What is Acontos?
Acontos is Hectelion’s AI and automation service, designed to make key corporate finance tools more accessible, faster and more structured.
The service combines the expertise of an independent firm, professional financial models and intelligent automation processes. It allows business owners and entrepreneurs to structure their financial thinking, secure their first decisions and prepare important financial discussions, without immediately engaging a full mandate.
Acontos is neither a simple automatic generator nor a substitute for professional advice. It is a decision-support tool, designed as a rigorous, clear and framed first step.
Who is Acontos for?
SME and mid-market executives
Startup founders
Entrepreneurs and shareholders
What needs does Acontos cover?
Acontos addresses concrete, recurring corporate finance needs. It notably provides a credible order of magnitude for the value of a business, an audit of EBITDA quality ahead of a transaction (due diligence), and preparation ahead of a sale, an acquisition or a fundraising.
It also helps to better understand key financial mechanics, without needless jargon, and to prepare discussions with an investor, a bank or an advisor. The goal is never to decide in place of the client, but to provide clear, structuring reference points.
Save time
Acontos quickly delivers structured financial outputs, without starting from a blank page or immediately engaging a full mandate. The tools are designed to accelerate early-stage work while meeting demanding professional standards.
Structure financial thinking
The service sets a clear framework around often sensitive questions: business value, discussions with investors, or preparing a transaction. It provides solid methodological reference points to avoid intuitive or ill-informed decisions.
Tools built by a practitioner
The models and processes are grounded in hands-on corporate finance experience, not generic generators. Each tool reflects real-world practice observed in valuation, M&A and financial structuring.
Prepare discussions effectively
Acontos lets you approach discussions with investors, banks or advisors on a structured, consistent basis. The deliverables ease the dialogue by clarifying assumptions, orders of magnitude and key issues.
A framed and transparent approach
The limits, assumptions and intended uses of the tools are explicitly defined, with no overpromising or opaque automation. This transparency strengthens the credibility of the deliverables and secures their use as decision-support tools.
Digital tool vs advisory
Acontos is a structuring first step before, where needed, tailored support from Hectelion. It helps identify more quickly whether, when and on which topics a bespoke mandate becomes relevant.
How was Acontos built?
Acontos was built on a simple idea: putting technology at the service of rigour, not the other way around.
The service combines Hectelion’s financial expertise with the capabilities of artificial intelligence and automation tools to produce structured, consistent and usable deliverables. The models and processes rely on proven methodologies, rigorous financial and legal frameworks, and engineering focused on efficiency, traceability and clarity.
Artificial intelligence and automation are used as structuring and consistency tools, not as an end in themselves or a marketing argument.
Who is behind Acontos?
Acontos was designed by Aristide Ruot, Ph.D., founder of Hectelion.
A doctor in management science with more than ten years of corporate finance experience, he focuses on the valuation of businesses, assets and financial instruments, M&A transactions, financial due diligence, financial structuring, and financial engineering and modelling.
He also personally designs the coding, automation and integration of AI tools applied to finance. Acontos is the direct extension of this dual skill set: mastery of financial methods and the ability to design, code and automate them.
The tools rely neither on generic generators nor on marketing logic, but on models designed, tested and used in practice in real corporate finance contexts.
Which tools are available via Acontos?
Acontos currently provides an AI-assisted business audit and valuation simulator: upload your financial statements, the AI analyses them, you adjust the normalisations and multiples, then receive a detailed indicative valuation report. The tool is accessible through a simple, guided journey with visual examples to make it easy to understand and use.
Audit and value your businessOur methodological standards
The tools provided through Acontos rely on rigorous professional standards, identical to those Hectelion applies in its mandates.
Whether auditing the quality of an EBITDA or valuing a business, every deliverable is built on recognised methodologies, explicit assumptions and a deliberately prudent approach.
Valuations draw on the main approaches used by practitioners, notably market-based and income-based approaches, to provide credible and consistent orders of magnitude. Contractual documents rely on proven legal structures suited to sale, investment or financial discussions.
Acontos favours transparent mechanics, neutral results and a clear separation between the digital tool and bespoke advice. The deliverables are meant to structure, prepare and inform thinking, without replacing personalised support when the stakes become specific or binding.
Frequently asked questions
Acontos helps you clarify, structure and prepare: audit the quality of your EBITDA, obtain a credible valuation range and move forward with a clearer, better-built view.
As soon as decisions become binding: sale, acquisition, fundraising, investor entry or negotiation. The Acontos report then becomes a working basis for a valuation or due diligence mandate.
The valuation is an indicative estimate based on recognised methods (multiples, income value, net asset value) and the sector multiples observed by Hectelion. It is not an expert appraisal: it provides a defensible order of magnitude, to be refined with a professional before any transaction.
The report is generated specifically from your financial statements and your settings (normalisations, multiples, scenarios). In that sense, every report is unique. Advanced customisation falls under a bespoke mandate.
Yes. Acontos is often a first step. You can continue with tailored support from Hectelion: defensible valuation, due diligence or sale preparation.
Yes. Acontos applies distinct transaction multiples for Switzerland/DACH and France, handles CHF and EUR, and reflects usual Swiss and French business valuation practice.
Yes. Your documents are analysed in a secure environment, used only to generate your simulation and your report, and are not kept beyond the analysis.
Acontos is an automated tool, available immediately and free of charge. A classic mandate involves in-depth, personalised analysis, a defensible valuation and active support.
The Acontos report is a working and preparation basis. It is not designed to be used on its own in a real transaction without professional validation, adaptation or support.
No. Acontos is a decision-support tool. It structures financial thinking but does not replace personalised advice or bespoke expertise when the stakes become specific or binding.
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