Hello Charly

What Hello Charly does

Hello Charly is a Paris-based mobile-first career orientation platform serving French youth aged approximately 15 to 29. Its core product is a free consumer application on iOS and Android built around a conversational AI chatbot named "Charly," which guides users through personality-based self-discovery and returns a personalized shortlist of jobs and training programs drawn from a proprietary database of 850+ job cards and 3,000+ training cards. The platform has accumulated roughly 200,000 monthly active users, 120,000 Discord community members, a 4.8/5 app store rating, and more than 10 million chatbot messages exchanged; the company states that nearly 1 million young people have used the service and around 5,000 have been placed in training through it.

Name

Hello Charly

Legal name

Hello Charly

Website

https://hello-charly.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hello Charly is a Paris-based mobile career orientation platform using a conversational AI chatbot to match French youth aged 15-29 to jobs and training programs, monetizing through B2B subscriptions to schools, OPCOs, and employers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Career Guidance Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth-to-Adult Transition & Life Skills (Independent Living, Soft Skills) (EDAAAFAN)

Keywords

• Career orientation platform
• Youth career guidance
• Conversational AI chatbot
• Education technology software
• Training program matching

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Freemium App (Consumer): Core orientation app is free for young users. Revenue is not explicitly disclosed from consumer users.
2. B2B Professional Services: Paid services for schools, training organizations, OPCOs, and companies including Hello Charly Scolaire for educational institutions, custom chatbot development for sectors, candidate sourcing for schools, and awareness campaigns to promote professions in tension.
3. Sourcing Candidates: Connecting schools and training organizations with qualified candidate leads, generating revenue through qualified lead generation for educational institutions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Hello Charly provides a free mobile application with a conversational AI chatbot that helps young people aged 15-29 discover careers, find matching training programs, and build professional projects through personalized dialogue. The company also sells B2B services to schools (Hello Charly Scolaire), training organizations (candidate sourcing), OPCOs and companies (custom chatbots and attractivity campaigns) to help them recruit and engage youth.

Product overview

Hello Charly is a mobile-first orientation ecosystem built around a core free application, supplemented by professional-facing B2B services. The flagship Hello Charly App delivers a conversational chatbot-based orientation experience, while Hello Charly Plus extends these capabilities to educational establishments. B2B offerings include Les Maraudes Numériques (digital outreach for NEET youth), Sourcing Candidats (candidate sourcing for schools), and Valoriser vos Métiers (career attractiveness chatbots for companies and sectors). The platform covers 850+ career profiles, 3,000+ training cards, and hundreds of partner training programs, with nearly 5,000 young people having found a training place through the app.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hello Charly Scolaire (Hello Charly Plus): Digital resource for schools and educational establishments to animate and manage school and professional orientation.

Products and services

• Hello Charly Mobile App Free mobile application (iOS and Android) featuring a conversational AI chatbot that helps young people aged 15-29 discover careers, receive personalized top-10 job recommendations, explore 850+ career profiles and 3,000+ training programs, and build a professional project through interactive dialogue.
• Hello Charly Plus (Scolaire) Digital resource sold to high schools, colleges, and educational establishments to animate and pilot school and professional orientation activities for students. Targets institutions seeking digital tools to manage orientation programs.
• Maraudes Numériques (Digital Outreach) Digital outreach service using social media to identify and redirect NEET youth and invisible young people toward support structures, complementing physical "aller vers" outreach efforts. Sold to social services, local authorities, and youth integration organizations.
• Sourcing Candidats B2B candidate sourcing service connecting schools and training organizations with ultra-qualified leads matching their programs at 100%. Enables recruiters to meet candidates whose profiles match their training offerings.
• Valoriser vos Métiers (Custom Sector Chatbots) Career attractiveness solution using customized chatbots, interactive content, social media campaigns, and geolocated outreach to make professions more visible and attractive to young people during the orientation phase. Sold to companies, OPCOs, and professional branches facing recruitment difficulties in sectors under labor tension.

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly 1 million young people found their career path with Hello Charly
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• OPCOs (Opérateurs de Compétences)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with skills development funds to promote sectors and develop apprenticeships. OPCOs work with Hello Charly to reach young people early in their career decisions and guide them toward sectors with labor needs.
• Professional Branches and FederationscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with professional branches and employer networks to help sectors facing recruitment difficulties. Hello Charly creates custom chatbots and awareness campaigns to make professions more attractive to young people.
• Educational InstitutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnerships with schools and educational establishments for Hello Charly Scolaire - a digital resource for managing career orientation in schools. Includes workshops and discovery sessions for students.
• Mission LocaleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal youth integration services (Mission Locale) referenced as partners for directing young people toward support resources. Hello Charly's chatbot directs users to nearby Mission Locale offices.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• JobTeaser: French career and student-recruitment platform connecting young people with employers and schools. Closest direct competitor — overlapping audience (students/young graduates), B2B2C model, and French market focus.
• MyFuture: Career guidance and orientation platform for students and young professionals with AI-driven matching. Direct overlap on the youth career-orientation proposition and the chatbot-based UX.

Regional players

• Studyrama: Major French media and services group for student orientation, training programs, and education fairs. Comparable audience (French youth) and content/lead-generation model, though not chatbot-led.
• L'Étudiant: Leading French media brand for higher-education and student orientation content, with lead-gen and event offerings. Comparable French student audience and orientation content model.
• CIDJ (Centre d'Information et de Documentation Jeunesse): French public youth information network providing free orientation, training, and employment guidance. A free substitute in Hello Charly's target demographic.

Broad incumbents

• ONISEP: French public operator providing free, authoritative information on professions, training pathways, and schools. A free public-sector substitute that competes for the same orientation audience.
• LinkedIn: Global career platform with growing AI-driven career guidance and learning features. Comparable career-discovery and skills-matching functionality at massive scale.
• Indeed: Global job and career platform increasingly adding career-path exploration and skills-based matching. Adjacent in career orientation but with a different primary monetization model.

Emerging players

• Bryq: AI-driven talent assessment and career-matching platform. Comparable technology (AI matching + chatbot-style UX) and overlap on the candidate-fit use case for schools and employers.
• ChooseMyCompany: French employer-branding and student-recruitment platform. Comparable French B2B focus on connecting employers with young talent and overlapping B2B sales motion.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/charly_hello
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hello-charly

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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