Cadoles

What Cadoles does

Cadoles is a Dijon-based SCOP (worker cooperative) IT services company founded in October 2011 by three open source professionals. With 16 salaried employees — all of whom are associates and therefore owners of 100% of the social capital — the firm operates under a one-employee-one-vote democratic governance model and emphasizes triple independence: financial (capital held by employees), operational (no external corporate control), and technological (commitment to free software and open formats).

The company's offering splits across five service lines — Development (PHP/Symfony, Python, Go, JavaScript/React, C), Infrastructure (network architecture, server hardening, backups, cryptography), Training (certified EOLE and Docker courses), Expertise (feasibility audits, scope definition), and Support (annual maintenance contracts and prepaid tickets) — plus four proprietary open source products: LaCanne (a GPS topographic kit for construction sites), Schedule (a project management web application with Dolibarr, Gitea OAuth and Sentry integrations), Ninegate (a profile-based collaborative portal with bidirectional LDAP synchronization), and Ninedad (a project creation and voting workflow tool). Underlying technology spans containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD (Jenkins, Tekton), identity (Keycloak, Ory), monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Sentry), ERP/CRM (Dolibarr), LMS (Moodle), and collaborative platforms (Nextcloud).

Cadoles monetizes primarily through professional services on a quote-based model with annual maintenance contracts for EOLE/GNU/Linux servers. GTM is sales-led and direct, targeting French public administrations (Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Ecological Transition, CROUS, EFS), educational institutions (schools, colleges, lycées), and SMEs seeking sovereign open source solutions. Distribution is concentrated in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, supplemented by participation in industry events (Paris Open Source Summit, HackingHealth, EOLE seminars, the 'Libérez votre IT!' conference series). The firm is a documented contributor to the EOLE GNU/Linux meta-distribution and positions itself against the Référentiel Général d'Interopérabilité (RGI v2) compliance framework — relevant procurement criteria for French public-sector clients.

Name

Cadoles

Legal name

Cadoles

Website

https://cadoles.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cadoles is a Dijon-based SCOP worker cooperative (16 employees, founded 2011) providing open-source IT services — development, infrastructure, training, expertise, and support — plus four open-source products, to French public administrations, educational institutions, and SMEs, primarily in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dijon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Development Services: Custom software development using PHP/Symfony, Python, Go, JavaScript/React, and C. Works in close collaboration with clients using agile methods with short iterations for project tracking and evolution.
2. Infrastructure Services: Infrastructure consulting and implementation, including network architecture, server parks renovation, data backup solutions, redundancy and cryptography, and server maintenance.
3. Training Services: Certified training center offering courses on EOLE solutions (Amon Sphynx, Scribe, Tronc Commun) and Docker. Training is designed and delivered by internal experts.
4. Expertise Services: Pre-project consultation including feasibility assessment, existing infrastructure audits, scope definition, and agile approach with regular deliverables after each iteration.
5. Support Services: Annual maintenance contracts for EOLE or GNU/Linux servers including daily machine management, backup management, regular updates, security updates, problem anticipation, and server supervision. Also offers prepaid ticket-based support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cadoles is a French worker cooperative that provides professional IT services including custom open source software development (PHP/Symfony, Python, Go, JavaScript/React), IT infrastructure design and maintenance, certified training on EOLE solutions and Docker, technical expertise consulting, and ongoing support contracts. The company also develops and distributes four proprietary open source products: LaCanne (a GPS topographic kit), Schedule (project management web application), Ninegate (collaborative portal), and Ninedad (project validation tool).

Product overview

Cadoles offers a portfolio of four proprietary open-source products designed for project management, collaboration, and field operations: LaCanne (GPS topographic kit for extreme construction sites), Schedule (comprehensive project management web application with task tracking, planning, and time accounting), Ninegate (collaborative profile-based portal with LDAP integration and widget library), and Ninedad (project creation and voting tool for assemblies). The company also provides services including development (PHP/Symfony, Python, Go, JavaScript/React), infrastructure, training, support, and expertise around EOLE solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LaCanne: A GPS topographic kit designed for extreme construction sites, featuring a complete and robust solution with transport case, two GPS beacons, poles, tripod, mobile app and synchronization software for implanting, guiding and recording points.
• Schedule
• Ninegate
• Ninedad

Products and services

• LaCanne

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• EOLE Project (Ministry of Education & Ministry of Ecological Transition)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCadoles is a key contributor to the EOLE project, a GNU/Linux meta-distribution. They participate in development and integration work for this distribution used extensively in French education and government. The project is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
• Bourgogne NumériqueminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional digital industry association in Burgundy. Cadoles partners with Bourgogne Numérique for industry events and conferences, including the 'Libérez votre IT!' conference series.
• Atol C&DminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIT consulting company based in Dijon. Partnered with Cadoles and Bourgogne Numérique for the 'Libérez votre IT!' conference series on web development topics.
• InfoSaôneminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with Cadoles and Bourgogne Numérique for conferences on open source ERP/CRM solutions, presenting Dolibarr and Odoo to SMEs.
• Union Régionale des SCOP Bourgogne-Franche-ComtéminorOthersRegional union of cooperative companies. Cadoles adheres to this organization which groups together cooperative companies across 8 departments.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Alter Way: Alter Way is a French open-source services firm specialized in Linux, cloud, DevOps, and digital workplace — overlapping closely with Cadoles' EOLE/Linux infrastructure, training, and support offerings for French public-sector customers.
• Smile: Smile is the largest French open-source software and services integrator, with deep PHP/Symfony, Python, and DevOps practices and a strong public-sector customer base — directly comparable to Cadoles' open-source services model and target clients.
• Linagora: Linagora is a French open-source software and services company focused on sovereign IT, collaboration (OpenPaaS), AI, and messaging — directly comparable in the open-source sovereign-IT and public-sector value proposition Cadoles sells.
• Atol C&D: Atol C&D is a Dijon-based IT services firm that is already a Cadoles partner for the 'Libérez votre IT!' conference series, with comparable open-source and web-development services for public-sector and SME clients in the same regional ecosystem.
• Scopelec: Scopelec is a major French SCOP cooperative in IT, telecom, and energy networks — directly comparable to Cadoles on the SCOP employee-ownership model, multi-stakeholder governance, and regional delivery of technical services across France.

Broad incumbents

• Sopra Steria: Sopra Steria is a major French IT services group with significant French public-sector and defense contracts — a broad incumbent that competes for the same government framework agreements Cadoles targets, typically as a prime contractor.
• Red Hat: Red Hat is the global open-source commercial vendor behind many of the technologies Cadoles implements (Linux, Keycloak, Kubernetes, observability stack); it is comparable as a reference point for the open-source ecosystem Cadoles serves, though at vastly greater scale.
• OVHcloud: OVHcloud is a leading French sovereign cloud and bare-metal provider with strong public-sector positioning; it competes indirectly with Cadoles' infrastructure practice as a hyperscaler-friendly alternative for sovereign IT deployments.
• Capgemini: Capgemini is one of the largest French-headquartered IT services firms with a major public-sector practice; it competes with Cadoles on the same French ministerial RFPs but as a broad portfolio vendor rather than an open-source specialist.
• Devoteam: Devoteam is a French-origin digital transformation consultancy with strong cloud, DevOps, and public-sector practices — comparable on the consulting/IT services axis but operating at a much larger scale and broader service portfolio than Cadoles.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Scop_Cadoles

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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