Hire an AI French consulting market advisor

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A take-home table: client price, firm margin, your gross rate and what you keep in each billing set-up
• Where your rate sits for your specialty, and how a narrow niche can change it
• A channel plan: which firms and platforms to try first, with the trade-off of each
• Negotiation prep with your floor rate, what to ask for besides rate and replies to common pushback
• Contract points to check, if you pasted a contract
• A list of points to confirm with your French accountant

How it does the job well

• Never present a margin, a fee, a charge rate, a rate range or a tax figure as a current fact. Use the user's figures, or mark ESTIMATE with its basis and tell the user to check it on the platform's page or with a French accountant (expert-comptable).
• Always show gross and net side by side, and say which charge rate each used.
• Do not suggest hiding where the user lives or works from. Advise saying it up front and framing the benefit.
• Portage salarial gives some social protection but the consultant still carries the commercial risk. Do not call it the same as a permanent contract (CDI).
• Ask what the real payment delay is. The profile says it is often longer than the contract date. Show the cash effect if the user gave their costs.
• Always distinguish TJM brut from net. A 600 EUR/day TJM through portage salarial yields approximately 300-330 EUR net after all charges. Through micro-entreprise, approximately 420-450 EUR. The gap is significant and must be surfaced.
• Never recommend hiding remote/international location. Transparency about location builds trust. Mid-process discovery of non-France residency kills deals and damages reputation permanently.

Mistakes it avoids

• Quoting the profile's percentages and rate ranges as the user's numbers.
• Telling the user to hide their location.
• Showing a net figure with no charge rate behind it.
• Calling a rate "market" without a source the user can check.
• Making claims about results, prices or terms that are not approved.
• Long first messages that ask for too much.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You are quoting a daily rate for a French mission and do not know how much the firm keeps.

• Your situation. Your profile and rate as the AI understood them, and what is missing.
• Take-home comparison. What you keep per day and per month in each billing set-up, with the charge rates used.
• Rate position. Where your rate sits for your specialty and what a narrower niche could change.
• Channel plan. Firms and platforms to try, with the fee or margin, the trade-off and the order.
• Negotiation prep. Your floor rate, what to ask for besides rate and replies to pushback.
• Contract flags. Clauses to question, such as non-compete, payment terms and renewal.

How the work is checked

• Personal details are verifiable and correct.
• Each deal update cites the call, email or note behind it.
• Follow-ups have dates and owners.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Chris Voss and Matthew Dixon would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Pin your situation. It restates your specialty, location, billing set-up and rate. It asks once for anything missing, then marks it MISSING.
• Compare take-home. It works from the client price down to what you keep in each billing set-up, using your charge rates or labelled estimates.
• Position your rate. It places your rate for your specialty and seniority, and shows how a narrow niche differs from a general title.
• Choose channels. It compares large consulting firms, smaller specialists, brokers and platforms, and suggests an order to try them.
• Prepare the negotiation. It works out your floor, lists what to trade besides rate, and drafts replies to common pushback.
• Review the contract. If you pasted one, it flags non-compete, payment terms, renewal and reliance on one client.
• Hand over the checks. It lists the figures and clauses to confirm with an accountant or lawyer.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id specialized-french-consulting-market only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/specialized-french-consulting-market/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• Your specialty and years of experience, such as "Salesforce architect, 10 years".
• Where you work from: Paris, another French city or abroad.
• Your billing set-up, or the ones you are weighing, such as portage salarial, micro-entreprise, SASU or EURL.
• The daily rate (TJM) you charge now or want, and any offer you have been given.
• Your monthly costs and how many days you can bill in a month.
• A mission offer or contract, pasted as text (optional)
• Your charge rates from your accountant (optional)

Helpful context (optional)

• Your accountant's current charge rates for each billing set-up, so the take-home table is exact.
• Your last two invoices and the payment dates, so it can plan for late payment.
• Two or three live mission ads for your specialty, pasted in, to compare against your rate.

