AI FOR EXECUTIVE TEAMS
Your team is ready for AI. Let's give them the knowledge to make it real.
AI lifts the ceiling on the potential of every person on your team. The best gift you can give them is the skills to make that real.
Experience includes
The journey
Three opportunities created by AI adoption
Lift the ceiling on individual potential
Your best people feel super-charged because AI unlocks their creativity by expanding what they can achieve.
Design for expanded team potential
Leadership has a generational opportunity to redesign how the work is organized so the expansion of team potential shows up in the firm's results.
Compound the firm's expertise across engagements
Your firm's expertise gets captured and reused, so every new engagement starts from the firm's best prior work.
Your Principal Consultant

AI consulting isn't really about AI, it's about your people and the work they do. The technology is just an enabler that amplifies their capabilities. When your people and process are aligned, the technology delivers, when they're not, no AI tool fixes it.
The work I do meets your team where they are, whether you're just getting started with AI or you already have power users and want the rest of the firm to compound on what they've built. Every engagement is built around your company, your people, and the specific challenges you're working through. That specificity is what makes the work stick beyond the session.
Nick DiCarlo
Principal, The Control Surface
Former COO, Samsung VP, Startup Leader (Exit)
Based in Houston, TX · Fractional CAIO engagements for local firms
Start Small, Scale What Works
Every engagement is customized. Pick the format that fits your team today.
AI Executive Quick Start (2hrs)
Starting at $2,000
A hands-on workshop customized to your company where every executive leaves with AI running on their own device, applied to their actual work.
Learn moreThis 2-hour hands-on workshop is built around your use cases relevant to your industry. I research your business, your industry and your team's specific roles and challenges and build custom exercises.
Your team walks out with their AI account populated with their own context and a clear understanding where AI fits in their daily work. They feel empowered because it is exactly the help they needed.
This is the fastest way to find out if we should work together on something bigger.
Workflow Build Session
Half-day in your office
Your team is using AI daily, but your core client work hasn't changed as much as you expected. We help you turn one of those workflows into an AI-augmented version that compresses a week into hours, so your team can go deeper on the work your clients value most.
Learn moreIndividual team members using AI daily to great effect doesn't automatically show up in the firm's major deliverables. Scaling that to firm-level impact takes deliberate work, and we show you how.
Off-the-shelf AI (Claude, ChatGPT) gives results that don't carry your firm's expertise. To embed your expertise, we need to define the work so it can be shared. We pick one of your core workflows, decompose it into stages, and rebuild it so AI does the upfront work. This includes a self-evaluation system built from your firm's historical best work, so the AI scores its own drafts against your standard.
You leave with a working version of that workflow and evaluation system your team uses the next day. A week of work compresses to a few hours, and the recovered time goes to deeper analysis than your historical standard. The edge isn't volume, it's higher quality on the work your clients value most.
Executive Prototyping
30-minute kickoff, working prototype in days
You can describe the tool your team needs but you can't test the idea without committing months and budget. I build a working prototype using AI in days, so you can validate the idea quickly.
Learn moreYou can describe the tool your team needs but you can't test the idea without committing months and budget to a full build. Engineering capacity is booked and onboarding a vendor takes weeks and is expensive, so the idea stays on a whiteboard.
AI coding tools have collapsed the cost of a working prototype to days, not months. You describe what you need in a 30-minute kickoff. I build a working version using the latest AI coding and design tools, usually in 4 hours to a week. This process is a great way to stress test ideas and accelerate decision making.
If it works, you have a clear spec for what to build and a working demo to make the case. If it doesn't, you saved months and the budget that would have gone with it. Either way, you understand how AI prototyping can accelerate your business and you can apply that on your own.
Fractional AI Leadership
1 to 3 month engagements
Your team is experimenting with AI but the board sees activity, not impact. I embed with your leadership team for 1 to 3 months and convert experimentation into a small set of board-ready AI initiatives.
Learn moreYour team is experimenting with AI and the early wins are real. The work isn't yet connected to your business strategy, and the board sees activity, not impact on growth, revenue, or profitability.
The answer is two tracks running at once: keep your team's bottom-up experimentation going, run a top-down strategic assessment in parallel that names the growth and profitability drivers in plain business terms, and synthesize the two into a small set of board-ready initiatives. I embed with your leadership team for 1 to 3 months and structure the work across both tracks.
You leave with a small, defensible set of board-ready AI initiatives. The shift is from "our team is experimenting with AI" to "AI is driving measurable business outcomes."
Track Record
Two decades of building products, leading teams, and scaling operations across consumer electronics, real estate, and venture-backed startups.
Samsung Electronics America (10 years, VP): Helped build the Galaxy smartphone brand as Samsung Mobile USA grew from $2B to $18B. Led the Samsung + Oculus VR partnership, shipping immersive products at the leading edge of consumer technology.
Roomored (Chief Product Officer): Built a cloud-based Unreal Engine design visualization platform for home builders. Grew ARR and exited to Interior Logic Group (Blackstone portfolio).
Camillo Companies (COO, Top 40 US Home Builder): Founded Abodefy, a 0-to-1 venture selling homes online. Then served as COO overseeing construction operations (1,000+ homes/year) and leading enterprise technology deployments including JDE, Entrata, and Salesforce.
GE and Nokia (Early Career): Factory operations and Six Sigma Master Black Belt at GE. Then five years at Nokia during the birth of mobile, from 1G through the smartphone era.
Education
MBA, UT Austin McCombs School of Business
BS Mechanical Engineering, Bucknell University
“My team is using AI like champs. We're really good at it. You should try it too.”
Your peer-dinner brag, six months in.