--- title: Default HubSpot Blog | Fabrice Bernhard description: "Fabrice Bernhard didn't study lean and then apply it -- he built a company and discovered, under pressure, that Toyota's thinking was the only framework that actually scaled. Starting Theodo as a student project in Paris, he grew it into a 700-person, €100M consultancy spanning London, New York, and beyond, while resisting the organizational entropy that usually accompanies that kind of growth. The insight at the center of that work -- that Agile works beautifully for individual teams but offers no real framework for coordinating hundreds of people -- became the thesis of The Lean Tech Manifesto, which he co-authored and which won the 2024 Shingo Publication Award. As Group CTO of Theodo, he brings a founder's discipline to LEI's LeanTech initiative: not what lean should look like in theory, but what it actually takes to make it stick at scale." --- [![The Lean Enterprise Institute](https://info.lean.org/hs-fs/hubfs/LEI_logo2+url_blue.png?width=662&height=157&name=LEI_logo2+url_blue.png "The Lean Enterprise Institute")](https://lean.org) - [Default HubSpot Blog](https://info.lean.org/blog) # Default HubSpot Blog ## Fabrice Bernhard Fabrice Bernhard didn't study lean and then apply it -- he built a company and discovered, under pressure, that Toyota's thinking was the only framework that actually scaled. Starting Theodo as a student project in Paris, he grew it into a 700-person, €100M consultancy spanning London, New York, and beyond, while resisting the organizational entropy that usually accompanies that kind of growth. The insight at the center of that work -- that Agile works beautifully for individual teams but offers no real framework for coordinating hundreds of people -- became the thesis of The Lean Tech Manifesto, which he co-authored and which won the 2024 Shingo Publication Award. As Group CTO of Theodo, he brings a founder's discipline to LEI's LeanTech initiative: not what lean should look like in theory, but what it actually takes to make it stick at scale. ## Recent Posts [![](https://info.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/industrializing-ai-for-software.png)](https://info.lean.org/blog/industrializing-ai-for-software-1) ## [Industrializing AI for Software Development Offers an AI Roadmap for All](https://info.lean.org/blog/industrializing-ai-for-software-1) Nov 4, 2025 7:00:00 PM / by [Fabrice Bernhard](https://info.lean.org/blog/author/fabrice-bernhard) [0 Comments](https://info.lean.org/blog/industrializing-ai-for-software-1#comments-listing) A discussion with Fabrice Bernhard on how lean manufacturing principles provide a blueprint for AI-powered software development. [Read More](https://info.lean.org/blog/industrializing-ai-for-software-1) [![](https://info.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/industrializing-ai-for-software.png)](https://info.lean.org/blog/industrializing-ai-for-software) ## [Industrializing AI for Software Development Offers an AI Roadmap for All](https://info.lean.org/blog/industrializing-ai-for-software) Nov 4, 2025 7:00:00 PM / by [Fabrice Bernhard](https://info.lean.org/blog/author/fabrice-bernhard) [0 Comments](https://info.lean.org/blog/industrializing-ai-for-software#comments-listing) A discussion with Fabrice Bernhard on how lean manufacturing principles provide a blueprint for AI-powered software development. [Read More](https://info.lean.org/blog/industrializing-ai-for-software) [All posts](https://info.lean.org/blog/all) ### Subscribe to Email Updates - [Recent](https://info.lean.org/blog/author/fabrice-bernhard#tab-1) - [Popular](https://info.lean.org/blog/author/fabrice-bernhard#tab-2) - [Categories](https://info.lean.org/blog/author/fabrice-bernhard#tab-3) ### Lists by Topic ### Posts by Topic ### Recent Posts # About Us Use this little footer to reinforce your message about who you are and why people love working with you. And since this is a global module, you only have to edit it once to make the changes across every page it appears on. [Learn More](https://www.hubspot.com) # Links # Contact Us [yourname@company.com](mailto:yourname@company.com) 867 Boylston St, 5th Floor Boston, MA 02116 Copyright 2026 | Designed with by [HubSpot](https://www.hubspot.com)