AI Lab.
At first, tools built for my own practice.
For years, I tinkered with my utilities at the bench, for my own use. They are now online, free, under the Free Sourcing Tools name.
With AI, no more friction between the idea and the prototype. The workshop becomes my AI Lab. What passes the tests leaves the lab. The rest stays in.
Free Sourcing Tools.
Before 2020, I tinkered with my sourcing utilities at the bench, for my own use. Scripts, extensions, Boolean cheat-sheets. To save five minutes here, unblock a tricky case there.
First lockdown, spring 2020. I was chatting online with Pierre André Fortin (founder of Anara, a sourcer like me). Half-seriously, we said:
« If there is a second lockdown, we put up a site. A real one. With free tools. By sourcers, for sourcers. »
The second lockdown came. So did the site.
Freesourcingtools.com is still alive, five years later. Sixteen tools online, co-signed with Pierre André. Free, no login, no tracker. We pay for hosting ourselves, and we are fine with that.
LinkedZen
Tired of an algorithm-pushed LinkedIn feed saturated with influencers? In one click, see only posts from your 1st-degree network, in chronological order. As simple as a 2008 Facebook feed.
Try LinkedZen ↗LinkedIn X-Ray Search Generator
The classic. Builds the Google query that surfaces LinkedIn profiles hidden behind the wall.
Open the tool ↗Boolean Search Enhancer
A Boolean query in, synonyms and alternative phrasings out. Already model-backed, the first AI brick of the toolbox.
Open the tool ↗Names to Arxiv
To go after profiles LinkedIn does not have, especially deep-tech researchers. A list of names in, their papers out.
Open the tool ↗What changed is not AI.
It is the time between the idea and the working prototype.
Before, I had a list of tools I could not build. Today, I build them. There is simply no technical friction left between what I would like to build and what I build.
AI does not replace twenty years of practice: it makes them executable. What comes out of here will have gone through the lab bench. Tested under real conditions, on live missions, on cases I know.
One nuance, however. Free Sourcing Tools will remain free, by sourcers for sourcers. What comes out of the AI Lab, on the other hand, will be paid. One-time purchase, no subscription.
One requirement in both cases: what helps in daily practice, not what looks good in a demo.
Two tools in progress.
Neither the name, nor the date. The direction, yes.
For those tired of copy-pasted LinkedIn templates.
Chrome extension for recruiters and sourcers. It writes personalised outreach messages that do not look like the thousand others received the same week.
Specifics: everything runs locally, on your machine. No candidate profile sent to the cloud, no prompt leaving for a third-party vendor. One-time purchase, no subscription.
On sale directly from this page on launch day.
Because a Swiss SME does not have the same needs as a Silicon Valley scale-up.
HR toolbox for the people teams of Swiss small and mid-sized companies. With a strong bias: anchored in Swiss labour law, local practice, the reality of collective agreements (CCT). Not a generic product repackaged in French.
One-time purchase, no subscription. On sale directly from this page on launch day.
The AI Lab standard.
Three principles for what enters the workshop, and what leaves it.
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Expertise.
Twenty years of craft in the background. Features are chosen by what actually helps a sourcer or an HR practitioner on a daily basis, not by what looks good in a demo.
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Precision.
What leaves the AI Lab has been tested under real conditions, on live missions. Failed trials stay at the bench.
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Responsible AI.
Local processing where possible. Privacy by default. The minimum amount of data leaving your machine.
Be notified the day the first tool ships.
One line in your inbox, on launch day. No newsletter, no follow-up sequence, no sales funnel.