About Racine AI

French DeepTech company specialized in generative artificial intelligence for industrial document processing. BPI France certified.

BPI DeepTech Label Innovative Young Company

Paul Lemaistre and André-Louis Rochet, co-founders of Racine AI

Our Story

Racine AI was born from a strong conviction: European companies need generative AI solutions designed for their field needs, not generic imported tools.

An engineering company specialized in AI and robotics, Racine AI relies on the expertise of its engineering team and solid field experience. Its co-founders, André-Louis Rochet and Paul Lemaistre, professors at École Centrale d'Électronique, lead R&D and anchor the company in the French academic and industrial ecosystem. Racine AI is a member of ECE's Intelligence Lab.

Founded in June 2024, Racine AI covers the entire industrial value chain — from PDF to drone. Document AI architectures, Vision Language Models, RAG pipelines, process automation, field inspection. The BPI France DeepTech label validates this R&D approach.

Our Vision

Artificial intelligence should amplify human potential, not replace it. Our ambition: building useful, reliable, and controllable AI solutions that strengthen European industrial competitiveness.

We want companies to keep control over their data and tools. On-premise deployment, auditable code, no dependency on external cloud services. Racine AI is committed to a long-term vision: putting technology at the service of humanity and European technological independence.

Our Commitments

Transparency

Auditable source code, documented models, no black box. You know exactly what runs on your data.

Sovereignty

On-premise or private cloud deployment. Your documents never leave your infrastructure if you choose.

Lasting Value

No technological lock-in. Open standards, interoperability, and knowledge transfer.

Our Expertise

Our team combines machine learning R&D expertise and field experience in industry. We develop our own Vision Language Models specialized for European technical documents.

We master the entire chain: from model training on computing infrastructure to production deployment in constrained environments (air-gapped, specific certifications).

Vision Language Models

RAG and semantic search

Model fine-tuning

On-premise deployment

Document processing

UI automation

The Team

André-Louis Rochet

President, Co-founder

Expertise in AI architecture and critical systems deployment.

Paul Lemaistre

CTO, Co-founder

Specialist in machine learning and natural language processing.

François Rochet

Chief Scientific Officer

Supélec Engineer. Project direction.

Léo Appourchaux

AI Developer

Model development and AI integration.

Ye Yumeng

AI Developer

Model development and AI integration.

Clémence Lemaistre

Communications Manager

Communications and public relations.

Noé Brandolini

R&D Developer (Intern)

R&D on Vision Language Models and optimization for industrial sector.

Matteo Khan

AI Developer (Apprentice)

AI solutions development and integration.

David Soeiro-Vuong