What Jamespot does

Jamespot is a French SaaS provider founded in 2005 and headquartered in Montreuil, France, operating a modular Digital Workplace platform that combines enterprise social networking (Open Agora), collaborative intranet (Fast Intranet), messaging and video conferencing (TeamWork), virtual offices (Jamespot Land), and AI capabilities (SafeBrain, Mr-Smith.ai) in a single sovereign environment. The platform is built on Kubernetes container architecture, hosted on OVHcloud with SecNumCloud certification, and is explicitly positioned as a 100% French alternative to GAFAM collaboration tools. Jamespot has accumulated 7 disclosed acquisitions since 2014 (most recently Mr-Smith.ai in May 2024) and an ecosystem of 80+ business applications in the Jamespot Store.

The company serves 350+ public, private, and associative organizations with deployments scaling from 50 to 80,000 users per organization, including Renault, EDF, KPMG, Caisse d'Epargne, BPI France, Assurance Maladie, McPhy, Stokomani, and departmental councils. Customer verticals span automotive, energy, banking, insurance, healthcare, public administration, retail, manufacturing, and nonprofits. Jamespot holds ISO 27001, HDS (Health Data Hosting), SecNumCloud, and ANSSI MonServiceSécurisé certifications, creating a regulatory moat for healthcare, financial-services, and public-sector clients where US-based tools face Cloud Act exposure.

Revenue is generated through annual SaaS subscriptions combining a platform fee with per-user licensing priced from 4 to 7 EUR HT per user per month, with volume discounts based on organization size and commitment term. The go-to-market is sales-led, anchored by direct enterprise field sales (Book a Demo) and supported by a 15-day self-serve trial, a partner/reseller program, and the Jamespot Academy (Jacad) certification track. Typical enterprise deployments run 6 to 10 weeks with a dedicated project manager and 6 customized workshops.

Name

Jamespot

Legal name

JAMESPOT

Website

https://jamespot.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Jamespot is a French sovereign Digital Workplace SaaS provider offering modular enterprise social networking, intranet, office suite, and AI capabilities. The platform serves 350+ public and private organizations (50 to 80,000 users each) as a SecNumCloud-certified alternative to GAFAM collaboration tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Workplace / Enterprise Collaboration Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional & Business Services Marketplaces (Freelancers, SMB Services) (BPAMAHAG)

Keywords

• Digital workplace platform
• Enterprise social network
• Collaborative intranet software
• Sovereign cloud collaboration
• Business messaging platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Montreuil

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription — Platform + Per-User Licensing: Jamespot operates on an annual subscription model consisting of a platform subscription fee plus a per-user subscription fee. Pricing scales with the number of users and includes degressivity (volume discounts) based on organization size and commitment term. This is the primary revenue stream from core platform licensing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Jamespot is a French software company that develops and sells a sovereign, modular Digital Workplace platform combining enterprise social networking (Open Agora), collaborative intranet (Fast Intranet), office suite (TeamWork), virtual offices (Jamespot Land), and AI capabilities (SafeBrain sovereign AI platform, IA Jamespot, and RAG-based ChatBots). The platform is hosted on OVHcloud with SecNumCloud certification, serves organizations of 50 to 80,000 users, and is sold via annual per-user subscriptions with volume discounts.

Product overview

Jamespot is a French Digital Workplace platform offering four independent and complementary products for a tailor-made collaborative environment: Open Agora (enterprise social network), Fast Intranet (collaborative intranet), Smart Place (combined Digital Workplace), and Jamespot Land (virtual offices/metaverse). The platform is built around a sovereign, modular architecture that includes integrated AI capabilities through IA Jamespot, the SafeBrain AI platform for deploying business-specific AI agents, and RAG-based ChatBot technology acquired via Mr-Smith.ai. Over 80 additional applications are available through the Jamespot Store. The platform serves organizations from 50 to 80,000 users with deployment times of 6-10 weeks on average.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Open Agora: Enterprise social network solution for fostering collaboration and information sharing
• Fast Intranet
• Smart Place
• Jamespot Land
• TeamWork
• Safebrain

