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Benoist De MontgrandBD

Benoist De Montgrand

AI & Automation Consultant

€400/day
Dijon, FR
0-2 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Benoist

Are you the owner of an SME and interested in AI, but lost between social media promises and dead-end demos, unsure where to start or who to trust?

I am an independent AI and automation consultant, specializing in SMEs in the construction sector.

My role:
Transform your time-consuming administrative tasks (calls for tender, regulatory consultations, subcontractor tracking, reporting) into operational tools that your teams use daily and that perform in production. Not an impressive demo, but a reliable tool adopted by your teams.

Three complementary approaches depending on your AI usage:

- AI Audit and Roadmap: mapping of your processes, identification of bottlenecks, prioritization of use cases by effort/impact ratio.
Deliverable: an action plan quantified in man-days saved.

- Design of AI agents for a business process: documentary assistants, tender analysis agents, specialized copilots. (self-hostable if your data needs to stay with you)

- Workflow automation: N8N orchestration to free your teams from repetitive tasks (reminders, reporting, document ingestion, subcontractor tracking).

What sets me apart:

- Each mission includes training for your teams and 30 days of free follow-up. You leave autonomous, not dependent on a provider.

- Real business knowledge. Before AI, I spent several years analyzing SMEs in finance at Crédit Agricole. I read a balance sheet, I think in terms of ROI and man-days.

Usual deliverables: operational N8N workflows, documentary AI agents (RAG), process audits with roadmaps, user training sessions.

My rule: deliver fast, deliver accurately, hand over the keys. If a Google Sheet can solve your problem, I won't sell you SaaS.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Dijon (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Crédit Agricole (Centre d'affaires)
    Wine Sector Client Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    September 2023 - October 2025 (2 years and 1 month)
    Beaune, France
    Financial support for wine-growing operations, merchants, and sector structures for all their needs: investment financing, treasury, succession planning, executive's asset engineering.

    On a daily basis:
    - Analysis of balance sheets and forecasts to frame financing files
    - Construction of arrangements adapted to the long cycle of the sector (stocks, vintages, climate risks)
    - Direct contact with executives: understanding the company's business model and proposing tailor-made solutions
    - Long-term follow-up of a professional client portfolio and development of long-term relationships.

    What these years have left me with: a reflex for economic analysis of SMEs (reading a balance sheet, identifying margin bottlenecks, thinking in man-hours and ROI) and a habit of prioritizing concrete results over concepts.
    Financial Analysis Strategic Consulting & Executive Support Profitability Analysis Understanding Sector Business Models Client Relations
  • Indépendant
    AI and Automation Consultant
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    October 2025 - Today (8 months)
    Dijon, France
    I help SMEs transform their time-consuming administrative tasks into operational tools (tender management, regulatory consultation, subcontractor tracking, reporting).
    The goal is not to deliver an impressive demo, but a tool that the team uses and that works in production.

    Depending on the client's maturity, I intervene in three complementary areas:

    - Diagnosis and roadmap audit of processes: mapping of bottlenecks, prioritization of use cases by effort/impact ratio. Deliverable: an action plan quantified in man-hours.
    - Design of AI agents for a business process: documentary assistants, tender analysis agents, specialized copilots. RAG, Next.js, Supabase, Claude stack (self-hostable if data must remain with the client).
    - Workflow automation: N8N orchestration to free the team from repetitive work (subcontractor tracking, reminders, reporting, document ingestion).

    Each mission includes team training on the delivered tool and 30 days of free follow-up to ensure real adoption.

    My rule: deliver fast, deliver accurately, hand over the keys. If a Google Sheet is enough, I don't sell SaaS.
    Digital Transformation AI Agent N8N Automation Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

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Education

  • MASTER ENTREPRENEUR LEADER
    IHEDREA
    2023
    MASTER DIRIGEANT
  • FINANCE
    DECENTRALIZED FINANCE, ALYRA
    2025
    FINANCE

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