data September 17, 2026 by Intrane

1.4 Million Social-Economy Organizations, One Open Directory

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France's social and solidarity economy — cooperatives, associations, mutuelles, foundations, mission-driven companies — employs roughly one worker in ten. Yet online, most of these organizations are invisible: no website, no listing, no trace beyond a registry row.

enfrance.intrane.fr is our attempt to fix that at national scale: a directory of 1,415,660 establishments across all 101 French departments, built from public registries and nothing else.

Every claim cites its source

The corpus comes from the Sirene register (INSEE / Annuaire des Entreprises) filtered to ESS legal forms. Enrichment joins only on exact identifiers — SIREN and SIRET — never fuzzy matching:

RNA / waldec exports (data.gouv, monthly) — declared websites, objectives and titles for associations
Wikidata — official website (P856) and social accounts (P2013/2002/2003/4264/2397) joined via SIREN (P1616) and SIRET (P3215)
Declared websites — association sites fetched politely (robots-aware, rate-limited) and mined for their own published social links

Every page shows where each fact comes from. If we can't cite it, we don't print it — that constraint is the whole product.

What you get per organization

Each of the 1.4M pages — for example Mordus 2 Savoie, an Albertville association — carries the registry identity (SIRET, NAF code, legal form, creation year), commune and department classification, declared website when it exists, and social links with per-link provenance (Wikidata or site web déclaré).

Browse by department, commune, tag or the interactive map. A public API exposes the same records — key-gated, rate-limited, free for reasonable use.

A regional sibling already exists

ensavoie.intrane.fr curates the same corpus for Savoie (73) with deeper editorial content — the two link to each other at item level, so a local page leads to its national record.

Under the hood: the site is a SuperLandings collection landing — MongoDB-backed, statically rendered, ~20ms item pages at 1.4M documents. Delta deployments ship single-field updates in kilobytes instead of rebuilding gigabytes.

Next in this series: the delta-import architecture that lets a 1.4M-document site deploy changes without downtime.