What Jeci does

Jeci is a French privately held software publisher and IT services firm (SARL, founded 2012, headquartered in Fauverney near Dijon) that builds and supports Pristy, a modular open-source Electronic Document Management (GED) suite targeting French public-sector organizations — primarily départements, métropoles, communes, and public establishments. The Pristy suite is built on Alfresco Community with Collabora Online for in-browser collaborative editing, deployed either as SaaS hosted on OVH Cloud in France or on-premise with Capsule Ansible-based Docker automation for air-gapped environments. Around a core document-management application (Pristy Espaces), Jeci has developed vertical modules addressing public-sector workflows: Pristy Actes (administrative acts and OpenData publication), Pristy Marchés (public procurement, integrated with MarcoWeb), Pristy Social (social-services dossiers), Pristy Audit Trail (Kafka/Elastic-based security and RGPD traceability), Pristy Connect (mass data migration), Pristy Portail Administrateur (unified administration), and a planned Pristy Média Diffusion for public-facing content publication. All Pristy code is released under AGPL.

Jeci monetizes Pristy through SaaS subscriptions, on-premise licenses (perpetual or subscription), and professional services, alongside a legacy Alfresco Community maintenance and software-recovery (reprise logiciel) business. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Distribution is direct (field sales with on-site consultations) and indirect via two major French public-procurement frameworks — UGAP and CANUT (joined April 2026) — which allow eligible public establishments to procure Pristy without competitive tendering. The company maintains active membership in the April free-software association and PLOSS-RA, participates in industry events (OSXP, Documation, RPLL, Coter, OW2con), and has earned media coverage in Archimag, Les Echos, BFM TV, and Acteurs Publics.

Operationally, Jeci runs with a lean team of four named members — founder and majority shareholder Jérémie Lesage (Alfresco Certified Administrator), co-founder Cindy Piassale (ACSCE-certified, commercial), IT/network engineer Jean-Philippe Boubou, and marketing/product owner Lucie Lesage — supplemented by a network of independent consultants and SSIIs. The company is bootstrapped and founder-controlled, with no disclosed institutional investment, and serves customers primarily in France with opportunistic engagements in Belgium and Switzerland.

Name

Jeci

Legal name

Jeci SARL

Website

https://jeci.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Jeci is a French open-source software publisher offering Pristy, a modular electronic document management (GED) suite built on Alfresco Community and Collabora Online, sold as SaaS or on-premise to French public-sector organizations via direct sales and the UGAP and CANUT procurement frameworks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dijon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Pristy SaaS Subscription: Monthly or annual subscription for cloud-hosted GED services in France via OVH Cloud, providing automatic updates and managed infrastructure.
2. Pristy On-Premise License: Perpetual or subscription license for on-premise deployment where organizations host the GED on their own infrastructure.
3. Alfresco Community Maintenance Services: Technical support, updates, and expertise services for Alfresco Community installations, including upgrades, module installation, and migration from Enterprise.
4. Software Recovery/Refactoring Services: Project recovery, code consolidation, audit, and deployment industrialization services for legacy software systems.
5. Data Migration Services: Mass data migration services using Pristy Connect between document management systems.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Jeci develops and sells Pristy, an open source electronic document management (GED) suite built on Alfresco Community and integrated with Collabora Online, targeted at French public sector organizations. The suite offers modular applications covering collaborative workspaces, administrative acts records, public procurement, social/HR records, secure connectors, and audit trail logging, available as SaaS or on-premise deployments hosted on OVH Cloud.

Product overview

Jeci is an open-source software publisher and IT services company (ESN) offering Pristy, a modular suite of Electronic Document Management (GED) applications built on Alfresco Community and Collabora Online. The core product is Pristy Espaces, which provides the primary GED interface with collaborative editing, versioning, and search. Around this core, Jeci has built specialized vertical applications: Pristy Actes for administrative acts, Pristy Marchés for public procurement, Pristy Social for social services, Pristy Audit Trail for security/traceability, Pristy Connect for data migration, and Pristy Média Diffusion for content publication. Pristy Portail Administrateur provides unified backend management. All Pristy applications are 100% open source (AGPL), available as SaaS (hosted on OVH Cloud in France) or on-premise. Jeci also provides Alfresco Community maintenance and software recovery services. Beyond Pristy, Jeci maintains a portfolio of open-source projects for the Alfresco ecosystem including Docker deployment images, object storage connectors (Ceph, OpenIO, Swift), and authentication utilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Pristy: Suite of open source online document management (GED) applications for businesses and public organizations. Includes Pristy Espaces, Pristy Actes, Pristy Marchés, Pristy Social, Pristy Audit Trail, and Pristy Connect. Available in SaaS and on-premise deployment modes. Licensed under AGPL.

