ARTIFICA

What ARTIFICA does

Artifica is a privately held French web agency founded in 1995 and headquartered at 2 rue du Repos, 75020 Paris, operating as a SASU (single-shareholder structure) under President Mathieu Lécluse. The company designs and develops custom websites, intranets, and extranets primarily for French municipalities and public institutions, with secondary work for digital agencies and enterprises. Its core technology stack is built on the open-source TYPO3 CMS (adopted in 2007), supplemented by HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, and extended with a catalog of 70+ proprietary functional modules developed over 30 years. The company operates 100% onshore from France and emphasizes compliance with French-specific regulatory frameworks including RGAA (accessibility), RGESN (eco-design), and RGPD (data protection), which are mandatory or scoring criteria in public-sector procurement.

Name

ARTIFICA

Legal name

ARTIFICA SASU

Website

https://artifica.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Founded in 1995, Artifica is a French web agency that designs TYPO3 CMS websites, intranets, and extranets for municipalities and enterprises. It operates sub-brands Sempleo and Artifica One (SaaS platforms) plus Plan-Interactif.com (interactive mapping), serving 60+ French municipalities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Web Development Services

NAICS

Graphic Design Services (541430), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330), Services-Advertising (7310), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

White-Label/Hosted Publishing Platforms (MPACAIAJ)

Keywords

• Web development services
• TYPO3 CMS solutions
• Public sector websites
• Citizen engagement platforms
• Interactive mapping solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Custom Web Development: Artifica designs and develops custom websites, intranets, and extranets using TYPO3 CMS. Projects are priced as one-time development fees with additional annual maintenance and hosting costs.
2. TYPO3 Outsourcing/TMA Services: Ongoing maintenance, updates, and technical support for TYPO3 implementations. Includes version upgrades, security patches, bug fixes, and functional evolution services.
3. Sempleo Subscription: SaaS platform subscription for small municipalities and associations with annual fees covering hosting, updates, and support.
4. Technical Staffing/White-label Services: Onshore outsourcing services providing TYPO3 developers to enterprises and digital agencies needing technical reinforcement.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

ARTIFICA is a French web agency that designs, develops, and maintains custom websites, intranets, and extranets primarily for local governments and enterprises using TYPO3 CMS. The company also offers proprietary SaaS products (Sempleo for small municipalities/associations and Plan-Interactif.com for interactive mapping) and provides TYPO3 outsourcing, maintenance, and white-label technical staffing services to digital agencies and enterprises.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sempleo: A key-in-hand website solution for small local authorities, associations, and small businesses, starting from 180€ per year.
• Plan-Interactif.com
• Artifica One

Products and services

• Sites sur-mesure (Custom TYPO3 Web Development) Custom design, development, and deployment of websites, intranets, and extranets for French municipalities and enterprises using TYPO3 CMS. Projects include graphic design, ergonomic design, technical development, integration with ERP/CRM/Active Directory, and deployment with RGAA accessibility compliance and eco-design (RGESN) best practices. Customers are public institutions and large enterprises; projects are priced as one-time development fees with annual maintenance and hosting.
• Externalisation onshore (TYPO3 Outsourcing / TMA Services) Onshore outsourcing services providing TYPO3 development, maintenance, and technical support to enterprises and digital agencies. Includes version upgrades, security patches, bug fixes, functional evolution, and white-label technical staffing for agencies needing TYPO3 expertise. Customers are enterprises with existing TYPO3 implementations and digital agencies lacking in-house TYPO3 resources. Priced as managed services.
• Artifica One (Turnkey Website + Mobile App) A 2-in-1 turnkey website and mobile application solution for French municipalities and associations. Includes push notifications, accessible design, and content management, available as annual subscription starting from €180/year. Targets small communes with limited technical and financial resources.
• Sempleo (Multi-tenant Website Platform) A complete SaaS website platform for small municipalities, associations, and small businesses. Combines website + mobile app with push notifications, RGAA accessibility, and easy content management. Annual subscription covers hosting, updates, and support, priced €180-€1,190/year depending on tier. Includes account creation and training package (€190-€490).
• Plan-Interactif.com (Interactive Mapping Solution) Interactive mapping solution for cities, tourism, leisure, event venues, and buildings. Provides indoor and outdoor interactive plans, event planning tools, and building navigation. Customers include municipalities, tourism offices, event venues, museums, and retail businesses.

Quantifiable outcome

• Versailles website achieved Grade B environmental performance audit
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OVHcloudcoreTechnology or Integration · 3 October 2025Artifica announced a strategic partnership with OVHcloud, Europe's leading cloud provider, in October 2025. The partnership enables Artifica to offer clients robust, secure, and sovereign cloud hosting solutions. OVHcloud operates over 400,000 servers across 31 data centers on 4 continents, providing complete technological independence and data sovereignty. This collaboration strengthens Artifica's hosting offerings with next-generation cloud solutions, total data control hosted in Europe (GDPR compliant), cost predictability without hidden fees, and combined OVHcloud technical expertise with Artifica's digital know-how.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Kaliop: Kaliop is a French digital agency specialized in TYPO3 CMS development, similar to Artifica. Both agencies serve enterprise and public sector clients with TYPO3-based solutions and offer TMA/maintenance services, making them the closest direct competitors in the French TYPO3 ecosystem.
• Eolas: Eolas is a French digital services company specializing in TYPO3 development and web application engineering for public sector and enterprise clients. Like Artifica, Eolas provides custom TYPO3 implementations, maintenance services, and serves French municipalities with digital transformation projects.
• Atol CD: Atol CD is a French open-source digital agency specializing in TYPO3, Drupal, and other CMS platforms for public sector clients. They serve French municipalities and administrations with custom web development, similar to Artifica's positioning in the local government digital services market.

Broad incumbents

• Smile: Smile is a major European open-source digital agency offering TYPO3, Drupal, and other CMS implementations at much greater scale than Artifica. They serve enterprise and public sector clients across multiple European countries, representing a larger incumbent with overlapping TYPO3 capabilities.
• Capgemini: Capgemini is a global IT services giant with a strong French public sector practice that competes for municipal digital transformation contracts. While offering much broader capabilities than Artifica, they increasingly encroach on the municipal web platform space with integrated digital service offerings.
• Sopra Steria: Sopra Steria is a major French/European IT services company with deep public sector expertise, including digital transformation for French municipalities. They compete with Artifica on larger municipal contracts where scale, financial guarantees, and integrated IT capabilities are procurement requirements.

Others

• Decidim: Decidim is an open-source participatory democracy platform used by many French and European municipalities for citizen engagement. It is comparable to Artifica's citizen platform and participatory democracy implementations (e.g., Ivry et Moi), representing an alternative ecosystem approach to similar municipal use cases.

Emerging players

• Citipo: Citipo is a French SaaS platform specifically designed for municipal citizen engagement, civic participation, and local government communication. It offers subscription-based citizen participation tools that overlap with Artifica's participatory democracy platform implementations for municipalities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/artificafr
• Facebookfacebook.com/artificafr
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/artifica

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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

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