[Start-ups]

The best talent for your start-up, in record time

Strengthen your team with outstanding engineers in a matter of days, ship your product on time and bring our key people in-house.

170+ senior experts from Polytechnique, ENS and Centrale, France's top engineering schools

200+ start-ups supported since 2017

2 weeks to get started, with a full team or one targeted specialist

Meet our people See how we work

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These companies sped up their product with our teams.

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[Where you are]

You've just raised, or your traction is picking up. Your product roadmap is ambitious, and your users and investors alike expect results fast. Yet hiring the right engineers takes months and costs a lot. Every bad hire loses you time you don't have.

We give you access to outstanding people within days. You put together the team you need, adjust it as you go, and hire the ones who make the difference. You stay in control, without the wait or the risk of a permanent hire.

[How we work with you]

How we speed up your roadmap

Embedded specialists

One or more experts (full-stack engineer, data engineer, AI expert, product manager or designer) join your team and work alongside you, on site or remotely. They adopt your stack and your methods from day one. You scale their number up or down as your needs change.

Ideal if you already have a team and need to strengthen it quickly in a specific skill.

A dedicated cross-functional team

We put together a complete team (product, design, engineering, data) that owns a scope from start to finish and delivers continuously. It adopts your ways of working and your stack, with a gradual ramp-up so it fits in without friction. A Galadrim engagement manager remains your point of contact.

Ideal if you need to move a product or a strategic project forward without tying up your whole team.

[Our people]

Vincent Defrenet Senior Product Manager

5 years in innovation consulting and product management. He led the development of a platform that automatically analyses nuclear tenders for our client Amentum, cutting the processing of a bid from several days to 10 minutes.

Eva-Garance Tison Senior Product Manager

4 years' experience, including at McKinsey, specialising in financial services. She led the development of an AI agent that processes energy-efficiency grant applications for our client Effy.

Coline Dorange Lead Product Manager

10 years' experience, including 7 in private equity advisory and fundraising. She led the rebuild of credit insurance software for our client Fibus, from discovery to go-live and ongoing development.

Clément Dourlens Senior Product Designer

9 years' experience and more than 100 products designed at Galadrim, for the Fédération française de tir, the Institut du monde arabe, Mercialys and Vinci Construction.

Alexie Romeu Senior Product Designer

7 years' experience and more than 65 products designed, for The Bradery, Clarins, Vidal and La Poste.

Manon Le Toquin Senior Product Designer

ECV Digital. 6 years' experience, from luxury brands to industrial internal tools, for Hermès, Christian Louboutin, the CEA and Dugas.

Surya Ambrose Engineering Manager

More than 10 years in software engineering. He shapes engineering practices and led tech at Epsor, a fast-growing fintech start-up.

Thomas Hallot Tech Lead

Tech Lead for 4 years on projects with heavy technical and regulatory constraints, from Oléa Finances' money transfer app to Mediavote's encrypted voting platform, built to handle major traffic spikes.

Quentin Massonnat AI Team Lead

He builds autonomous agents and large-scale LLM generation systems. For Showroom Privé, his tool Scriptor quadrupled the rate at which product pages are produced.

Marc-César Garcia-Grenet AI Team Lead

More than 30 projects under his belt. He puts AI features into production: computer vision, conversational agents, data processing pipelines.

Horace Belot Data Engineer

He combines data engineering with building AI solutions. For example, he designed an automated pipeline for processing sensitive medical records (up to 5,000 pages). It runs on locally hosted open-source AI models to keep the data confidential.

[How it works day to day]

Smooth, flexible and transparent collaboration

Embedded in your team

Your new team members work inside your team, with your tools and your methods, on site or remotely. No agency layer between you and them.

A single point of contact at Galadrim

An engagement manager keeps an eye on quality and clears blockers, without interfering in your day-to-day management.

Scaling and flexibility

You scale the team up or down, at any time.

[Client stories]

A Galadrimer brought in to strengthen your team can become one of its key members!

After several months in your team, a Galadrim engineer knows your product's code, challenges and inner workings. If you want to bring them on permanently, and they want that too, we make the hire easier rather than standing in the way.

From 2023 to 2025, we designed and built 10%, a cashback app for everyday purchases, now used by more than 300,000 people.

Max Lemasquerier, the Galadrim engineer who built the app, joined the project as co-founder and CTO. 10% has raised €2.4M and holds a 4.8 rating on the App Store

Max Lemasqueriernow co-founder and CTO

From 2023 to 2025, we worked with PyxiScience, an AI-powered maths teaching platform, from the technical application for Bpifrance's French Tech Émergence grant through to building the app.

Paul Dampfhoeffer, the Galadrim engineer who built the product, became its CTO. PyxiScience has since raised €2M and is rolling out its platform in France and the United States.

Paul DampfhoefferNow CTO

[Our work]

Entrepreneurs we have helped succeed

Galadrim was founded by two entrepreneurs, and we attract people who share that DNA. Our people commit to our founders' projects with the standards of true co-founders.

HealthcarePosos

Strengthening a health start-up's product team for the long term

Posos is a health start-up whose SaaS helps clinicians with drug prescribing. We strengthened its product team with full-stack developers over a sustained collaboration of around 2.5 years.

2.5 yearsworking together

3full-stack developers

FintechMetalGear

Adding blockchain and AI skills to a fintech team

MetalGear, a currency exchange operator founded in 2022, wanted to reduce the funds tied up in each international transfer by using stablecoins. We strengthened its team for 6 months with a Tech Lead and an AI Engineer to make its payments between traditional currencies and cryptocurrencies more reliable. Its platform is now MiCA-authorised.

2022year founded

6 monthsengagement

Occupational healthPaladin

Building a full team to launch a regulated product

Paladin, a new occupational health centre, had to launch strictly regulated software fast, with its CTO as its only technical resource. We put together a team of three full-time engineers to build the first version: medical records, appointment booking, video consultations. Delivered in 3 months, it won the sector's first DRIEETS accreditation in more than 10 years. Paladin's in-house teams then took it over.

3 monthsto deliver v0

1 200users

15k+employees covered

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Hugo des LongchampsCTO

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[FAQ]

Questions our clients often ask

Two Galadrim engineers in front of a screen of code

Two weeks. That's the time it takes to select the people best suited to your context and bring them into your team.

You meet and approve each person before they join your team. Before that, our recruitment process is one of the most selective in the industry: a pass-or-fail algorithms test, an in-depth technical interview, then a practical exercise. We hire fewer than 0.5% of applicants.

Yes. Depending on how you're organised, they work on site, remotely or hybrid, and follow your ways of working.

Yes, at any time. You scale the team up or down as you need, with no minimum commitment.

Yes. When someone becomes a lasting part of your project, we help you bring them in-house. Several Galadrim engineers have gone on to become CTO of the start-up they were working with.

All deliverables belong to you. Source code, mock-ups and documentation are handed over with each delivery, and the assignment of rights is written into the contract from the start of the engagement.

Every team is sized to fit, based on the people involved and the amount of work. After an initial conversation about your context, we send you an estimate within 24 hours.

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Let's bring your project to life together

We work with every kind of client, across every industry. Whether you are an entrepreneur or lead a large organisation, we put together a team that fits your need.

More than 800 companies have trusted us to build their web, mobile and AI products

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