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Simon Lakhlef

AI Strategy Consultant | ROI & Industrialization

€550/day
Marseille, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Simon

🚀 Are your AI projects stuck, remaining at the POC stage, or failing to generate measurable ROI?

💰 I step in to transform AI projects into results: cost reduction, risk management, performance improvement.

I help industrial companies, banks, insurers, and digital players turn their data into AI solutions deployed in production, with a concrete impact on performance and risks.

I act as a lead/referent on high-stakes projects, working directly with decision-makers.

🎯 My goal: deliver useful, used, and profitable systems—not prototypes.

💡 What I do concretely
  • Identify AI use cases with high ROI and eliminate projects without value
  • Frame realistic and prioritized data/AI projects
  • Manage end-to-end delivery (business, tech, data)
  • Industrialize MVPs into robust and scalable solutions
  • Monitor real-world performance: models, usage, business impact

🏭 Examples of achievements
  • Risk prediction models (fire, industrial) used in production
  • AI/IoT SaaS platform deployed in complex environments
  • Structuring and leveraging +80 data sources (IoT, geospatial, business systems)
  • Process automation via NLP, computer vision, and AI agents
  • Production deployment of critical solutions (industry, insurance, public sector)

⚙️ My areas of intervention

I intervene when:
  • an AI project is unclear, poorly framed, or lacks clear ROI
  • a POC needs to go into production but is blocked
  • business and technical teams are not aligned
  • complex data needs to be leveraged quickly

🧠 My positioning

A hybrid business/tech/product profile, with CEO/CTO experience:

👉 Understand a complex business challenge
👉 Identify a concrete opportunity through data
👉 Deliver a solution truly used in the field

With a constant requirement: measurable impact and real production deployment.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Marseille (up to 50km), Aix-en-Provence (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Montpellier (up to 50km), Strasbourg (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Weewio SAS
    🏗️ President & Technical Director
    TECH
    January 2018 - January 2026 (8 years)
    Strasbourg, France
    Creation and leadership of Weewio, a deeptech startup developing a SaaS platform combining AI, IoT, and geospatial data for industrial and environmental risk management.

    👉 Objective: transform complex data (IoT, field, open data, industrial systems) into high-impact operational decisions (risk reduction, performance improvement).

    🚀 AI & Product Management
    • Framing and defining AI use cases with high ROI: risk prediction, fire detection, site scoring
    • Design of ML, NLP, and computer vision models
    • Structuring multi-source data pipelines (80+ sources: IoT, geospatial, public data, client systems)
    • SaaS architecture choices: cloud/on-premise, APIs, microservices, LLMs

    ⚙️ Delivery & Industrialization
    • Development and production deployment of MVPs (full product cycle)
    • Industrialization of AI solutions (CI/CD, Docker, monitoring)
    • Model performance monitoring (accuracy, drift, business ROI)
    • Deployment in critical environments (industry, insurance, public sector)

    👥 Management & Coordination
    • Management of a team of 10+ people (data, dev, UX, business)
    • Multi-stakeholder coordination (clients, partners, technical teams)
    • Agile organization (Scrum: backlog, sprints, prioritization)
    • Direct interface with decision-makers and business management

    🔥 Key Achievements
    • Fire risk prediction model based on field and scientific data
    • Digital twins of industrial sites (dynamic risk mapping)
    • NLP system for extracting and structuring heterogeneous data
    • Process automation via computer vision and AI agents
    • Platform used for multi-site industrial risk analysis

    💡 Positioning

    Complete CEO/CTO experience focused on product and impact:
    👉 from strategic framing to production deployment
    👉 from business need to operational solution
    👉 with an obsession for ROI and real-world usage
    MVP Creation IT Strategy Data & AI Strategy Artificial Intelligence Complex Project Management

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Education

  • Engineering Degree
    Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)
    Titre d'ingénieur, Grande école d'ingénieurs, Spécialisation Mécatronique (Mécanique, Electronique, Programmation, Robotique)
  • University Diploma for Student Entrepreneurs
    University of Strasbourg, Faculty of Economics and Management

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