Hervé Rousseau
Co-founder & CEO
Serial cybersecurity entrepreneur. Founded Openminded, grown to a leading French cyber services firm and acquired by Accenture.
COMPANY
Cyber operators, building the tool they always missed.
Mindlapse was founded by three leaders who spent their careers on the operational side of cybersecurity, and decided governance deserved better than documentation theater.
Mindlapse SAS · at a glance
- Founded January 2025 · Paris
- Team 16 people figures as of September 2026
- Community 30+ enterprise CISOs · 6 editions since December 2024
- Open positions 03
Registered company Mindlapse SAS Paris
OUR STORY
Make cybersecurity a lever for informed decisions, not just compliance.
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The observation
It came from the field. Boards got slides; operations got tickets; nobody got the truth.
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The bet
We did the unusual thing: we built the platform with its future users, through the Cyber Collective Lab, a working circle of 30+ enterprise CISOs meeting in Paris since December 2024.
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Today
A Paris team of 16 (cyber experts, product designers and engineers) building the European answer to a category that badly needs one.
Cyber Collective Lab 6 editions held since December 2024
RECOGNIZED BY
ENTERPRISE DEPLOYMENTS
International groups run the platform in production.
Multinational groups operating across dozens of countries and five continents selected Mindlapse through their own evaluation and tender processes, and run it on production scopes today. Our customers are bound by non-disclosure agreements, so this page states what is true of the deployments and never the names behind them.
- 400,000+
- employees in the groups running the platform
- 5
- continents spanned by the production scopes
Figures as of September 2026. Customer names are covered by non-disclosure agreements.
Customer references are shared under NDA during an evaluation, at the stage where they are useful to you.
HOW WE THINK
Three pillars, five convictions.
We envisioned a platform designed around decision-making, not documentation. It stands on three commitments, and on five beliefs we refuse to compromise on.
THREE PILLARS
Agentic
Intelligence integrated from the ground up: agents that verify, analyze and draft inside every workflow.
Meet Ernest, the AI of Mindlapse
Operational
Anchored in real-time data from your actual environment, not in static reports. When reality changes, your governance sees it.
See the connectors that feed it
Aligned
Risk expressed in the language of the business (value chains, priorities, decisions), so cybersecurity serves strategy instead of auditing it.
Explore the Business Value Chain
05 FIVE CONVICTIONS
Five beliefs we refuse to compromise on.
Not a values poster: each one is built into a module, and the page next to it shows where.
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Cybersecurity serves the business.
Security is a lever for informed decision-making, not a compliance tax. Every feature must help someone decide something.
Lives in Board-Ready Reporting -
Data is the foundation of trust.
The more comprehensible a risk becomes, the more manageable it is. Verified data beats eloquent declarations, every time.
Lives in Third-Party Risk -
AI must be a responsible tool.
Sovereign, transparent, bounded and auditable, or not at all. Our AI Manifesto is public and binding.
Lives in AI Manifesto -
Simplicity accelerates action.
Complexity is where risk hides and where teams stall. We design for clarity, speed and adoption: capabilities that matter, from day one.
Lives in GRCOps -
Resilience over compliance.
Compliance is a floor, not a goal. The objective is an organization that withstands, adapts and recovers, and can prove it.
Lives in Continuous compliance
LEADERSHIP
Three founders, one obsession.
Julien Beuvelet
Co-founder & COO
Fifteen-plus years in cybersecurity operations and governance. Builds the bridge between regulatory ambition and what teams can actually run.
Christophe Longuepez
Co-founder & CPTO
Operational cybersecurity leader turned product builder. Leads the platform and Ernest, with a strategic focus on sovereign, verifiable AI.
LIFE AT MINDLAPSE
The team, at work.
In Paris, in flexible offices that move with the team. This is what the days look like.
The team, and the rooftop it escapes to.
JOIN US
Help flip an industry from declared to verified.
We hire people who prefer evidence to slideware: engineers, designers, cyber practitioners. Open positions with their salary ranges, how we work and how we hire are on the careers page.
AI
Our AI Manifesto
07 public commitments
Public commitments on secure, ethical, sovereign AI: the standard we hold Ernest to.
- Implement state-of-the-art AI ethics & security
- Ensure EU AI Act & regulatory compliance
- Guarantee system security through rigorous testing
- Reduce & monitor energy consumption
- Ensure transparency in development & deployment
- Protect user privacy & data
- Monitor & continuously improve
READY WHEN YOU ARE
See your posture verified, live.
Thirty minutes with our team, on your use cases. NIS2, DORA, CRA or AI Act: bring your hardest questions.