Customer reference · Health insurance and mutual insurance · Alptis Group, Lyon
Alptis: from AI Act compliance to a community of 31 AI Initiators that drive its own Prompt Party
The starting point was regulatory: to train and raise awareness among approximately 800 group employees in response to the AI Act's AI proficiency requirement (section 4). Eleven months later, a launch Masterclass, 31 trained "Impulseurs" (instructors) across three cohorts, 17 Prompt Party Co-facilitated and three professional workshops have established an internal community that now independently facilitates its level 2 workshops. Agent Party understood.
The starting point: a regulatory obligation, a culture to be created
In November 2024, the Talent and Culture department of the Alptis group launched a consultation for AI training. The starting point was regulatory: to train and raise awareness among all group employees about understanding AI, its challenges, advantages, and limitations, in order to comply with the AI Act's (Article 4) requirement to master AI, and to begin establishing an AI culture. The target audience was broad: approximately 800 employees, including those in subsidiaries, spread across Lyon, Paris, Rennes, Beaune, Voiron, Marseille, Bordeaux, and Fort-de-France. The initial request was for a two-hour, remote, and interactive webinar with a clear objective: to identify the uses of AI in the workplace using Microsoft Copilot.
The NextStart proposal shifts the focus: rather than a single awareness campaign, a journey that starts from the obligation to master AI under Article 4 of the AI Act to establish lasting uses, relying on voluntary internal relays.
The project was approved by the management committee in spring 2025, in three parts: Launch Masterclass, training of internal relays and co-facilitation, professional workshops.
The plan: four floors in eleven months
Each stage prepares the next, from mass awareness to the autonomy of internal relays.
Launch Masterclass
On June 20, 2025, a webinar broadcast on the intranet and available for replay covered general AI knowledge, the AI Act framework, and initial uses of Copilot. The Masterclass served as a call for volunteers for an internal community of ambassadors, dubbed "Generative AI Drivers" by Alptis: 32 applications were received in three weeks, from all legal entities within the group.
Training of the Initiators
In September 2025, three two-half-day virtual classroom sessions will be held: day 1 "AI in everyday life", day 2 "advanced use cases". 31 trainees from Alptis Assurances and its subsidiaries will be trained.
Prompt Party co-facilitated and professional workshops
In October 2025, two days in person in Lyon and two days in a virtual classroom: 17 Prompt Party "Research and Writing" sessions lasting 45 minutes to one hour, in groups of eight to fifteen, co-facilitated by a NextStart Initiator and an expert. In parallel, three Prompt Party Half-day in-person training for Commerce, Marketing and Communication.
Transition to autonomy
At the beginning of 2026, NextStart designs two level 2 engineering systems (Excel and PowerPoint; Agent Party with creation of agents in Copilot Chat) and delivers an animation brief to the Impulseurs on March 26, 2026. The second wave, at the end of April and the beginning of May 2026, is entirely animated by the Impulseurs, without a NextStart speaker in the room.
The measured results
31 relays trained in three cohorts, who co-led 17 Prompt Party level 1 then resumed the level 2 animation on their own. From the first wave, an Impulsor requested a Prompt Party dedicated to developers; by March 2026, one of them had already built three assistants for his own position.
Approximately 450 participants, 94 survey respondents, 82% of whom gave a score of 4 or 5 out of 5 (average close to 4,0). The main criticism, that the level was considered introductory by those already familiar with the program, precisely fueled the development of the next stage (Impulseurs, level 2).
After the session, the Strategy, Marketing and Communication department wrote: "I think the team will be using AI much more starting next week!"
The relationship continued in 2026 with two level 2 engineering projects, designed in the spring and run independently by the Impulseurs.
Key figures
What they say
"Thank you so much. The training was very interesting and I think the team will be using AI much more starting next week!"Strategy, Marketing and Communications Department, Alptis, 2025
"I'm looking forward to discovering the Impulseurs community because I think we'll learn a lot more and be able to have more in-depth discussions."Masterclass participant, future Initiator, June 2025
What we take away from this
Article 4's requirement to control AI is a budgetary trigger and an opportunity to establish a framework. The process uses it to move towards usage, not just compliance.
"Impulseurs" is the name chosen by Alptis. A community that names itself and recruits through calls for volunteers is sustainable.
Level 2 was delivered as an animation kit with a brief to the Impulseurs: this is what makes autonomy possible and sustainable.
Transforming an AI Act obligation into a community of use
Article 4, raising awareness among all employees, internal relays, autonomy: let's talk about the path adapted to your organization and your subsidiaries.
The program in pictures
The workshops in this program, as listed on our References page.
Results obtained: 32 employees applied to the "AI Initiators" program to be trained, and then deploy PROMPT PARTY and AGENT PARTY workshops in their entity.
Step 1: 31 facilitators trained in 3 cohorts of about ten participants each, over 2 half-days spaced one week apart
Step 2: Co-facilitation of the first workshops Prompt Party "in order to make them comfortable with the facilitation and the questions asked by the participants, i.e. 17 Prompt Party both in-person and remotely with different pairs of Initiators
Step 3: Deployment of Prompt Party by the Impellers in complete autonomy within their entity and geography
Step 4 (3 months later): Engineering of two level 2 workshops: Prompt Party Excel and PowerPoint, and Agent Party, for their deployment by the Impulsors
17 practical workshops Prompt Party "From 45 minutes to 1 hour, in person and in a virtual classroom, with Copilot"
Learn how to build your first AI agent with Copilot through hands-on, in-person workshops. Agent Party » 1 hour with Copilot
Participant satisfaction:
It allows us to improve the quality of our prompts, provides new ways to use AI tools / Implementation with concrete documentation, use of GPT-5 with the differences from version 4 / Practical with use cases adapted to our jobs, good tips, best practices / Great hands-on practice in the session with all types of cases / Training adapted to our needs, fun with practical application, good tips / Concrete, clear example / Very interesting, time to ask questions / Clear, educational, very concrete, the prompts chosen for practice are very relevant, this training has made me want to use Copilot more / Thank you for the advice on optimizing prompts, good use cases adapted to the job / Opens up possibilities for improvement, inspiration, while continuing to think, great to work on practical cases from our job / Excellent work on practical cases, great to be able to visualize and test different types of prompts and discover different uses of AI
Participant satisfaction:
A great introduction to Copilot, well-documented with practical examples, comprehensive training / Allows us to optimize our time, understand the tool's limitations, and learn about Copilot's functions / Concise, clear, engaging use cases, good teaching methods, dynamic instructor / High-quality facilitation, interesting examples / Concrete examples, practical application / Very practical, provides ideas, immediately applicable, sparks curiosity, allows everyone to follow along regardless of their level
Participant satisfaction:
Very interesting / Accessible / Useful / Good for building a solid foundation / Very clear / Personalized prompt party tailored to the team's needs / Clear answers to questions / Simple / Clear / Very industry-focused / Suitable for all levels / Interactive / Didactic / Fun / Very informative / Pedagogical / Instructor availability / Up-to-date with the latest trends / Attentive to requests / We leave with tips for effective prompting / Very practical / Progressive approach / Very comprehensive and accessible / Good trainer / Good optimization of content within a limited timeframe / Very good training / Very relevant to our industry thanks to concrete use cases / Very rich, good overview of multiple use cases
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