Cofounder, Dataiku
Search every verified Florian Douetteau interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. During appearances in April and June 2026, Florian Douetteau discussed Dataiku's focus on "semi-deterministic" agents for enterprise use cases such as procurement optimization, supply chain management, and marketing budget allocation. He described this category as requiring "some form of determinism" rather than open-ended exploration. Douetteau stated that Dataiku launched three new products, including an agent management tool designed to "observe and manage agent at scale," and said that many customers already run "dozens to hundreds of agents" and need to assess whether those agents are delivering business value. Douetteau argued that "creating stuff is no longer a limit" for enterprises and emphasized the importance of governance, saying "if you give power to more people, you also need to raise the stake in terms of control." He asserted that "the risk for many organization is to be left behind" if they do not transform core workflows with AI. Regarding CIOs, Douetteau described them as "stuck in between board that want AI to happen but at the same time are worried about AI risk," and said that this represents "a make or break moment" where CIOs can either lead AI transformation or be replaced by "AI first CIOs."
“I think that's in the enterprise, uh, in the market as we are in today, uh, we have to acknowledge that creating stuff is no longer a limit. That's my mindset at least. Like you can in theory if I could everything into existence. Over the weekends, you can probably if I could anything you want and have lots of fun. But...”
“My particular take for men out a couple of weeks is that even if we do all of that, in practice, the data that matters, the data products that are hidden and that matters, those shadow data products, are for instance in Excel. Do you remember Excel? You remember those like Excel with 30 tabs and maybe even some VBA in...”
“What I find interesting as a subset of agents and that we focus on in particular at Dataiku as I think we interesting and worth building is the category of agent that are semi-deterministic. Kind of like unclassified today all of those agentic categories. But in particular it's things such as procurement optimization o...”
“The formula of success for AI it's always like this trade-off between people and governance. Like, if you give power to more people, you also need to raise the stake in terms of and if they can actually orchestrate any type of things together, you're giving lots of powers to to people. So you also need to tune up the l...”
“I think that is a model of a no-one-spoke model where the business logic and all of this orchestration and understanding of the data needs to be pushed on more and more to the business teams. Because what we're talking from a future of work perspective is the fact that business teams needs to automate themselves in a n...”
“It's dystopian if the only thing we get of AI is some people being replaced and asking for a salary. It's positive if you can accelerate research, if you can make the economy actually more efficient and so on. And so you have to balance those use cases in order to get from a dystopian to utopia.”
“Society is based on the contract that people have the trust that they can have a chance of making their living. And that's why they give to the states the monopoly of violence. If you remove this trust, the monopoly of violence will not just be by the states. Meaning people will revolt.”
“The deeper meaning is that if you've got another intelligence that's human, it change the meaning of what it means to be a human because for hundreds of years we've defined humans as being in fact the person being intelligent. And that will no longer be the case.”
“The risk for many organization is to be left behind. And the reason why they need to focus on their core workflows, their core processes and transform them rapidly with AI is because if they don't do that, they will be displaced by others very rapidly.”
“CIOs are struggling with AI because they are kind of like stuck in between board that want AI to happen but at the same time are worried about AI risk and people in the business that want to purchase and get things done but also may not be uh fully aware of what are the technologies the risk or the constraints so for C...”
“Agent management in particular is a new product enabling to observe and manage agent at scale. Many of our customers already have dozens to hundreds of agents and their question is are they doing the job? Are they actually working? Do they actually derive business value? And um we are building this product to help them...”
“I'm Florian. I'm the co‑founder of theu — a collaborative platform enabling enterprises to build AI solutions. We enable teams that usually comprise a mix of data scientists and people in the business to build AI use cases on top of their structured and unstructured data.”
“I operate with the mindset that there will be way more automation through agents — automation is not new, you'll just be able to automate more things. The next step is what humans do: spend more time exercising judgment, assessing errors, and deciding what's working versus not.”
“In that world the main UX for humans is probably not the chatbot — what matters is being able to efficiently understand what the machine has done so you can exercise judgment. Efficient inspection tools to see what automation did are an underestimated need for the future.”
“We've seen the growth of citizen development: people in the business becoming owners of a process, workflow or app because they have the context and understand the data. You can't centrally build every variant for dozens of factories or teams — adaptability on the field matters.”
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