Where Brand Heritage Meets the Frontier of AI
25 years of digital. 16 inside luxury Maisons. Now building the instruments that bridge heritage and intelligence.
Sébastien Pagès — Founder, The Augmented Maison
Four Maisons. One Conviction.
LVMH Group
US Market Launch · Salesforce Commerce
Auction House, International
Comex Member
AI Strategy & Digital Diagnosis
I don't do digital transformation. I build Digital Flagships for luxury Maisons — and now, I help them navigate AI without betraying their craft.
Most brands treat e-commerce as a channel. I treat it as the sensorial extension of the boutique — where brand heritage meets commercial velocity. Most brands treat AI as a technology. I treat it as an invisible amplifier of what makes luxury, luxury.
I started my career in 2000 at Kodak — a front-row seat to what happens when a company fails to embrace digital. That image shaped a conviction I've carried ever since: digital is not a disruption to manage; it's the most powerful brand amplifier ever created — if you get it right. Today, I see the same crossroads with AI. And the same mistakes being made.
Over 16 years across Dior Couture, Vilebrequin, Christie's, and Diptyque, I've proven this at scale. At Vilebrequin, I launched the US market on Salesforce Commerce. At Christie's, I doubled online sales to $75M. At Diptyque, I scaled e-commerce revenue 8× while elevating the brand's digital experience to award-winning status. The playbook: Unified Commerce, not omnichannel patchwork.
I left Diptyque Paris in 2025 — not because the institutional role had lost its relevance, but because I saw what was coming and decided to build the instruments to navigate it before they existed. The AI Brand Monitor, the audit methodology, the KPI framework — these were not consulting proposals. They were built, shipped, and deployed as working products.
Luxury is not a transaction; it is an emotion. The true challenge is not to adopt every innovation, but to master the ones that are invisible.Sébastien Pagès
Founder, The Augmented Maison
ex-Executive Director Digital & E-Commerce, Diptyque Paris
The Tools That Didn't Exist
Every product below was conceived, designed, coded, and deployed by one person — from an iPad Pro, using Claude Code and GitHub Codespaces. No agency. No technical co-founder.
The next era of luxury belongs to leaders who can hold two things at once — brand storytelling and unit economics, creativity and AI architecture, emotion and engineering.
I partner with luxury leaders to turn AI and Data into P&L accelerators while protecting brand desirability. Not digital transformation — Digital Flagship. Not AI as disruption — Quiet AI as amplifier.
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