Simon Bastin-Mitchell

I partnered with Nikki Hanson to build Nikksi because the bit most AI delivery misses isn’t the tech — it’s adoption. Nikki has twenty years leading business change across Deutsche Bank, FedEx, Jaguar Land Rover, Munich Re, and the public sector, with a psychology background underneath it. The work I ship and the work she lands is one job, not two. Read her full bio here.

Two decades in commercial operations came before AI. That background informs the approach — understanding what actually breaks in a business is the foundation for building AI that fixes it. Software gets built in close contact with the teams that will use it, not thrown over a wall.

Strategy firms deliver decks. Dev shops deliver code nobody adopts. Nikksi does the build and the adoption together, and Simon’s half of the partnership is the build.