Founders

Two sides of the same job

Strategy firms deliver decks. Dev shops deliver code nobody adopts. NikkSi ships working AI and brings people with it — because that is one job, not two.

Co-founder. Change management and organisational readiness.

Nikki Hanson

Twenty years of business change and transformation work across financial services, higher education, manufacturing, logistics and the public sector — Deutsche Bank, FedEx, Jaguar Land Rover, Munich Re, E.ON, University of Nottingham among them. Rare combination of Prosci ADKAR, Kotter, PRINCE2 and LEAN methodologies layered on top of a formal psychology education (BSc + PGDip). Leads on the bit most AI delivery misses: the human resistance that decides whether AI adoption actually lands.

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Co-founder. AI development and commercial strategy.

Simon Bastin-Mitchell

Two decades in commercial operations — quoting, pricing, compliance, the sharp end of running a real business where margin, adoption and speed all mattered at once. Shipped three AI products before NikkSi, covering shade matching, property discovery, and personal AI tooling. Builds the working AI — the products, platforms and internal tools that businesses actually use.

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