Kokan

What Kokan does

KōKan SAS is a French agile consulting, coaching, and training firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Rennes, with a second office in Paris. Operating as a "collectif d'experts," the firm assembles multidisciplinary consultants — developers, agile coaches, product managers, and testers — to deliver transformation engagements centered on delivery performance, Scrum Master and Release Train Engineer staffing, and SAFe / Kanban implementations for enterprise clients.

The firm has productized parts of its methodology through proprietary facilitation artifacts, including the Improvement Card, the Transition Canvas, and the Architectes et Bâtisseurs framework. It also holds Qualiopi certification, the French regulatory quality mark required for training organizations that bill to public or mutual funds, which underpins its training catalogue. Publicly listed training is priced at €1,190 per participant for a three-day course.

KōKan is a privately held, bootstrapped company with €5,000 registered capital and 1–10 employees. It sells exclusively to enterprise accounts — more than 15 large organizations are named publicly, with a clear tilt toward French banking (Natixis, BNP Leasing, Société Générale, Fortuneo) alongside insurance, energy, telecoms, and public sector clients. Revenue mechanics combine time-and-materials consulting with formal training delivery, and the firm supplements direct sales with active content publishing and conference speaking in the French agile community.

Name

Kokan

Legal name

KōKan

Website

https://kokan.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

KōKan is a French agile consulting and training firm that helps enterprise clients improve delivery performance through Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban coaching, serving primarily French banks, insurers, energy, and telecom companies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agile Consulting and Training Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611), Human Resources Consulting Services (541612)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Operations & Process Improvement Consulting (BPAHACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Learning, Training & Corporate Education Consulting (BPAHAGAE), Scaled Agile & Enterprise Product Delivery (SAFe/LeSS/Nexus) (EDABAHAJ)

Keywords

• Agile consulting services
• Scrum master training
• Organizational team coaching
• SAFe transformation consulting
• Agile delivery management

Headquarters

HQ city

Rennes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Agile Consulting & Delivery Management: Consultants (Scrum Masters, RTE) are embedded in client teams to boost delivery performance and team effectiveness. Revenue is generated through billable consulting engagements.
2. Agile Training & Certifications: Kōkan Academy delivers certified and non-certified agile training programs (e.g., PSM1 Scrum Master certification, product management, SAFe). Training is offered in inter-company and intra-company formats, in-person or remote.
3. Team & Organization Coaching: Coaching engagements for teams and organizations undergoing agile transformation, including change management and facilitation services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

KōKan is a French agile consulting and training firm that provides agility consulting, team and organizational coaching, and certified training (PSM, PSPO via KōKan Academy). The firm embeds senior practitioners — Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and product coaches — within client delivery teams to improve agile practices, and runs proprietary workshops such as Architectes et Bâtisseurs. Target customers are enterprise IT, digital, and product organizations undergoing agile transformation.

Product overview

Kokan is a consulting firm specializing in agile delivery and organizational transformation. The company offers a unified portfolio of services built around three core pillars: Delivery Management (Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers embedded in client teams), Coaching (team and organization coaching for change management), and Training (certification-prep programs and collaborative workshops). The offerings are delivered through KōKan Academy and various consulting engagements, with no separate software product—services are delivered directly by expert consultants to client organizations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• KōKan Academy: Training programmes offered by KōKan focused on delivery and agile transformation methodologies, accessible at training.kokan.fr.

Products and services

• Conseil en agilité Agile consulting engagements in which KōKan embeds senior Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers (SAFe), and product coaches inside client teams to improve agile practices and delivery performance. Targeted at enterprise IT, digital, and product organizations.
• Coaching d'équipe et d'organisation Team and organizational coaching engagements aimed at improving collective effectiveness, agile maturity, and cultural change within client delivery organizations.
• Formations et séminaires Training programs and seminars delivered both publicly (inter-entreprises) and as customized in-house sessions (intra-entreprise), covering agile methods, frameworks, and related practitioner skills.
• KōKan Academy Certification-focused training brand of KōKan delivering Scrum.org-aligned certifications such as Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), with certification included in the offering.
• Ateliers et séminaires collaboratifs Collaborative workshops and seminars built around KōKan's proprietary facilitation tools, including the Architectes et Bâtisseurs workshop, the Improvement Card, and the Transition Canvas, designed for client teams and broader practitioner audiences.

Quantifiable outcome

• Teams become more engaged and committed to realistic delivery commitments
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ProxiadminorOthersProxiad hosted a Kōkan-organized meetup in Cesson Sévigné (Rennes area) on the topic of 'Cessez d'être gentil, soyez agile', providing venue support for the agile community event.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Thoughtworks: Global technology consultancy with deep agile/lean engineering DNA and a strong 'delivery-first' brand identity. Comparable on methodology philosophy and senior talent profile; broader geographic reach and pricing power than Kōkan.
• Ippon Technologies: French digital and agile consulting firm serving enterprise IT organizations; competes with Kōkan for delivery transformation and team-coaching engagements at similar banking/insurance clients.
• OCTO Technology (Accenture): Historically France's leading pure-play agile/tech consulting firm (now part of Accenture). Direct overlap with Kōkan on agile transformation, Scrum Master/RTE consulting, and SAFe training, but at significantly larger scale and broader portfolio.
• Scalian: French engineering and digital transformation group with a substantial agile/digital practice; broader portfolio than Kōkan and serves many of the same enterprise banking/energy/transport accounts.

Direct peers

• Xebia: French-founded (and global) agile and digital transformation consultancy with similar Scrum Master, RTE, and large-scale agile offerings; competes for the same enterprise training and transformation RFPs that Kōkan targets.
• Wemanity: Specialized agile transformation consultancy with very similar DNA — multi-disciplinary coaches, Scrum Master/team coaching, SAFe and enterprise agility. The closest direct competitor in niche and brand positioning to Kōkan.
• Soat: France-based agile and software craftsmanship consultancy with embedded developer-coach profiles similar to Kōkan's multi-disciplinary delivery-first model; competes for the same enterprise training and coaching budgets.
• Zenika: French digital consultancy combining agile coaching, training, and embedded consulting; directly comparable service mix (consulting + academy/training offerings) and overlapping customer profile in banking/insurance/energy.
• Aneo: France-based agile and lean transformation firm (created from the merger of Aneo and Netapsys). Direct competitor on enterprise agility, SAFe training, and team coaching with comparable sized engagements.

Others

• Scaled Agile: Creator of the SAFe framework. Kōkan delivers SAFe certification and PI Planning as a training partner; comparable ecosystem participant, not a direct delivery competitor but central to Kōkan's SAFe revenue stream.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/k-kan

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

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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