AI freelancers: the independent experts in the directory
The directory publishes 399 profiles, including 150 freelancers specialising in AI collected up to 1 September 2026. We do not display the rate of any of them until they have given it to us themselves; market benchmarks are in the day-rate barometer.
When a freelancer is the right choice
A freelancer is a good fit as soon as the scope fits in one sentence: a document assistant on a specific corpus, the automation of an identified process, an agent that handles an incoming flow. You talk to the person who delivers, with no company overhead added to the rate, and the start is counted in days. On the other hand, a freelancer cannot absorb simultaneous emergencies or projects that require several skills in parallel: beyond that, you need an agency or an established team, and the directory does not list any.
Each profile below is made up of public professional information: observed deliverables, sectors genuinely worked in, references cited. It only shows a rate if the person concerned gave it on a profile they have validated; market benchmarks — three bands of €300, €500 or €700 excl. VAT per day depending on seniority — are in the day-rate barometer. For the selection criteria (deliverables, references, GDPR, availability), the directory guide goes through them; and if your project relies on the Anthropic ecosystem, the Claude expert page sets out what to check. If you would rather have someone near you, the AI providers in Paris, those in Nantes and those in Toulouse each have their own page, with the full list.
The shortest route is still to post your project: we identify the relevant profiles and contact them for you, free of charge.
Under which legal status an AI freelancer works, and what it changes for you
“Freelance” is not a legal status, it is a way of working. Behind the word, the person you deal with may be a micro-entrepreneur, a single-member company (EURL, SASU) or working through umbrella employment (portage salarial) — and the contract you sign is not the same. With a micro-enterprise, VAT may not be charged until a turnover threshold is crossed, and professional liability insurance is not automatic: it has to be requested. With a company, you contract with a legal entity, which may subcontract. With umbrella employment, your contract is signed with the umbrella company, not with the person who delivers.
Three questions are enough to set the frame: who signs (the person or a company), who does the work (the same person, or a subcontractor you did not choose), and who is liable in the event of damage — ask for the professional liability insurance certificate, not the promise. One last point that is often overlooked: a freelancer who works full time for you, on your premises, under your instructions and over a long period exposes your company to the engagement being reclassified as an employment contract. The risk is yours, not theirs.
Day rate, fixed price or time and materials: how an AI engagement is paid
The day rate suits a scope that is still moving: you pay for days and you keep control of the direction. A fixed price requires the opposite — a deliverable defined before work starts — and transfers the risk of overrun to the provider, who builds it into the price. Time and materials (régie) is a day rate over a committed period: cheaper per day, but you are the one who manages the work.
On an AI project, the variable that costs the most is almost never development: it is the quality of the input data and the number of rounds of acceptance testing. A short scoping phase billed at the day rate, before a firm fixed price, generally costs less than a fixed price negotiated blind. A rate only appears on a profile if the person concerned gave it to us; for the others, ask for the price directly, and the three market bands of the day-rate barometer give the order of magnitude.
Finally, with a freelancer, the expertise rests on one person. Plan the exit from the start: code and prompts stored on your side, operating documentation, access to accounts created in your name. This is not a sign of distrust, it is what makes the engagement reusable the day the person is no longer available.
Twelve freelancers from the directory
An extract, to show what a profile contains. The 399 profiles in the directory can be browsed and filtered by area of expertise, sector and country from the full directory.
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Antoine VieilleConsultant en transformation IA : formation des équipes et automatisation des processus
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Henrick HematFormateur de formateurs en bureautique et IA générative : Claude, ChatGPT, NotebookLM
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Jérôme MondiDirecteur artistique IA en production visuelle et vidéo générative, et formateur
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Stéphane NedelecFormateur en Python, analyse de données et fondamentaux de l’IA
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Vigile HoareauConsultant IA et ancien directeur technique en science des données, développement et formation
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Ulysse GrosjeanArchitecte IA en agents et applications métier
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Tom RoyerDirecteur IA spécialisé dans le passage des prototypes à la production, en code et en no-code
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Valery HapiotConsultant et formateur en chatbots, automatisation et visibilité dans les moteurs génératifs
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Oumar NiangFormateur et consultant en science des données, apprentissage automatique et agents IA
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Christophe CourtoisConsultant senior IA et expert judiciaire en sûreté, preuve numérique et intelligence économique
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Maxence RogerConsultant et formateur en audit IA des processus, avec un angle ressources humaines
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Yannick MadzellaData scientist en science des données, MLOps et IA générative en production