About
Worldmodel was founded in Paris in 2026. The team pairs two skill sets that rarely sit in the same company: founders building at the frontier of AI-native software, and senior operating partners who have led transformation inside Europe's largest enterprises. Most teams in this space have one. We have both.
The company started as a studio building autonomous AI workers for businesses. As we deployed more workers, we discovered that what made each one genuinely useful was the shared model of the company it operated in. That shared model became the product. You can read the full founding story.
The team
Thomas Maitre, Co-founder & CEO. Founded and exited enterprise chatbot company to unicorn LumApps. Then scaled AI enterprise division to ARR.
Benoit Guivarch, Co-founder & CTO. Founded and exited enterprise chatbot company to unicorn LumApps. Then scaled AI enterprise tech team to 30 engineers.
Matthias Manoukian, Co-founder & CPO. Employee #1 at LumApps. Scaled the company until unicorn valuation in 2025 as Head of Product and Head of Design.
Luc Bretones, CEO NextGen. Former EVP Innovation at Orange Group. Fortune 500s and SMBs advisor on AI transformation.
Esteban Martinez-Querol, AI Transformation Advisor. Helps large enterprises deploy AI at scale across strategy, operations, and execution.
Sophie Lagandre, Growth & Ops Lead. Scaled operations inside high-growth European companies.
What we believe
We are European, sovereignty-respecting, and CEO-aligned. We believe the best AI in the enterprise is not the one that helps employees type faster. It is the one that goes beyond what copilots can do: replacing the coordination layer that middle management used to provide. Routing information, maintaining alignment, pre-computing decisions. That function was necessary when only humans could do it. It is now a solved problem for machines. The humans stay at the edge, where judgment matters.
In March 2026, Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha published "From Hierarchy to Intelligence," an essay about Block's move toward a "company world model." It articulated what we had been building, and it gave the market a language for the shift we believe is happening. We recommend every executive read it.