I study how technological and innovation systems (notably for blockchain & AI) reshape markets, platforms, and information access — using causal methods to measure what changes and mechanism design to think about what should. Pre-doctoral researcher, previously at IMT Business School and Oxford Saïd Business School. UC Berkeley & Sciences Po alumnus. Ex tech management consultant at Wavestone. Building toward a PhD in economics and an entrepreneurial journey.
Paris · Sciences Po · briac@berkeley.edu · CV ↗
Investigates whether growth in token generation per query by modern LLMs offsets, partially or totally, the energy savings achieved through architectural and hardware improvements — applying the Jevons paradox framework to AI compute economics.
Builds a producer-theory model of Bitcoin adoption for SMBs, incorporating network effects and exchange-rate volatility in economies considering crypto as legal tender. Extended from a graduate-level IT economics seminar.
RepositoryAt the micro level: 4.2M French SMEs leave operational surplus idle in bank accounts yielding 1–2%, forgoing hundreds of basis points available in on-chain liquidity markets. YIELD closes that gap — an AI-driven treasury platform that allocates cash into tokenized financial products and DeFi liquidity pools (EUR & USD, 4–8% APY) with one-click approval, zero workflow change, and automatic accounting entries via PennyLane and ACD. At the macro level: as monetary policy tightens and bank intermediation margins compress, permissionless yield infrastructure built on open DeFi protocols becomes a structural alternative to traditional cash management — not a crypto bet, but a redistribution of carry from institutions to other economic agents like firms. Built leveraging the open-banking & DeFi ecosystem, and tokenized money-market instruments; grew from ETHGlobal hackathon wins (SF & Cannes) into a live product now available in France.
Applied an economics-of-information framing to higher-education orientation in France — where students systematically under-sort into programs due to information asymmetry. Built from a free Parcoursup matching app into an AI-native platform automating university administrative workflows. 7k users, 12M social views, partnerships with public institutions. Then pivoted to making an AI-native ERP software to enable Higher Education Institutions to provide decent services and work processes to their students and collaborators ; got contracts and advanced leads with Europe top schools, but left the space as human-friendly innovation was hated in such organizations.
Cross-chain lending yield optimizer using MCP-powered multi-agent workflows. Designed around household purchasing-power and inflation framing in emerging economies — the mechanism design question being: can DeFi liquidity markets serve as a hedge when local monetary policy fails? Best consumer app award and best cross-chain DeFi use case at ETHGlobal San Francisco and Cannes.