The team
A team of a new kind.
A senior operator, a team of AI agents shipping in production, and a network of specialists built over a career. You're not buying man-days — you're plugging in a full execution capability.
The model
Operator, agents, network
Every Ownward engagement is carried by one senior operator with their own AI agent team and their own network of specialists. No pyramid, no bench, no juniors billed as seniors. Senior isn't a number of years: it's being able to carry the promise end to end — sit down, observe, recommend, implement, and hand over.
The operator
One senior operator, end to end
Every engagement is carried by one senior operator, end to end. An Ownward operator is never a purely technical profile: strong business and product experience plus the tech — they've run, built and transformed systems, P&Ls and teams. The operator sits down with you, understands your business, directs the agents and the network, and puts their name on the result. No account managers, no handoffs.
The AI agents
An execution force that never sleeps
AI agents help build, test and document under human direction. Code review, appropriate checks and release decisions remain part of the delivery process. Repository instructions give people and agents the context to contribute.
The network
Each operator brings their own
Just like their agents, every operator arrives with their own network: security, infrastructure, data, design, legal, marketing, communications, public relations — senior specialists they've proven on real projects over their career, brought in exactly when an engagement needs them. No bench to keep busy, no juniors billed as seniors.
The main operator
Julien Cyr
Main operator & CEO
Twenty years owning systems, P&Ls and teams — mission-critical cloud in France, hyper-growth in Silicon Valley on Holberton's founding team, C-level operations across an education group. Based in Basel, working in EN / FR / ES.
Full track recordHis agent team
A standing team of AI agents, each with a job — directed by the operator, shipping through GitHub:
Research
Market, tech and codebase reconnaissance before anything gets built.
Build
Code, data pipelines, integrations — written, tested and documented in your tools.
Review
Coding agents help implement, test and document. Repository instructions, review and checks appropriate to the change support each delivery, under human responsibility.
Ops
Syncs, monitoring and scheduled jobs that keep what's shipped running.
Multi-model by design, shipping through GitHub:
His network
Senior specialists proven on real projects since 2007 — brought in exactly when an engagement needs them:
How we work with you
- 01
We sit down
With you, in your day-to-day — not in a meeting room.
- 02
We observe
Your real flows: who does what, where time is lost, where data breaks.
- 03
We recommend
Concrete recommendations, demonstrated on your own cases — not a report.
- 04
We implement — together
With your teams, who level up at every iteration.
Tomorrow
Built for more operators
Ownward is designed to grow by adding operators, not headcount — each new senior operator arrives with their own agents and their own network, and carries their engagements end to end. Full time, part time, freelance, remote: the contract adapts to the operator, not the other way around.
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