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The best solution is the one people can actually adopt

I spent twenty years selling technology to people who were not buying it for the technology. That work taught me one thing I have never seen disproved: the solution that wins is not the best one, it is the one an organization is able to adopt.

I see the same pattern repeating with artificial intelligence. Many companies invest heavily and do not get what they hoped for. The tool is rarely the problem. The data behind it, and the people expected to use it, usually are.

My background

Thirteen years in the automotive industry, nine years in biotechnology. In both cases the same real job behind the title: understanding what a product can do, and making it something a customer can weigh up and decide on.

I then trained in IT in Quebec, where I earned a vocational diploma in computer support, followed by a placement with a Montreal business accelerator. There I ran a digital maturity audit, designed a data governance framework, and built a roadmap for adopting AI tools.

I did not do this to become an engineer. I did it to stop talking about a technology I only understood on the surface.

What I build

Three prototypes, described in French on this site: a first-line IT support assistant that adapts its language to the user's technical level; a workplace wellbeing assistant designed to surface collective trends without ever profiling individuals; and an email automation I deliberately stopped, because what it did is now built into most assistants on the market.

Each page says what the tool does, and what it does not.

Get in touch

I am based near Marseille, in the south of France, and open to conversations of any kind, or simply because something here made you disagree.

herve.stablot@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/herve-stablot