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Rudy Abitbol
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Operator. Builder. AI consultant.

I help manufacturers and distributors put AI to work, with the people who do the work every day.

18+ years in leadership and consulting. Founder of Human After All. Speaker at B2B conferences across North America and Europe.

Rudy Abitbol
Rudy Abitbol · Montréal · English & French

Experience behind the work.

Clients & leadership experience

  • Goodyear
  • Lumen
  • Sonepar
  • Tapestry
  • Coach
  • Kate Spade
  • BDC
  • Husky Boutique
  • DAVIDsTEA
  • Cobra Anchors
  • Bicycles Quilicot
  • Herbasanté
  • Ruggable
  • StewMac

Credentials & industry involvement.

Anthropic AcademyBuilding with the Claude API, Claude Code in Action, Introduction to Agent Skills, Introduction to Model Context Protocol
ShopifySelect Partner, Human After All
AkeneoProduct Experience Advisor
HubSpotCertified, HubSpot Academy
Master B2BNexus Expert Advisor
ForbesAgency Council, former member

I know the work behind the change.

I’ve led digital channels, managed teams and budgets, and worked through the decisions that connect commercial ambitions to systems people can actually use.

At Lumen, part of Sonepar, I served as Director of Digital Channels from 2018 to 2022: an $8M digital budget, a team of eight, mobile ordering and connected B2B systems.

That experience shapes how I approach AI. An impressive demonstration is a beginning. The real work is fitting it into the business, helping people use it confidently and checking whether it improves the task.

18+years in B2B
$8Mdigital budget led
10KLinkedIn followers

Business judgment. Hands-on delivery.

I work directly with leadership and their teams, from the first opportunity through building, training and adoption.

AI consulting

Find value. Build the practice.

Workshops, adoption sprints and fractional AI leadership for manufacturers and distributors.

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Speaking & writing

Ideas tested on stage.

Keynotes and panels at B2B conferences across North America and Europe, plus La Minute B2B and The Wholesale Playbook.

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Consulting experience

Context across complex businesses.

Consulting with BDC, product data work for Goodyear and a digital maturity assessment for Tapestry.

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A useful first result. A team that can keep going.

I stay close to the work, from the first conversation through building, training and handover. We start small enough to learn, with a clear owner and a way to judge whether the change is worth keeping.

01 · Understand

Bring the task into the room.

We walk through a real example with the people who do the job. What gets copied, checked or chased?

You leave withA defined problem, a baseline and a shortlist.
02 · Build together

Make the idea tangible.

We prepare the information and build a bounded pilot. Your team tests real work and awkward exceptions.

You leave withA working example and agreed review steps.
03 · People in control

Practise the new way of working.

Training on the tasks people own. We agree who checks the output and who keeps the information current.

You leave withPractical skills and a named internal owner.
04 · Decide

Measure before expanding.

We compare time, quality and actual use with the baseline, including running cost. Then improve, expand or stop.

You leave withEvidence for the next decision.

AI needs to know your business.

A useful AI solution needs to know what you sell, who you serve and what happens in your business. We prepare only what the first solution needs. You don’t need to rebuild the entire business to begin.

Product, customer and transaction information brought together

Product information

What you sell.

Codes, attributes and specifications; categories, units and approved content; relationships between products.

Customer information

Who you serve.

Accounts, contacts and locations; agreements, terms and permissions; service context.

Transactional information

What actually happens.

Quotes, orders, invoices and returns; prices, costs and inventory movements; demand and delivery history.

Connected by shared product and account IDs.Clear definitions · Appropriate access · A person responsible for each source
Rudy Abitbol speaking on stage at RDV eCommerce
On stage. In the conversation.

Ideas worth putting to work.

I bring an operator’s perspective to the conversations shaping AI and B2B commerce, from conference stages to podcasts and the work I share every week.

Let’s work on what comes next.

Based in Montréal, working with businesses in Canada and the US. Advisory, workshops and team training in English or French.

Talk to Rudy →English or French. Directly with Rudy.

Looking for an ecommerce partner?

Human After All is my agency for Shopify Plus, Akeneo PIM, integrations and commerce builds.

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