Technical operating partner
Part-time CTO/COO support for startups, funds, and family offices moving from scattered spreadsheets and disconnected tools to reliable AI-ready operations.
Bring one messy workflow, CRM, spreadsheet, or investment process.
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Who I work with
Two ways LuminOps plugs in: senior operating support for founders, and technical operating partner support for investors.
For teams where operations still depend on Excel, Notion, ad-hoc CRMs, and manual handoffs. I help turn the recurring mess into a working data layer, practical automation, and internal tools people actually use.
Part-time CTO/COO support when you need senior technical execution without hiring a full team.
For investment teams and principals who need better sourcing, screening, memo production, and portfolio oversight. I build the operating layer between public data, internal judgment, and repeatable deal workflows.
Technical operating partner support for funds and holding structures that need leverage across the portfolio.
Map the messy workflow, decide what should stay human, then design the data, tools, automations, and review points that make the process repeatable.
Turn a vague AI or automation ambition into a practical first build: workflow audit, data readiness, tool choices, risks, and implementation roadmap.
Reliable workflow plumbing between CRM, email, documents, finance tools, public data sources, and internal databases. Built with audit trails and failure handling.
Schemas, pipelines, and CRMs structured around how the team actually works. Airtable, HubSpot, Postgres, or custom systems chosen for the job.
Operator consoles, dashboards, and client portals for the people who run the system day to day. Softr, Retool, or Next.js depending on the workflow.
Sourcing pipelines, screening notes, memo generators, DD workplans, and portfolio dashboards for teams that need better leverage without losing judgment.
Problem. Inbound and one-off scrapes create patchy coverage and stale funnels.
Build. A scheduled sourcing engine enriches public company signals, scores candidates, and writes them into the team's CRM.
Proof. Deployed for a Paris-based impact fund across 8 European jurisdictions.
Problem. Analysts spend 30-90 minutes reading each target before a real decision can happen.
Build. A structured screening note combines web research, source trails, and a human sign-off step inside the CRM.
Proof. 25% actionable rate on a 20-target pilot.
Problem. Deal teams rewrite the same memo structure from scratch for every opportunity.
Build. A 12-section house memo template connects source documents, public filings, citations, and Word or Notion export.
Proof. Designed to move first drafts from days to hours while keeping analyst review in the loop.
Problem. Holdings, KPIs, board decks, and contacts live across drives, spreadsheets, and inboxes.
Build. A unified dashboard gives each company a structured record, latest metrics, documents, and status flags.
Proof. Built for a European family office with 9 portfolio companies.
Problem. Good sales or ops meetings turn into transcripts that nobody has time to reread.
Build. Meeting summaries, action items, owners, and follow-ups are pushed into the CRM and team digest.
Proof. Deployed for a French PropTech sales organization handling 60+ meetings per week.
Problem. Receipts, invoices, and reconciliation tasks are rebuilt manually at month-end.
Build. Multi-channel receipt capture, invoice generation, bank matching, and exception queues keep finance work current.
Proof. Live in LuminOps' own accounting workflow.
What I actually use, day to day. Code where it earns its keep.
Funds, scale-ups, and founder-led businesses across Europe.
About
Why LuminOps sits between product, operations, data, and investment workflows.
I got my start co-founding or joining early-stage startups as partner, associate, or first hire across EdTech, CivicTech, PropTech, New Space, and Sustainability. That gave me a practical view of how messy early operations become when product, sales, finance, and data all move at once.
I then worked in venture capital at Bpifrance, built internal data tools, trained in data science at Le Wagon, and joined iad, a French PropTech unicorn, where I led market expansion across five countries over two years.
Today, LuminOps gives founders, funds, and family offices a technical operating partner: broad enough to understand the business workflow, technical enough to build the system, and senior enough to know what should not be automated. Also co-founder and CPTO of Margot. Guest lecturer at ESSEC on venture capital and at Le Wagon on automation and AI. Based in Paris, working in French and English.
Send the spreadsheet, CRM problem, investment workflow, or manual process you want to fix. I will help you map what should be automated, what should stay human, and what a first build could look like.