Samuel Petit is the co-founder of ComixSuite, a comic book translation software based on artificial intelligence (AI), acquired by De Marque in 2023.

He is deputy director of the SAIL Common Laboratory at the University of La Rochelle, which for the past 10 years has been developing AI for the analysis of images from comics/manga/webtoon, the basis of ComixSuite.

He previously ran a digital comics platform (iOS, Android, Web) and initiated the creation of the BD, Comics and Manga Working Group at the EDRLab, which led to the emergence of the «DiViNa» standard for all types of visual storytelling.

He is a former editor of comics and art books.