Akoya

What Akoya does

Akoya is a privately-held French strategy consulting firm (SAS, Akoya Consulting SAS) founded in 2010 and headquartered at 8 rue d'Uzès in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. The firm is dedicated exclusively to human capital topics and serves as a strategy advisor to HR Directors (DRH) of large French and international enterprise groups, operating a horizontal practice that spans 12+ industry verticals including aerospace & defense, financial services, luxury, pharmaceuticals, energy, and utilities. Its service portfolio is organized around three pillars — Workforce Transformation (Strategic Workforce Planning, organizational development, skills management), Employee Experience (talent acquisition, talent management, learning & development), and HR Excellence (HR vision & strategy, People Analytics and HRIS implementation).

Akoya monetizes primarily through project-based professional services engagements, with no publicly disclosed pricing. Its principal technology asset is Albert, a proprietary collaborative SaaS tool for Strategic Workforce Planning that is positioned as a consulting deliverable replacing Excel-based SWP methods. The firm also distributes two content products: WeeklyHR, a free weekly Friday-morning newsletter curated by Akoya consultants, and the annual Akoya Tech You Up HR Tech Cartography, which maps 50 HR technology solutions across six categories. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales direct to senior HR buyers, supplemented by a content marketing stack (Perspectives blog, WeeklyHR, LinkedIn, and the annual HR Tech event). Leadership is led by Antoine Aubois (Directeur général) with Xavier Le Page promoted to Partner in February 2023; the firm operates as an independent, bootstrapped SAS with €20,000 share capital, no disclosed external funding, and a headcount in the 11-50 range.

Name

Akoya

Legal name

Akoya Consulting

Website

https://akoya.group

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Akoya is a privately-held Paris-based strategy consulting firm founded in 2010 that advises HR Directors of large French and international enterprise groups on workforce transformation, employee experience, and HR excellence, supported by its proprietary Albert SWP SaaS tool and annual HR Tech Cartography.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Human Resources Strategy Consulting

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Culture, Engagement & Employee Experience (EX) Consulting (BPAHAGAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Organization Design & Operating Model Consulting (BPAHAGAB), HR Technology (HRIS/HCM) Advisory & Implementation (BPAHAGAG), People Analytics, Assessment & Psychometrics Consulting (BPAHAGAH)

Keywords

• Strategy consulting
• Human resources consulting
• Workforce transformation services
• Strategic workforce planning
• HR technology advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Strategy Consulting Services: Professional consulting engagements for workforce transformation, HR excellence, and organizational development services delivered to HR Directors of large enterprise groups. Engagements appear to be project-based consulting missions of varying duration.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Akoya is a strategy consulting firm dedicated to human capital topics, delivering workforce transformation, organizational development, skills management, talent acquisition, talent management, learning & development, and HR excellence consulting services to HR Directors of large enterprise groups. The firm also develops and maintains Albert, a proprietary collaborative SaaS tool for Strategic Workforce Planning that replaces traditional Excel-based SWP processes, and publishes the annual Akoya Tech You Up HR Tech Cartography featuring 50 curated HR solutions.

Product overview

Akoya is a strategy consulting firm dedicated to human resources transformation. The company's core offerings include consulting services and proprietary software tools. Its primary product is Albert, a collaborative SaaS platform for Strategic Workforce Planning that enables organizations to move beyond fragmented Excel-based processes. Akoya also publishes the annual Akoya Tech You Up HR Tech Cartography, which maps 50 selected HR technology solutions across 6 categories. Additionally, the firm offers WeeklyHR, a free weekly newsletter delivering curated HR news and insights. The portfolio centers on workforce transformation, talent management, skills management, organizational development, and HR excellence consulting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• HR Strategy Consulting Services Project-based strategy consulting engagements covering workforce transformation, organizational development, skills management, talent acquisition, talent management, learning & development, and HR excellence (including People Analytics and HRIS implementation), delivered to HR Directors of large French and international enterprise groups.
• Albert — Strategic Workforce Planning SaaS A proprietary collaborative SaaS tool for Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) that replaces Excel-based SWP formulas with an exhaustive, configurable platform enabling HR and business leaders to conduct workforce planning exercises collectively. Designed for use by HR Directors and operational leaders of large enterprises.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• AlbertcoreOthersAlbert is Akoya's proprietary SaaS tool for Strategic Workforce Planning. Developed internally to replace Excel-based SWP methods that were fragile and difficult to consolidate, Albert enables collaborative and exhaustive workforce planning exercises.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Korn Ferry: Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm with deep Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Workforce Planning practices, addressing the same HR Director buyer with a much broader portfolio and global scale.
• Mercer: Mercer (Oliver Wyman / Marsh McLennan) is a global workforce and HR strategy consultancy covering workforce transformation, talent, and rewards — the broad incumbent reference point for enterprise HR transformation buyers.
• Willis Towers Watson (WTW): WTW is a global advisory firm with a significant Human Capital practice, comparable to Akoya in the HR strategy and workforce planning space but operating at vastly larger scale and global reach.
• McKinsey People & Organizational Performance: McKinsey's People & Organizational Performance practice competes for the largest workforce transformation mandates, offering comparable HR strategy consulting to Akoya's target HR Director buyer as part of a much broader strategy portfolio.

Direct peers

• HR Path: HR Path is a French-founded global HR consulting and HRIS/Workday implementation specialist, the most direct peer combining HR consulting with proprietary HR technology tooling — analogous to Akoya's consulting + Albert SWP positioning.
• BPI Group: BPI Group is a French-headquartered HR and organizational transformation consulting firm serving large corporates, the closest like-for-like independent peer to Akoya in the French HR strategy consulting niche.
• Julhiet Sterwen: Julhiet Sterwen is a French strategy and transformation consulting firm with a strong People & Organization practice, competing directly with Akoya for HR transformation and workforce mandates from large French enterprise groups.
• Cegos: Cegos is a major French-headquartered training, learning & development and HR consulting group, directly comparable to Akoya's Learning & Development and HR Excellence service lines.

Emerging players

• TechWolf: TechWolf is an AI-native skills intelligence SaaS that competes with the underlying technology premise of Akoya's Albert SWP tool, representing an emerging productized alternative to consulting-led workforce planning.
• 365Talents: 365Talents is a French-based AI-driven Skills Management and Talent Marketplace SaaS platform, an emerging productized competitor to Akoya's SWP / Skills Management consulting practice.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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