What did the OutSystems, CIO Dive and KPMG report measure?

It measured the gap between confidence and readiness in enterprise AI agent deployments. 82% of executives said their organizations can keep pace with governing, integrating and monitoring AI agents as they move into production — but only 26% said they are well prepared to resolve conflicts across agents, systems and automated workflows.

What does “resolving conflicts between agents” mean?

In the report’s framing, it is the ability to handle situations where multiple agents, enterprise systems and automated workflows collide or work at cross-purposes in production. OutSystems CIO Tiago Azevedo put it this way: “That gap is where the real work happens … safety comes from building control into the platform, not reviewing it afterward.”

What is the five-year outlook for agentic AI in the enterprise?

The report found that 71% of executives expect applications to coordinate work across systems, teams and business processes — or support more complex, multi-step workflows — over the next five years, as organizations shift from experimentation to deliberate, enterprise-wide deployment.

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Goodweek raises €10.69M to become the 'AI Manager' for small businesses — a governance play on shadow AI

MDMarcus DoyleSenior Technology Writer · October 16, 2026 · 4 min read

TL;DR: Strasbourg-founded Goodweek raised €10.69 million ($12 million) in seed funding on October 16, 2026, led by Adara Ventures, to build an "AI Manager" for small and medium-sized businesses: one governed platform where employees use leading AI models while the company keeps its data isolated — and leaders finally see who uses what, and at what cost.

Who: Goodweek, founded in Strasbourg by Guillaume Nominé and Nicolas Stehle; led by Spanish VC Adara Ventures.
What: A €10.69 million ($12 million) seed round for its "AI Manager" platform for SMBs.
When: Announced October 16, 2026.
Backers: Anamcara Capital, BGV, BY Venture Partners, CentraleSupélec Venture, FJ Labs, Interlace Ventures, True Ventures, plus support from Bpifrance.
Traction: just turned one year old; 50 employees across three countries; nearly 150 customers across France, Spain, the UK, the Benelux and North America.
Next: scale sales and expand into Latin America and Asia.

Goodweek, a Strasbourg-founded startup that just turned one, has raised €10.69 million ($12 million) in seed funding to build what it calls an "AI Manager" for small and medium-sized businesses. The round, announced on October 16, 2026 and led by Spanish venture firm Adara Ventures, targets one of the messiest problems in corporate AI: employees bringing their own AI tools to work, and nobody in charge knowing about it. EU-Startups, Dealroom

The shadow-AI problem

Goodweek's pitch starts with an observation many managers will recognize: AI has spread through small businesses via employees, often without any sign-off. There is rarely an IT department to set policy — so teams end up with personal accounts everywhere, confidential company data drifting into tools nobody approved, and duplicate subscriptions silently stacking up on expense reports.

The company's bet is that governance, not another chatbot, is the product small firms actually need. One platform, all the models, the data isolated, and a bill someone can read.

Illustration: shadow AI in the SMB — dozens of personal accounts and duplicate subscriptions, with no one in charge. Goodweek wants to pull it all into one governed place. (AI illustration)

What the platform does

Goodweek's platform brings leading AI models — including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Mistral — into a single unified product. Each company's data stays isolated and is never used to train third-party models, and business leaders get visibility into who is using which AI tools and at what cost — a metric Goodweek says has proven nearly impossible to track otherwise.

Dealroom's read on the raise: the platform consolidates models, data, users, access and spend into one governed place, and the round sits in the top 5% by size among all-time early venture deals in French enterprise software — a signal that investors think the AI-sprawl problem is a real budget line, not a fad.

Repeat founders, fast start

Goodweek was founded in Strasbourg and incubated at Station F in Paris by Guillaume Nominé and Nicolas Stehle. Both are repeat founders: Nominé previously co-founded Atolia, a collaboration tool sold to JustCall in 2022, while Stehle — Goodweek's chief financial officer — led Scalefast, also sold in 2022. Both studied computer science at ENSIIE.

The reunion angle helped close the round. "For us, this investment is also a reunion," said Nico Goulet, founding partner of Adara Ventures. "We backed Nicolas at Scalefast and have seen first-hand how he executes. Backing a founder a second time is one of the clearest signals of conviction an investor can give, and it is not one we give lightly."

The pace is real: in under a year, the company has grown to 50 employees across three countries and counts nearly 150 customers in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Benelux and North America.

Illustration: a year in, 50 employees and nearly 150 customers — now Goodweek wants to take its AI Manager to Latin America and Asia. (AI illustration)

What comes next

The new capital will fund a bigger sales operation and a push into new international markets, starting with Latin America and Asia. The ambition, in CEO Nominé's words: "We want everyone to have a good week at work, powered by AI that's more accessible, more secure, and genuinely useful day to day. Because AI should be an ally for every employee — not a risk for the company."

As model subscriptions keep multiplying inside smaller firms, Goodweek's wager is that the winning pitch isn't more AI — it's someone to keep the AI you already pay for from leaking.

Frequently asked questions

What is Goodweek's "AI Manager"?

It is a single governed platform for small and medium-sized businesses that brings together leading AI models — Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Mistral — while keeping each company's data isolated and never using it to train third-party models. It also gives business leaders visibility into who is using which AI tools and at what cost.

Who led Goodweek's seed round?

The €10.69 million ($12 million) seed round was led by Spanish VC Adara Ventures, with participation from Anamcara Capital, BGV, BY Venture Partners, CentraleSupélec Venture, FJ Labs, Interlace Ventures and True Ventures, plus support from Bpifrance.

What will Goodweek do with the money?

Goodweek will scale its sales operations and push into new international markets, including Latin America and Asia. The company just turned one year old and has already grown to 50 employees across three countries and nearly 150 customers in France, Spain, the UK, the Benelux and North America.