This is the text you accept when you submit your file. It fits on one page, and there is nothing else to sign afterwards.
On the one hand Claire Van De Sype, the “Introducer”. On the other hand the company you represent, the “Consultant”, whose registration details you declare when submitting your file. This agreement is entered into between two businesses.
The Consultant gives the Introducer a limited mandate to present: to send its anonymised skills file — no name, no surname, no contact details — on its behalf and in its interest, to the project-management assignments matching the scope it has declared, and to receive the first responses. Its identity is disclosed only with its agreement, when a client asks to meet it. That mandate is strictly limited to this: the Introducer takes no part in performing the assignment, and the Consultant contracts directly with the client, in its own name and on its own terms. This agreement is neither subcontracting nor an employment contract, and creates no relationship of subordination.
She surveys published assignments every morning and sends the Consultant’s anonymised skills file to those that best match its declared scope. That file carries its experience, its measured results, its tools and its sectors; it carries neither its name nor its contact details. A client wishing to meet it goes through the Introducer, who asks the Consultant for its agreement before lifting anonymity. She only handles assignments from public platforms. She receives and qualifies the first responses — calls, emails — and passes on to the Consultant those worth pursuing, with what she has learned. Interviews are conducted by the Consultant itself. The Introducer informs the Consultant of each submission and keeps the list available to it. She guarantees no volume, no timescale and no outcome.
It declares its scope: roles, minimum day rate, geography, remote work. Its file circulates within that scope and nowhere else. It may at any time exclude clients by naming them — its current client, a former employer, a competitor: the Introducer does not approach them, and that list overrides everything else. It keeps this information current, conducts the interviews itself, and declares that it is up to date with its social and tax obligations and holds the insurance required for its activity.
The mandate stops at sending the file and receiving the first responses. The Introducer negotiates nothing, commits to nothing, accepts no assignment and signs no document on the Consultant’s behalf. She discusses neither rate, nor duration, nor terms: she states the declared scope and refers back to the Consultant. Any commitment made outside those limits would have no effect on it.
The Consultant pays the Introducer a fee of 8 % of the net revenue it collects on an introduced assignment, for the whole duration of that assignment. The fee is due only on sums actually paid by the client: nothing is owed on an unpaid invoice. The first fee invoice is issued once the Consultant has collected its first client invoice on the assignment; later ones are monthly, in arrears. Each invoice is settled within 30 days. It also applies to extensions and renewals of the introduced assignment.
Within 5 working days of signing its contract, the Consultant returns a signed assignment acknowledgement stating: the client, the start date, the agreed day rate, the expected duration and the pace (days per month). A confirmation email covering those five items is enough. It sets the frame; it does not replace the invoices.
The fee is calculated on the invoices the Consultant issues to the client for the introduced assignment — not on an estimate. Each month, before the 10, the Consultant sends the Introducer: copies of the invoices issued to the client on that assignment during the past month, and an indication of which ones have been paid. That is all: a document it issues anyway, carrying the exact amount, on which the Introducer invoices her 8 %. If it invoiced nothing that month, it says so — silence is not an answer. It reports the end, suspension or extension of the assignment the same way, within 15 days.
The invoices sent are normally enough. In case of serious doubt, the Introducer may request, at most once a quarter, the proof of payment matching those invoices — a bank statement limited to the relevant lines, or a client attestation. The Consultant answers within fifteen days. These documents are covered by the Confidentiality article.
If the Consultant sends neither the assignment acknowledgement nor the invoices, and after a formal notice left unanswered for fifteen days, the fee is calculated on a substitute basis: the rate and duration announced in the introduced assignment, on the basis of 18 days per month. That basis applies as of right until the Consultant produces its invoices; it is deliberately conservative, and therefore remains in its favour if it prefers to supply the actual figures. The Introducer may also remove the Consultant from the pool — it receives no further assignments — without this extinguishing the fees due. Any late sum bears interest at the legal rate applicable between businesses, and the flat-rate recovery indemnity of 40 € under article L441-10 of the Commercial Code is due as of right.
The Consultant may exclude clients in advance by naming them (article « Ce que fait le Consultant »): the Introducer does not approach them. And since it is informed of every submission, if it was already in contact with that client about that assignment, it says so within 5 working days of being informed and no fee is due. Failing that, an assignment for which it was introduced and which is signed within 12 months gives rise to the fee, whatever the channel through which it was concluded — including through another company it controls or a third party acting on its behalf. Where a signature is concealed, an indemnity of 30 % of the fee due is added, after formal notice.
The Consultant remains free to seek and accept assignments through any other channel, without informing the Introducer and without any fee. The Introducer remains free to introduce several consultants for the same assignment.
The parties agree that emails exchanged between them constitute evidence of their content and date, within the meaning of article 1366 of the Civil Code. This includes: the introduction email sent to the client with the Consultant copied in, the Consultant’s “yes”, the assignment acknowledgement, and the invoices sent each month. Each party keeps these exchanges.
Information exchanged — client identities, assignment context, budgets, the Consultant’s file, supporting documents — is confidential. Each party undertakes not to disclose it. This obligation survives the agreement by two years.
The Introducer processes the Consultant’s data for the sole purpose of identifying assignments matching its profile and introducing it to the clients it has accepted. The detail of the processing, retention periods and erasure arrangements is set out in the site’s privacy policy, which forms an integral part of this agreement.
The agreement takes effect when the file is submitted, for an indefinite term. Either party may end it at any time, in writing, without cause and without compensation. Termination affects neither the fees due on assignments already introduced, nor the reporting obligations attached to them, which survive until those assignments end.
Any unpaid sum is the subject of a formal notice by email and registered letter. Failing payment within fifteen days, the Introducer may bring injunction-to-pay proceedings before the president of the commercial court, on the basis of this agreement, the assignment acknowledgement and her invoices. The agreement is governed by French law; the competent courts are those of the Introducer’s registered office.
By submitting your file, you declare that you have read this agreement and accept it on behalf of the company you represent. That acceptance constitutes a signature: a ticked box or a statement of acceptance in your message is an electronic signature within the meaning of articles 1366 and 1367 of the French Civil Code, with the same legal value as a handwritten signature. You receive a dated copy of the agreement in return, which stands as evidence for both parties. No fee is due before an introduced assignment is signed and paid.
Version in force on 26 August 2026.