, internal knowledge bases, PLM systems, and ERP systems. Available to enterprise customers requiring connections to existing enterprise software stack.

Quantifiable outcome

• +20% revenue increase for sales teams
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability6 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Glean: Glean is an AI-powered enterprise search and assistant platform that connects knowledge across workplace applications (Slack, Teams, Drive, etc.) and answers questions in natural language. It is the highest-profile well-funded pure-play in the same enterprise AI assistant category as Ask for the Moon.
• Sinequa: Sinequa is a French-headquartered enterprise search and knowledge management platform that uses NLP, machine learning, and knowledge graphs to surface information inside large enterprises. It is the most direct comparable to Ask for the Moon in terms of category (enterprise knowledge discovery), architecture (knowledge graph + AI), and target buyer (large regulated enterprises).
• Coveo: Coveo is an AI-powered enterprise search and relevance platform that ingests diverse content sources and applies generative AI to surface answers for customer service, support, and workplace use cases. Its use of vector search, relevance models, and enterprise-grade deployment options makes it a close peer in product architecture and go-to-market.
• Guru: Guru is an AI-powered knowledge management platform that delivers verified, source-of-truth answers inside workflows (browser, Slack, Teams). It targets the same "single source of truth, AI-delivered to the employee" use case as Ask for the Moon, though Guru skews toward mid-market and horizontal use cases.
• Bloomfire: Bloomfire is an enterprise knowledge management and AI-powered search platform focused on capturing and sharing institutional knowledge across customer-facing and internal teams. It overlaps directly with Ask for the Moon's positioning around knowledge capitalization, expert Q&A, and reducing repetitive expert interruptions.
• Starmind: Starmind is an AI-powered expertise mapping and knowledge routing platform that connects employees with the right internal experts — directly mirroring Ask for the Moon's expertise-mapping, "connect questioner with colleague" loop, and subject-matter-expert focus. Both target the same pain point of siloed tacit knowledge inside large organizations.

Broad incumbents

• eGain: eGain is an established knowledge management and customer engagement platform with AI-powered search, guidance, and agent-assist capabilities. It overlaps with Ask for the Moon's technical support and compliance use cases but is a broader customer-experience platform, not a knowledge-graph-first industrial specialist.
• Microsoft (Copilot / Viva Topics): Microsoft 365 Copilot and Viva Topics are broadly embedded AI assistants that surface knowledge inside the Microsoft 365 and Teams environment that Ask for the Moon already integrates with. They represent the largest competitive threat and the most likely default choice for non-regulated enterprise buyers.

Emerging players

• Slite: Slite is an AI-powered knowledge base platform with Ask (an AI assistant that answers from internal documentation) — a more lightweight, horizontal alternative to Ask for the Moon. It is comparable in product surface (AI answers grounded in a knowledge base) but operates at smaller scale and is not industrial-vertical specialized.
• Shelf: Shelf is a no-code knowledge management platform with AI-powered answers and content verification workflows, focused on customer support and contact-center use cases. It is comparable to Ask for the Moon's Technical Support and Compliance modules in terms of verification-led AI answers over curated content.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/askforthemoon

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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