FRAn association serving pioneering organizations
Be Frontier Firm is a non-profit association (French 1901 law) created in 2026. Its purpose: promote collaboration between people and AI agents, and track the evolution of Frontier Firms in France.
Non-profit association, independent from vendors and consulting firms
Frontier Score® and Frontier Tech Score, developed and maintained by the association
Continuous tracking of the evolution of Frontier Firms in France
Raising executive awareness
The journey to becoming a Frontier Firm starts at the top. The association engages executives and leadership teams to share the model, present the observatory's findings, and open a structured dialogue between general management and IT leadership.
What the association provides
Frontier Firms Barometer
Reference publication on the evolution of AI maturity in French organizations, built from aggregated, anonymized framework data.
Notes & briefs
Analyses of the Frontier Firm model, research findings, and community experience reports.
Cross debriefs
Guided reading of your Frontier Scores in a bilateral executive × CIO meeting, turning the diagnostic into dialogue.
Community network
Access to members — executives, CIOs, practitioners — to share practices among peers.
A Bonne Ecole
Certified training organization specializing in digital transformation and AI. Its trainers combine pedagogical expertise and field experience for immediately actionable training.
Spreading skills
The association does not sell training: it runs its own educational workshops and directs its members toward quality programs, notably through partner organizations such as A Bonne Ecole.
Discovering the Frontier Firm model
Conference — 1.5hUnderstand the concept, the 5 criteria, and the 3 phases of the transformation, based on the observatory's data.
Reading and using your Frontier Score®
Workshop — 2hInterpret your radar, compare executive × technical readings, and build your first improvement priorities.
Humans & agents: working together
Workshop — half dayExperience human-agent collaboration hands-on: use cases, the "agent boss" role, best practices.
AI governance & ethics
Working groupShare governance, compliance, and responsible-use practices among member organizations.
Keeping the frameworks alive
The Frontier Score® and the Frontier Tech Score are living frameworks. They evolve with feedback from assessed organizations, research (Microsoft Work Trend Index, Harvard D³, MIT), and contributions from the association's working groups.
Every member can contribute: propose improvements, take part in methodology reviews, enrich sector use cases.
Frameworks & methodology
Continuous review of the questions, weightings, and dimensions of both frameworks.
Barometer & data
Consolidation of anonymized data and production of the observatory's indicators.
Sector use cases
Documenting practices by industry: manufacturing, services, public sector…
Ethics & governance
Exploring the conditions for responsible, sustainable human-agent collaboration.
Why become a member?
Independence
A non-profit association: no consulting to sell, no licenses, no conflicts of interest. Our work serves the public interest.
Recognized frameworks
The Frontier Score® is a registered trademark, backed by a documented, public, research-grounded methodology.
Community & data
Access to the barometer, working groups, and a network of peers living the same transformation.
Want to contribute to the observatory?
Membership, working groups, partnerships, or a simple question: the association will get back to you.