About Catalia

Reduce uncertainty. Free up action.

Catalia was born from a simple conviction: AI is not a topic reserved to experts. It is a topic for leaders, teams, decisions, uses, and concrete transformation. We support SMB and mid-market companies to make AI clear, useful, and mastered, with method, closeness, and rigor.

130+
clients supported since 2022
"Our promise: reduce uncertainty to free up action."
10,000+ hours

of AI usage

5,000+ people
trained in 2025
Our story

How it all started

At Catalia, our story does not start with a trend. It starts with an older conviction: technology only has value when it becomes understandable, useful, and actionable for the people who have to bring it to life in their daily work.

That conviction has guided the 20-year journey of Matthieu Sabourin, Catalia's founder. His thread has never been tech for tech's sake, but what it concretely changes in work, decisions, organizations, and ways of cooperating. Through his experiences, he developed an approach rooted in listening, teaching, experimentation, and co-construction: understand before framing, test before generalizing, support without imposing.

Then 2023. The arrival of generative AI acted as an accelerator. Where many saw mostly a technological break, Matthieu sensed a deeper shift: a new way to produce, to learn, to decide, and to collaborate. He chose to explore the tools, test the uses, observe the field, and tell real value from mere noise.

That observation is what gave birth to Catalia: to help SMB and mid-market companies move forward with AI without rush, with method, clarity, and command. A simple ambition: to become a trusted partner to move forward right, sustainably, together.

Our manifesto

For SMB leaders
who move forward despite uncertainty

Running an SMB is not about theorizing change. It is about moving forward, deciding, holding the line, despite uncertainty. Today, AI is everywhere: too much information, too many promises, too much noise. And always the same question: how to move forward without getting it wrong?

At Catalia, we start from a simple conviction:
what matters is not moving fast, it is moving right.

Custom-built, no copy-paste

No off-the-shelf solutions. No detached talk. We start by understanding your reality: your business, your constraints, your teams.

Step by step, with method

Each step is framed. Each decision is informed. Each progress is measured. We help you decide what is useful, and what is better left aside.

A trusted partner

Present on the ground, demanding on method, rigorous on security. AI is not a goal. It is a lever in service of your lasting performance.

Catalia. Reduce uncertainty. Free up action.

Catalia values

And we hold to them.

Committed closeness

We believe in field presence, in the language of trades, and in fine-grained understanding of each organization's reality. We do not work at distance from the real. We move forward as close to your stakes as possible.

Responsible boldness

We explore, we test, we challenge habits. But we never confuse speed with rush. Here, boldness always goes with judgment, and the capacity to say no when it is risky.

Pragmatic rigor

We like useful methods, not rigid frameworks. We measure before promising, prioritize before acting, and seek tangible results over impressive speeches.

Total transparency

Say what you do. Do what you say. Show what it produces. We commit to a direct, honest, legible relationship, because trust is built in clarity as much as in competence.

The Catalia team

A multidisciplinary team

To link technology, business uses, and change management.

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National & international presence

Catalia beside you
across France — and beyond

From Paris to Marseille, from Bordeaux to Strasbourg, our consultants and trainers travel across France to support your teams wherever you are. No geographical constraint slows your AI transformation.

We also work outside France. Our team has spent years in international contexts and is fully fluent in English — on keynotes, workshops, executive coaching, and rollouts. If you need AI support in English, in person or remote, we're ready.

15 major cities In person & remote Fast turnaround Fluent in English

Support tailored to your AI maturity level

Every organization moves at its own pace. We build a custom journey, from discovery to transformation.

Awakening

Need

Understand AI, its stakes, its uses and its limits to move forward with clarity.

Catalia offer

Keynotes, webinars, awareness training, executive coaching, leadership-team workshops.

You leave with

Clear markers, a common language, first use cases, and the confidence to start.

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Test & Learn

Need

Test in practice, identify useful uses, pick the right tools, and move from ideas to first proofs.

Catalia offer

Audit, workshops, custom training, coaching, consulting, business-unit workshops.

You leave with

Priority use cases, concrete experiments, best practices, and a realistic action plan.

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Deploy & transform

Need

Embed AI in practices, structure uses, support adoption, and turn it into a lasting lever.

Catalia offer

Strategic consulting, deployment, change management, coaching, structuring of business-unit uses, long-term support.

You leave with

A roadmap, anchored uses, more autonomous teams, sounder governance, and lasting results.

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They chose Catalia to step into the age of AI

FAQ

Want to know more?

Catalia is a catalyst of change and performance that supports SMB leaders to make AI clear, useful, and mastered. Our role is to help companies understand fast, decide right, and move forward with clarity, from understanding the stakes to concrete execution.
Catalia's mission is to reduce uncertainty to free up action. Concretely, we give SMB leaders the confidence and the markers needed to use AI in service of their business, with supported progress, step by step, without putting the company at risk.
Yes. Catalia was designed as a trusted partner for SMBs, with a gradual approach starting from the client's real need, their maturity level, and their priorities. The goal is not to impose a brutal transformation, but to help teams understand, test, structure, then deploy AI in a useful, secure way.
Catalia's ambition is to become a French reference for AI support for SMBs, with a network of experts able to operate across France with a constant level of clarity, teaching, and command. Catalia also values field closeness, with on-site interventions and support close to business reality.
Catalia is neither a traditional consultancy, nor a tool vendor, nor a generic training body. Its difference rests on a combination of field closeness, method, teaching, rigor, and long-term support, with a logic of measured progress and growing autonomy for the teams.
The simplest is to get in touch to discuss your context, your maturity level, and your company's concrete stakes. We build our support from the client's real need, with a logic of diagnostic, prioritization, awareness, and gradual deployment.

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