About
Most AI projects don't fail on the technology. They fail in the space between the technology and the operation: the vague process, the missing guardrail, the team that was never brought along. Tillerbridge exists to cover that space, so we staff both sides of it, with senior people who do the work themselves.
Our team
Engineering, product & data
A software engineer for fifteen-plus years, across the full stack and into data and infrastructure. Nick builds multi-step AI systems in production, spent four years teaching web development, and has shipped for companies from startups to acquired scale-ups. He writes about applied AI at nmajor.com. Lisbon, Portugal.
Go-to-market & operations
Eight-plus years on the operating side of growth, scaling sales, customer experience, and outsourcing teams across global enterprises, with VP-level roles in growth, client solutions, and revenue operations. Isaac has watched AI work inside companies and watched it quietly stall, and the difference is usually the process, not the model. He writes at isaacmajor.com. Salt Lake City, Utah.
The name
A tiller is the arm that steers a boat. A bridge gets you across. The name is the job description: steering established companies across the transition into AI, without wrecking what already works. That's as far as we'll push the metaphor.
The other two organizations
Alongside the consultancy we run two non-commercial organizations, and it's worth being plain about how they relate. The rule is simple: common founders, separate brands, nothing funnels.
The Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence publishes neutral research and original data on how established companies actually use AI: methodologically careful work like tracking how AI shows up in what public companies tell investors in their filings. It sells nothing and carries no calls to action.
The Association for Executive AI Leadership is an invitation-only peer network for executives accountable for AI inside traditional companies: small confidential roundtables, vendor-free and sponsor-free by published rule. No seat is for sale, and no member is ever pitched, by anyone, including us.
Both are founder-led initiatives we work on in good faith, and both are firewalled from this practice: they never sell, never pass along leads, and never carry a "hire us." They don't even share our look, on purpose. What they give Tillerbridge is discipline, not customers. The research keeps our recommendations honest, the roundtables keep us close to the problems executives actually have, and you can judge the quality of our thinking by what the two organizations publish and convene.
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