Oriane SarrouySan Francisco · Strategy & AI implementation

Strategy consultant &
startup co-founder.

Seeking an AI Deployment Strategist role in San Francisco.

I help companies enter new markets at Business France and run customer operations at ImageRestoreAI. I use AI every day to analyze customer needs, automate work and build useful tools.

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Oriane SarrouyTahiti · France · San Francisco

01 / Projects

Explore my projects by date.

Latest documented work first. Each case study explains the problem, my contribution, the implementation and the result.

Dates show when I worked on each project. Inner Circle V2 is planned for December 2026.

September 2026

Inner Circle app icon

A native birthday app

Inner Circle V1

Inner Circle V1 · Private TestFlight beta

I built and tested an iPhone birthday app.

A native app for birthday records, reminders and Calendar sync. I defined the scope, investigated a storage failure and verified that saved records survived a TestFlight update.

Two test birthdays retained after the update to build 4.

  • Product scoping
  • SwiftUI / Rork
  • Release testing
Read the Inner Circle case study

June 2026

A sales workflow inside the CRM

Odoo Lead Enrichment

Odoo + HG Insights Phoenix MCP

I built a lead enrichment and scoring workflow inside Odoo.

Three user interviews shaped a pipeline that finds target companies, enriches their data, scores their fit and sends results into the CRM sales teams already use.

Customer discovery to working demo. Follow-up feedback informed the scoring and launch controls.

  • Customer interviews
  • API integration
  • Data quality
Read the CRM case study

March–May 2026

Official ImageRestoreAI logo

AI drafts with human review

ImageRestoreAI Support Automation

ImageRestoreAI · Deployed support workflow

I automated support drafts while keeping human review.

As co-founder and COO, I turned recurring support emails into a workflow that classifies requests, gathers customer context and drafts replies for review.

50% less support time reported in my May 2026 case study.

  • Workflow discovery
  • AI orchestration
  • Human review
Read the ImageRestoreAI case study
Planned / Inner Circle V2 · December 2026

The next version will explore birthday import and cloud storage.

A web companion is planned with sign-in, selected-contact storage and an AI-assisted draft feature. Automatic Facebook birthday retrieval is still a feasibility question.

Not yet implemented

02 / About me

I’m a strategy consultant and a startup co-founder.

At Business France in San Francisco, I help French startups and scaleups develop their go-to-market strategy in North America. My work involves understanding customer needs, assessing market opportunities and connecting companies with relevant customers and partners.

Alongside consulting, I’m the co-founder and COO of ImageRestoreAI, an AI photo restoration startup. I manage customer operations and use AI every day to analyze feedback, automate recurring work and build tools that improve how we serve customers.

These two roles shape how I approach AI implementation: understand the business problem, define a useful solution, and work through the practical details that make it work for users.

Born and raised in Tahiti, French Polynesia, I studied in France before moving to San Francisco. That international background shapes how I work with people across markets and cultures.

Languages

French (native), English, Mandarin (HSK 3) and basic Spanish.

Outside work

I organize Chicken Run SF, a weekly running club that grew from 7 to 300+ members.

03 / Experience

I’ve worked with customers, business teams and technical teams.

2025–presentSan Francisco

ImageRestoreAI

Co-founder & COO · Part-time

Owned customer support and customer success for an AI photo restoration business. Built support automation and a self-service path for custom email inquiries, alongside customer upsell and outbound experiments.

2024–presentSan Francisco

Business France

Consultant in GTM Strategy · Cleantech

Advised 15+ French startups and scaleups on North American market entry. Conducted customer and ecosystem discovery, developed positioning and partner strategies, and coordinated programs involving up to 250+ curated B2B meetings.

2021–2023Paris

Accenture

Junior Strategy Consultant · Finance & Risk

Spent six months embedded with a banking client supporting an Anaplan deployment. Translated finance and IT processes into requirements and workflows, helped structure implementation priorities, and supported change management and user documentation.

2021Paris · Six-month internship

Mirova · Natixis

ESG Analyst · Non-listed assets

Analyzed six funds and built an Excel monitoring tool using VBA and macros to organize ESG tracking across 40+ private asset projects.

Experience and dates reflect my May 2026 résumé. Project case studies include their own evidence dates.

04 / Education

I studied management, economics and finance.

2020–2023

ESSEC Business School

Grande École Program
Master in Management

Exchange programs in Singapore and Morocco.

2018–2021

Paris II Panthéon-Assas

Master’s Degree in Banking and Finance

2016–2018

Lycée Turgot

Preparatory program
ENS Cachan D2

05 / Interviews & videos

I share my experience across markets and cultures.

Selected interviews, articles and video testimonials about my work, my international background and the ideas that motivate me.

Article · MerciSF · March 2026

How my Tahitian roots inform my climate work.

A profile connecting my upbringing in French Polynesia with my work supporting climate innovation in San Francisco.

Read the profile (English)

Portrait · Outremers360 · July 2025

Building a career between Tahiti and San Francisco.

An interview about international market development, creating professional connections and opportunities for overseas French talent.

Read the interview (French)

Interview · ESSEC Alumni · July 2024

Helping French cleantech companies enter the US market.

A conversation about my career, North American market opportunities and my work at Business France.

Read the interview (French)

TV interview · Polynésie la 1ère · 2025

Sharing my international career on television.

A television portrait of my work in San Francisco and my connection to French Polynesia. The two-minute clip is available in my LinkedIn post.

Watch the interview (French)

Video · Délégation de la Polynésie française · 2026

Explaining my experience working abroad.

A video testimonial about my studies and my V.I.A experience with Business France in San Francisco.

Watch the testimonial (French)

Award & video · Grand Prix V.I.E Outre-mer · 2025

Representing French Polynesia through international work.

My video testimonial, shared when I received the Grand Prix V.I.E Outre-mer award for the Pacific region.

View the award and video (French)

Links open the original publications. Videos are in French; LinkedIn may ask visitors to sign in.

Explore my LinkedIn posts

06 / How I work

I start with the workflow and test the result.

01

Identify the user’s problem.

Interview users, map the current process and decide what a useful first version must achieve.

02

Check the data and integration constraints.

Test coverage, access, costs and failure cases before committing to a solution.

03

Deploy, observe and improve.

Use feedback and operational evidence to guide the next change. Keep reported outcomes separate from future goals.

Contact

Let’s discuss your team’s deployment needs.

I’m seeking an AI Deployment Strategist role in San Francisco, where I can combine strategy consulting, customer discovery and practical AI implementation.