Nicolas Chapuis · Independent AI & Product Consultant

See further with AI.Bring your teams with you.

I help leaders define what AI should change in their business, then bring teams together to make it happen.

Portrait of Nicolas Chapuis in Paris

From strategy to delivery

A clear direction. A business moving forward.

See it in practice
  1. Define the destination.

    Explore what your business can become with AI, how it should work and the path to get there.

  2. Keep the project moving.

    Connect business teams, engineering and partners. Solution selection, RFPs, negotiations, specifications: resolve decisions and lead delivery.

  3. Give teams the skills to build.

    Help people create their own projects: advanced prompting, agents, reusable skills, MCP, Claude Code and Codex, applied to their work.

  4. Make good practice stick.

    Design rules and processes with business and control teams to expand AI use, manage risk and limit ungoverned adoption.

In the field · French public investment bank

One shared framework for AI governance.

The success of the agent-building platform exposed the need for governance. With control functions, I designed a shared framework: company rules are centralized, versioned and kept up to date, so AI can apply them through skills and AIR.

Inside the engagement
AIR’s upcoming interface from the film: AI inventory and assessment record using fictional data
AIR · upcoming interface · fictional data
10 min

to assess 2,000+ systems with AIR, followed by human sample reviews to check quality.

Ten years connecting disciplines.

Consulting, product, programs: varied roles and the curiosity to understand everyone’s work. That is how I learned to anticipate dependencies and help teams move forward together.

TV5MONDE2019–2021Lead the launch of an international VOD service.12months, full scope deliveredMy role

I led the program from strategy to launch: RFPs and bid evaluation, partners and the development team. I contributed to hiring and coordinated business departments and executive committee members. I also took part in board discussions.

The service launched in twelve months, on time, with every planned feature.

Coface2022–2024Rethink credit-insurance distribution.5markets in the initial rolloutMy role

I first assessed gaps and pain points across countries and partners, then worked with a designer to prototype the target experience. Brought back as Product Manager, I defined the vision and engineering requirements, coordinated the teams and led the project through rollout.

After I left, the Partnerships Director told me the product had attracted strong interest from partner countries.

Groupe CCF2018–2019Lead the overhaul of treasury software.12applications managed in parallelMy role

I led the program to overhaul the full treasury software estate: twelve applications covering payments, ALM and securitization. My remit included team coordination, dependencies and a partial move to SaaS, from solution selection to contract negotiations.

Products & experimentation

From need to everyday use.

I design and build tools and methods that use AI to meet business needs.

Upcoming interface · demonstration data

Private deployments

Understand and govern AI use

As AI use grows, control teams need to understand what each system does, which rules apply and what still needs to be checked.

What’s next?

Where could your business go next?

An ambition to define, a transformation to lead, a product to launch. Let’s start with what you want to change.

Let’s talk about your project

Paris · France & international

Writing & analysis

What working in the field teaches me about products and AI.

Read my articles