Ask Pimpernel

Ask anything about British life in France.

An assistant that answers only from Pimpernel's own guides — the ones real people researched, wrote and keep current — quoting them back with the source, an honest confidence rating, and a real human to check anything that actually matters. We're not against AI; we're against AI that makes things up. This one can't: it only surfaces what we've already verified, and when we haven't covered something it says so, rather than guessing from the open web.

Answers come only from our own guides — never the open web

Grounded in our guides · sources shown · a human on call

Try: Do I need a visa? Getting healthcare The 60% trap Swapping my licence A tricky one

Why this beats asking a generic chatbot

Anyone can paste a question into ChatGPT. The difference is what stands behind the answer.

Grounded, not guessed

It draws only from our own researched, British-in-France guides — written and checked by people, kept current for 2026 — and shows you exactly which ones. Ask about something we haven't covered and it tells you so and points you to a human; it never fills the gap by inventing a French deadline it's never read.

Honest about its limits

Every answer carries a confidence rating. When a question is consequential — a visa, a tax bill, an inheritance — it says so, rather than bluffing its way through.

A human stands behind it

The bit worth paying for. Anything that actually matters can be handed to a real person who checks it before you rely on it. Accountability a chatbot can't offer.

The honest pitch. A lot of sites in this space are, increasingly, charging you for a wrapper around the same AI you can already use for free. We think that's a thin thing to sell. Pimpernel's answer is the opposite: the guides behind it are written and verified by us, not spun up by a model, and the assistant only speaks from them — it admits when it's out of its depth and puts a human between you and the mistakes. You're not paying for the text — you're paying for someone to make sure it's right.

This is an early preview. The answer engine currently draws on a limited set of our guides to demonstrate how grounded, cited answers work, and will expand to the full Library. Answers are general information, not legal, tax or financial advice, and for consequential matters the human-review step and a qualified professional (notaire, avocat, expert-comptable) remain essential. Nothing here is a substitute for official confirmation.