🤖 AI Café Club #12: Creation, business, cinema… AI in all its forms at the Monnaie de Paris
on November 27, 2025
On November 26th, the Monnaie de Paris hosted the twelfth edition of the AI Café Club, a now well-established event connecting creators, entrepreneurs, engineers, makers, and curious minds around artificial intelligence. This edition, held at the Café Frappé par Bloom, brought together a diverse audience eager to explore a creative, practical, and accessible AI, far removed from media hype and closer to real-world applications.
🧠 An evening dedicated to AI in all its diversity
The AI Café Club is not a classic meetup: it's a space where we talk about business, creation, web, cinema, code, no-code tools, productivity... everything that makes the digital world move today.
The objective: to offer a cross-cutting and realistic view of artificial intelligence — what it is changing now, what it is already enabling, and how everyone can use it to create, transform or undertake.
🎤 4 express talks, 12 minutes each: a dense and effective format
Each edition offers a varied program, designed to deliver maximum value in minimum time. Here are the presentations from Café Club #12:
1. Loïc Boutet — AI for SMEs: where to start without breaking the bank
A simple and pragmatic roadmap for integrating AI into a small or medium-sized business: automation, analysis, accessible tools, quick wins.
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💼 Loïc Boutet — AI for SMEs: where to start without breaking the bank
In addition to being a co-organizer of the evening, Loïc Boutet came with a simple promise: to show how an SME can take advantage of AI without a colossal budget, without a dedicated team and without an abstract “global AI” strategy.
Loïc runs 5000.dev, a company that designs applications in two weeks for €5,000. Needless to say, he's well aware of the time, budget, and prioritization constraints faced by SMEs. His talk was a complete demolition of the false "good advice" we hear everywhere about AI.
1. Before agents, start with… assistants
Loïc starts with an observation: everyone has been talking about AI agents for a year, but the majority of companies do not even master assistants yet.
His advice:
Don't start with complex agent architectures. Start by creating assistants dedicated to specific tasks.
Examples of assistants he uses daily:
- Writing functional specifications for web applications * Preparing client presentations * Generating structured text content (documents, emails, presentation materials) * Assisting with preparing one's own talks
Assistants (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) already cover a huge portion of the uses. You don't need a sophisticated system to start saving time.
2. Don't train "everyone", start with the motivated ones
Another myth he debunks:
“We’re going to train the entire company in AI.”
According to him, it's the best way to fail.
His recommendation:
- Identify 2 or 3 motivated and curious people * Give them time, tools, and freedom to experiment * Then let them spread throughout the rest of the organization
AI adoption is not a “massive training plan” but a core group of pioneers who are showing concrete results.
3. You don't need a “Head of AI” or a data scientist to get started
Loïc insists: for the majority of SMEs, the first reaction should not be:
- “We’re going to recruit an AI manager” * “We need a data scientist to get the project off the ground”
With current generative AI, we are no longer in the historical model where a specific model was trained for a specific task.
Generative AI is a very powerful Swiss Army knife that already does 80% of what you need very well, without custom training.
A subscription to an AI tool (around twenty euros per month) already allows you to:
- to write, * to analyze, * to summarize, * to generate ideas, * to structure documents, * to assist internal processes.
That's enough to start creating value.
4. Forget the “grand strategic AI project”: start with the boring tasks
Another cliché debunked:
“We are going to launch a major global AI project, with a roadmap, massive ROI and total transformation.”
For Loïc, it's the best way to never deliver anything.
Instead, he recommends starting with a simple question:
What are the most unpleasant tasks of the week?
Examples given:
- Draft meeting minutes * Process repetitive letters or emails * Rewrite contracts/templates * Assist in answering customer questions using an assistant powered by project documents * Evaluate sales calls or support interactions
This is where AI provides an immediate benefit and where we can measure, very quickly, the value created.
5. The sandwich method: human → AI → human
Loïc introduces a simple image: the sandwich.
- Human at the beginning: clearly define the problem, constraints, and context * AI in the middle: produce the first version, doing 80% of the work * Human at the end: review, correct, validate, and adapt
AI excels at going from nothing to something. Humans excel at going from something average to something good or excellent.
Striving for 100% automation is often a dead end. Aiming for 80% automation with 20% effort yields the best results in practice.
6. AI knows almost everything… except who you are
A key point of his talk:
AI knows the world, but doesn't know you.
