A classical sculpted head, lit in the Ask Mona colours

AI storytelling, grounded in your sources

Where AI
meets curiosity

Your audience asks in its own words. Your sources answer, in 80 languages.

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more engagement than a mobile app
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say they learned something useful
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more time spent on a single piece of content

Ask Mona builds conversational AI agents for museums and monuments, destinations, schools and brands. 250+ organisations, 19 countries.

The MetChâteau de VersaillesLouvre Abu DhabiParc Archéologique du ColiséeMusée d'OrsayFondation Louis VuittonRMN - Grand PalaisPetit PalaisMusée CarnavaletChâteau de FontainebleauMusée canadien de l'histoireHMAACKNMAAlimentariumLa PosteEdition NathanVivienne WestwoodPlenitude ArenaSociété d'Exploitation de la Tour EiffelMNBAQ

What we do

We don't just configure agents.
We write characters.

Most generative AI agents borrow the default voice of the model underneath, so they all blur together. Ours get a persona, a register, and rules about what they will never say. Augmented storytellers, not prompt engineers.

Your answer never reaches them.

What you know is locked in a PDF, a database, a guidebook. Nobody opens them, so the question dies.

Or someone else answers for you.

A generic assistant speaks for you. It picks the facts, the tone, the angle. You never even see the conversation.

Our method, on every AI deployment

Technology alone
sounds generic.

Over nine years and 250 deployments we formalised one framework, and we run it on every project. It turns a place, an institution or a brand into a character your audience talks to. We call it Identity, Knowledge, Culture.

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Who speaks

Identity

Who the agent is: its voice, its worldview, its rules of engagement. Built in workshops with your brand or curatorial team.

You get a documented persona, with explicit do's, don'ts and characteristic phrases, stable whether it writes, speaks or appears on screen.

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What it knows

Knowledge

What the agent knows, and just as importantly what it does not. A curated base validated with your own experts.

Authoritative sources, topics in scope and out of scope, factuality checks. It never invents, and it holds on sensitive subjects.

C
How it speaks

Culture

Register, references, humour, and silences. This is the layer nobody else builds, and the one your audience actually feels.

It is why a Versailles agent could never be mistaken for a Louvre Abu Dhabi agent, even when the technology underneath is identical.

Leonardo's study of human proportion, its ink glowing, a network of light connecting the joints
Identity
Knowledge, and its limits
Culture

Three levels of conversational AI

One base.
Three ways to answer.

It writes

Essential

Opening times, tickets, the works themselves. Written answers, in the visitor's language, wherever you put the link.

See Essential
It speaks

Enhanced

It reads its answer aloud as it writes it, each word lighting up as it is said, in a voice you approved.

See Enhanced
It looks back

Immersive

A character that looks back, blinks and answers out loud, lips in sync. It takes its place in the room.

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Agency work, at software prices.
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A question asked on a website, the answer writing itself on screen
A phone in front of a marble bust, the sculpture answering aloud
A full-length classical statue on a large screen filling an exhibition room, speaking and gesturing

The platform behind every agent

One engine. One console. Behind all three.

Your sources
You load
The knowledge base
You edit
The engine
It answers
The evaluator
It checks
Your audience
It speaks
And it comes back to you.
Every conversation becomes structured data: what they asked, what they failed to find, when, in which language.

Your sources

Whatever you already have, in the format it already exists.

PDF and Word
Web pages
Spreadsheets
Images
Your collection database

The knowledge base

Change an answer, publish it, see the result. No developer in the loop.

Edit and publish yourself
Preview instantly
One base, all three levels
No technical skill required

The engine

Several models under one orchestration layer, tied to no single provider.

OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
Only what you approved
No provider lock-in

The evaluator

Every answer is scored before it reaches anyone, in every language you serve.

Faithfulness to your sources
Tone
Safety
Scored in every language

Your audience

They ask in their own words, and get your answer.

80 languages
Voice and text together
Same character in each
Nothing to download

Ask Mona Academy

AI without shortcuts.

Not every AI question is a question about an agent. We run a consulting and training practice for organisations putting AI to work in their own operations, and we teach what we practise: AI runs through every job in this company.

The method is the point. Understand what the technology does and where it fails before you commit to it, and decide out loud what you will not use it for. That is where the ethics get settled, not in an annex.

No technical background needed, and nothing generic: the cases we work through come from your own organisation.

See the programmes
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out of 5, rated by 250 employees trained across 20 departments
Pathé, 2025

Field results

Everyone promises AI.
We publish what it changed.

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months of team work freed by a single month of service.

Musée d'Orsay
2nd

best seller in the shop: a magnet that answers, in five languages.

Rouen Sites & Monuments
1st

AI-augmented schoolbook published in France.

Éditions Nathan

Written about in

The New York TimesForbesSmithsonian MagazineLe MondeLes EchosLe FigaroArtnetFrance Culture

Next step

Turn your story into a conversation.

Send us the sources you already have. We come back with an agent that answers, and everything your audience asked it.

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