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\n\"Antoine\n
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\nAbout \u00b7 AI Lead Product Manager<\/span>\n

Hi,<\/span>I'm Antoine.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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They trusted me.<\/p>\n

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AI talk \u2014 Connexion conference, Montreal 2026<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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AI Lead Product Manager. I turn the opportunities of artificial intelligence into products that are truly useful and adopted, from scoping to prototype.<\/p>\n

AI is often presented as a threat. Replacement, lost jobs, the end of work.<\/p>\n

I see things differently.<\/p>\n

My job, useful AI products people adopt<\/h2>

My job is to turn AI opportunities into products people actually use. Not demos that impress in a meeting and nobody uses three months later.<\/p>\n

I'm an AI Lead Product Manager with 10 years in product development, 4 of them focused on AI. I work mostly in discovery and prototyping. I look for the right problem with users, then build the prototypes myself, in Figma and Claude Code. That's how I worked on SquadBox, a conversational AI agent management product, from more than 50 user interviews to a beta with more than 200 users. Before settling in France, I worked in Montreal, Dublin and Munich.<\/p>\n

What drives my work<\/h2>

What drives me is a somewhat counterintuitive conviction. Be the fastest to slow down.<\/b> Choose to understand before executing. Aim true rather than go fast. I've seen too many budgets go up in smoke because nobody in the room dared to say \"Let's wait.\"<\/p>\n

I believe a good decision doesn't always look like what the headlines make you think. And that AI will only become a real lever the day it speaks to what truly motivates people.<\/p>\n

How I work<\/h2>

Tout commence par une phase d’\u00e9coute. Je cherche \u00e0 comprendre le m\u00e9tier, les irritants r\u00e9els, ce que les \u00e9quipes essaient d’accomplir. Ensuite seulement vient la question de l’outil. Je dialogue avec les \u00e9quipes techniques sans coder \u00e0 leur place, et j’embarque les d\u00e9cideurs jusqu’aux comit\u00e9s de direction. C’est ainsi que j’ai travaill\u00e9 avec ArcelorMittal, Elle Canada ou Astus sur leur strat\u00e9gie produit et l’adoption de l’IA. Et je n’h\u00e9site pas \u00e0 dire quand l’IA n’est pas la bonne r\u00e9ponse.<\/p>

I hold vision and implementation together, because that's often where AI projects fail.<\/p>

I go into this approach in my article on why the \"why\" has become the real expertise<\/a>, and it runs through my whole background<\/a>. In short, my job is to help choose what deserves to be built, then prototype it to check.<\/p>

You don’t need AI. Yet.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n