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Benoit Vagost

AI Consultant & Process Optimization

€1,100/day
Grenoble, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Benoit

Former executive and transition manager, I support industrial, technical, and operational companies in the practical integration of AI, automation, and process digitalization.

My approach is primarily based on analyzing business flows, operations, and organizations, with a simple goal: to durably improve performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Specializing in process optimization, custom business applications, planning, inventory management, shop floor flows, ERPs, industrial environments, and production-related systems (including CNC machines), I address field issues and real operational challenges.

I also integrate quality, traceability, standardization, and process compliance dimensions (ISO, operational monitoring, reporting, steering).

My interventions cover:
. AI transformation plan,
• workflow and process automation,
• generative AI and AI agents,
• business applications,
• operational flow optimization,
• steering and reporting,
• organizational structuring,
• operations digitalization.

I favor a pragmatic and structuring approach: no stacking of tools or AI gadgets, but solutions integrated into business realities, designed to be used, maintained, and to create lasting value.

Objective: to transform AI and automation into concrete levers for performance, productivity, and operational mastery.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Grenoble (up to 50km), Annecy (up to 50km), Gap (up to 50km), Oyonnax (up to 50km), Montélimar (up to 50km)

Experience

  • LASER TECHNIC
    Site Director
    MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
    July 2025 - December 2025 (5 months)
    Crolles, France
    Urgent replacement of executive post-acquisition (12 employees, metallurgy).
    Managerial stabilization, reorganization, ISO 9001 certification, deployment of operational dashboards.

    Mission carried out in parallel with the development of my automation tools — the ISO 9001 obtained here directly feeds my quality gap analysis agent.
    ISO 9001 Team Management Operational Excellence Post-Acquisition Integration Operational Management
  • ACOUSTEAM
    Deputy General Manager
    RAW MATERIALS INDUSTRY
    September 2024 - April 2025 (7 months)
    Rhône, France
    Post-acquisition transition management in an industrial SME integrated into a construction group.

    Production restructuring, deployment of planning and monitoring tools, pivot of the business model (sale → rental).

    First deployment of automation on documentary flows and financial monitoring in this context.
    Restructuring Cash Management Business Model Transformation Post-Acquisition Integration Operational Management
  • MGC - Metal Global Concept
    Operations Director
    MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
    November 2020 - May 2024 (3 years and 6 months)
    Le Versoud, France
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    SME with 60 employees (€2.4M turnover) in sheet metal and surface treatment, in difficulty after acquisition.
    Full recovery mission.

    Operational restructuring, clarification of roles, implementation of KPIs extracted from the ERP, obtaining and maintaining quality certifications (aerospace, medical), recovery of turnover and margins, sale at break-even.

    It was during this mission that I realized that most of the time lost — unproductive meetings, re-keying data, manual tracking — was automatable. This is the origin of my specialization in AI agents for industrial SMEs.
    Restructuring Lean Management ISO 9001 Performance Management Operational Management

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