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Sylvain Ramousse
Straight talk. Better decisions.

I make AI real
in products,
and in orgs.

Twenty years of shipping. Three companies founded. Fifty agents in production at Brevo. I come in, set the bets, reshape the operating model, and stay until AI delivers measurable ROI — advisory, fractional, or full-time C-Level for the right project.

Companies & communities I've built with
How I help

Strategy. Vision.
Execution. Impact.

Most AI programs fail because they skip one of three layers. I work across all of them — and stay until AI delivers measurable results.

See it in practice

Strategic Clarity

Decide where AI actually moves the P&L. Ruthless prioritization of the 2–3 bets that change the curve — and the 20 that won't.

AI-Native Product

Redesign the product so agents do the work and humans make the decisions. A vision sales can sell and customers feel in week one.

AI for Performance

Use AI where it creates real, measurable value. Evals, guardrails and a release cadence so week-one agents are normal, not heroic.

Execution & Results

Rewire the org so AI ships weekly, not quarterly. Operating model, the PM/Eng/Data triangle, accountability. The muscle, not the deck.

Work

Problems I get pulled in to solve.

For the CEO

"We have 40 AI ideas and no conviction on which three matter."

I come in for 2–4 weeks, rip through the portfolio with your leads, and hand back a board-ready bet list with P&L math, owners, and a kill-list.

For the founder

"Our product shipped in 2019. What does AI-native even look like for us?"

A compressed design sprint to reshape the product around agents — narrative, key flows, data contracts, the feature that makes the old one obsolete.

For the CPO / CTO

"PMs want to ship AI. Nothing ships. Legal, data and infra are blocking everything."

Operating-model work. Redraw the PM/Eng/Data/Legal swim lanes, set evals and guardrails, rebuild the release process so week-one agents are normal.

For the board

"We need someone who has done this — at real scale — in the boardroom."

Board observer or advisory seat. 20 years of operator scars, three startups co-founded, 50+ agents in production, €200M ARR scaled.

For the scaleup

"We want an AI Lab but every blueprint online is a LinkedIn carousel."

I built one at Brevo from zero. I'll help you scope it, staff it, wire it into the org, and ship the first three agents in 90 days.

For the investor

"Is this team's AI story real or a slide?"

Diligence on portfolio companies' AI claims — product, org, data, retention. What's durable, what's demo-ware, what to push them on next board.

Case · 2022 — 2026

Brevo — an AI Lab from zero, 50+ agents in production.

Four years. Two mandates. One org that now ships AI as its default mode.

Joined as VP Product in 2022. Scaled the organization from 8 to 25 PMs, rewrote the operating model, and drove the platform from €70M to €200M ARR through SMB marketing automation.

In late 2024, stepped into the VP of AI mandate. Stood up the AI Lab from scratch, set the Agentic AI strategy across every product line, and shipped AI-native features to 500k+ SMB & Mid Market users.

Closed the chapter in early 2026: 50+ AI agents in production, a repeatable idea-to-deployed-agent process in under 30 days, and a team that doesn't need to be convinced AI is the work — it is the work.

€70→200M
ARR scaled, 2022–2024
8 → 25
PMs grown & structured
50+
AI agents in production
≤ 30d
Idea → deployed agent
Experience

20+ years at the intersection of strategy, leadership & technology.

Journey
  • 2026 — Now
    Chief Product/Tech/AI Officer · Independent
    Hands-on operator. Helping CEOs and founders make AI real — strategy, vision, execution.
  • 2024 — 2026
    VP of AI · Brevo
    Built the AI Lab from zero. 50+ agents deployed, AI-native features to 500k+ users.
  • 2022 — 2025
    VP Product · Brevo
    Scaled product org 8 → 25 PMs. €70M → €200M ARR.
  • 2019 — 2021
    Founder & CEO · RYSE.vc
    Investment management platform for startups. 0→1 product, seed raised.
  • 2015 — 2019
    CPO · Wizaplace
    Led product for marketplace SaaS. Built the PM practice from scratch.
  • 2011 — 2015
    Co-founder & CTO · Batch.com
    Mobile engagement platform. SDK + notification infra serving millions.
  • 2009 — 2015
    Co-founder & CTO · AppGratis
    Mobile app discovery, 20M+ users. Led technical strategy.
By the numbers
20+
years shipping product & tech
companies co-founded
50+
AI agents put in production
Global
based in Lyon · FR · EN
Insights

On stage & on record.

Signal

Patents, boards & community.

Patents
Optimisation temporelle d'envoi de notifications
FR1350898 · 2015 · INPI ↗
Community
Founding Member
TPC Leaders
2026 — present
Advisory Board
French Tech One · Lyon St-Étienne
2021 — 2023
Member
FrenchCPO
2021 — present
Investor
Team for the Planet
2020 — present

Let's have a real conversation.

If you're facing a tough AI or product call, I can probably help.

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  • Just clarity on your situation
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