LittleBig Connection closes 2025 with strengthened ambition: supporting large international organizations in sourcing and contracting their external service providers.
The mission of connecting the “Little” and the “Big” continued to guide our work throughout 2025. Here is a look back at the LittleBig 2025 highlights.
A reinforced positioning for LittleBig Connection
Globalization of the talent sourcing model
Our marketplace now brings together more than 500,000 experts across 50 countries. This international coverage meets the fast-evolving nature of global talent pools and the differences in market practices between regions.
In 2025, we enhanced our sourcing framework around three integrated channels:
spontaneous applications from our community,
automated Requests for Proposal suggestions,
tailored sourcing performed by our teams.
This model improves the relevance of submitted profiles: only experts matching the industry, seniority level and client criteria receive opportunities. AI-assisted pre-selection, completed by validation from our Account Managers, ensures consistent analysis across all geographies and business scopes.
Our market assessments confirm the necessity of a global approach. In Canada, market fragmentation requires increased control; in Colombia, the growth of the tech sector is creating emerging talent pools. In Poland, the rise of freelancing and the density of the IT ecosystem have shaped a highly structured market where companies need clearer collaboration models and broader access to key skills. These local realities reinforce the value of a global framework adapted to regional specificities.
Repositioning commercial portage at the core of client strategies
In 2025, commercial portage has become a key lever for procurement organizations. Companies must collaborate quickly with service providers of all sizes while ensuring transparency, compliance and operational continuity.
Our model enables contractualization with all types of experts within a unified framework. It secures legal documentation, ensures full traceability and adapts to the internal rules of each client.
This approach is especially critical in industrial and technological environments, where operational stability depends on a reliable contractual model that aligns with multi-country requirements.
Strategic guidance strengthened by data
Beyond matching, our teams support procurement departments in structuring their external workforce flows. In 2025, the analysis of contracting vs. consulting proved essential in clarifying workflows, reducing contractual inconsistencies and offering business teams a simpler operational path.
We also provide data-driven steering tools: risk analysis, volume trends and portage rate monitoring. Dashboards give immediate visibility into the dynamics of the external services perimeter.
This approach helps clients manage non-panel flows, secure their sourcing practices and regain strategic oversight of their external workforce.
A platform designed for the needs of large organizations
A controlled framework aligned with international procurement standards
Our model operates within a structured environment that complies with procurement policies and internal rules of each client. Requests are processed consistently, ensuring uniform quality and reliability across all operations.
Data as the foundation of operational control and governance
The platform centralizes all information, offering full traceability of workflows along with real-time visibility into volumes and risks. Continuous compliance monitoring guarantees consistent control across the entire perimeter.
This level of governance goes beyond the capabilities of solutions focused solely on matching or contracting. It strengthens the client's ability to pilot their external services landscape and improve decision-making quality.
AI supporting sourcing and internal processes
Artificial intelligence now plays a central role in our model. It assists in writing requests for proposals descriptions, analyzing applications and harmonizing evaluation criteria. This reduces variability in assessments and ensures transparent decision-making.
Internally, AI automates part of the document verification process and improves the fluidity of commercial portage. It reduces back-and-forth exchanges, secures key steps and shortens contractualization timelines.
Our ambition is clear: to streamline operations and offer users a simpler and more consistent experience, regardless of the country or volume of activity.
Human expertise as a determining success factor
While AI intervenes, human expertise remains at the heart of our support and decision-making model. Our Account Managers remain essential at every stage: need qualification, expert selection, risk assessment and structured management of external services.
Their understanding of local markets, business challenges, client organization and operational needs ensures the quality and relevance of final decisions.
This combination of AI + human expertise is one of our strongest differentiators and reinforces the operational control of procurement teams.
An engaged community driving sourcing quality
A hybrid, local and international community
Our community brings together freelance experts, specialized consulting firms and local IT service companies that can intervene on major projects. This diversity enables organizations to access varied expertise while maintaining a single structured framework aligned with procurement standards.
It also reflects the dynamics observed in our country analyses, particularly in Latin America where technological talent pools are becoming more mature. This hybrid and curated model directly contributes to the quality and relevance of applications.
Performance illustrated through projects and community engagement
The strength of this community was demonstrated through several client projects. The collaboration with Poclain is a concrete example: the company identified the right expert within a few days and was able to structure an ESG initiative.
In parallel, community engagement intensified in 2025:
our LinkedIn group Mission Freelance now has more than 15,000 members, making it the largest freelance group in France,
more than 2,000 freelancers participated in our online and offline events in France, Belgium and Montreal,
60 new profiles were referred, with the opening of the program at international level,
and 50 five-star reviews were shared by our members.
These actions strengthened community engagement, improved application quality and supported the development of international talent pools.
An open and inclusive community
We also launched the Inclusive Skills Mapping to make visible the expertise of professionals from adapted enterprises and inclusion-focused organizations. This initiative facilitates the identification of IT, data, design, engineering and consulting experts within a clear operational framework, while responding to the growing expectations of procurement departments regarding inclusion and diversity.
It expands the long-term talent pool accessible to large clients while bringing performance and social impact closer together.
A global and generalist ambition for 2026
LittleBig Connection approaches 2026 with a strengthened ambition: to support large organizations across all their intellectual services, regardless of expertise fields or geographical areas. Our generalist model, present in 50 countries and supported by self-financed growth since 2013, enables us to sustainably accompany our clients’ transformations.
We will continue investing in our platform, in artificial intelligence and in our local teams to offer an experience that remains simple, reliable and consistent. Our priority for 2026 remains expanding collaboration opportunities between companies and the best experts on the market, within a fully controlled framework.
This trajectory is part of a broader ambition: building a global model capable of unifying sourcing, contracting and the steering of intellectual services across all geographies where our clients operate.
