Puteaux, 5 October 2026 – Sage, the leader in accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for small and medium-sized businesses, today announces the acquisition of WholeHelp, the company behind the AI Studio platform that powers Sage 100 Experience Edition. Launched through Sage’s partnership with WholeHelp in June 2026, the technology is already used by a growing number of customers and partners in France. WholeHelp enables customers to turn business requirements into tailored applications and automated workflows in hours, not days, accelerating time-to-value through AI-native technology.
Businesses often need their software to support processes that are specific to the way they operate. Addressing these needs through traditional custom development requires specialist skills, significant investment and months of work.
WholeHelp’s AI Studio closes that gap through a suite of AI-native capabilities that enable customers to rapidly build, automate and interact with business applications. Its AI Builder module converts natural-language requirements into lightweight web applications, such as role-based dashboards or task-specific interfaces. The Workflow module uses AI agents to create automations across and beyond Sage products, accelerating productivity without the need for lengthy bespoke development. The Chat platform provides conversational access to information and processes, making it easier for users to complete everyday tasks and unlock greater value from their business systems.
WholeHelp’s AI Studio integrates seamlessly with existing Sage solutions through APIs, allowing applications and workflows to connect directly to the products, data and business processes customers already rely on. Partners are already using the platform to create tailored dashboards, task-specific applications and automated workflows that connect Sage with other business systems, such as CRM platforms. The result is greater interoperability across the SMB technology ecosystem and a more open, connected experience for customers.
“Businesses want AI that addresses practical challenges and delivers value within the way they already work,” said Arnaud Petit, Managing Director, Sage Southern Europe. “WholeHelp’s AI Studio has demonstrated in live Sage environments how quickly a specific customer need can become a working application or automated workflow. By bringing the business into Sage, we can now invest further, integrate the technology more closely with our products and make that capability available to more businesses across France and eventually other Sage products and geographies.”
Turning business needs into working applications
For customers, this means fewer manual steps, interfaces designed around the work to be done and simpler access to information, as part of the Sage solutions, data, expertise and functional depth they have built up over time. For partners, it is a faster way to answer specific customer requirements and to extend the Sage products they already implement and support, delivering tailored solutions in hours rather than days. The acquisition builds on a well-established relationship, which has allowed WholeHelp to develop the platform around real customer and partner requirements, supporting closer integration and wider adoption.
“We built WholeHelp inside the Sage ecosystem because applications and automation only create value when they connect with the products, data and processes businesses already rely on,” said Valentin Barthel, Co-founder and CEO of WholeHelp. “Our team took it from the first line of code to live customers in under a year, working alongside Sage and their partners in France. Joining Sage is an outstanding opportunity. Combining the flexibility of an AI-native workflow solution with the compliance and functional depth of Sage’s established products and the reach of the Sage partner network is both innovative and unique, and it is how we will bring this to many more businesses.”
About Sage
Sage creates the confidence businesses are built on. Our finance, HR and payroll technology supports the critical work millions of small and mid-sized businesses and accountants depend on – helping them navigate complexity, reduce risk and make better decisions. As AI transforms how that work gets done, Sage provides the essential platform for the people who need to get it right, bringing together trusted technology, deep domain expertise and the connected services they rely on every day. We extend that commitment by using our time, resources and experience to help create opportunity in the communities where we live and work.
About WholeHelp
Founded in France, WholeHelp began as a technical digital agency and has exclusively focused on AI Studio since 2025, the platform that powers Sage 100 Experience Edition. WholeHelp built AI Studio as a Sage technology partner, from inside the Sage ecosystem rather than alongside it, and the product is already in the hands of Sage customers. AI Studio combines Builder, a prompt-based environment for building web applications, and Workflow Builder, an agent-based automation tool, with redesigned web interfaces and conversational agents embedded in the product. Together they form a usage layer that extends the depth and compliance of Sage solutions with the flexibility of the web and native AI, giving customers productivity gains on their existing Sage solutions.
