2024 – now
Founder and AI Engineer, Flowful AI
Waterloo, Belgium
Production AI for businesses: chatbots and assistants, workflow automation, custom AI applications.
Projects
Flowful AI
Chatbots, AI agents and workflow automation, shipped to production for real businesses.
Overhang
AI-first CAD editor for 3D printing. Describe the part you need, get a print-ready model in minutes.
Mailflow
AI email assistant for support teams, trained on your company data.
GEO Ready Score
Free analyzer that checks whether a website is ready for AI discovery through ChatGPT, Claude and others.
CAD Skill
Open-source Claude Code skill for text to CAD.
Experience
2015 – 2024
Director of Engineering, Yelp (previously Engineering Manager and Senior iOS Engineer)
London, San Francisco, Brussels
Led the Core Experience engineering group, responsible for the core screens of the Yelp website and mobile apps.
2013 – 2015
Engineering Manager, Blinkbox Music (previously iOS Engineer)
London, United Kingdom
Led the iOS engineering team, enhancing app features and initiating scrum-based project management.
2011 – 2014
Founder and iOS Engineer, Sparkling Code
Lyon, France
Developed and launched multiple iOS apps.
2010 – 2011
Software Engineer, Esker
Lyon, France
Worked on the development of a SaaS platform for document automation.
2008 – 2010
GitHub
@nchourrout35 public repos730 stars
- 679 stars
flowful-ai/cad-skill
Claude Code skill for parametric 3D-printable model generation with CadQuery
- 2 stars
nchourrout/llm-web-scraper
Extract structured content from webpages using Langchain and Puppeteer
- 1 stars
nchourrout/focus
Pomodoro focus timer that blocks distracting websites and plays focus music on macOS
Writing
flowful.aiOct 13, 2026
Dots, Muse, Grok Bot, Hermes: personal agents are here. Not for your SMB
OpenAI, Meta and xAI offer always-on personal agents since autumn 2026. What they do, what they cost, and why they do not replace a company agent.
flowful.aiOct 6, 2026
Mistral Large 4: what the benchmarks actually say
Mistral's new 1-trillion-parameter model leads open models from the US and Europe. We read every benchmark chart, including the ones it does not win.
flowful.aiSep 20, 2026
Sovereign AI in Europe: Mistral, EU Clouds and Your Options
Where your AI runs now matters as much as what it does. Four ways to keep company data under European control, from Mistral to EU clouds to your own server.
flowful.aiSep 14, 2026
Connect ChatGPT or Claude to Your Company Tools with MCP
MCP connectors let AI assistants read your CRM, drives and tickets. What that unlocks for an SME, what it costs, and the three questions to settle first.
flowful.aiJul 27, 2026
AI Email Automation Explained: How a System Learns to Answer Email Like You
Inside a production AI email system: extracting tone and FAQs from past conversations, knowledge bases and tools, templates, threads, signatures, and Gmail, Outlook or SMTP.
medium.comApr 19, 2026
I Turned an Old Kindle Into a Wall Dashboard
A $0 side project: jailbreaking, self-hosting, 3D printing, and letting Claude Code drive There’s an old Kindle on my wall. It shows the local weather, today’s XKCD comic, NASA’s picture of the day, and what happened on this date in history. It cost...
medium.comMar 5, 2026
I Taught Claude to Design 3D-Printable Parts. Here’s How
If you own a 3D printer, you know the loop: you need a custom bracket, enclosure, or mount. You open Fusion 360, spend an hour wrestling with geometry, export an STL, slice it, print it, realize it doesn’t fit, and start over. What if you could just...
medium.comJan 30, 2026
How to Make n8n Production Ready: A Practical Checklist
n8n is a popular open-source workflow automation tool. Self-hostable, flexible, and well-supported. But the default setup is not production ready...