For an assistant to be truly useful in a professional context, it must be provided with:
- your internal processes, * your methods, * your corporate culture, * your customer cases, * your business rules, * your prioritization choices.
AI doesn't need to be told what project management, marketing, architecture, etc. are. It needs to be told how you do these things.
This is what transforms a generic tool into a truly tailored assistant for your business.
7. Don't wait for "perfect maturity": the time is now
Loïc is also responding to a very common reflex:
“We’ll wait until it’s more mature, more sovereign, better regulated, 100% secure…”
Except in very specific cases (banking, defense, ultra-sensitive context), waiting is mostly about letting others get ahead.
The market, however, doesn't wait. Competitors are moving forward, tools are evolving, and usage patterns are stabilizing. The right strategy today is to experiment intelligently, with simple safeguards, rather than remaining a spectator.
8. His simple method for starting tomorrow morning
Loïc concludes with a very practical method for getting into AI at work:
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Identify a tedious, repetitive, low-value-added but frequent task. 2. Manually test the AI on it until a satisfactory result is obtained: promptness, sequencing, output format. 3. Once the process is stable, ask the AI itself:
“What prompt should you have received to produce this result directly?” > Then turn that into a dedicated assistant.
From there, you have crossed the first real adoption threshold: a real task, in your business, partially automated by an AI assistant.
2. Dêlidji Hounsonlon & Perla Nsungani — Create websites without coding with Lovable
Demonstration of Lovable, the no-code tool that lets you design a complete website through a simple conversation. A glimpse of what web creation can become in the coming months.
🌐 Quoable — Create a complete website without coding thanks to Lovable
The second presentation of the evening — led by Delidji Hounsonlon and Perla Nsungani from the Quoable collective — focused on a topic that resonates with both creators and entrepreneurs: how to go from a website idea… to a fully live website, in just a few minutes, without writing a single line of code?
To achieve this, they introduced Lovable, an AI-driven "live coding" platform that democratizes website creation at an impressive speed.
💡 The real problem: ideas are plentiful… but time and technology are lacking.
The talk begins with a fact that everyone in the room confirmed:
The obstacle isn't a lack of ideas. The obstacle is the technology, the cost, the time, or the difficulty in finding a developer.
Lovable removes precisely these barriers — by transforming a simple intention, formulated in natural language, into a functional website.
⚙️ What is Lovable?
Lovable is a web development platform where you describe what you want… and where AI generates the site in real time.
Some key points:
- Founded in 2022 by two Swedish entrepreneurs, Anton Nisica and Fabian Näslund * $100 million raised in less than a year * Estimated valuation of $21 billion * Over 100 million new creations annually * Millions of daily visits to websites generated through the platform
These figures illustrate a simple reality:
Lovable responds to a global demand — to make web development accessible, fast and modular.
🧪 Live coding: write what you want, and AI builds it
Lovable's core is based on live coding:
- You write what you want in natural language. 2. The AI interprets your intent. 3. It generates real code, editable and exportable.
Unlike other no-code platforms:
- The code is user property * It can be exported, versioned, and modified freely * You are not locked into the tool
🧱 The tech stack behind Lovable
Under the hood, Lovable relies on a modern stack:
- Front-end: React, TypeScript, CSS * Back-end: C++ for the database, user management, and server logic * Framework used: Sprite, integrated directly into the platform * Deployment: One click to publish, one click to remove the website from the web
Everything is designed to shorten the idea → prototype → production site cycle as much as possible.
🚀 How does it work, in practice?
Creating a website with Lovable involves three steps:
1. Describe
You write whatever you want:
“I want a website for a photographer, with a gallery, contact page, and a minimalist black & white style.”
The AI immediately generates:
- A complete structure * Functional pages * A first version of the design
2. Adjust
You refine:
- Add sections * Modify style * Change text * Integrate features * Directly edit generated code if needed
AI adapts in real time.
3. Publish
With one click, the site is online, with a URL ready to be sent.
Everything can be disabled or updated just as easily.
🎥 Live demo: Create a website in minutes
To illustrate the simplicity of the tool, the Quoable team demonstrated the creation of a website live, in front of the entire Café IA Club.
The flow:
- A simple idea in text * Generation in seconds * Interactive adjustments * Immediate online publication
All this without coding, but with real code behind it, ready to be exported or handed over to a developer if needed.
🎯 Remember the essentials
Lovable's promise, as presented by Quoable:
- Reduce website creation time from several weeks… to just a few minutes * Make web development accessible to everyone * Prototype, launch, test faster * Enable everyone to transform an idea into a web product without technical barriers
A clear demonstration of how applied AI can change the digital creation chain.
