CRM architect and fractional Head of AI.
Fifteen years architecting CRM systems on Salesforce, Pipedrive and HubSpot, measured by what they change on the P&L. Now I put AI agents to work inside them, so your team does more with the people it already has. Contract or fractional, fully remote.
Quickly became a reference, the go-to guy of the team for tricky configurations and challenging requirements. Very technical in his approach, yet also comfortable and successful in his interactions with clients.
What the work changes
- Revenue up
- Faster quote to cash, a pipeline people trust, reporting that holds up in diligence.
- Costs down
- Licences right-sized, SaaS nobody uses retired, technical debt paid off before it compounds.
- More from the same team
- Automation and AI agents take the repetitive work. Your people stay and do the part that needs them.
Featured projects
Payments fintech
Paris, France
€70M
acquisition, 2023. The buyer named the CRM as a factor.
Salesforce architect2021 to 2022
Claims company
Arizona, USA
$100M → $200M
client revenue during the programme. Lead architect on a $1M programme.
Lead architect2020 to 2022
Email-security software company
Virginia, USA
2 months → 1 week
to ship a small change, once years of automation debt were cleared in under four months.
Solution architect and project lead2021 to 2022
Global telecom
Asia, Europe, North America
1,300+
Salesforce licences on one multi-cloud org, run in the end by a team of two. Brought back three times.
Solutions architect, then team lead2017 to 2021
Healthcare training and recruiting
Aix-en-Provence, France
€0 → €800k
annual revenue in under three years. Acting COO, part-time.
Acting COO, AI lead2023 to 2026
Two jobs, one contractor
CRM architect
I design the system, build it, and tie it to a number: revenue it unlocks or cost it removes. Most of my work starts with a CRM that grew without a plan, or two CRMs after a merger.
- Implementations and rebuilds, Salesforce first
- Merging orgs after an acquisition
- Integrations with ERP, accounting, payroll and portals
- Licence and SaaS audits: the right edition, fewer tools
- Data quality, sharing models, technical debt
- Coaching in-house admins so the work outlives the contract
Fractional Head of AI
I lead AI adoption the way an operator would: tied to the P&L, measured, and built by people who stay after I leave.
- Assessment: where AI saves time or money in your business
- Claude agents and MCP servers connected to your tools
- Training your developers and teams on real work
- Automation estates audited, cleaned and owned
- A monthly report on what changed
I treat your budget like it's my own.
Because I've been the owner, not only the consultant. I've run my own company since 2015, built and sold online businesses, and I hold the operating seat at a client I helped grow from zero to nearly €800k a year. I also invest in startups, as an angel today and as a VC analyst before that. I know what a late launch, an unused licence or a tool nobody adopts really costs.
- I size the work to the outcome, not to the hours.
- I tell you what not to build.
- I leave your team able to run it without me.
How engagements work
- Format
- Contract or fractional, about 20 to 25 hours a week
- Where
- Remote from eastern Canada. I work across every North American time zone, Pacific to Atlantic, and Central European time when needed. On-site weeks when the work calls for them.
- Languages
- English, French, Italian
- Credentials
- Nine Salesforce certifications, including Data Architect, Sharing and Visibility Architect, and two Agentforce consultant certifications
- In production
- Four MCP servers on Cloudflare Workers (Pipedrive, Pennylane, Jarvi, Rise Up) and 160+ Claude Code skills
- Company
- 9885951 Canada Inc., trading as Oak & Whitestone since 2015
Start a project
Tell me what's in the way. I reply within two working days, usually with a few questions and a time to talk.