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AI agent engineering office
Brest, France
The story of the name

BTM stands for
Brest
Thinking
Machines.

Teaching teams to work with machines that think.

BREST THINKING MACHINES, with a robot in the pose of Rodin’s Thinker
Our mission

Give human know-how the power of AI agents, and guarantee that it belongs to the people and organizations who hold it.

01

A team of humans and agents.

BTM runs AI-native across all its operations. Humans, agents they work with hand in hand, and autonomous agents that handle part of the operations. Our ways of working improve with every cycle: we’re our own first test ground.

Humans
They lead, decide and own the relationship with you.
Hand in hand
Agents we work with every day.
Autonomously
Agents that handle part of the operations, each with a written role.
In loops
Every work cycle improves the next one.
02

What we think

  1. 1

    The model is losing value; what surrounds it is gaining: context, Skills, agents.

  2. 2

    With agents, know-how becomes an asset, down to its tacit part. So it can be owned.

  3. 3

    These assets are new, and the big American labs are setting out to capture them. We work to keep them with the people who hold them.

  4. 4

    The hard part is less and less the tools, more and more the ways of working.

03

BTM at a glance

Name
BTM (Brest Thinking Machines)
Activity
AI agent engineering office: consulting, training, engineering
Expertise
Skills, context and AI agents, on Claude and on sovereign alternatives
Location
Brest, Brittany, France. Assignments in Brittany and Paris
Founded by
Pierre Guirriec
Product
SolidSkills
Pierre Guirriec and a participant in SolidSkills T-shirts at an event1
1  “Who owns your know-how?”, printed in French on the T-shirt — SolidSkills, meeting the public · AI Days, July 2026, Brest
04

Join us

BTM is a small company that grows when the work justifies it. We’re looking for AI engineers who care as much about social sciences and transformation as about technology.

Write to us: join@btm.bzh →

In Brest since high school, AI engineer since 2022.

Let’s talk about your know-how.

Thirty minutes to see whether, and how, we can help you put your know-how to work with AI.

Book a call