Everwise built a business around the most old-fashioned career advantage: a useful person who gives you time. Then its customers asked for the machinery without the concierge.

After 25 years in B2B SaaS, Billault set out to trade the operating cadence for advisory work, family travel and a little French sunshine. An unexpected invitation from Chronus turned the pause into a new chapter in mentoring and HR tech.
Chronus took the warmest idea in corporate life - finding a mentor - and gave it matching logic, nudges, dashboards and a budget line. Now it is betting that AI can widen access without flattening the human relationship that made mentoring useful in the first place.