About
About
BCUB3 is a small, independent firm. No funding round, no board to satisfy, no pressure to inflate headcount. Which leaves the energy to do things properly.
Paul Obara
I have been a Data & AI consultant for industry for several years, certified Black Belt Lean Six Sigma, trained on the shop floor more than in lecture halls. I have worked on production lines, engineering offices, maintenance workshops and supply chain platforms. I have seen AI projects that worked and many more that died in POC. The ones that work have three things in common: a clearly stated business problem, real data available, and a client team that stays in charge. BCUB3 was built on that basis.
My main anchor remains performance consulting for industry, which I currently practice within a specialised consulting firm. BCUB3 is my complementary structure, dedicated to the AI integration missions I run for my own clients, directly, with the contractual commitments described in the manifesto.
Why BCUB3 exists
Because in 2025-2026, too many industrial AI projects are sold as black boxes on proprietary platforms. The client pays a high price, the provider captures the value, and when the model becomes obsolete, everything has to be redone. This asymmetry is avoidable. It just requires discipline: modular architectures, transferable code, contracts that do not trap the client, and serious skills transfer.
BCUB3 is what I would build if I were the director of an industrial site and had to commission an AI project. It is my personal answer to the question: “how would I want this service to be sold to me?”
Training, method, tools
- Black Belt Lean Six Sigma, certified, applied on real production cases.
- Industrial data science: time series, anomalies, supervised and unsupervised ML, deep learning applied to signals.
- Modern AI architectures: proprietary and open LLMs, MCP orchestration, RAG, multi-tool agents, lightweight MLOps tailored to mid-cap manufacturers.
- Field work: operator interviews, process readings, IT mapping, data diagnostic, roadmap construction.
What BCUB3 is not
- Not a body shop. We do not sell man-days by the kilometre.
- Not a captive integrator. We are not the exclusive partner of any vendor or cloud.
- Not a strategy consultancy. Slides without implementation do not interest us.
- Not a startup chasing PMF. No pivot every six months, no fundraising, no investor pressure to satisfy.
BCUB3 is a technical delivery structure, anchored on value delivered, focused on industry, that says no as often as it says yes.
Contact
Framing call on appointment.
Last updated: 2026-04-08