AI Strategy, Organisational Development & Product Transformation
Founder and CEO of VAI in Tahiti, the company behind Anoe and VAI Studio. Alongside it, I help leaders and teams bring AI into their work, reshape how they are organised, and build products people want to use.
I studied engineering. Since 2016 I have built products and the organisations around them: product owner at innogy, product lead at ucm.agency, agile coach and in-house consultant at the Otto Group, transformation lead at the MYTOYS Group. In 2025 I founded VAI in Tahiti.
I believe technology, and AI in particular, should make work more meaningful, not only faster. And that a business can do well and do good at the same time.
Core Focus Areas
AI Strategy & Implementation
Finding the few AI use cases that pay off, then building them: workflow automation, smarter handling of documents and data, and a roadmap your team can carry.
Organisational Development
Restructuring leadership, guiding cultural change and setting up product organisations with clear roles and end-to-end responsibility.
Leadership & Team Enablement
Coaching product leaders and teams through change, from strategy and OKRs to hiring, until they no longer need me.
Product Transformation
Turning IT departments into product organisations, and bringing AI into the product lifecycle where it serves the people who use it.
What AI automation looks like
Pick an everyday process and switch between before and after. This is the kind of work I build with teams, and teach in my AI training.
Incoming enquiries by email
A shared inbox where enquiries arrive every day.
Before
- By hand Someone opens every message in the shared inbox.
- By hand The same person decides what it is about and who should answer.
- By hand Each reply is written from scratch, often the same answer again.
- By hand Follow-up depends on someone remembering.
After
- Automated Each new message is read and sorted by topic and urgency.
- Automated It goes to the right person, with the earlier conversation beside it.
- Automated A draft reply is prepared from your own answers and documents.
- By hand That person checks the draft, edits it and sends it.
- Automated If an enquiry waits too long, the team gets a reminder.
What stays human: Tone, judgement and anything sensitive. No reply leaves without a person sending it.
From meeting notes to actions
A weekly team meeting where decisions are made and tasks are agreed.
Before
- By hand Someone takes notes while trying to take part.
- By hand After the meeting the notes are tidied up, or they are not.
- By hand Tasks are copied into the task tool one by one.
- By hand Someone chases the owners before the next meeting.
After
- Automated With everyone’s agreement, the meeting is transcribed.
- Automated A short summary lists decisions, open questions and tasks with their owners.
- By hand The person leading the meeting checks the summary and corrects it.
- Automated Confirmed tasks go into your task tool, with owner and due date.
- Automated Owners get a reminder before the due date.
What stays human: Deciding what was really agreed, and who owns it.
Screening applications
Based on a prototype I built for HR and recruitment: document analysis, candidate matching and automated communication.
Before
- By hand Each CV and cover letter is read in full, one by one.
- By hand Profiles are compared with the role from memory or in a spreadsheet.
- By hand Every candidate should hear back: received, invited or declined. The answer often comes late.
- By hand The shortlist is discussed and interviews are arranged.
After
- Automated CVs and documents are read, and the key information is put into one format.
- Automated Each profile is matched against the criteria the team set for the role, with the reasons shown.
- By hand The recruiter reviews the matches and decides who moves on.
- Automated Once the decision is made, candidates get a confirmation, an invitation or an answer, in the team’s own tone.
- By hand Interviews and the final decision.
What stays human: Every decision about a person. The automation prepares and explains, people decide.
Illustrative examples. The automation works inside the tools your team already uses: your email, your task tool, your documents.
An engineer's view of technology, years inside product organisations, and a company of my own: I help you use AI where it pays off, and build teams that carry the change themselves.
What I am building
In March 2025 I founded VAI in Tahiti. VAI builds the shared digital infrastructure of the Fenua: Anoe, the app for the Islands of Tahiti on iOS and Android, with over 17,000 places on Anoe Maps, and Anoe Connect, where local businesses run their offers, calendar and bookings. Its service branch, VAI Studio, builds websites, booking systems and AI automation for businesses in the islands.
I designed and built the platform myself. It is where I test what I advise: product decisions, AI used where it helps, and a small organisation with clear roles.
Institutional partners: Tahiti Tourisme, the Commune de Moorea and the Service du Tourisme.
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