Products and services

• Pristy

Quantifiable outcome

• Avoidance of Alfresco Enterprise licensing costs through Community edition with Jeci-developed improvements
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability9 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Collabora OnlinecoreTechnology or IntegrationCollabora Online is the office suite integrated into Pristy for real-time collaborative document editing. Jeci has made 200+ commits to the Collabora Online Alfresco connector and actively contributes to the project. This integration enables editing ODT, ODS, and other documents directly within the GED without downloading.
• OVH CloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationOVH Cloud provides the cloud infrastructure for Pristy SaaS offerings. All cloud-hosted deployments are hosted on OVH Cloud servers located in France, addressing data sovereignty requirements for French public sector customers.
• AprilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerApril is France's leading association promoting and defending free software. Jeci has been a member since 2021 and actively supports the association financially and through participation. The partnership aligns with Jeci's core values of software freedom.
• PLOSS-RAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPôle Logiciel Libre Rhône-Alpes is a regional network of free software entrepreneurs. Jeci joined as a member in 2024 to contribute to the local open source ecosystem and exchange with other sector companies.
• EdissyumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEdissyum specializes in electronic correspondence management (GEC) and intelligent document capture with Open-Capture solution. Jeci co-exhibits with Edissyum at Documation 2026 and co-hosts an workshop on integrating Open Capture with Pristy.
• CANUTcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCANUT (Centrale d'Achat du Numérique et des Télécoms) is a purchasing organization created by territorial collectivities for collectivities. Jeci joined the multi-editor framework agreement in April 2026, enabling all eligible public establishments to procure Pristy without competitive tendering.
• UGAPcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorUGAP is France's public procurement catalog (centrale d'achats). Pristy applications are available through the UGAP multi-editor catalog, simplifying purchasing for public organizations.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• M-Files: Commercial metadata-driven document management platform with active European public-sector sales. Overlaps with Pristy in workflow, audit, and ECM mandates; competes on integration breadth rather than open-source positioning.
• Hyland (Alfresco): The commercial sponsor of Alfresco. Competes with Pristy at the upper end of the market via Alfresco Enterprise and increasingly constrains Community differentiation — directly relevant as both competitor and upstream platform risk.
• DocuWare: Established commercial document management and workflow vendor with strong European public-sector presence. Competes with Pristy in mid-market and enterprise French tenders but as a proprietary, hosted offering.

Direct peers

• Nuxeo (Hyland): Open-source content services platform with modular architecture similar to Pristy's vertical-app approach on Alfresco. Now under Hyland, it competes directly for open-source ECM mandates in European public sector.
• ONLYOFFICE: Open-source office and document collaboration suite with built-in document management. Overlaps with Pristy's Collabora Online-powered editing and GED positioning, targeting the same sovereign/open-source buyer.
• OpenKM: Open-source document management system with strong European public-sector footprint. Comparable feature set to Pristy (workflow, versioning, audit) and similar SMB-to-enterprise customer base.
• LogicalDOC: Open-source ECM/DMS offering community and enterprise editions. Direct overlap with Pristy's positioning on cost-effective open-source document management.

Regional players

• Agysoft (MarcoWeb): French vendor of public procurement software (MarcoWeb) integrated with Pristy Marchés. Comparable French public-sector vertical and similar SMB-to-mid-market operating profile.
• Libriciel (Pastell / WebDelib): French open-source editor focused on public-sector administrative workflow (deliberations, acts). Already integrated with Pristy via the Pastell/WebDelib connector and serves the same French territorial collectivity buyers.

Emerging players

• Edissyum (OpenCapture): French open-source vendor of intelligent document capture (Open-Capture) and electronic correspondence management. Active partner of Jeci in the French open-source GED ecosystem and partially overlapping in adjacent ECM capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/itair
• GitHubgithub.com/jeremie-lesage
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jeci

Compliance2 records

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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