Who We Are
Our decades of hands-on expertise lie at the crossroads of General Management, Data Science, Finance Control and Consulting. This blend of skills uniquely positions us to embrace the challenge of AI culture change.
We have the relevant knowledge to capture relevant data and build workflows around it.
To make sense of it.
Strong from this background, we approach the AI paradigm by providing top-of the-art structures and processes to measure and monitor the reaping of AI power.
How it all started
- A Finance Controller obsessed with efficiency in office workplace, exploring and exploiting tools both for himself and for organizations
- A data scientist immersed in analytics and neural networks building
- A serial entrepreneur that spearheaded Le Wagon in Asia.
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In 2018, alarmed by the speed of tech progress and the absence of reliable information for workers to adapt, we started working on AI Battle Royale.
Published early 2023 under Palgrave Springer, AI Battle Royale became the first practical guidebook explaining to office workers how to preempt the threats of AI-wrought disruption.
It was also the first book to approach the new Gen-AI paradigm brought by ChatGPT's release.
To bring the message farther and help workforces around the world to achieve the transition, the trio now provides a flurry of solutions.
5 reasons to choose AI Battle Royale
​1- Employees are concerned about AI, some resist or fear the changes involved. Who better to partner with to give your people confidence, other than those who foresaw the challenge and set out to aid workers, producing the first guidebook on how to protect your job from AI?
2- Do you capture what is going on in your organization?
Covert AI usage is on the rise.
​Companies are caught in the crossfires between the need for staff to master AI, and fear of losing control over the process.
They lack a framework for data, idea generation and decision-making.
To properly caliber an AI-augmented workforce.
We bring the potential of your most capable brains to the next level, by harnessing alien intelligence.
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3- To monitor performance and act accordingly there where needed. Beyond consulting and training, we provide the processes and metrics to follow AI activity, via our AI Management System.
Spoiler alert: it won't break your wallet.
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4- Light-weight: we do not lock in customers with a SaaS system nor insist for months-long deployment of new custom systems.
Everything is done with off-the-shelf tools.
5- Today's top AI use cases focus on growing sales or reducing costs.
Very little focus on enhancing cognition and creativity (cf. AI use cases list hereunder).
This is where AI Battle Royale has laser-focus expertise.
Because with enhanced cognition and creativity, anything is possible.
Top AI Use Cases
(Scoring: 0 = weak, 10 = strong)
What sets us apart
Amid growing dissatisfaction with early implementation trials of enterprise AI bots and agents, our offer hits the sweet spot between solution efficiency, pricing and speed to market.
Meet the Team
Ashley Recanati
General Manager
Etienne Charlier
Strategic & Technical Advisor
Nic Baron
Partner, B2B Growth
- Former LVMH Finance Controller
- Former APAC Managing Director in Chinese High-Tech space
- Author: "AI Battle Royale: How to protect your job from disruption in the 4th Industrial Revolution" (Springer, 2023)
INSEAD, Tsinghua
- Former GM and VP Alcatel Asia Pacific
- Partner RB Investment (M&A Advisory)
- Partner DIY AI
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- ​MIT Sloan School of Management
Data Science / AAN on silicon
- Former Alibaba / ANT International
- Former M&A + Strategy in global media (Disney, Universal, Vivendi...)
- Former investment banking & strategy consulting (ABN Amro, RBS...)
- Serial intrapreneur & founder
​- Mines Paris, Paris Dauphine, LBS, CEIBS