Products and services

• Jamespot Digital Workplace The core sovereign and modular Digital Workplace platform that unifies enterprise social networking, collaborative intranet, office suite, and AI capabilities in a single environment. Provides customizable workspaces for organizations of 50 to 80,000 users with deployment times of 6-10 weeks.
• Open Agora Enterprise social network that structures organizational information around employee activities. Features thematic groups, personalized activity feeds, instant messaging, integrated calendar, and contact directory. Encourages cross-departmental collaboration and reduces information silos.
• Fast Intranet Collaborative intranet solution that standardizes information systems and strengthens internal communication. Offers no-code widgets, dynamic pages, and enhanced downward communication flow. Enables organizations to centralize and highlight company information, resources, and protocols. Available as standalone or bundled with Open Agora.
• Smart Place Unified Digital Workplace combining the best of Open Agora (enterprise social network) and Fast Intranet in one tool. Engages employees with collaborative social features alongside traditional intranet communication capabilities.
• Jamespot Land Virtual offices and metaverse solution that engages teams in virtual workspace environments. Enables remote and hybrid teams to collaborate in digital offices while maintaining company culture and team cohesion.
• TeamWork Sovereign office suite integrated into the Digital Workplace, including team messaging, videoconferencing, calendar, and document management. Provides all essential collaborative tools in a single sovereign solution as an alternative to Microsoft 365.
• SafeBrain Sovereign AI platform enabling organizations to deploy, control, and secure AI usage across all functions. Offers preconfigured business agents for HR, legal, marketing, finance, sales, and IT operations. Features multi-LLM support, French hosting certified SecNumCloud and HDS, RAG-based knowledge bases, pseudonymization of sensitive data, and a governance dashboard for token consumption and user access management.
• Mr-Smith.ai RAG-based ChatBot technology acquired by Jamespot in May 2024. Specializes in generative AI chatbots for professional use, combining information retrieval and content generation. Offered via the Jamespot platform and under the Mr-Smith.ai brand with a focus on data privacy.

Quantifiable outcome

• 400,000+ professionals use the platform worldwide across 350+ organizations
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers19 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability5 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Mr-Smith.aicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 May 2024Jamespot acquired Mr-Smith.ai, a startup specializing in RAG-based ChatBot technology for enterprise use. The acquisition brings proprietary generative AI technology combining information retrieval and content generation, to be offered via the Jamespot platform and under the Mr-Smith.ai brand. The technology is planned for launch as a RAG ChatBot offering by summer 2024.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Lumapps: Lumapps is a French enterprise intranet and digital workplace platform that competes head-to-head with Jamespot's Fast Intranet and Smart Place products. Both target large organizations with sovereign, modular workplace solutions, and Lumapps serves a similar enterprise customer base across Europe with comparable per-seat pricing and feature breadth.
• Talkspirit: Talkspirit is a French enterprise social network and collaborative platform that overlaps directly with Jamespot's Open Agora and Smart Place offerings. Both companies sell modular collaboration tools to mid-market and enterprise customers in France, often competing for the same regulated-sector workloads.
• Powell Software: Powell Software is a French-founded digital workplace and intranet platform that competes in the same European enterprise intranet market as Jamespot. Both offer Microsoft 365-integrated intranet solutions targeting large organizations and have similar sovereign-data positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Slack: Slack is a leading enterprise messaging and collaboration platform and a direct reference competitor in Jamespot's comparison content. Slack offers overlapping capabilities in messaging, integrations, and team collaboration, though it lacks sovereign hosting and is part of Salesforce.
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams is the dominant enterprise collaboration platform and Jamespot's primary competitor in messaging, video conferencing, and integrated workplace features. Teams is bundled with Microsoft 365, creating a structural incumbency advantage that Jamespot positions its sovereign alternative against.
• Google Workspace: Google Workspace is a comprehensive productivity and collaboration suite competing with Jamespot's TeamWork and Fast Intranet products. Jamespot integrates with Google Drive and Gmail but positions itself as a sovereign alternative for organizations needing data residency.
• Workplace from Meta: Workplace from Meta is an enterprise social network and communication platform that directly overlaps with Jamespot's Open Agora offering. Both target large organizations with social-news-feed-style internal communication, though Meta has been de-emphasizing the product.

Emerging players

• Notion: Notion is a collaborative workspace platform offering documents, databases, and wikis that increasingly overlaps with Jamespot's intranet and document management capabilities. Notion represents the modern PLG approach to enterprise collaboration that Jamespot must address in mid-market deals.
• Beekeeper: Beekeeper is a mobile-first frontline workforce communication and operations platform with similar vertical use cases to Jamespot's healthcare and industry segments. Both target organizations needing to reach non-desk employees, with Jamespot positioning on sovereignty and Beekeeper on mobile UX.

Others

• OVHcloud: OVHcloud is the European cloud provider that hosts Jamespot's SecNumCloud-certified infrastructure. OVHcloud is an infrastructure partner rather than a competitor, but represents a comparable sovereign-cloud strategic narrative in the French/European market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A7 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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