AI strategy and implementation for the enterprise.

NextAI Consulting helps mid-to-large enterprises move from AI ambition to production — with the seniority, technical depth, and opinionated judgement to know what's worth building, and what isn't.

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Founded
2025 · Independent practice
Engagements
6–16 weeks, fixed scope
Focus
AI Transformation for the Enterprise
Principal
Ben Collier ↗
What we do

Three ways to engage and drive results

We don't sell decks or generic AI enablement frameworks. Every engagement is scoped to a concrete outcome — a strategy you can defend, a system you can ship, or a team that can keep going without us.

01 / Strategy

Agentic Engineering & Functional Enablement

A prioritised plan for where agentic engineering and AI tooling earn their keep across your functional teams — and where they don't.

6–8 weeks · executive readout
02 / Build

Implementation & Coaching

Work alongside pilot teams to build AI-native workflows that drive results — embedded delivery, not a research project.

10–16 weeks · embedded delivery
03 / Enable

Team Enablement

Lift your engineering and product teams to ship AI capably and safely — long after the engagement ends.

4–8 weeks · workshops & pairing
How we work

A method built for accountable delivery.

Every engagement runs the same loop: short, written commitments; tight feedback cycles; and an end-state measured against the outcome we agreed on day one — not the work we happened to do.

  1. Frame

    A short diagnostic. We pressure-test the problem, the data, and the buy-in — then write down what success looks like.

    Week 1

  2. Prototype

    A focused prototype against real team goals and challenges. Evaluate impact towards the goal.

    Weeks 2–4

  3. Refine

    Refine the systems, tools, and team approach against real use. Tighten what's working, cut what isn't, lock in the practices that scale.

    Weeks 5–10

  4. Hand off

    Your team owns it. We document, we pair, we leave evals and a runbook — and we stay reachable.

    Weeks 11–12

Why NextAI

Strategy that ships.

The hard part of AI transformation isn't the deck — it's the distance between the deck and the first working result. I close that distance personally. I'll set and defend the strategy with your C-suite and board, then plug in alongside your pilot team to deliver the results that prove it out.

$1B+

in enterprise value built across three successful exits:

Maker Studios → Disney Rival → Ticketmaster Pacvue $120M → $1B+
20years

scaling product and engineering through pre-product, hyper-growth, and the enterprise.

5industries

gaming, creator economy, live events, ecommerce, and AI consulting.

1principal

end-to-end. No analysts, no handoffs.

About

The principal.

NextAI is led and delivered by one person. That's a feature, not a constraint.

Ben Collier

Principal & Founder

Ben Collier is a product and engineering leader who's helped build technology companies to more than $1B in exit value across gaming, digital media, live events, and AI commerce. Most recently he was Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Product Officer at Pacvue, where he led product, data, and AI teams as enterprise value grew from $120M to over $1B. Earlier, he was the first technology executive at Maker Studios (acquired by Disney) and employee #2 at Rival (acquired by Ticketmaster/Live Nation).

He now leads NextAI Consulting, providing AI strategy and fractional CPTO services to companies ready to build AI-native.

LinkedIn ↗ ben@nextai.consulting
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Have a problem worth solving? Let's talk about it.

Most engagements start with a 30-minute conversation. Grab a time that works for you.