Making Information Management Intelligent, Sovereign, and Built to Last
Calico IIM is a European group of document management companies united by a proprietary private AI platform. We help organizations turn their information into actionable intelligence, while it stays under their control. We grow by acquiring established ECM businesses and giving them the technology, the team and the markets to thrive.
About Calico IIM
A Buy-and-Build Group for the ECM Industry
The enterprise content management market is large, fragmented, and ripe for AI transformation. Calico IIM consolidates established ECM businesses across Europe and accelerates them with a proprietary AI platform that we build in-house. Every acquisition gains intelligent capabilities, shared engineering, and access to new markets. We are operators, not financial engineers: product people who spent decades in this industry and know how to grow what we acquire.
Headquartered in France with operations in the United Kingdom, the group brings together complementary businesses serving government, education, healthcare, enterprise, and cultural institutions. Each company keeps its identity, its team, and its customers. What they share is a common technology platform, a culture of building, and a long-term commitment to the market.
Our Companies
A Family of Products
Each company in the group has its own history, its own customers, and its own expertise. What they share is a commitment to building great software and a common AI platform that makes every product smarter.
LM-Kit
The AI That Powers the Group
The group's proprietary private AI platform, developed in France. LM-Kit powers every product in the group: it helps organizations understand their documents, find answers in their own knowledge and automate routine work, without their information ever being handed to a third party.
Calico France
formerly JLB Informatique / Information Management
Over 40 years serving cultural institutions, government, healthcare, and education in France. Trusted by the Château de Versailles, ICOM, and the Ministère de l'Intérieur. A company that joined Calico IIM and kept everything that made it great.
GedZilla
Cloud-Native Document Management
A modern SaaS platform built and hosted in France. GDPR compliant, serving enterprises, municipalities, legal professionals, and government agencies across France and Europe.
FileStream
Electronic Document Management Systems
20+ years of trusted document management in the UK. ISO27001 certified, serving education, healthcare, maritime, and finance. Trusted by the University of Hull, Cardiff & Vale College, and enterprises across the country.
Our Approach
Private AI. Sovereign by Design.
Information is a strategic asset. Where it is stored, who can access it and which jurisdiction it falls under are now leadership questions, not IT details. Every company in the group relies on LM-Kit, our private AI platform, so that AI can work on an organization's information without that information leaving its control.
We build this technology ourselves, in Europe, with no dependency on external AI providers. Our customers keep control of their data and their costs. The group owns a strategic technology asset outright.
Stay Sovereign
Information stays in the customer's own environment or with European hosting. It is never shared with AI providers or used to train anyone else's models. Each organization decides who sees what.
Understand Documents
Documents are read, classified and indexed automatically, turning archives into knowledge the organization can actually use.
Answer Questions
Teams ask questions in plain language and get answers drawn from their own information, with the sources to back them up.
Predictable Economics
Costs do not climb with every page or every question. Organizations can roll AI out widely without a usage bill that grows alongside it.
Join the Group
Your Next Chapter Starts Here
You built something real. A product your customers rely on, a team that knows the business inside out, a reputation earned over years. Now you are looking for the right partner to take it further. Not a fund that will strip it. Not a corporation that will absorb it. A group of people who understand what you built, because they built something too.
Calico IIM is actively looking for established ECM, document management, and content services companies with strong recurring revenue and loyal customer bases. If that sounds like you, let's talk.
AI Your Customers Are Already Asking For
Your customers want AI features. With LM-Kit, you deliver them next quarter, not next decade, as private AI that keeps their data under their control.
A Team That Ships, Not Just Plans
Shared engineering resources across the group. Real features, shipped quarterly. You stop choosing between fixing bugs and building the future.
New Markets Without Building From Scratch
Access the French, British, and European markets through our existing networks. No need to build a new sales team from zero.
Shared Resources, Not Shared Control
Centralized marketing, shared infrastructure, cross-selling across customer bases. The support of a group, with the freedom to run your business.
People Who Understand Your Business
We are not financial buyers learning your industry over a PowerPoint. We have been building ECM products for decades. We speak your language.
Our Promise
What Stays the Same
Joining Calico IIM is not a takeover. It is a partnership. We do not erase what you built. We give it the resources to grow.
Your Brand
Your name, your identity, your market position. Every company in the group keeps its brand. Your reputation is an asset, not something we replace.
Your Team
Your people stay and grow. They get colleagues across the group, not bosses from headquarters. Flat hierarchy, real autonomy.
Your Customers
Your customer relationships are yours. We help you serve them better with AI capabilities and shared expertise. We do not redirect or consolidate accounts.
Your Autonomy
You run your business. We provide resources, technology, and opportunities. No corporate playbook, no integration factory. Your initiative, your ownership.
Who We Are
Built by Entrepreneurs. Driven by Craft.
We are product people, engineers, and entrepreneurs. A diverse team across France and the United Kingdom who chose to build together. We favor initiative over process, accountability over hierarchy, and shipping over talking. We want the market to be better because we exist in it.
We Ship Products, Not Slides
Hands-on builders who measure work by the problems it solves. Every quarter, every product gets better.
Your Idea, Your Ownership
Flat hierarchy. Initiative and accountability matter more than titles. If you see something to improve, you own it.
People First, Always
We grow companies by growing the people inside them. Take care of the team and the product takes care of itself.
Diverse by Nature
Different backgrounds, different countries, different perspectives. That is how you build software that works for everyone.
Positive Impact
We want our customers, our partners, and our market to be better off because they work with us. That is the measure of success.
Built to Last
Long-term commitment to every product, every customer, every team member. No flip-and-sell. We are here to stay.
Our Reach
Sectors We Serve
Get in Touch
Let's Build the Future Together
Whether you are an ECM company exploring your next chapter, an investor interested in the information management space, or a potential partner, we would love to hear from you. No pressure, just a conversation.