I'm Jean-Marc. Leading Applied AI at idealworks, I convince robots to cooperate at scale, in real factories, and sometimes against their better judgment.

How hard can it be? What could possibly go wrong?

I write about what works, what doesn't, and why. I talk about it too.

"We do not 'compete' in these activities but rather we 'seek the way and study it' devotedly."

— Ōno Taiichi, Toyota Production System (1978)