What Formaat does

Formaat is a Lyon-based French legal formalities intermediary (mandataire formaliste) that delivers administrative legal services to legal professionals (avocats, notaires), accounting professionals (experts-comptables), and entrepreneurs across France. The company originated from specialized business law firms in Lyon and operates as a SASU with stated capital of 2,000 EUR (SIREN 807 464 458). Its service catalog covers company constitution across all major French legal structures (SARL, SAS, SA, Société Civile, SELARL, SELAS, SNC), capital modifications, head office transfers, secondary establishment openings/closings, statutory auditor appointments, and updates to the National Business Register (RNE).

The technology layer is a cloud-based client portal that lets professionals track each step of their formalities and receive notifications, with two-factor authentication and EU-resident data storage (0-5 years active, 5-10 years internal archive). Formaat has invested in GDPR, CCPA, and LGPD compliance documentation, including a Data Processing Agreement under Article 28 of EU Regulation 2016/679. No API, SDK, or mobile application is offered, and the technology stack is best characterized as workflow and document-tracking SaaS rather than an AI-enabled platform.

The business model is professional services with a sales-led GTM. Two pricing structures coexist: per-formality automatic quotes on a pay-as-you-go basis, and volume-based degressive subscriptions (forfaits) for legal and accounting professionals handling multiple formalities. A separate Pack Entrepreneur offering targets business creators with optional symbolic capital participation. Marketing relies on the company website and professional network referrals, with visible institutional logos (Sciences Po, Euralis, Notaires, Ordre des Experts-Comptables) acting as credibility signals rather than evidence of large account concentration. No revenue, headcount, or funding data is disclosed.

Name

Formaat

Legal name

Formaât

Website

https://formaat.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Formaat is a Lyon-based French legal formalities intermediary (mandataire formaliste) providing administrative legal services for company formation, modification, and dissolution to legal and accounting professionals and entrepreneurs across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Formalities Services

NAICS

Other Legal Services (54119)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

eSignature, Forms & Digital Workflow Platforms (HDAEAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Data App Builders (Forms, Portals & Internal Tools) (HDAEAKAK)

Keywords

• Legal formalities services
• Company formation services
• Business registration compliance
• Corporate administrative formalities
• Mandataire formaliste services

Headquarters

HQ city

Chazelles-sur-lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Legal Formalities Services: Professional services for handling legal administrative formalities for companies. Services include constitution, modification, dissolution of companies, filing documents with commercial courts, legal notice publications, and formalities with INPI, INSEE, and other competent bodies.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Formaat is a French legal formalities intermediary (mandataire formaliste) that prepares, files, and tracks administrative corporate procedures on behalf of legal professionals, notaries, accounting professionals, and entrepreneurs. Core offerings include company formation, company modifications, and company dissolutions carried out via a secure cloud portal and submitted to the relevant French registries (RCS, RNE, INPI, Greffes). Services are billed per formality processed, with the portal serving as the primary client interface for ordering, document exchange, and status follow-up.

Product overview

Formaat is a legal formalities intermediary (mandataire formaliste) providing B2B services to legal professionals (attorneys, notaries), accounting professionals, and entrepreneurs across France. The offering consists of a comprehensive suite of legal administrative services organized around core formality types: company formation (SARL, SAS, SA, Société Civile, SELARL, SELAS, SNC in various configurations), capital modifications (increases, reductions, reconstitution), head office transfers (with/without jurisdiction change), establishment management (opening/closing secondary sites), statutory auditor appointments, and RNE (National Business Register) updates. Services are delivered through two client-facing packages: Pack Formalité for legal and accounting professionals (providing end-to-end dossier management with client portal tracking), and Pack Entrepreneur for individual business creators (offering guidance through legal structure selection to formalities completion).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Company formation services (Création d'entreprise) End-to-end handling of administrative procedures for creating French companies, including preparation and filing with the relevant registries (Greffes, INPI, RNE). Designed for legal professionals, accounting professionals, and entrepreneurs who want to outsource incorporation formalities.
• Company modification services (Modifications d'entreprise) Administrative handling of corporate changes such as director updates, registered office transfers, capital changes, statutory modifications, and similar post-creation events, with filing at the relevant French registries. Aimed at law firms, notaries, accounting firms, and companies undergoing structural change.
• Company dissolution services (Dissolutions d'entreprise) Preparation and filing of administrative procedures for closing French companies, including winding-up filings with the Greffes and INPI. Targeted at legal and accounting professionals advising companies through liquidation or dissolution, and at entrepreneurs closing their businesses.
• Secure cloud-based client portal (Portail client) Online portal that allows professional and individual clients to submit legal formality requests, exchange supporting documents securely via dual-factor authentication, and track the status of filings with French registries. Used by law firms, notaries, accounting firms, and entrepreneurs engaging Formaat.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60 € savings on CFE fees compared to companies filing directly

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Commercial Domiciliation Partner (Paris)minorOthersFormaât partners with a commercial domiciliation provider in Paris offering prestigious business address services starting from 19.99 euros HT/month for entrepreneurs who need business address services during company creation.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Pennylane: French accounting and financial management platform with embedded corporate-formalities features for experts-comptables — competes for the same accounting-firm workflow integrations that Formaât monetizes via Pack Formalité.
• Infogreffe: Official portal of the French greffes (commercial court registries) — the institutional incumbent through which all formalistes file, providing context for Formaât's intermediary role rather than head-to-head competition.

Emerging players

• Dougs: French online accounting firm serving entrepreneurs and small businesses, bundling company creation and ongoing legal formalities with bookkeeping — overlapping end-customer and service-scope.
• Kovers: French legaltech building tooling and services around business formalities and compliance for professionals — adjacent segment and partial overlap with Formaât's professional-client GTM.

Direct peers

• HelloMyBusiness: French online platform providing company creation, Kbis retrieval and post-formation formalities — comparable function and entrepreneur-facing positioning to Formaât's Pack Entrepreneur.
• LegalPlace: French legaltech offering standardized documents and formalities handling for company creation and modification, including partnerships with experts-comptables — overlapping on use-case and target persona with Formaât.
• Captain Contrat: Major French online legal platform that assists entrepreneurs and SMEs with company formation, modifications, and ongoing legal formalities via a digital workflow — directly comparable to Formaât's Pack Entrepreneur proposition.
• Legalstart: French online legal services provider focused on business creation, statutes, and administrative formalities for entrepreneurs — overlapping with Formaât's constitution de société offerings and end-customer base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Formaat.fr
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/formaat-fr

Compliance3 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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