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, and taking teams to autonomy became the way we build it, one squad at a time. You can read the full founding story.

The founders

Thomas Maitre, Co-founder & CEO. Entrepreneur since 2014. Co-founded Vizir with Benoit, a no-code chatbot company, bootstrapped it to €1M ARR and sold it to LumApps in 2022. Then scaled the LumApps AI product line from €1M to €10M ARR in three years. Builds with agents since early 2025.

Benoit Guivarc'h, Co-founder & CTO. Co-founded Vizir and sold it to LumApps in 2022. There he scaled the AI engineering team to 30 engineers. Builds with agents every day since 2025.

Operating partners

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.

Engagements are always run by the two founders. The operating partners bring the enterprise context: governance, transformation at scale, and the view from inside a ComEx.

What we believe

A squad is autonomous when agents run the build, the tests and the first review end to end, and people keep the intent, the trade-offs and the final call. You can measure it: lead time, throughput per person, and the team size it takes to hold a scope. Everything we sell reduces to that sentence, applied to one team, then to the next, until the models those teams run on compound into a world model of the company.

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.

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