A collective of data & AI freelancers
Working across the greater South-East, between Montpellier, Marseille and Lyon.
A collective of DATA experts
where every company succeeds and every freelancer grows.
From governance strategy to the delivery of a modern data platform and its data products.
What the collective brings
End-to-end data expertise, delivered by independents.
Two families of profiles within the collective: Data Governance Delivery and Tech Data. Senior experts who deliver the work themselves.
Data expertise
Governance, engineering, analytics and AI: the full chain, held by senior people who have run these programmes from the inside, in data leadership roles.
Entrepreneurial profiles
The people who frame the assignment are the ones who deliver it. No partner selling the work, then handing it over to a team discovering the subject.
Operational support
No expert works alone: the collective reviews the deliverables, weighs the structural choices with them and brings in the missing skill within days.
A collective, not a list of profiles
Independent experts who work together, with shared methods and commitments.
Depth of expertise, activated on demand
A senior network covering the whole data and AI chain, mobilised on your assignments within days.
The setup your context requires
Task force, programme team or targeted support: we assemble the right configuration for each challenge.
Data entrepreneurs
The profile you meet is the one working with you, with no intermediary and no junior slotted onto the assignment.
Organised as a collective
The expertise covers governance, business processes, platform and data products, and combines on a single assignment.
Committed to business value
A single extra expert or a full task force depending on the challenge, without a consultancy’s staffing delay.
Our offers · Diagnostic
Data & AI Diagnostic
Born from four recurring observations in the field.
Maturity that is hard to pin down
Companies struggle to gauge their real data & AI maturity against their practices, their architecture and their market.
Fragile data foundations
Without solid data quality, governance and architecture, AI projects fail to move from prototype to production.
Uncertain scale-up
Beyond the POC, companies lack a clear strategy to industrialise their AI projects and measure the ROI.
An organisation still to build
Target resources, skills and governance often remain undefined to carry the roadmap over time.
Our offers · Rollout
Data governance & platform rollout
Governance, platform and delivery processes. We put in place the setup that hands data back to the business, and we hold the roles nobody delegates.
Explore the offeringResults measured on assignment
Expertise
Two complementary orientations within the collective.
Consultants before going freelance, David and Nicolas met on a number of assignments before launching the collective in early 2025.
Data Governance Delivery
Business / Data Office focus
Key expertise
- Data Governance
- Project Management (incl. Agile)
- Business & IT Transformation
- Change Management
Tooling
Data catalogues · Data quality · Data analysis (Qlik, Power BI, …)
Tech Data
IT / Data Office focus
Key expertise
- Agile development
- Data Engineering
- Advanced Analytics
- Data Solutions Architecture & Set-up
- AI Development Frameworks
Tooling
Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway) · Data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, …) · AI (frontier and open models)
Backed by its two founders
David Dourguin
Data Governance & Business Processes
Data governance, business and operational processes, functional IT expertise. From PwC to the data teams of Groupe SEB and Chanel, David rolls out governance close to the domains, covering data quality, roadmaps and data applications that serve the business.
Data governance · Process mining · Dataiku, Qlik, Power BI
10 years of experienceLinkedIn ↗
Nicolas Yordamlis
Data Architect / IT Leader
A consultant by background and passionate about technology, Nicolas aligns technical innovation with business needs. A technical leader and a doer, he designs and implements robust data solutions in close collaboration with the business. Trilingual in French, English and Spanish.
Data engineering · Modern data platforms · Analytics
15+ years of experienceLinkedIn ↗
where every company succeeds…
- ✓End-to-end data expertise
- ✓2 profiles within the collective: Data Governance Delivery and Tech Data
- ✓An entrepreneurial mindset, with profiles matched to the assignment
- ✓Senior profiles, committed to delivering the work themselves
- ✓A collective that supports its members on assignments and shares its resources
- ✓A network of freelancers and partners
Our results
What data has earned our clients.
Assignments delivered by members of the collective. Clients anonymised.
Industry · Procurement
Process mining on the procurement process
- 10 days saved on average across the sub-processes (approval cycle, supplier payments)
- Reduced non-compliance risk on supplier payments
Industry · Billing
Optimising and digitalising client billing
- 31 indicators across 10 dashboards
- €824K of credit notes caused by process breakdowns
- €237K of orders delivered but never invoiced
Transport & logistics · AI
AI-driven optimisation of operational resources
- Warehouse schedules optimised by combining parcel data with time-tracking data
Transport & logistics · AI
Automating the client billing review
- Detection of work delivered without associated invoicing
Commodity trading · Analytics
Identifying a crude oil sourcing opportunity
- 10% average gross margin over 5 years
- Supplier country pinpointed among several African markets through data analysis
Maritime chartering · Supply chain
Analysis of inland intermodal flows
- Logistics reorganisation and hub rationalisation
- Higher operational efficiency across the whole scope