free-work

What free-work does

Free-Work (legal entity AGSI SAS) is a privately held French company that operates a two-sided IT recruitment marketplace founded in 2010 and consolidated under a single brand in 2015. It connects more than 204,000 active IT professionals with approximately 2,941 listed IT recruiters, ESNs, consulting firms, and staffing agencies across France, offering 7,000+ freelance missions and 4,500+ permanent job offers alongside a community forum with 28,000+ topics.

The core product is the Free-Work.com web platform, which aggregates job listings, a CV database, a freelance rate (TJM) barometer, and community content. It is supplemented by three adjacent offerings: Free-Work MyBusiness (free certified invoicing and client management for freelancers), Free-Work Deals (exclusive discounts on developer tools and software), and Turnover-IT (a dedicated recruiter portal for CV database access and job posting). The underlying technology is a job board with CV parsing, job aggregation, freelance mission matching, a forum system, blog content, and salary benchmarking tools.

Free-Work is free for job seekers and freelancers with no commission on freelance missions. Monetization is entirely on the B2B side, primarily through recurring recruiter subscriptions and job posting fees via Turnover-IT, targeting IT companies, ESNs, and staffing agencies. The company is headquartered in France and operates exclusively in the French IT labor market, with no disclosed funding, revenue figures, or executive team data available.

Name

free-work

Legal name

AGSI SAS

Website

https://free-work.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Free-Work (AGSI SAS) operates a French IT recruitment marketplace connecting 204,000+ tech professionals and freelancers with 2,941+ recruiters, ESNs, and staffing firms via a free job board, community forum, invoicing tools, and a dedicated recruiter portal.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online IT Job Board / Recruitment Marketplace

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

General Permanent Placement (Multi-Industry) (BPACAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Recruiting Administration Outsourcing (Recruitment Support, Scheduling, Onboarding Ops) (BPACAKAG)

Keywords

• IT recruitment marketplace
• Freelance mission board
• Tech job board
• CV database access
• IT community forum

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Recruiter Services (Turnover-IT): The platform monetizes primarily through B2B recruiter services via Turnover-IT portal, offering CV database access, job posting, and candidate matching services to IT companies, ESNs, and staffing agencies.
2. Job Posting Fees: Recruiters pay to post job listings and access the CV database of IT professionals on the platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Free-Work operates a French online IT recruitment marketplace that connects independent IT freelancers and salaried tech professionals with recruiters, ESNs, and consulting firms. The platform combines freelance mission listings, permanent job offers, a professional forum, and an IT salary barometer, and monetizes by selling recruiter-facing services (CV database access and job postings) through its Turnover-it sub-brand. It also offers free supporting tools including a certified invoicing solution (MyBusiness) and an exclusive deals marketplace for IT professionals.

Product overview

Free-Work operates as a unified multi-product platform for IT professionals, built from the merger of two legacy jobboards (Freelance-info.fr and Carriere-info.fr). The core offering is Free-Work.com, a job board connecting freelance and permanent IT talent with recruiters. This is supplemented by Free-Work MyBusiness (a certified invoicing and business management tool for freelancers), Free-Work Deals (exclusive software/tool discounts), and Turnover-it.com (a recruiter portal for CV database access and job posting). The platform also includes a community forum with over 28,218 topics and an IT salary barometer.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 204,360+ active Free-Workers on the platform
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Global professional network whose job board and LinkedIn Recruiter product compete with Free-Work for both IT candidate attention and enterprise recruiter budget in France.
• Apec: French employment agency for executives and managers, including a substantial IT/tech segment; broader scope but overlapping recruiter and high-skill candidate segments.
• Indeed: Global job search engine with dominant share in France; competes for recruiter job-posting spend across all sectors including IT.

Direct peers

• Comet: French tech freelance platform matching developers and data specialists with enterprise missions; overlaps with Free-Work's freelance mission offering and recruiter customer base.
• Welcome to the Jungle: French recruitment platform combining job listings, employer branding content, and community resources — directly comparable to Free-Work's content-led, community-augmented job board model.
• Malt: Leading French freelance marketplace for IT and tech talent, directly competing with Free-Work's freelance mission board and serving the same ESN/enterprise recruiter customer base in France.
• LesJeudis: French job board dedicated to IT professionals, now part of the Hellowork group; serves the same IT candidate pool and enterprise/ESN recruiters as Free-Work.
• ChooseYourBoss: French tech-specialist recruitment platform with job listings, company profiles, and salary insights — overlapping candidate and recruiter segments with Free-Work.
• Crème de la Crème: Selective French freelance platform for top-tier IT and digital talent, competing for the same high-end freelance missions and recruiter relationships that Free-Work serves.
• Hellowork (formerly RegionsJob): Major French job board group encompassing generalist and specialized job sites (including LesJeudis for IT), directly overlapping with Free-Work's IT job board offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 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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