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AI Transformation Studio

We build forthe edgeof two futures.

About Vibrana

Vibrana sits between transhumanist ambition and planetary crisis, building the agentic systems that let organizations move fast without losing what matters.

Why it matters

AI transformation is a people change first.

The hard part of AI isn't the tools - it's the redesign. The habits, hand-offs, and org structures built for a pre-AI world quietly smother new capability before it takes hold. We believe the goal of transformation should be to build lasting capacity - for your people, your organization, and the world we all depend on. We treat this work as what it is: the hardest professional change most teams will go through, and one worth doing properly.

What we do

We implement. We don't advise.

Most AI initiatives stall because someone wrote a plan and left. We do the opposite: we pair with your internal teams to build in your environment, mapping how the organization really works, standing up the agentic systems that run on that map, and training every person for their actual job. When we leave, your people own the systems and know how to evolve them.

How we work

Senior-led. Hands-on. Yours to keep.

Senior people do the work

The people you meet are the people on your engagement, with no hand-off to a pyramid of juniors.

We build in your environment

We pair with your teams and ship inside your stack, so the systems and the know-how stay with you.

We leave you self-sufficient

Every engagement trains a named internal lead who can run and evolve what we built after we go.

The team

The people who do the work.

16 years buildingBJ Fogg certified teacher

16 years turning vision into working software, including two exits (Peak Democracy to OpenGov; Goodery) and co-founding ReFi DAO. Trained directly under Dr. BJ Fogg through his Behavior Design Teacher Team Training Program and is on his official certified teaching team. Now helps companies put AI to work in how they actually operate.

Org psychologyGoogle · Snapchat · WEF

Leads the human side of transformation: the habits, hand-offs, and org design work that decide whether AI actually sticks. An organizational psychologist (master's degrees in social & organizational and forensic psychology), she has worked with Google, Snapchat, and the World Economic Forum.

AI PhD, UC BerkeleyFounder & CEO, Rio

An AI PhD (UC Berkeley) with 10+ years launching AI products, now founder and CEO of Rio. Builds the machine-learning core of our work, including the Insights Engine behind AIOS.

8+ years AI engFormerly Microsoft

A senior AI engineer with 8+ years in the field, formerly at Microsoft. An end-to-end builder across LLMs, RAG, and agent systems, and the lead technical hand who ships production systems on our engagements.

EU AI Act specialistFounder, AdaptAI

An executive coach and organizational psychologist, founder of AdaptAI. Leads our governance and compliance work, including the EU AI Act, and paces adoption so your people's questions are heard and answered before anything changes.

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We're looking for principal-level, multidisciplinary AI transformation specialists: deep expertise in one domain, 10+ years of experience, comfortable being the senior person in the room on day one.

John Ellison, founder
Fatma Ghedira, co-founder
Chetan Nandakumar, principal
Abe Isleem, principal
Stephan Ledain, principal

Founder's Note

AI is the largest technological disruption any of us will ever see. The temptation - and the risk - is rushing into it through agentic systems that displace human intelligence, judgment, and values.

Vibrana takes a different path. We help companies navigate the AI transition in a way that honors human capital, human intelligence, and human connection. We treat the workforce as a first-order priority, shifting productivity gains away from workforce reduction and toward increased capacity, more products, more services, and more innovation in service of life.

We now have access to tools that can address planetary challenges at scale. We don't need more widgets. We need systems designed in harmony with the earth. AI, robotics, IoT automation - we can now sense and respond to the needs of the earth in every supply chain, every value system, every material flow, and finally create alignment at the base layer.

That's the vision and the calling: to help companies do this in a way that works for the business, the bottom line, the people who work there, the customers we serve, and the planet - the ultimate stakeholder we all depend on to survive.

Technology should serve life, not extract from it.

John Ellison
John Ellison
Founder, Vibrana

For organizations

AI Readiness Assessment

Answer a few questions about your organization and receive an automated readiness report. This helps us understand your situation before we talk.

What you'll learn

24 questions (22 for teams of 50 or fewer) about what your organization does today, across six areas: leadership, data, technology, talent, governance and culture. Then, if you like, name up to three workflows and see the hours AI could free in each.

  • A six-area profile built from what your organization does today
  • The specific answers behind your two lowest areas
  • The hours AI could free in the workflows you name
  • Where to start, and the next steps for your lowest areas

Your score and report appear when you finish, and a copy goes to your inbox.

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Company Information

Enter your work email to get started.

We read your public website for context. Your score comes only from your answers.

Vibrana keeps your contact details, answers, scores, any workflows you name and our written analysis. We then send up to four follow-up emails about your results over the next two weeks (each one has an unsubscribe link that cancels the rest, and replying "stop" works too). We read the website on your form with Firecrawl. An open-weight AI model reached through OpenRouter writes your analysis from that page, your company name, your answers and scores, any workflows you name and signals such as the time you took. A second model checks it. Read the privacy policy or email hello@vibrana.ai to access, correct, object to follow-up, or delete your data.