Have the tool built, or have someone senior make the decision.
For European companies, and US and UK companies with customers or data in Europe. One contract for both: scope and price written before you sign, the overrun ours.
Build and automate
Your team stops copying data by hand: the missing tool gets built, hosted in the EU, with the source code in your name.
- Custom software developmentThe tool no product sells you, built on a fixed fee, with the source code in your name.
- Self-hosted n8n in EuropeYour applications talk to each other through n8n, on an EU server you control.
- AI automationRepetitive work gives back hours, measured against a baseline, with a person checking the output.
- AI under GDPR and the AI ActYour auditor's questions are answered by the architecture: where data runs, what is logged, who oversees.
- Private LLM and RAGYour people get answers from your own documents, with sources, without sending them to a US API.
Lead and modernize
Someone senior makes your technology decisions, on a bounded mandate, and the function comes back to you at the end.
- Outsourced IT departmentYour tools and vendors are run for you, without hiring an IT director.
- Fractional CIOThe project your IT team cannot absorb is taken on, delivered, documented, then handed back.
- Fractional CTOYour software product moves again: architecture, technical hires and migrations decided.
- Technical due diligenceYou know where you stand, what each option costs and in which order to act. Fixed price.
- Legacy modernizationThe migration that keeps slipping runs in waves, while production keeps running.
- VMware to Proxmox migrationThe renewal stops being your only option: the exit is priced first, then migrated in waves.
- Software project rescueYour code, your accounts and your project back under your control, and moving again.
- Post-launch supportAfter the handover, someone watches what was delivered. You can cancel with a month's notice.
Buying elsewhere? Requirements and vendor selection
Which one sounds like your quarter?
Five sentences we hear on first calls. Open the one closest to yours: the recommended way in is underneath.
A spreadsheet runs a process that now needs a real application.
We check first that no product on the market does the job: most companies should buy rather than build. If custom software is justified, we build it on a fixed fee, hosted in the EU, with the source code in your name.
Recommended way in: the technical due diligence, then a fixed-fee build.
My team copies the same data between five tools by hand.
The manual work between your applications becomes n8n workflows on an EU instance in your name, with telemetry off, retention set, and a handover your team can read.
Recommended way in: list the tasks, then a first wave of workflows.
Legal asked where the AI vendor stores customer data, and nobody knew.
Where the data runs, what is logged and who can audit it get settled in the architecture before go-live, in a form your counsel can sign off.
Recommended way in: the four auditor questions, answered for your system.
The VMware renewal arrived, and the number stopped making sense.
We price the exit first, then migrate in waves to an open-source hypervisor from a European vendor, with a tested restore at every step.
Recommended way in: the exit priced, before any renewal is signed.
Our vendor went quiet, and the project stopped with them.
We secure what you own first (code, accounts, data), assess the takeover in writing, then finish the work.
Recommended way in: an inventory of what you own, in the first week.
What you hold at each step.
Nobody starts from a catalog: you start from a bounded problem. And you can stop after any step.
20 minutes, free
A straight answer on whether we are the right fit.
Where your data and customers are, what is blocked. If a hire or another provider would serve you better, you hear it on that call.
2 to 5 days, 2000 € to 3000 €
A written, costed plan that belongs to you.
What exists, the risks, what each option costs, in which order to act. Usable by any provider, and credited if you continue.
The technical due diligencePrice fixed before signature
The work delivered, at the price signed.
Scope, schedule and acceptance criteria written before you sign. The overrun risk sits with us.
How we work, clause by clauseIncluded, then optional
Someone on your side who can run it.
Documentation, one of your people trained, credentials and sources transferred. Then, only if you want it, a light monthly watch.
Post-launch support
None of this is theory for us.
We build and operate our own software products, which means we make the roadmap, pricing and incident calls every month, on our own money. It is the part of our track record you can check without asking us for a reference.
The products we build and runWhere to start, a build on its own, the price: your questions answered.
Which service should we start with?
With the technical due diligence when something has to be decided or priced: 2 to 5 days, 2000 € to 3000 € excluding VAT (value-added tax), credited in full if work follows.
When a usable scoping document already exists, we start the engagement directly. And when the question fits in 20 minutes, it gets settled on a video call and costs nothing.
Can we hand you only a build, without a leadership engagement?
Yes. Custom software, n8n automation and AI systems can be commissioned on their own when the need is already scoped, each with its own scope and fixed fee. They can also sit inside a fractional CTO or CIO engagement.
Outsourced IT department, fractional CIO, fractional CTO: what is the difference?
The outsourced IT department runs the IT function of a company that has none.
The fractional CIO reinforces an IT function already in place, on a project it cannot absorb, then leaves.
The fractional CTO leads the technology of a software product: architecture, the developers or vendors who write the code, technical hires.
What does an engagement cost?
One price is published: the technical due diligence, 2000 € to 3000 € excluding VAT. The engagement after it is priced from that document, never from a rate card, and the price is fixed before you sign. If the effort exceeds our estimate, the gap is ours.
Do you work outside France?
Yes. We work for clients across Europe and on international programs: the Liège metropolitan area in Belgium, and Cameroon national infrastructure for Expertise France. For US and UK companies, the work is in English and the calls sit in your morning or our afternoon.
20 minutes to know which way in fits your situation.
Tell us what is happening on your side. We will say which service applies, or that none of them does, and where you should go instead. No proposal attached.