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3. The Bernards Club (Thierry Chovanec & Marine Les Serrano) — AI & Cinema
🎬 Presentation 1 — The Bernards Club: AI as a driver of creativity in cinema
The first talk was hosted by Le Club des Bernards, a creative studio specializing in projects blending image, storytelling, and artificial intelligence. Their presentation provided a rare glimpse into how AI is now integrated into the film pipeline, from pre-production to marketing, including art direction and world-building.
🎨 A creative studio augmented by AI
The speakers presented their organization: a studio that uses AI at all stages of creation — illustration, concept art, storyboard, previsualization, marketing content, translations, alternative images, bilingual materials, etc.
AI doesn't eliminate artistic work: it accelerates tasks and multiplies possibilities. A striking example: an illustrated poster that usually takes 20 hours to create using purely traditional methods can be reduced to 5 hours by combining AI and human art direction. The tools don't replace: they amplify.
🎥 The context of cinema: fewer resources, more ideas
Their observation: the film industry is going through a period where it needs to produce more with less. Investors are harder to convince, budgets are shrinking, and business models are evolving.
It is in this context that their studio intervenes, particularly within a major school and production teams: their role is to help directors and writers to shape their ideas, to make a project "visible" even before it exists.
🧩 From idea to visual: how AI is transforming pre-production
The process is clear:
- Script reading 2. Image production, creating atmospheres and visual concepts 3. Storyboard creation and pre-visualizations 4. Development of materials for investors (presentations, mood boards, internal trailers)
They use AI to quickly generate visual proposals consistent with the film's universe. The goal: to allow the director to confirm an artistic direction, and investors to understand the project.
They showed several examples of posters, scenes, and concept boards produced within this framework.
🌐 Building a complete universe: from design to digital
In one of their projects, the team developed:
- an immersive site to present the narrative universe, * a fictional journal in AI, * textual and visual content aligned with the lore, * interactive elements allowing the discovery of narrative clues.
AI is used as a building block to expand a universe, produce rapid variations and explore multiple artistic directions, while maintaining a coherence specific to the director's vision.
🎭 AI and casting: from fiction to visual prototype
Another fascinating aspect: the AI used to test casting choices.
Based on a character description, the studio produces consistent visuals of different actors, in order to explore:
- physical compatibility, * artistic direction, * aesthetic impact on the film.
Example mentioned: imagining Franck Dubosc or Jean Dujardin in the role of a character inspired by Jules Verne, to test the visual potential before discussing it with the producers.
Here again: AI does not impose a choice, it opens the debate and saves time.
🖼️ Art direction: multiple atmospheres, a coherent universe
From the same paragraph of script, the team generates:
- variations in colorimetry, * darker, more colorful, more realistic atmospheres, * alternative compositions.
These images do not yet replace visuals intended for an 8K screen in a movie theater — but they allow the director to arrive prepared, with a clear vision of the shot to be filmed.
🎞️ A trailer built entirely to convince Netflix
One of their most telling use cases: an internal trailer created from a script and visual concepts, intended not for the public but for decision-makers.
The goal: to showcase the world, the aesthetic ambition, and the coherence of the project. This type of trailer, made possible by modern AI, is now a key tool for selling a film even before its production.
Result: the presented project was approved by Netflix.
⚖️ Their position: AI should never replace humans
The talk concluded with a clear vision:
- AI is a powerful tool, not a director. * It accelerates ideas but should not make decisions instead of creatives. * Standardization is a real risk if AI is allowed to generate without human guidance. * Artists must remain at the center to guarantee uniqueness, emotion, and artistic direction.
The studio uses AI to augment creativity, never to automate it entirely.
4. Thibault Mardinli — From prototype to clients with vibe coding
An approach based on creative energy, rapid iteration, and AI-assisted prototyping. A talk focused on entrepreneurship, prototyping, and rapid execution.
🔊 Thibault Mardinli — From prototype to creation: “Vibe Coding” as an engine of expression
The final talk of the evening was presented by Thibault Mardinli, with a spontaneous and authentic account of how AI has transformed his approach to creating, working… and even entrepreneurship. No slides. No formal demonstration. Just a raw, sincere journey and one key idea: you can create far more than you think, even without knowing how to code.
🌪️ A journey made of failed projects… and discoveries
Thibault begins by recalling what he calls "his two specialties": planting projects, and organizing community events.
