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Kevin Gibaud
Cofondateur · CEO

Product Manager & Designer. Ex-conseil, puis accompagnement de clients institutionnels sur audits et projets logiciels sur-mesure à dimension nationale.

Kevin Gibaud est cofondateur et CEO de Swoft. Avec un parcours initial dans le conseil, puis l'accompagnement de clients institutionnels sur des audits et projets logiciels à dimension nationale, il a vu se répéter le même schéma chez la majorité des dirigeants : un projet logiciel essentiel mais perçu comme une dépense incontrôlable, livré en retard, et obsolète avant d'être stabilisé.

Côté produit, il dirige le travail de design, le cadrage des projets et la relation avec les dirigeants clients. Sa conviction : un logiciel d'entreprise n'est pas une feature list, c'est la traduction logicielle d'une décision stratégique. Le travail de Product Manager consiste à rendre cette décision lisible pour l'équipe technique et les agents qui vont la coder, plutôt que de la traduire en sprint backlog.

Il écrit régulièrement sur les enjeux de l'ingénierie agentique, de l'architecture sur-mesure, et du passage du vibe coding à l'agentic engineering — sur le blog Swoft, dans la presse tech française et sur LinkedIn.

Publications

Articles signed by Kevin

  • What is an AI agent? Returning to 70 years of academic research
    Schéma d'agent IA percevant son environnement et agissant dessus
    SaaS

    What is an AI agent? Returning to 70 years of academic research

    ChatGPT isn't an agent in the academic sense. Russell, Norvig, Wooldridge and Ferber have proposed for 30 years a demanding definition that most 2026 products don't meet. State of the question.

  • Is the term "AI agent" overused in 2026? A critical audit
    Tableau de comparaison de produits agents IA
    SaaS

    Is the term "AI agent" overused in 2026? A critical audit

    ChatGPT wrappers, no-code platforms, code assistants, orchestration frameworks: everything labels itself as an AI agent. Confronting the academic definitions with real market products.

  • What Swoft means by "AI agent": Wooldridge plus architectural constraints
    Architecture d'un agent IA avec périmètre borné et traçabilité
    SaaS

    What Swoft means by "AI agent": Wooldridge plus architectural constraints

    The Swoft definition strictly applies Wooldridge's four properties and adds three architectural constraints that make the agent reliable in production: bounded scope, native traceability, organizational identity.

  • Multi-agent systems: from Ferber to executable Conway's Law
    Système multi-agents avec rôles organisationnels
    SaaS

    Multi-agent systems: from Ferber to executable Conway's Law

    Jacques Ferber wrote Multi-Agent Systems in 1995. Thirty years later, his organizational dimension — often forgotten by contemporary frameworks — becomes production-ready thanks to event-driven architecture.

  • What is Deep Tech? A rigorous definition and the fault lines
    Laboratoire de recherche scientifique illustrant la Deep Tech
    SaaS

    What is Deep Tech? A rigorous definition and the fault lines

    The term Deep Tech has covered everything and its opposite since 2014 — quantum, biotech, fusion, AI, blockchain. Let's go back to the canonical definitions of BCG, Hello Tomorrow and Bpifrance to distinguish what is from what isn't.

  • French Deep Tech in 2026: where the ecosystem stands
    Cartographie de l'écosystème Deep Tech français
    SaaS

    French Deep Tech in 2026: where the ecosystem stands

    Mistral, Pasqal, Aledia, Verkor, Diabeloop: France has more Deep Tech than most European countries but struggles to turn these gems into global champions. State of the ecosystem in 2026.

  • Deep Tech vs Vibe Coding: the underlying opposition in 2026 software
    Comparaison entre approche vibe coding et architecture logicielle
    SaaS

    Deep Tech vs Vibe Coding: the underlying opposition in 2026 software

    Lovable, Bolt, v0 on one side. Architected platforms on the other. In 2026, two philosophies of software production face off. Which one ships software that lasts?

  • How Swoft AI agents represent your business (and why it changes everything)
    Visualisation abstraite de couches de représentation de la connaissance
    SaaS

    How Swoft AI agents represent your business (and why it changes everything)

    Six layers of explicit, structured, verifiable representation. Where an LLM alone has a representation hidden in its weights, Swoft agents know exactly what they know, and can prove it.

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30 minutes with Kevin.

Kevin talks regularly with founders, CTOs and CIOs about software architecture, AI agents and the realities of delivery in 2026.