AI consulting for French companies

What French buyers usually want

French companies rarely ask for AI in the abstract. They ask for a specific relief: fewer hours on devis and factures, quicker replies to customer emails, a way to search years of internal documents, or help preparing tender responses. The consulting job is to confirm which of these is safe and worth the money.

We also meet a second kind of buyer, the director who has been told by three suppliers that everything can be automated and wants a neutral opinion. Our report gives that opinion, including the parts we would not automate.

In regulated fields such as legal, accounting and health, professional secrecy adds a further layer. We do not receive client files in those cases, and the report concentrates on process, tooling and risk rather than on content.

French rules and expectations

Check the details with your avocat or your DPO. The GDPR website checklist covers the web side.

French-language quality

French is well served by the major models, but style is another matter. Formal business French has conventions about politeness, titles and the use of vous that machine output sometimes misses. Legal and public-sector wording is less forgiving still.

We build a test set from your mail, quotes and product texts, run it through candidate models and have a French reader rate the results. Where output needs polish, we recommend a review step. Where it is already good, we say so and move on.

What you receive

• A ranked use-case list with hours saved and risk for each.
• A map of personal data, vendors and hosting regions.
• A model and tool recommendation, including options we do not sell.
• A short charte d'usage de l'IA for staff, in French on request.
• A scoped pilot with a stop rule if results do not appear.

Choosing between tools, builds and doing nothing

Each use case in the report gets one of three verdicts, with the reasoning shown.

There is also a fourth verdict, not yet. Some tasks depend on data you have not collected or processes that are not stable. We say so and suggest what to fix first. French firms often value this candor, since it saves a failed project.

Where a build is justified, we price it as a fixed quote and write the scope so that you could give it to another supplier.

Note that French public holidays and the long summer break affect scheduling. We plan interviews outside the weeks when your team is away, and we confirm dates in writing so nothing slips.

Working hours and pricing

Paris is 3.5 to 4.5 hours behind India. A call at 15:00 in Paris is 18:30 or 19:30 in Pune. We have no office in France; one consultant leads from start to finish and sends written notes after each call.

Projects start at $1,500 and our rate is $30 an hour, in US dollars. See the AI consulting cost guide for the drivers. A fixed quote follows within one working day of a short call. Build options after the review are on our France AI page.