Tools and access

• Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: Any of them can read a French contract and write the counter-offer in French. Use one with web search to check current platform fees.

Functions and deliverables

• French consulting market advisor: Plan your daily rate (TJM) in the French IT consulting market: ESN margins, take-home by billing set-up, platforms and a negotiation plan.
  • A take-home table: client price, firm margin, your gross rate and what you keep in each billing set-up
  • Where your rate sits for your specialty, and how a narrow niche can change it
  • A channel plan: which firms and platforms to try first, with the trade-off of each
  • Negotiation prep with your floor rate, what to ask for besides rate and replies to common pushback
  • Contract points to check, if you pasted a contract
  • A list of points to confirm with your French accountant
  Source: Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors.
• Negotiation prep coach: Prepare for a salary talk, supplier price push or contract deal. Get an opening line, questions to ask and a fallback plan in one negotiation prep sheet.
  • An opening line
  • Feeling labels for their likely concerns
  • Open questions to ask
  • A fallback plan
  • A prep score with gaps to fix
  Source: Wondel.ai.
• Negotiation prep planner for the weaker side: Prepare for a negotiation where the other side has more power. Give it your situation. You get firm terms, their needs and the order to move in.
  • A one-line end state both sides could live with
  • A profile of the other side, with their needs, fears and words
  • Your non-negotiables and what you can give
  • Steps from mild to strong, with the one to try first
• Marketing strategy advisor: Plan your marketing strategy: check your positioning, pick a growth model and split your budget by channel, worked back from your revenue target.
  • A positioning check
  • A recommended growth model
  • A budget split by channel
  • Key numbers to track
  • A list of warning signs
  Source: Alireza Rezvani.
• Brand profile builder: Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.
  • A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log
  • A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned
  • A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it
  • A short slice for your next step, if you name one
• Chris Voss: Prepare a difficult conversation using Chris Voss’s recorded approach. Summarise the other side, ask calm questions and test how an agreement will work.
  • Your problem worked on the way Chris Voss would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Chris Voss's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• Matthew Dixon: Review a stalled sale or service task using Matthew Dixon’s recorded ideas. Ask what blocks the buyer and reduce needless customer effort.
  • Your problem worked on the way Matthew Dixon would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Matthew Dixon's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You are quoting a daily rate for a French mission and do not know how much the firm keeps.
• You are choosing between portage salarial, micro-entreprise and your own company and want the take-home side by side.
• An ESN offered you a rate and you want to counter with reasons.
• You live outside France and want to sell IT consulting into the French market.

Limits to check before starting

• You need tax, social-charge or employment-status advice. Take the questions to a French accountant (expert-comptable) or lawyer.
• You are looking for a fixed-salary job (CDI) rather than freelance work. This plans freelance rates only.
• You are not selling IT or consulting work in France. Use the Negotiation prep coach for a general deal, or the Pricing analyst to price a product.
• You want a contract written or checked clause by clause. Use the Contract and proposal drafter, then have a lawyer review it.
• You want to prepare for one named negotiation call. Use the Negotiation call prep planner.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the pack from this page and add it to your AI as a skill. If you cannot, paste SKILL.md into a new chat, then paste references/source-agent.md.
• Gather your monthly costs, the days you can bill in a month and your charge rates first, so the take-home table needs no guessing. Then paste your specialty, location, billing set-up, current or target daily rate, monthly costs and billable days. Add the offer or contract text if you have one. No code or web access is needed.
• Type "Compare my take-home and plan my negotiation. Use only my figures. Label every other number as an estimate to check."
• Read the take-home table first. Treat it as a draft. The charge rates, platform fees and firm margins in it are not checked. Confirm each charge rate with your accountant and each platform fee on the platform's own page, then ask for the table again with the right figures. Do not rely on your take-home until then.
• Use the negotiation section before your next call. Ask for the counter-offer email in French if you need it. For one named call, run the Negotiation call prep planner next.
• Take every contract flag and every charge question to your accountant or lawyer before you sign.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/specialized-french-consulting-market for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.