Lyon, France — on-site in France, remote anywhere
I automate your company’s processes with AI.
Freelance Forward Deployed Engineer: I work close to the ground, find the tasks that eat your hours, and deliver the automation that does them for you — inside your tools, not in a demo.
01 — OFFER
The repetitive work everyone does “until we find something better”. AI reads, sorts, drafts and fills in; a person signs off on what matters.
Reporting
Figures pulled, cross-checked, commented and sent on their own — instead of a day of copy-paste into a spreadsheet.
Sales
Every inbound request qualified, enriched and filed in the CRM; follow-ups go out at the right time, written for the person.
Documents
PDFs and emails read, the data entered in the ERP, discrepancies flagged. No more retyping.
Content
One piece of content turned into every format and language, scheduled and measured — the system I run for my own channels.
Support
An assistant that answers from your documents, procedures and history, and shows the source of every answer.
Internal tools
The app your team actually needs — from a small tool to a full ERP, like the one I built at Artixium — connected to your data and the tools you already use.
02 — METHOD
The FDE model, as an independent: I go where the work happens, learn the business, deliver until it runs — then hand you the keys.
01
one to two weeks
I spend time with the people who do the work. We put a number on the hours lost and pick the process where the gain is clear and measurable.
02
a few weeks
I build inside your tools — Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, your CRM, your ERP — with guard rails: every step checkable, a person signs off on what matters.
03
and hand-over
It runs in production, measured in hours saved. Your people know how to use it and change it; the documentation is delivered. The engagement ends there — or carries on, if you want it to.
Fourteen years at Artixium, an LED display manufacturer: from the brand identity to Marketing Director, and the company’s whole information system, which I built — ERP, customer portal, stock apps. I know where the hours go.
Diagnosis, code, data, interface, deployment: one person, not a chain of contractors passing the problem around.
My own tool showed a 188% return; checked against history it was 22.8%. I measure before I promise, and I say so when the gain is not there.
03 — PROOF
Systems that run every day for my own businesses. Nothing theoretical.
Information system — manufacturing
At Artixium I designed and built, alone, the tools the company runs on every day:
Control room — AI
The private dashboard that runs my businesses, built alone.
Product — Web & mobile
A road-trip and wild-camping planner, website and phone app, in English, French and German — designed, coded and launched alone.
ExpoWingsProduct — Trade shows
Trade-show planning for European exhibitors: booth rosters, crew, travel and hotels, logistics, budget and leads. Born from fourteen years of trade shows; preparing for launch.
expowings.com
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Product — Estate & shop
A Portuguese olive-oil and honey estate, and its online shop.
04 — CAREER
My relationship with LED manufacturer Artixium Display began in Shenzhen, designing the company’s original identity as a freelancer. I returned in 2018 to build its marketing, ran it as Marketing Director from 2020 — building the company’s whole information system along the way — and went back to freelancing in 2026.
Lyon
Automation engagements for companies; alongside, my own products: EdgeDesk, downtocamp, ExpoWings, Amo-Te and Apisolea.
Lyon · LED displays
Global brand, trade shows and campaigns. The information system, designed and built: ERP (serial-number and stock traceability, support, RMA), customer portal, website, tablet app and Zebra kiosk. 2025: the Circus Knie LED stage floor, a world first — 83 m², 332 cabinets. 2026: ISE Barcelona, then the hand-over.
Lyon
Building the marketing function from the inside.
Artsika, the independent musicians’ network — a platform built end to end, now being rebuilt: artsika.com.
Shenzhen · freelance
The identity system — mark, print, web — the brand still uses.
Shanghai
Co-founder of Intransikbeats Records and owner of Iron Shirt Recordings: 28 releases, a residency. The whole story →
05 — CONTACT
Describe it in a few lines. I reply personally with a first read: doable or not, and where to start.
Lyon, France — on-site in France, remote anywhere else.
A first 30-minute call, no commitment, to see whether automation is worth it for you.
Emailcontact@stevenlorenz.com LinkedInsteven-lorenz →