The novel makes you recognize the problem. The essay gives the architecture to address it. Marylink is its product translation.
One excerpt, both books: the introduction and key chapters of the essay Intelligence des organisations, plus the prologue of the novel Analogique. ≈ 20 pages, a 20-minute read. 🇫🇷 Both books are written in French.
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The first makes you recognize your situation. The second equips you to act.
8:47 a.m., a Tuesday in June. The email André receives is three lines long:
“A competing offer just landed: same scope, 40% cheaper, turnkey in six weeks. My CFO says yes, my CTO says yes. You have until tomorrow to give me one reason to say no.”
André runs a forty-two-person firm — and he's beginning to grasp what the competitor managed to keep, and he didn't.
A story, not a manual. You'll recognize yourself on the first page.
≈ 3 h read · for leaders, partners and managers who sense something is diluting · 🇫🇷 in French.
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The paradox your dashboards don't show: everyone moves faster, yet nothing accumulates. Twenty chapters to understand why, from Baudrillard (“AI doesn't replace you, it clones you”) to Ostrom, from Christensen to Machiavelli, and an architecture to answer it.
4–5 h read · for exec teams, CFOs and HR who decide and who fund · 🇫🇷 in French.
Order on Amazon →Recommended order: start with the novel, then come back to the essay with the scenes in mind. 🇫🇷 Both books are published in French.
Capitalize what your teams learn with AI into governed, reusableReuseThe same practice serving many times, across many spaces, the key measure of the Practice Graph's value. practicesPracticeA unit of know-how captured in Marylink: not a document but an executable structure (content, prompt, rules, style).: the essay's CREWCREWMarylink's governance framework (Concepts, Roles, Environments, Workflows) grounded in research. framework, turned into a product.
The free excerpt captures the insight that gave birth to Marylink — a 20-minute read.