John Ellison

About

I run Vibrana, a boutique AI Transformation studio that helps enterprises transform into AI-native organizations. We go into companies with 150 to 500 people and create the human, technical and political infrastructure to realize the full potential of AI across every department. We build a machine-readable map of the org, inventory every key workflow for automation, and train each team with a customized curriculum. In just 12 weeks, the agentic flywheel is spinning and your team runs it while we're gone. No license, no retainer, nothing that needs us back in the room. We've just open-sourced AIOS, the system Vibrana itself runs on to operate as an agentic team. A structured workspace harness per person, one shared brain that learns how the org actually works. Self-hosted, MIT-licensed. Before this I spent years in climate crypto and civic tech, then stepped away from startup life for a sabbatical. Music, documentary filmmaking, time with indigenous communities whose relationship to technology looks nothing like Silicon Valley's. I came back with a real question, not a slogan: as AI takes over more of the actual doing, what are humans for? If your org has the word 'agents' in slide

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