Author
Jean-Christophe Budin
Founder of Ask This Guy · Enterprise AI, RAG & agentic automation
Jean-Christophe Budin is the founder of Ask This Guy. A geek at heart since his teens, he spent his career in B2B telecoms after graduating from INSA Lyon Télécom in 2006, holding a range of roles up to running business units worth over €30M in annual revenue, notably leading the Wi-Fi and networks product lines at Hub One. He now writes and builds around enterprise AI: RAG, agentic automation, and getting AI projects from proof-of-concept into production.
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Areas of expertise
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Enterprise AI
- Large Language Models
- Semantic search
- Agentic AI
- Model Context Protocol
- B2B telecommunications
- Wi-Fi networks
- Product management
Articles by Jean-Christophe Budin
GuideData analysis tools: which family for which need in 2026?
Excel, Power BI, Python, conversational AI: a comparison of data analysis tool families to help you pick the right one for your needs.
GuideManagement control: how to combine Excel, Power BI dashboards and AI?
Excel, Power BI dashboards or conversational AI: which tool for your management control, financial reporting and data analysis? A guide to choosing.
GuideHow to generate qualified leads with a company website?
Starting a conversation quickly and making a strong first impression are essential to building a lasting relationship.
GuideContextual AI for your company: 6 concrete productivity gains
Discover 6 concrete productivity gains that contextual AI with RAG can bring to a company by structuring and sharing its knowledge more effectively.
GuideEnterprise RAG: 5 mistakes that show up after the POC
An enterprise RAG is relatively easy to prototype. Making it a useful, stable product is a much bigger challenge. Here are the five most common production pitfalls—and how to get ahead of them.
GuideGetting AI automation right: use as little AI as possible
What is AI automation? Benefits, examples, tasks worth automating, and key steps to do it right while using as little AI as possible in production.
ProductYour databases are a gold mine, AI gives you the shovels
Juggling enterprise systems, getting a simple answer often takes twenty minutes (or a Teams ping to the “person who knows”). Your real data lives in structured databases: it’s often reliable, up to date… but also inaccessible. Most companies seem to overlook it, yet AI can query it in plain language and cross-reference documents and databases in seconds.
AILLM On-Premises for Your Enterprise: What Can You Do with €60k?
Agents, RAG, internal assistants: how to choose between Make and Buy for your AI project. Figures, use cases, and cost analysis to help you decide.
ConceptsHow a Failed Demo Forced Us to Rethink Our Embedding Strategy
ATG’s lessons learned from our embedding solutions in production
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TutorialHow RAG Transforms Your AI into an Expert on Your Business
How RAG transforms your AI into an expert on your business. Discover how RAG technology enables AI to access your internal documents and answer your questions accurately.
ConceptsOpen-Source in AI: The Big Misunderstanding
Open-source vs open-weight: why LLMs can't be truly open-source like Linux, and what you actually get when a model releases its weights.
Digital SovereigntyWhat if the United States Turned Off Your Digital Tap?
How dependence on U.S. infrastructure exposes Europe to growing strategic risks - and what to do to protect yourself.