Yann Rapaport

• Rakam — built the product function of an AI services company shifting to a product model. Copilot (with its Support capability) deployed in production at 3 clients in 3 months; AI Product Engineer autonomous on product management.
• Legacy software vendor (~25 years old) — installed a product function where a maintenance model prevailed. One-year strategic vision, first now-next-later roadmap and target organization defined; first qualified PM being recruited.
• Large French e-commerce player (~80 product people) — 2-day AI maturity diagnosis, then 3 weeks supporting the Early Adopters: 3 use cases scoped as MVPs, each carried by a trio, ready to deploy.
• Sonaid (deep tech, critical sound detection) — one-week strategy workshop that triggered a pivot from a software + hardware model to pure software and a redesign of internal processes.
• CyGO Entrepreneurs (cyber venture studio) — discovery of a new product opportunity: 40+ interviews conducted, leading to a go on the Glev.ai project; product coaching of the CEO and CTO.
• Savings fintech — coaching a product lead installed as Lead PM: he now leads a team of 3 PMs with clearly established product/tech governance.

Exploring concrete AI use cases for product teams, spreading best practices within the community — aidiscipline.com.

• Network product organization built from zero; first PM of Virtual Private Cloud.
• Product team scaled to 8 PMs hired, trained and coached to autonomy through hyper-growth (230→500+ employees).
• 10 IaaS products managed (dedicated servers, VMs, GPU, networking, storage), 5 launched in 2022 — ~€80M ARR, 80% of company revenue.
• Strategy and international expansion (France, Netherlands, Poland) driven with the C-suite.

• Product function and portfolio built from zero, moving from a services model to packaged products for new markets (tier-2 operators, enterprises).
• 3 products launched in 6 months: Turbo Router, Turbo IPsec, Virtual Accelerator — €1M in new revenue within 18 months.
• Sales and marketing teams enabled internationally (US, Europe, APAC); vision and roadmap carried up to CEO and CTO.

From software engineer to first Product Manager. Led development teams in France and Vietnam, pre-sales support in the US, then worldwide support on returning to France (2→9 engineers across 3 continents). Delivery and testing frameworks still in use today.