xSOM Consulting IT consulting

The firm

You are not talking to an organisation.
You are talking to the experts.

xSOM Consulting is an independent consulting firm founded in 2007. The consultants who frame your engagement are the ones who run it, and the ones who finish it. No commercial layer, no team rotation, no delegation.

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2007

year the firm was founded

100 %

independent — no vendor or integrator affiliation

3

integrated practices

2

countries — France and the United States

What sets us apart

The depth of a large firm, without the layers

Years of engagements in demanding sectors — telecoms, energy, finance, public service — have given us one conviction: the quality of a consulting engagement is not measured by headcount, but by what remains on the ground once the work is done.

That is why we built a firm where every client has direct access to the experts running their engagement. No account manager in between, no filtered reporting, no waiting days for a technical answer.

You judge a system by what happens when it fails, not when it works.

What that changes in practice

  1. 01

    Named, stable counterparts

    You know who is working on your programme, and that person stays until the end. No invisible rotation mid-engagement.

  2. 02

    Independence without compromise

    No vendor or integrator affiliation, no commission. Our recommendations answer to one mandate: yours.

  3. 03

    Consultants who commit, not resources who are placed

    Each consultant carries the engagement as their own. When a programme drifts, we say so. When it needs more time, we stay.

  4. 04

    Speed of decision

    A tight structure lets us adjust an engagement within days, without an internal committee to convince.

  5. 05

    Systematic handover

    Every engagement ends with your teams more autonomous than at the start. That is our definition of success — and the opposite of dependency.

Our values

What defines us day to day

Not values printed on a wall. Commitments you can verify in every engagement.

Proximity

You know your counterparts by name. The same people from framing to delivery, because trust is built over time and cannot be delegated.

Commitment

We do not deliver reports, we get involved in your outcomes. When a project is going badly, we say so — including when it is uncomfortable.

Handover

Our goal is not to create dependency, it is to make you stronger. Every engagement moves your teams forward in skill and autonomy.

Our principles

Simple rules, held on every engagement

In a sector where promises are plentiful and disappointment common, we set clear rules — for ourselves first. They are not sales arguments: they define how we work, concretely.

  • Independence from vendorsNo commission, no disguised commercial partnership. Our only mandate is yours.
  • Transparency on risks and limitsWe name what is not working, including when the conclusion is inconvenient. That is why clients call us back.
  • Workable solutions, not ideal onesNo perfect architecture nobody can operate. Solutions matched to your real teams, budgets and deadlines.
  • Your teams firstWe build your autonomy, not our recurring revenue. Knowledge transfer is in scope, not an add-on.
  • Continuity of peopleThe same faces from the first workshop to final acceptance. Without exception.

The team

The people behind the work

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