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About Auracio

A conviction forged by 25 years of experience.

Auracio was born from a simple observation: too many companies endure their IT instead of steering it. We believe that deliberate architecture is the best business accelerator — and that it takes both strategic vision and technical precision.

Laurent Pignol, founder of Auracio

Laurent Pignol

52 · Lyon · Telecom Engineering, Saint-Étienne 1998

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The founder

"Industrialise AI in IT, from idea to production. People and tooling augmented by AI agents, end-to-end."

25 years building software products and steering IT transformations in international settings (France, Switzerland, Singapore) — SaaS & IoT/Edge publishing, TOGAF enterprise architecture, applied AI programmes, interim management and change leadership.

Career

Four formative experiences

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Auracio

2026 →

Consulting & AI — independent practice

Founder

Founded Auracio with one conviction: today's businesses are in deep transformation — AI, scale-up, IT modernisation, regulation — and need a partner who can go from macro-strategic vision to hands-on technical implementation. 25 years of experience put to work for growing SMBs, mid-market companies and large groups in mutation.

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BeeBryte

2021 → 2026 · 5 years

Energy / IoT — 75 staff

Chief Digital Transformation Officer & Enterprise Architect · Chief Product Officer · CIO

Direct report to CEO, ExCo member. Product R&D / Ops team of 12–20 across three sites (Lyon, Rennes, Singapore). Led R&D of the SaaS IIoT Cloud/Edge/AI platform (smart buildings, digital twins, energy optimisation, predictive maintenance). TOGAF/ArchiMate enterprise architecture. Created the Atlassian, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform centres of excellence.

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Louis Dreyfus Company

2016 → 2021 · 4.5 years

Trading & agriculture — 14,000 staff

ServiceNow Solution Manager · Global Contract Manager (CIO Office)

Member of the CIO Office (700 people). Group-wide ServiceNow ITSM/ITBM/ITOM: 11,000 end users, 150 applications, worldwide CMDB with 2M+ CIs. Team across France and Bulgaria, integrator in Spain. Led the Agile@Scale & DevOps transformation programme and rationalised tooling (–50% cost).

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April Technologies

2015 → 2016 · 1.5 years

Insurance — 4,000 staff

Interim manager · Software Engineering Manager

Interim management mission on the policy administration and customer relationship domain. Introduced a PEGA BPM/CRM (Gartner Magic Quadrant leader), built a PEGA centre of excellence, ran a 30-person team plus an outsourced TMA in France/Poland, rolled out Atlassian Jira in product mode — 400 CRM agents impacted.

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Sicap (Swisscom Group)

2001 → 2014 · 13 years

Telecom SaaS publisher — 200 staff

Head of Products & Support · Head of Technical Expertise · R&D Team Coordinator

SaaS & on-premise publisher (Mobile Device Management, Mobile Messaging, Fleet Management) — 60 customers worldwide (Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom, Vimpelcom, STC, Etisalat, T-Mobile, Telefónica O2, Huawei…). Teams of up to 20 engineers in France and Switzerland, subcontracting in Russia / Romania / Poland. R&D industrialisation, datacenter on-prem → OVH Cloud migration, technology partnerships (Oberthur, RealVNC).

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ASTEK

1998 → 2001 · 2.5 years

IT services — telecom operators & utilities

Software engineer

First role out of Télécom Saint-Étienne. Application development (SMS notification engines, web interfaces, Windows applications), data-model design, specifications and testing. Fixed-price and time-and-material assignments for France Telecom, Prosodie, UNI2, EDF.

Achievements

Four arenas where I create value.

Four complementary dimensions, proven in SaaS software publishing, large enterprises and interim management.

Transformation

April Technologies — insurance

Digitised policy administration and customer relationship processes by introducing a PEGA BPM/CRM (Gartner Magic Quadrant leader). Built a PEGA centre of excellence, deployed Agile in product mode and industrialised the application maintenance — 400 CRM agents impacted.

Enterprise architecture

BeeBryte — energy / IoT

Built a full process map following TOGAF / ArchiMate principles (SixSigma approach, ISO 9001 / 27001 target) — moving from "what" (business needs) to "how" (technical building blocks). IT/OT alignment, ERP+CRM selection via RFQ and three centres of excellence (Atlassian, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform).

Scale-up

BeeBryte (energy start-up) · Sicap (SaaS publisher)

BeeBryte: built a product R&D team from scratch (Discovery → Run) across three sites (Lyon, Rennes, Singapore), on a SaaS IIoT/Edge/AI platform. Sicap: scaled from start-up stage (Swapcom) to industrialisation within Swisscom, reaching 20 engineers and 60 worldwide telecom-operator customers.

Interim management

April Technologies — insurance

18-month interim mission running a BPM/CRM transformation programme: team management (30 people + Polish TMA), outcomes-based commitments on build/run deliverables and systematic skills transfer to the in-house team before handover.

IT4IT™

The tooling I deploy to scale up.

A proven toolbox to industrialise the Software Factory and the Service Factory — from idea Discovery to service Run. Atlassian (Jira Software, Jira Product Discovery, Jira Service Management, Confluence) as the backbone, complemented case by case to fit the client context.

Discovery & framing

  • Atlassian Jira Product Discovery
  • Atlassian Confluence
  • Jira BigPicture / BigGantt

Build & quality

  • Atlassian Jira Software
  • Jira automation
  • Jira XRay (QA)
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • GitHub
  • DevOps · MLOps · GitOps

Run & Service Management

  • Atlassian Jira Service Management
  • ServiceNow
  • EasyVista
  • OpsGenie
  • Grafana
  • SolarWinds

Business apps & productivity

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Business Central · Sales · Customer Service)
  • PEGA BPM / CRM
  • Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate · Power BI · Copilot AI Studio)
  • Microsoft 365

Our sweet spot

Scaling up

Our specialty: supporting Digital Factories and SaaS Product Factories in their scale-up phase — turning initial success into a lasting organization, without losing the agility that made it work.

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Digital Factories

From project mode to product mode, without breaking what already works.

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SaaS Product Factories

Hardening the platform and addressing the enterprise market.

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Enterprises in transformation

Driving structural IT transformations.

Approach

  • · Pragmatic above all
  • · Vendor-neutral
  • · Committed to deliverables, not hours
  • · Systematic skills transfer
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