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The firm

Four signatures.

Alumni of strategy firms, AI laboratories of major houses and the innovation ecosystem. Practitioners before consultants.

The firm

Four signatures.

Alumni of strategy firms, AI laboratories of major houses and the innovation ecosystem. Practitioners before consultants.

Nicolas Vallon
Nicolas Vallon
Founder · Strategy
nicolas@parisnext.com
01

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.

Sophie Marchand
Sophie Marchand
Partner · Advisory to executive committees
sophie@parisnext.com
02

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.

Alice Théron
Alice Théron
Director · Training and literacy
alice@parisnext.com
03

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.

Étienne Roussel
Étienne Roussel
Director · Engineering and platform
etienne@parisnext.com
04

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.

Manifesto

Think. Build. Transmit.

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.

01 · Think

AI treated as a board-level subject.

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.

02 · Build

Engineering in the service of meaning.

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.

03 · Transmit

Your teams remain at the helm.

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.

Voices

A few words received.

« 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. »
Élise Maréchal-Vallat
Chief Transformation Officer, listed industrial group
« 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. »
Hadrien de Saint-Loup
Chief Data Officer, private bank
« 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. »
Margot Lebrun-Aubray
Deputy CEO, luxury maison
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