EPISTEME CONSEIL

What EPISTEME CONSEIL does

Episteme Conseil is a privately held French consulting firm founded in 2021 and headquartered in Gresswiller, Alsace. It advises territorial public authorities — communes, communautés de communes, syndicats, and public establishments — in the Alsace, Moselle, and Grand Est regions on human resources, organizational, financial, and legal matters. Its core expertise centers on securing and operationalizing French public-sector employment frameworks: RIFSEEP (compensation regime), working time protocols, internal regulations, organizational audits, Lignes Directrices de Gestion (management guidelines), and pre-litigation support. The firm was founded by two associates, Sébastien Kaiser and Antoine Viaud, each with over ten years of experience in territorial public administration, and operates with a small team (1–10 employees, with the two partners as primary delivery resources).

The firm generates revenue through two complementary models. The first is project-based consulting missions, offered at three tiers — Sécurisation ciblée (targeted interventions), Mission complète (full audit-to-deployment engagements), and Pré-contentieux (pre-litigation analysis) — priced per quotation. The second is Episteme Assistance, an annual recurring subscription with two tiers (Essentiel from €89/month HT, Intégral from €189/month HT) priced by municipality population size, providing ongoing telephone/email advisory, deliberation review, CST support, and a bi-monthly regulatory newsletter. Distribution is direct-to-client with no intermediaries: the partners engage communes and intercommunal structures through website contact forms, a "Diagnostic Express" free-assessment offer, and content marketing on territorial HR topics. The firm claims to have served over 200 territorial collectives since founding and reports specific outcome cases including €140,000 in savings from a childhood services reorganization and €90,000 saved against a €120,000 pre-litigation claim.

Name

EPISTEME CONSEIL

Legal name

Episteme Conseil

Website

https://episteme-conseil.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Episteme Conseil is a privately held French consulting firm advising communes, intercommunal structures, and public establishments in Alsace, Moselle, and Grand Est on territorial HR, finance, organizational, and legal matters, delivered via project missions and an annual subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Sector HR and Finance Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Onboarding, Offboarding & Employee Lifecycle Administration (BPACAHAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Employment Practices Liability (EPLI) (FSAJADAG)

Keywords

• Public sector consulting
• Territorial HR advisory
• Local government consulting
• RIFSEEP compliance services
• Public finance advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Gresswiller

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Project-based Consulting Missions: One-time mission fees for specific engagements including RIFSEEP implementation/review, working time protocol development, organizational audits, pre-contentieux analysis, and internal regulations. Pricing varies by mission scope and complexity, typically quoted per project.
2. Episteme Assistance Annual Subscription: Recurring monthly subscription model offering ongoing consulting support. Two tiers (Essentiel and Intégral) priced by municipal population size, providing telephone/email advisory services, document review, and priority response on strategic dossiers.
3. On-demand Advisory Services: Short-term targeted interventions for specific needs: deliberation drafting, analysis notes, arbitration support, and operational documents. Billed as discrete engagements outside annual subscriptions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Episteme Conseil is a specialized consulting firm advising French territorial public authorities on human resources, organizational, financial, and statutory matters. The firm delivers project-based consulting missions covering RIFSEEP salary regimes, working time protocols, organizational audits, management guidelines (LDG), internal regulations, and pre-litigation support, alongside an annual subscription advisory service called Episteme Assistance offering ongoing telephone, email, and written advisory support scaled by municipality population size.

Product overview

Episteme Conseil is a consulting firm (not a software platform) providing advisory services to local public authorities in Alsace, Moselle, and Grand Est. Their offering consists of consulting missions and an annual subscription service called Episteme Assistance. Core services include RIFSEEP consulting (salary system), Temps de travail consulting (working time protocols), Audits organisationnels (organizational audits), LDG consulting (management guidelines), Pré-contentieux (pre-litigation support), and internal regulation consulting. Missions are offered at three levels: Sécurisation ciblée (targeted security), Mission complète (complete mission), and Pré-contentieux (pre-litigation). Episteme Assistance is an annual subscription with Essentiel and Intégral tiers providing ongoing advisory support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Episteme Assistance: Annual subscription-based consulting service for territorial collectivities providing ongoing RH, statutory, and finance advisory support, starting at 89€ HT/month.

Products and services

• Sécurisation ciblée (Essentiel)
• Mission complète (Recommandé)
• Pré-contentieux (Sensible)
• Episteme Assistance
• RIFSEEP Consulting
• Temps de travail Consulting
• Audits organisationnels
• Lignes Directrices de Gestion (LDG)

Quantifiable outcome

• 140,000€ d'économies générées suite à une réorganisation d'un service de l'enfance
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Mazars: International audit and advisory firm with a Public Sector practice in France serving local and regional authorities on financial management, HR and statutory compliance. Comparable to EPISTEME on advisory mandates for territorial clients, though within a much wider service portfolio.
• EY France: Big 4 firm with a Government & Public Sector practice in France covering territorial authorities, public finance and HR advisory. Comparable to EPISTEME on overlapping service lines (HR advisory, organizational transformation, public finance) but with national reach and broader portfolio.
• PwC France: Big 4 firm with Public Sector and Local Government practices advising on HR strategy, financial optimization and statutory compliance. Comparable to EPISTEME on French territorial HR and finance consulting, though at materially larger scale and scope.
• Deloitte France: Big 4 firm operating a Government & Public Services practice in France that serves territorial authorities on HR, finance and operational transformation. Comparable to EPISTEME on cross-functional HR+finance advisory, but as part of a much broader consulting portfolio.
• Grant Thornton France: Mid-tier audit and advisory network in France with Public Sector expertise serving regional and local authorities on financial and operational matters. Comparable to EPISTEME on advisory services to territorial collectives, but with broader geographic coverage and larger engagement scale.
• Inetum: French-headquartered IT services and consulting firm (formerly GFI) with a strong Public Sector vertical serving central government, agencies and local authorities. Comparable to EPISTEME on serving French territorial clients, though primarily through IT/digital transformation rather than HR and finance advisory.
• KPMG France: One of the Big 4 in France with a dedicated Public Sector practice serving central government, local authorities and state-owned enterprises. Comparable to EPISTEME on the public-sector consulting side, but operates at vastly larger scale across all mandates including HR, finance, audit and transformation.
• BDO France: Mid-tier international audit and consulting network with a Public Sector practice in France advising local authorities on financial management, HR and statutory matters. Comparable to EPISTEME on cross-functional public-sector advisory, though operating at a broader regional and national scale.

Direct peers

• Espelia: French independent consultancy specialized in public policy, local public finance and territorial evaluation. Directly comparable to EPISTEME as a specialist firm serving French local authorities on public finance and organizational matters, though typically larger and more finance-rather-than-HR focused.
• Finance Active: French firm combining software and consulting for public finance management, serving communes, intercommunalities and public establishments. Comparable to EPISTEME on the public finance advisory side for territorial clients, though anchored in SaaS tooling rather than pure advisory.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/episteme-conseil

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 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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