Austin, TX
Headquarters · North America
14205 N Mopac Expy, Suite 570
Austin, TX 78728, USA
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Austin, TX 78728, USA
About
Operators. Not consultants. Built to operate what we recommend.
Five companies founded. Four exits. Twenty-five years building, transforming, and operating tech at scale. The team behind Hikari Blue has done the work it now signs. Meet the partners
4
Exits behind the leadership team
5
Ventures founded and operated
25+
Years building and transforming companies
450+
Senior experts across AI, agentic systems, software, data, security
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Markets: USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, India · follow-the-sun
Why we exist
AI has stopped being a technology question. It is infrastructure.
Foundation models have commoditized faster than anyone forecast in 2022. The value no longer sits in the model. It sits in the architecture around it: the governance rails, the audit trail, the kill switch, the operator on call. That layer cannot be bought from a hyperscaler, retrofitted from a consultancy, or taught in a workshop. It has to be built. By operators who have shipped before.
“That is where we operate.” Franck Ohrel · Founder & CEO
Method
BrandMind
Our institutional method to encode brand voice, decision rights, and policy as architecture, not as documentation. Where an audit trail is the artifact, not the slide.
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01Voice as policy
Brand register, tone, and red lines encoded into runtime guardrails. Drift becomes detectable.
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02Decision rights as code
Who approves what, on which model, at which risk tier. Versioned. Reviewable. Reversible.
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03Evidence by default
Every prompt, every output, every operator action: immutable, queryable, exportable. EU AI Act ready.
The team
Four operators. One accountable on every engagement.
Each partner carries a Practice. Each engagement is signed by a name, not a logo.
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Franck Ohrel
Founder · CEO · Strategy Practice
"Strategy is not a slide deck. It is the system that survives contact with operations."
- 25years building
- 5ventures founded
- 4exits
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Rémi Claverie
Co-founder · COO · Talent Practice
"We do not staff. We assemble accountable units, sized to the outcome."
- 10yr orchestration
- 200+programs delivered
- 450operators networked
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Xavier de Maillard
Co-founder · CTO · Engineering Practice
"Technology delivers when the human layer is engineered with the same rigor as the stack."
- 20yr architecture
- 6sectors led
- CTOmulti-platform
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Gilles Mischler
Partner · Run Practice · Facebook's 21st employee · ex-Dropbox
"The kind of instinct that sees the incident before the dashboard does."
- 20yr hyperscaler
- #21employee at Facebook
- 24/7run-grade
Global by design
Three offices. Five markets. One operating standard.
Follow-the-sun delivery across five markets: USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, India. 450+ vetted senior operators in the network. One engagement protocol. One escalation chain. One audit trail.
Network markets: Canada · India
In their words
“What Hikari Blue brought us was not a deck or a roadmap. It was a way of thinking about transformation that absorbed our risk constraints and converted them into engineering decisions. Our compliance team and our engineering team were aligned for the first time.”
Let's talk
Start a working session.
Thirty minutes, no slides.
Get a direct answer to your question. The conversation starts with one of the four partners, not a sales gate.
Careers
Build the systems serious companies will run.
We are hiring senior operators across AI, engineering, talent, and run. Send us a note. One of the partners will read it.