Your capability, not my retainer
Fundamentals and limits, taught plainly and from first principles. You leave able to read a claim, price a risk, and decide without me.
AI is changing what the world asks of you.Become fluent on your own terms.
Private, confidential tutelage for executives who need real command of AI — the fundamentals, the limits, and the judgment to use both. Built around you: your pace, your questions, your situation at work or in the next role you are moving towards.
The subject is everywhere. Your footing is not.
You are expected to have a view on AI, and you do not yet trust your own. Exposure is not the same as understanding.
The questions you actually want answered are the simple ones. A board meeting is not the place to ask them.
Or the next role asks for AI fluency you have not had any time or space to build — and courses teach tools, not judgment.
How the tutelage works
One person at a time. Prepared against your own work and shaped to how you learn — sessions in French or English, in person in Paris or remote.
Practice, not theory
We work on your material: your decisions, your team's pilots, your own workflows. Where useful we build something small together, so the mechanics stop being abstract.
Discreet, and independent
No commissions, no referral fees, no tools to sell. Nothing published, no names, no case studies. Notes encrypted, returned or destroyed at the end.
UNDER NDA · ONE PERSON AT A TIME · NOTHING TO UPSELL
No question is too elementary
This is the room for them. How the models actually work, where they fail, what a vendor claim omits, what a term means. Fluency, not a performance of it.
What the first conversation is for
Half an hour, under NDA on request, without obligation. One purpose: to find where you actually want to get to, and whether I am the right mentor for it.
- Define your North Star goal.A decision at work, a role you are moving towards, or simply the confidence to speak on the subject without hedging.
- Set your learning style.Mechanics from first principles, building something together, or tradeoffs and failure modes. Your preference, not a curriculum.
- Agree to a plan, or not.You get one page: what you will learn, how often we meet, and when it ends — agreed before we discuss any fee. If we don't go ahead, you still leave knowing what to ask next.
Your counterpart
Lam Paturle. Twenty years leading product and teach teams across Paris, New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin. HEC Paris. Bilingual French and English.
Then I went back to school for the machinery itself: machine learning and data science at Mines Paris PSL, data engineering at Artefact School of Data. I now build products with AI — which is why I can explain it without slides, and tell you plainly where it breaks.
What we can work on
- How the models actually work, from first principles
- Reading vendor and model claims critically
- Where AI genuinely helps your own work — and where it does not
- Speaking credibly with data scientists and engineers
- What sits under the ambition: data, MLOps, cost
- Building something small yourself, end to end
- A personal path into an AI-facing role or career
- What to learn yourself, and what to delegate
Fit
Not a good fit
- A certificate to put on a profile.
- Keynotes, cohort courses, general inspiration.
- An implementation team. I teach and advise; I do not deliver.
- Certainty. We build judgment.
A good fit
- Executives and senior leaders who want genuine command of the subject, not a summary.
- Anyone who would rather ask the elementary questions privately than not at all.
- People willing to work on their own material, not a generic case study.
- Leaders moving into an AI-facing role, or upskilling before they have to decide.
A first conversation should clarify what advisory you need — me, or someone else.
Book a conversation
Choose a time and say briefly what you want to be able to do — and what has been in the way. Three or four sentences are enough. You will hear back from me, not a team.
Your note is treated as confidential from the first word. An NDA is available before any substantive exchange. A conversation does not commit you to anything.
Or write directly: hecaton@rawdata.space
Half an hour · in French or English · no obligation