# With Nicolai > Personal, private AI consultancy for leaders, led by Nicolai Thomson. Start with a half-day Diagnostic on your own work, then go as far as you need: Transform over six months, or Implement across the business. Canonical page: https://nicolai-ai.vercel.app/ Pricing currency: USD. Programme prices for visitors outside the United Kingdom or where location is unavailable. The first conversation is a free half-hour everywhere. This is a text version of the public page, generated from its HTML. Programme scope, availability and terms are agreed before booking. ![](/assets/transform-hero.webp) AI, for people who lead # Run your business from one Monday-morning brief. I build the system that reads your board pack, your inbox and your meeting notes overnight, and tells you what changed, what’s at risk and what needs you, before anyone has to ask. Then I sit with you until it’s simply how you lead. Personally, privately, a handful of leaders at a time. [Start with the Diagnostic](https://nicolai-ai.vercel.app/diagnostic) Personally led by Nicolai Thomson [A new perspective](https://nicolai-ai.vercel.app/#perspective) The Diagnostic · Transform · Implement A clearer pictureThe work is changing. So can the way you lead. ## You shouldn’t have to chase the picture to see the whole. The information exists. It just rarely arrives together. It’s in the meeting you missed. The project update you haven’t seen. The note you remember writing. AI becomes useful when it brings that context into the work you’re doing now. We build around your judgement, your priorities and your business. What changes Perspective ### See across the organisation. Connect agreed reports, project activity and meeting notes. Surface changes, risks and dependencies without asking everyone for another update. A leadership brief, linked to its sources. Context ### A second brain. Built around yours. Put your knowledge, conversations and decisions to work again. Find the thinking you need and make connections you might otherwise miss. Relevant context before the next decision. Action ### Useful systems. In everyday work. Turn recurring work into a considered workflow. Prepare a briefing, shape a proposal or follow through on a meeting, with you reviewing the result. A first draft that uses your own standards. Nicolai Thomson ## I’ve run the company. I’ve been the CTO. I’ve carried the sales number. That’s why the systems I build get used: I know what Monday morning feels like from your chair. My recent work includes second brains and AI chief-of-staff systems, UKOPRA’s operating platform and financial AI, on top of twenty years as a founder, seller and operator. I build one thing well: a system that knows what you know, your notes, your decisions and your conversations, and brings the right piece back when you need it. [Mentor, Oxford Agentic Bootcamp](https://oxfordagentic.com/) [Meet Nicolai](https://nicolai-ai.vercel.app/about) ![Sculptural metal forms joining into one continuous path](/assets/transform-hero.webp) Transform The programme at the heart of it ## Your next operating environment. Six months to change how information reaches you, how knowledge is retained and how work moves forward. Four on-site half-days. Practical development around your real work. Support to involve your team, followed by a clear briefing and handover to product and engineering. US$11,500 \+ travel expenses [Discover Transform](https://nicolai-ai.vercel.app/transform) How Transform takes shapeSix months, built around real work ### Define Map how information reaches you today. Agree what needs to change and what progress will look like. ### Build & use Develop the systems around your actual work. Use them between sessions and refine what matters. ### Embed Bring the right colleagues in. Brief product and engineering so the context and next steps are clear. The principle You don’t need to build the network to use the phone. “I don’t teach people how to build AI. I teach people how to use AI.”Nicolai Thomson Three ways to work togetherWhere I suggest you begin ## Start small. Go as far as you need. I suggest you begin with the Diagnostic; what you pay for it comes off Transform. If you already know what you need, we can start further along. [Start here ### The Diagnostic Half a day on your own work. You leave with a brief that runs and a clear view of what to do next. US$3,450Credited against Transform Explore The Diagnostic](https://nicolai-ai.vercel.app/diagnostic)[The programme at the heart of it ### Transform Six months to make the brief part of how you lead, with your team brought in when you’re ready. US$11,500\+ travel expenses Explore Transform](https://nicolai-ai.vercel.app/transform)[Across the business ### Implement Twelve months as the CEO’s right hand, taking the change into every team. US$69,000\+ travel expenses Explore Implement](https://nicolai-ai.vercel.app/implement) A conversation with Nicolai ## Start with a conversation. Tell me a little about your situation in the short brief below. It takes about three minutes and only I read it. If it looks like a fit, you’ll get a link to book a free half-hour with me. If it doesn’t, I’ll say so plainly and point you somewhere more useful. 30 minutes with Nicolai ### A half-hour, in confidence. Where most conversations begin. Share your brief first so I have the context before we speak. You’ll then be able to choose a time on Cal.com. A free half-hour. No card details, no obligation. Already spoken with me?[Book a time directly](https://cal.com/withnicolai/30min) Before you decide ## A little clarity. ### Should I start with the Diagnostic? That’s my advice. Half a day on your real work tells us both more than any number of calls, and what you pay for it comes off Transform if you continue within sixty days. If you already know you want Transform, we can begin there. ### How much capacity is available? I keep delivery to two half-days a week, so each engagement gets proper attention. Dates are agreed personally, and places open as engagements complete. ### Which tools will we use? Whatever you already have, wherever we can. Scope, access and any tool costs are agreed in writing before you commit to anything.