Pratico-Pratiques

What Pratico-Pratiques does

Pratico-Pratiques is a French service design and public policy agency (agence de design de services et de politiques publiques) operating as a boutique consultancy with five employees distributed across offices in Lyon, St-Nazaire, Paris, and Sète. The firm develops projects with public administrations and private companies around ecological transition, social and health themes, public space, and education, using methodologies that place citizens and users at the center of co-design processes. Its approach is explicitly qualitative, pragmatic, and tangible, producing concrete deliverables rather than abstract strategy documents.

The company's core "product" is its consulting methodology — a sequential practice of inquiry, co-design, experimentation, and implementation adapted to territory-specific contexts. The team is intentionally multi-disciplinary, combining designers, sociologists, and graphic artists, which underpins the agency's ability to deliver both analytical and visual outputs within the same engagement. The firm is not a software or platform company; it has no app, no API, no disclosed technology stack beyond a Squarespace-hosted website, and no digital product distribution.

Commercially, the agency operates a project-based professional services model with no publicly disclosed pricing. Its go-to-market is relationship-driven and inbound via a single direct contact channel ([email protected]), with no observable outbound marketing, partner program, or sales infrastructure. The customer base is concentrated in French public sector actors — national ministries (Justice, Ecological Transition), national agencies (ADEME), and major local collectivities (Grand Lyon, Lille, Nantes, Dunkerque, Villeurbanne, LMCU, Département de Loire-Atlantique, Grand Angoulême Métropole) — making it a specialist in French public administration user-research and service design mandates.

Name

Pratico-Pratiques

Legal name

Pratico-Pratiques

Website

https://praticopratiques.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Pratico-Pratiques is a five-person French service design and public policy agency that helps public administrations and companies co-design citizen-centered services across ecological transition, social policy, public space, and education.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Pratico-Pratiques is a service design and public policy agency that helps public organizations and companies develop user-centered projects in ecological transition, social and health policy, public space, and education. The agency applies qualitative methodologies spanning field inquiry, co-design, experimentation, and implementation, supported by an in-house team of designers, sociologists, and graphic artists producing tangible, pragmatic deliverables. Engagements are delivered as bespoke consulting projects to ministries, public agencies, and local collectivities across France.

Product overview

Pratico-Pratiques is a service design and public policy agency (agence de design de services et de politiques publiques) that provides consulting and design services to public organizations and businesses. Their offering consists of service design methodologies, user-centered research, co-design, experimentation, and implementation support. The company works across domains including ecological transition, social and health policies, public space, and education. This is not a software product company but rather a professional services firm that develops projects with clients using qualitative, tangible, and pragmatic production methods.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Service design and public policy design engagements
• Field inquiry and qualitative user research
• Co-design workshops and participatory design
• Experimentation and prototyping
• Implementation support for public services

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• IDEO: Global design and innovation consultancy with established public-sector and social innovation practices. Comparable as a multi-disciplinary design firm that delivers citizen-centric service design for governments and large institutions.
• Capgemini Invent (formerly Livework): Capgemini's design and innovation practice built on the acquisition of Livework, a pioneer in service design. Comparable because it offers service design and public-sector transformation engagements across Europe, including France.
• Frog (part of Capgemini Engineering): Global design and engineering firm with a long-standing public-sector and social impact practice. Comparable because it executes end-to-end service design, from research through implementation, for government and institutional clients.

Direct peers

• BL Évolution: French consultancy specialized in sustainable development and ecological transition for public and private organizations. Comparable because it serves the same French territorial and public sector clients on ecological transition and social policy engagements.
• Snook: UK-based service design agency specializing in public-sector and government transformation. Comparable as a small, mission-driven service design firm that uses co-design, research, and prototyping to deliver citizen-facing public services.
• Missions Publiques: French consultancy specialized in public participation, citizen consultation, and democratic deliberation. Comparable because it serves French public sector organizations on civic engagement, ecological transition, and territorial projects using qualitative, citizen-centered methods.
• Utopies: French independent consultancy focused on sustainable development strategy for public and private organizations. Comparable as a French mission-driven consultancy that supports public actors on ecological transition and social impact strategy.
• Public Digital: Public-sector digital transformation consultancy advising governments on user-centered service delivery. Comparable as a specialist firm delivering strategy, design, and implementation for public sector organizations seeking citizen-centric transformation.
• Thinkpublic: UK public-sector service design agency. Comparable because it focuses on user-centered public service redesign for government and public bodies, working with methodologies very similar to Pratico-Pratiques' inquiry and co-design approach.
• 27act: French strategy and design consultancy that supports public and private organizations on transition and transformation projects. Comparable because it operates with a similar multi-disciplinary, user-centered design approach targeting French public sector and territorial clients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/praticopratiques

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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