Ranking and introduction rules

Profiles of the Claude Partners team are pinned at the top. The default display order of the other profiles follows three criteria, in this order:

1. the Claude Partners score out of 100, from highest to lowest. Half of it comes from the Claude Code test, half from how complete the profile is (scale in point 07).
2. at equal score, the profile is validated by its holder — claimed, or created by the person themselves. A profile we have compiled from public sources, and that nobody has reviewed, comes after.
3. the day rate given by the provider, from lowest to highest. A rate is only shown if it comes from the person concerned; a profile that carries none comes after those that carry one.

Where two profiles are equal on all three criteria, the most recently published one comes first. The test behind the Claude Partners Certified badge counts in the score, and therefore in this ranking. An early retake of the test is paid (€49 incl. VAT): it gives no points by itself, only the score obtained counts. When the user applies filters (expertise, country, sector), only the matching profiles are shown, in the same order.

The directory order cannot be bought: no payment moves a profile in the list, or makes it appear before another. Only one thing can be bought, and it is kept separate from the directory: the paid placements shown at the top of the /prestataires/ page, marked as such, whose rank follows the amount paid. They enter into no calculation of rating, ranking or introduction. No “premium” plan, no paid badge.

When a company posts a project, we manually select the providers to present to it according to, in this order: the match between the declared areas of expertise and the stated project, the consistency of the stated budget with the rates shown by the provider, the geographical area, and the declared availability.

The providers presented on an engagement have reached 75/100 on the Claude Code test, which awards the Claude Partners Certified badge. Among them, the badge gives no priority. The first attempt at the test is free; an early retake costs €49 incl. VAT for ten attempts and does not guarantee the badge.

As the commission received is the same for all providers, it does not influence the selection.

Claude Partners is paid through a commission of 20% of the amount excluding VAT of engagements started through the platform, invoiced to the provider hired. The client company pays nothing, at any point. Signing up and publishing a provider profile are free to date.

During the launch phase, payment for engagements does not go through the platform: the commission is invoiced directly, set out in writing with both parties at the time of the introduction.

Claude Partners also receives the amount of the paid placements described in point 01, paid by the providers who take one. These payments give no other right: no place in the list, no rating, no priority on a posted project.

Claude Partners has no capital tie with any listed provider. If such a tie were to exist, it would be stated explicitly on the profile concerned.

Contractual tie: a few providers in the directory work for Claude Agency, publisher of Claude Partners. Their profile carries the mention “Équipe Claude Partners” in the list as well as on the profile itself. They are ranked by the same criteria as everyone else: their profile is validated, it carries the badge, and their rate is low — that is what puts them at the top, not their tie with us. No ranking rule targets or favours them.

Claude Partners has no capital, contractual or partnership tie with Anthropic PBC, publisher of Claude.

The directory profiles are compiled by Claude Partners, one by one, from public information: the provider’s website, professional profiles, work and references cited publicly. They are not declared by the people they describe. We check the completeness and consistency of the profile before publication, but we certify neither the skills, nor the qualifications, nor the references, nor the certifications mentioned.

A profile created by its provider goes through the same check, automatically, on submission. If a profile created from 5 October 2026 onwards still does not meet it 48 hours later, it is published with the mention “Fiche incomplète” (incomplete profile) and the list of what it is missing, until the provider completes it.

A profile claimed by its provider then comes under their control: what they write and correct on it is then declarative, and it is the only situation in which a day rate is shown — see below.

Any manifestly false information leads to the profile being removed. You can report a profile to contact@claudepartners.fr; a documented report is examined within 5 working days. If a profile concerns you, you can correct it, claim it or ask for its removal from the profile itself, in the directory.

A day rate only appears on a profile if the provider gave it to us themselves, on a profile they have claimed or created. All the other profiles in the directory show no amount. This is not missing information: it is a refusal to attribute a price to someone who has never announced one.

What changed on 4 September 2026. Until that date, every unclaimed profile carried an “indicative day rate” estimated by us from the seniority read in the person’s public background. The intention was to make profiles comparable; the effect was that an amount was shown in the name of someone who had not given it. These estimates have been removed from the whole site, along with all the statistics derived from them — the directory’s median day rate, medians by area of expertise, and the figures repeated from page to page.

What we continue to publish. A market grid in three tiers, on the day-rate barometer:

• junior profile — €300 excl. VAT per day;
• experienced profile — €500 excl. VAT per day;
• senior profile — €700 excl. VAT per day.

This grid is a market benchmark based on the seniority of a background. It is not anyone’s rate in particular, and it is applied to no profile. The barometer also publishes the breakdown of the directory’s profiles by seniority: it is an observation of backgrounds, set against the grid, never an attributed price.

Seniority covers the whole background, and not only the years spent in artificial intelligence: the two can diverge, and each profile shows separately the number of years spent on AI engagements. A senior background that came to AI recently is still classed as senior.

An actual rate depends on the scope, duration and context of the engagement: it is discussed directly with the provider. If you have given us a rate and wish to withdraw it, write to contact@claudepartners.fr: it disappears from your profile without anything else changing.

Every directory profile carries a score out of 100, which replaced the star rating on 16 October 2026. It is calculated by Claude Partners and is not a customer review: no company has rated these people.

What this score measures, in two halves: 50 points for the Claude Code test, and 50 points for how complete the profile is. It does not judge the quality of the work delivered. A profile with a low score is most often a profile that nobody has completed or claimed yet.

The scale, applied identically to every profile:

• Claude Code test — up to 50 points: the score obtained on the test described on /en/claude-code-badge/, halved and rounded. Only a passed test (75/100 or more) that is still valid counts: a lower result is never published. 75 on the test gives 38 points, 100 gives 50.
• Website — up to 10 points: a website given on the profile.
• Day rate — up to 10 points: a day rate provided by the person and shown on their profile.
• Availability — up to 10 points: an availability given, whatever it is.
• Presentation — up to 10 points: a presentation written by the person. Its presence counts, not what it claims.
• Skills — up to 10 points: five points for at least one area of expertise, five for at least one tool.

The score is recalculated each time the site is published, from the profile’s data at that moment. It sets the order of the list described in point 01. Completing your profile, or passing the test, raises it.

To raise your profile’s score, the quickest way is to claim your profile and complete it: website, rate, availability, presentation, areas and tools. You can also write to contact@claudepartners.fr.

No customer review is published to date. The score described in point 7 is not a review and is never presented as one. If reviews are introduced, the way they are collected, checked and published will be described here before they go live.

This site is about artificial intelligence: it should say how it uses it to write what you read.

Who writes. The articles, guides and pages on this site are written by Julien Rayes, publisher of Claude Partners, and his team. No content is bought from an outside writer, and none is signed with a pen name.

What artificial intelligence does. Our team includes Claude agents, and some of the articles and guides on this site are written and then put online by them, without a human reviewing them before publication. That is what allows us to keep up this pace, and we prefer to say so rather than let people believe the opposite.

What we commit to. A figure published here carries its source and its date, and you can trace it back to that source; what we have not been able to verify is written as such rather than filled in. What this site promises — our offers, our prices, our commitments — is decided by a human, not by a model.

Directory profiles follow a separate regime, described in point 5: they are compiled from public information, and a claimed profile comes under the control of its holder.

An error, an outdated figure, a badly cited source: write to contact@claudepartners.fr, we correct the page and say so on it.

Last updated: September 2026. This document will evolve with the service.