An independent firm founded in 2013, ParisNext stands at the meeting point of strategy, engineering and pedagogy. We work with executive committees on the questions raised by the irruption of artificial intelligence in their businesses: where it creates value, where it exposes them to risk, how it embeds itself in an organisation over time. Three practices, articulated case by case according to subject, calendar and the culture of the institution.
The firm intervenes alongside institutions in banking, luxury, industry and the public sector. A few of the worlds we write in.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping organisations at a pace seldom seen in the history of business. It redistributes value, displaces skills, retires some occupations, calls others into being. Two pitfalls await those who must decide: precipitation, which multiplies experiments without governance; and watchfulness, which lets the competitor take the lead. ParisNext stands for a third path : intervene with method, write before coding, measure before industrialising, transmit before leaving. This, in our view, is how an advisory firm serves the institution that has chosen it.
Before any choice of tool, a careful reading of the stakes. Market, margin, organisational model, exposure to risk, human equilibrium. Our notes belong to the durations of a committee, not the brevity of a workshop.
We architect and ship prototypes plugged into your operational reality. Security, compliance, integration with existing systems: what is measured can be transmitted, what is transmitted can be governed.
Tailored programmes for executive committees, short formats for managers, function-level workshops, communities of practice. Our success is measured the day you no longer need us.
Advisory, audit, training. Three distinct practices, articulated case by case according to subject, calendar and the maturity of the institution.
Devise an AI trajectory that fits your reading of the market, your P&L and the culture of your house.
Identify, in four weeks of immersion, the automations that unlock time, margin and quality across your operations.
Equip executives, managers and operating teams with the bearings they need to decide, supervise and use generative AI in full awareness.
Each engagement is structured around four acts. Frame, prototype, industrialise, transfer. No detached PowerPoint: every line written holds true, every deliverable proves useful.
01 Weeks 1 to 2 Immersions alongside the relevant directions, executive-committee workshops, a critical reading of the data at hand. We formalise three testable value hypotheses and the frame within which they must be settled.
02 Weeks 3 to 6 A small team brings together strategy, design, engineering and legal. We deliver a working prototype on one or two use cases, plugged into your real data, validated by your target users, measured by your steering committee.
03 Weeks 7 to 10 Target architecture, model operations, security, integration with existing systems. Measurement of the value actually delivered. Establishment of the governance and compliance framework, in liaison with your risk function.
04 Weeks 11 to 12 Training of in-house teams, drafting of operating manuals, formation of a community of practice. The firm withdraws; you keep the helm, the pace and the methodological capital.
« Paris always looks further than its own light. »
A selection of engagements led in 2024 and 2025. Illustrative cases, anonymised by convention. Figures reflect the kind of outcomes observed on missions of comparable profile.
Industry · Listed industrial group · CAC Mid 60
Design and deployment of an intelligent companion serving the four thousand two hundred field sales representatives, plugged into the commercial information system, product documentation and pricing repositories. 78% voluntary adoption at six months, no usage constraint imposed.
Luxury · Luxury maison · major group
Establishment of an in-house studio articulating generative image tooling and creative processes for the image, packaging and retail teams. Integrated IP-rights framework, oversight by the artistic direction, training of the teams.
Finance · Parisian private bank
Audit, prototype and industrialisation of an agent dedicated to KYC document review, integrated into the existing compliance workflow. Conducted in liaison with the compliance and legal functions, within the EU AI Act framework.
« We had consulted two firms before ParisNext. It is the first time our field teams use, in their daily work, what is delivered to them, and the first time the finance department recovers its bearings in the figures announced. »
« The rigour of a strategy firm, the velocity of an engineering studio. And, what is rare, a constant care for transmission: our teams never grew dependent on the firm. »
« For the first time we discuss artificial intelligence in our executive committee without the conversation collapsing into a list of keywords. ParisNext gave us the vocabulary and the heading. »
Alumni of strategy firms, AI laboratories of major houses and the innovation ecosystem. Practitioners before consultants.
Twenty years divided between strategy firms and operating leadership. Former partner of a tier-one consulting firm, then director of artificial intelligence of a listed group. Graduate of a leading business school and of Sciences Po.
Fifteen years in strategy consulting, including several as an independent board member. Specialised in AI transformation across banking, insurance and luxury. Graduate of École Polytechnique and HEC.
Designs and leads our programmes for executive committees, boards and management lines. More than four thousand executives and managers trained since 2022. Graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and Doctor in cognitive sciences.
Architect of intelligent agents and machine-learning platforms in regulated environments. Former in-house AI laboratory of a major industrial group. Engineer, graduate of École Centrale.
« An atelier, not an open-space. A cabinet, not a factory. »
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