Gladys, a French project management software publisher since 2013
Gladys was born in Nantes in June 2013 from a simple idea: bring together in a single tool three levels that teams usually live separately. The big picture with portfolios, steering with projects, and day-to-day work with tasks and discussions. Today, large groups, local authorities and manufacturers run their projects with Gladys.
Behind Gladys are two partners, Guillaume Lépine and Erwan Knittel, and a small independent team. We design, develop and host Gladys in France, and we provide support ourselves.
Our story
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June 2013
Guillaume Lépine founds Gladys in Nantes, after co-founding and co-running the Nantes software publisher Naoned Systèmes for six years. Erwan Knittel soon joins him as partner and managing director.
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After 18 months of development
Gladys comes to market as a collaborative platform dedicated to innovation, from monitoring and calls for ideas to project tracking. It wins its first customers, including Groupama, ERDF (now Enedis), SAMOA and Lacroix Signalisation.
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2018
Gladys becomes project and portfolio management software. Pre-projects, which let people submit and assess ideas, are a direct legacy of those innovation-focused beginnings.
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2025
SOC 2 security audit report obtained.
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September 2026
Launch of the new version of Gladys, redesigned from the ground up and ready for AI.
What we believe in
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Simple tools for complex projects
A project manager shouldn’t spend evenings consolidating spreadsheets. Gladys brings schedules, resources, budget and discussions together, so everyone works from the same reality.
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Control over your data
Your projects say a lot about your organisation. They stay in France, with a French hosting provider, and you decide who can access them.
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AI that serves you, without imposing itself
AI is turned off by default. If you turn it on, you choose your assistant, including a European one, and it only sees what the user is allowed to see.
Sovereignty and security
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Developed in France
In Nantes, by our own team.
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Hosted in France
By OVHcloud, in its Roubaix and Gravelines data centres.
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Audited
SOC 2 security audit report obtained in 2025.
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Controlled
Single sign-on (SSO/SAML), roles and permissions project by project, action logging, video conferencing and AI that can be turned off.
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GDPR compliant
Data processing agreement (DPA) available on request.
The team
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Guillaume Lépine
President and CTO, co-founder
Guillaume has been programming since the age of 7. At 17, he won the idea prize at the European Young Software Authors Festival at the Futuroscope, and signed a contract with Atari right after. With a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Angers, he co-founded the Nantes software publisher Naoned Systèmes in 2007, where he led technology and which he co-ran for six years, before founding Gladys in 2013.
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Erwan Knittel
Managing director, partner
A design thinking and business development specialist, Erwan led an open innovation programme and built a private incubator project at Alcatel-Lucent, then worked at the creativity and innovation agency Sensipode. He leads business development at Gladys.
Around them, the Gladys team is organised in three areas:
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Engineering and development
Design, development and hosting of Gladys, in France.
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Sales, business and marketing
Supporting organisations from discovery to roll-out.
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Support
A team that knows the product inside out and answers users directly.
They trust us
Our customers are mostly French and very diverse:
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Local authorities
Hauts-de-France Region, the Drôme, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Vaucluse departments, the towns of Meylan, Couëron and Villiers-en-Plaine.
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Public bodies and institutions
French National Cancer Institute (INCa), OPH 05, SIAGA.
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Companies
Decathlon, Crédit Agricole, Baker Tilly, Éditions Quæ, La Mie Câline.
Contact us
Gladys
6, rue René Viviani
44200 Nantes, France
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