His latest project: developing a smart walkie-talkie using voice AI. Two years of experimentation, voice APIs, testing, prototypes… ultimately resulting in entrepreneurial failure.
But it was precisely this failure that triggered what he calls his “happy accident”.
⚡ An intense creative phase: “before finding a job… create something”
When it came time to close his business, Thibault made a simple decision:
“Before going back to work, create something, share what you’ve learned, and help at least one person.”
It is in this state of mind that he builds what will become his platform — a hybrid between website, database, observatory and resource center around voice AI:
- Database of 400 voice tech products * News filters to avoid information overload * Tutorials for developers and non-developers * Reports, tests, user experiences * Free resources, no upsells, no hidden business model
Everything is done in the evening, at home, with a single driving force: passion.
🔧 “Vibe coding”: coding without coding, creating through energy
Thibault emphasizes a key point:
He doesn't know how to code. He doesn't read code. And he doesn't want to learn.
What interests him is not the technique, but creation. And that's where what he calls vibe coding comes in:
- Use AI to guide the code, without getting into technical details * Focus on the idea, the use case, the narrative * Let AI generate, structure, and assemble * Keep the human element to choose, connect, and feel the right direction
For him, the backend — often considered the “forbidden territory” of non-techs — can now be approached by anyone, as long as curiosity and intention are put into the process.
🎯 The happy accident: when creativity meets visibility
A simple share on LinkedIn by a friend caused a surge in traffic to his platform. Very quickly, companies started contacting him.
- “What you're doing is useful.” * “Keep going.” * “We want to help you financially.”
Ironically, while he simply wanted to pass on his knowledge, he attracts the interest of brands — who offer to sponsor the continuation of his work.
Genuine creativity, without commercial intent, has found its place. And Thibault insists: it's neither simple nor glamorous, but possible.
🧠 A call to action: AI as a teacher, as a partner, as a multiplier
Thibault develops a strong conviction:
“The best person to ask a question to create something… is AI itself.”
He emphasizes the idea that AI is today:
- a teacher * an exploration engine * a prototype accelerator * an infinite toolbox * a creative companion
It's not a replacement for humans. It's an extension. An amplification. A catalyst for passion.
🛠️ Accessible tools to get started immediately
Speaking frankly, Thibault discusses the reality of the market: some platforms are very well marketed but too limited to go far. Others are more technical but much more powerful.
And according to him, if we want to have fun today, create, test, and learn:
“Go to AI Google Studio.”
He recommends it because it allows you to:
- to create images, * to generate videos, * and even to develop complete apps… in minutes.
For him, it's the perfect tool for creative, family, educational or entrepreneurial use.
🌍 A pivotal period: voice, education, health, entrepreneurship…
Thibault concludes with a broader perspective:
We are living through a pivotal moment. Voice AI — his obsession — is going to revolutionize:
- education, * medicine, * access to knowledge, * entrepreneurship, * and individual creation.
His final message:
Create. Test. Experiment. Ask the machine questions. There's no shame in that: it's a new human skill.
And most importantly:
Passion is what unites us all here.
A perfect closing word for Café IA Club #12.
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🍸 Drinks, meetings & networking
After the talks, the meetup continued with a friendly aperitif in the Café Frappé space. The venue's atmosphere, both elegant and relaxed, fostered conversations between:
- developers, * designers, * creators, * entrepreneurs, * film professionals, * generative AI enthusiasts.
This community dimension is what makes L'IA Café Club so strong: an open, curious ecosystem, geared towards building concrete projects.
📍 An iconic location: the Monnaie de Paris
Organizing this edition at the heart of the Monnaie de Paris gave the event a special dimension. Its historic setting, combined with the modern space of Café Frappé by Bloom, created a unique atmosphere: cultural heritage versus technological innovation.
🎯 Why this meeting matters
AI Café Club #12 confirms a trend: artificial intelligence is no longer a subject reserved for experts. It now permeates:
- business, * artistic creation, * web development, * audiovisual, * entrepreneurial projects, * personal productivity.
With an accessible, practical and action-oriented approach, the event allows everyone to leave with new ideas, tools and perspectives.
📅 See you at the next edition
Places fill up quickly, and each edition is unique. If you want to join the community and not miss any events, follow the upcoming announcements — the AI Café Club continues to explore the new frontiers of artificial intelligence, always with the same spirit: simple, practical, open, and inspiring.