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Independent software architect
Jean-Francis Ochs.
I connect business needs, software and data to build tools that last.
For more than twenty-five years, I have designed, modernised and connected business applications with the same requirement: understand before building.
Software architectureBusiness applicationsIntegration and APIsAutomation and practical AI
Expertise
I combine business understanding with technical expertise to design, modernise and evolve useful applications.
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Business applications, ERP and CRM
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Integration, data and APIs
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Automation and practical AI
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Scoping, technical leadership and handover
Products
Tools designed around real business problems.
Some recurring, structured needs deserve to become products that remain useful over time.
Online
SaaS application / business analysis assistant
Léopold
A multi-company business analysis assistant designed to scope, structure and hand over business projects.
Léopold helps teams formalise requirements, organise discussions, preserve project context and improve handovers between stakeholders.
In partnership with Louis Planquart
SaaSBusiness analysisMulti-companyProduct designBusiness scoping
Discover Léopold Blog
Ideas to challenge, not certainties to repeat.
Software architecture, business projects, automation and artificial intelligence: I write about what real-world experience forces us to reconsider.
6 min read
Has AI Already Entered Young People’s Lives?
At 19, Emma already uses AI as a reflex to understand, search, and go deeper. But not necessarily to do the work for her. A three-way discussion about a generation that may already have a different relationship with AI than its parents do.
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5 min read
Why Léopold?
Can you really trust an AI to frame an IT project? With Léopold, the goal is not to think for us, but to surface the questions we would have preferred not to forget.
#artificial intelligence#Léopold#requirements document
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5 min read
Why Do We Love Creating Pointless Things?
Sometimes we start a project without knowing whether it will really be useful. Yet these experiments help us learn, discover new technologies, and can end up being surprisingly useful.
#Software development#Experimentation#Creativity
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About
A career, a vision and a way of working.
“The best solution is not necessarily the most complex one.”
I am still driven by the same curiosity: understanding how a system works, why it sometimes begins to hinder its users, and how to restore its coherence.
My career has taken me from development to architecture, then consulting and product creation, without losing my taste for practical work or direct collaboration with teams.
Contact
Let's discuss your situation.
A first message is enough: describe the problem, the tools involved and what you want to improve. If the need is still unclear, we will start by clarifying it.