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Rubra Digital

European Union

AI, LLM & RAG Consulting in France

LLM and RAG consulting for French organisations, designed around EU AI Act and GDPR, with French data residency.

Regulator
Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)
Working languages
French, English
Time zone
CET/CEST
Billing currency
EUR

Short answer

Rubra Digital delivers LLM and RAG consulting to organisations in France, working across Paris, Lyon, Toulouse and remotely. Engagements are designed around EU AI Act, GDPR, CNIL AI recommendations. EU regions in Paris or Marseille; SecNumCloud-qualified hosting where required.

What is different about delivering in France

The CNIL has published more concrete practical guidance on AI development than any other European authority, which gives French projects an unusually clear compliance path. Public sector and defence-adjacent work often carries a SecNumCloud hosting requirement that rules out most US-headquartered providers, so architecture decisions need to be made early. French-language retrieval also needs real attention: naive chunking performs noticeably worse on French legal and administrative prose.

How that changes my build

I benchmark French-language retrieval separately rather than assuming English results transfer, because accented tokenisation and long nominal phrases both change what works.

Frameworks I design against

  • EU AI Act
  • GDPR
  • CNIL AI recommendations
  • DORA
  • SecNumCloud

Data residency

EU regions in Paris or Marseille; SecNumCloud-qualified hosting where required.

Where I work on site

Paris · Lyon · Toulouse · Lille · Nantes

Services available in France

AI consulting in France: FAQ

Do you work with clients in France?

Yes. I deliver remotely across CET/CEST with on-site workshops in Paris, Lyon, Toulouse for discovery, architecture review and handover, which are the points where being in the room helps. My working language is English, and I work with source material in French.

Which regulations shape AI projects in France?

The frameworks that most often change how I design a system here are EU AI Act, GDPR, CNIL AI recommendations, DORA, SecNumCloud. The primary data protection regulator is Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL). I benchmark French-language retrieval separately rather than assuming English results transfer, because accented tokenisation and long nominal phrases both change what works.

Can our data stay in France?

EU regions in Paris or Marseille; SecNumCloud-qualified hosting where required. Where a client needs inference to stay inside the jurisdiction, that gets designed in from the start rather than retrofitted, including fully on-premise deployment with open-weight models where no external inference is permitted.

What does an AI consulting engagement cost in France?

Discovery engagements start at €22,000 and production builds typically run from €55,000 to €180,000 depending on scope. I invoice in EUR and quote fixed price for defined scopes, with the assumptions written down before you commit.

Working on an AI project in France?

Tell me what you are trying to build. I will tell you honestly whether it is viable, roughly what it costs, and whether Rubra Digital is the right partner for it.

No NDA needed to talk. EU and UK hours in full, with afternoons overlapping US Eastern and Central.