L'Atelier
AI / Operations

Buying AI is easy.
Getting faster isn’t.

Redesigning work for what AI can do now.

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The problem01 / 07

Almost everyone has AI now. Almost nobody is faster.

Each person gets faster at their own step. The work still waits at the handoffs, approvals and decisions between them. Speed up nine steps out of ten and you still wait at the tenth.

Nine steps sped up, the tenth still waiting

Automating the work is not enough. You have to remove the waiting.

The process02 / 07

Your process was built for people.

Every step exists because someone once had to do it by hand. Automate it as it stands and you get the same shape, slightly quicker. The redesign starts from what the work has to deliver, then asks:

  • 01What still needs a person?
  • 02What can the system do?
  • 03What no longer needs to exist at all?
Same goal, different division of labour

The cost is agreement, not technology.

The shift03 / 07

What AI can do now is not what you were sold two years ago.

The first wave sat beside the work, in a chat window. The new generation operates inside the workflow.

CONNECT
01  Connect

It works inside the systems you already run.

ACT
02  Act

It takes several steps in sequence, without being prompted through each.

STOP
03  Stop

It can be told what it must not decide alone.

The technology changed. Most processes didn’t.

Impact04 / 07

Capacity appears when work stops waiting.

Remove all the manual steps and the work no longer needs a person to move it. It stops waiting.

No wait
The work moves without a person moving it.
No ceiling
Twice the volume is not twice the team.
Fewer handoffs
Fewer teams pass work to one another.
Fewer layers
Nobody is hired to manage the agents.

AI does the work. Your people keep the judgement, and someone still answers for it.

Sequence05 / 07

“Our systems aren’t ready” is true. It isn’t a reason to wait.

The list of things to fix first is real. It is also permanent. Wait for it and you never start.

Readiness is not one thing. One workflow needs clean records; another needs only an inbox. And a model can help repair the foundation, turning emails and notes into the record the next step needs.

A model writing the structured record

Find the smallest fix that unlocks the most.

How06 / 07

One workflow. One constraint. One thing running.

01
Two hours, free

We map one workflow properly. You keep the map.

02
A week

I find where the work stops. Go or no-go, and a fixed price.

03
The build

The first working version, handed to your team. You own it.

After thatI stay if you want me to. Nothing ongoing is priced before the first build works.

The person you meet is the person who builds it.

Why me07 / 07

I redesign work first. Then I use technology.

Laurent Tironi
18 YEARS
redesigning how companies work
9 YEARS
in data and AI
ETIHAD RAIL
built the Data & Analytics function
BLACK BELT
Lean Six Sigma

One person, three clients at a time. Nothing else is on the invoice.

Bring me one process that hurts.

Start a conversationlaurent@latelier.build