Sextant Expertise

Name

Sextant Expertise

Legal name

Sextant Expertise

Website

https://sextant-expertise.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Expert Consulting Services: Revenue generated from providing expert support to CSE during mandatory consultations, risk assessments, negotiations, and restructuring processes. Services are typically financed partially by the employer and partially from CSE operational budget.
2. Training Programs: Training services for CSE members and labor union representatives. Training costs are covered by employers or OPCO (skills operator) for companies with 11+ employees, with 100% coverage available for specific topics like harassment prevention for designated referents.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Sextant Expertise is an independent French consultancy that provides expert missions and training programs to CSE (Comité Social et Économique) employee representatives, labor unions, and trade organizations. Its core services include expert support during mandatory CSE consultations (strategic orientations, economic and financial analysis, social policy, professional equality, collective performance agreements, restructuring plans), serious risk expertise (psychosocial risks, health, safety, working conditions), participation examinations, and a prefecture-approved training catalog covering SSCT, NAO salary negotiation, harassment prevention, and CSE budget management.

Product overview

Sextant Expertise is an independent CSE (Comité Social et Économique) expert firm operating across France with offices in Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes, and Lille. The company offers two integrated pillars: (1) Expert missions and advisory services for CSEs — including consultation on strategic orientations, economic/financial analysis, social policy, professional equality, collective performance agreements, restructuring and employment protection plans (PSE), serious risk assessment, participation examinations, and environmental prerogatives — and (2) a training catalog covering CSE elected officials and union delegates, including economic training for new CSE members (approved by Île-de-France prefecture, registration n° 11 754 251 875), SSCT (Health, Safety and Working Conditions) training, salary negotiation preparation, harassment prevention, CSE budget management, and environmental topics. The offering is supplemented by a resource library ('boîte à outils'), a video platform with webinar replays, and conferences/webinars on current social topics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Expertise et Conseil aux CSE (CSE Consulting and Advisory) Core consulting offering for CSE (Comité Social et Économique) instances covering expert support during mandatory consultations on strategic orientations, economic and financial matters, social policy, professional equality, collective performance agreements, and restructuring/employment protection plans. Targeted at CSE bodies in French companies of 11+ employees.
• Formations CSE (CSE Training Programs) Prefecture-approved training catalog for newly elected CSE members and existing elected officials covering economic training for new CSEs, SSCT (Health, Safety, and Working Conditions), salary negotiation preparation (NAO), harassment prevention, CSE budget management, and environmental prerogatives. Training is funded by employers or OPCO.
• Assistance à la négociation — Accord d'égalité professionnelle Expert assistance for negotiating professional equality agreements in companies of 300+ employees, including shared diagnostic assessment, actor training, strategy development, and indicator implementation. Targeted at CSE bodies and HR teams required to negotiate gender equality.
• Assistance à la négociation — Accord de performance collective Expert support for negotiating collective performance agreements, including framework training, financial analysis, scenario modeling, negotiation preparation, and legal counsel. For companies seeking to implement APC accords.
• Expertise risque grave (santé, sécurité, conditions de travail) Expert mission triggered in cases of harassment, stress, suicide, overwork, sexist behavior, or violence, providing diagnostic assessment, RPS (psychosocial risks) analysis, tactical advice, and prevention recommendations. 100% financed by the employer under risk grave criteria.
• Examen de la participation Mandatory examination in companies of 50+ employees verifying information transmitted to the CSE, analyzing participation calculation modalities, and linking calculation mechanisms with company results.
• Négociation d'entreprise (Company Negotiation Support) Negotiation support service for company-level agreements, including mandatory NAO (Négociation Annuelle Obligatoire) compensation negotiations, helping elected officials prepare, defend positions, and build durable agreements.
• Boîte à outils du représentant du personnel (Resource Library) Online resource library providing practical tools and downloadable guides for employee representatives on CSE topics including negotiations, restructuring, professional equality, and workplace health.
• Vidéos Sextant Expertise (Video Content Platform) Video content platform hosting replays of webinars and conferences on topics including harassment prevention, AI and social dialogue, restructuring, and salary negotiations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 98/100 on Index d'égalité professionnelle (gender equality index)
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Brihi Koskas & AssociécoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrihi Koskas is described as the privileged partner of Sextant Expertise in labor law matters. The partnership has been established for many years, with Brihi Koskas providing legal expertise complementary to Sextant's CSE consulting services. This partnership ensures comprehensive support for CSE representatives requiring specialized labor law guidance.
• Ordre des experts comptablesminorOthersProfessional order of chartered accountants in France, included in Sextant Expertise's partner network.
• DialoguesminorOthersAssociation working on dialogue social topics, partner in Sextant Expertise's network.
• Réalités du Dialogue Social (RDS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization focused on dialogue social issues. Sextant participates in RDS-led reflection groups on topics like digital transformation and social dialogue.
• Miroir SocialminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDigital platform for employee representatives. Sextant Expertise partners with Miroir Social to co-produce webinar series on employee representation topics, including the 'Reconnaissances pour les élus de demain' cycle.
• Sia PartnersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerConsulting firm that collaborated with Sextant Expertise on a study analyzing 2,000 NAO agreements on salary negotiations and value sharing in the context of inflation.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Cegape: French HR and social relations consultancy offering CSE training, economic expertise, and HR consulting to mid-market companies - overlaps Sextant's training catalog and CSE consulting services for smaller French enterprises.
• Secafi: One of the largest and most established CSE/CHSCT expert firms in France, providing the same category of mandatory expert missions, economic-financial analysis, and training services to employee representatives that Sextant offers.
• Syndex: Historic French CSE expert cabinet with national coverage, providing economic expertise, employment protection plan support, and training for CSEs and CHSCTs - directly comparable to Sextant's core CSE expertise and training pillars.
• Technologia: French specialist in psychosocial risks, quality of work life (QVT/QVCT), and ergonomic/human factors expertise for CSEs and CHSCTs - competes directly with Sextant's 'risque grave' expertise and SSCT training offerings.

Broad incumbents

• BPI Group: Established French HR and organizational transformation consultancy with a broader portfolio than Sextant, but overlapping on HR advisory, social relations, and workforce transformation services to French enterprises.
• Willis Towers Watson (WTW): Global advisory firm with significant French HR and benefits consulting presence; overlaps Sextant on compensation benchmarking, employee representation support, and HR advisory for large multinationals operating in France.
• Eurogroup Consulting: France-headquartered management and HR consulting firm operating across Europe; overlaps Sextant's advisory work on social dialogue, organizational transformation, and labor relations strategy for large French accounts.
• Sia Partners: Global management consulting firm with a strong French practice; already collaborates with Sextant on NAO/salary negotiation research and competes for HR transformation and social relations mandates with French enterprises.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SextantCSE
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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sextant-expertise

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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