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AI: Measured. Explained. Applied.

AI raises more questions than organizations can answer. Nestor helps leaders, businesses, and governments make sense of AI, decide what matters, and act with confidence: through advisory, executive education, and keynotes.

Organizations Briefed

How Nestor Can Help

Three ways to navigate with Nestor.

AI is unfamiliar ground for most organizations. Nestor helps leaders understand their AI position, chart a course, and move forward with confidence.

01 Enterprise AI Advisory

An honest, measured and personalized assessment of where your organization stands, what to prioritize, and how to move forward. End-to-end support from strategy to implementation.

02 Keynotes & Briefings

The state of AI and what it means for organizations: from the former editor-in-chief of the Stanford AI Index. Data-driven talks for boards, conferences, and leadership offsites.

03 Executive Education

AI fluency for the boardroom and the entire workforce. Workshops and reskilling programs drawing on years of experience educating executives and teaching AI at Stanford.

Who Nestor Serves

Nestor works with

Executives, boards & leadership teams

C-suite leaders, boards and senior teams deciding where AI fits in their strategy, operations and workforce.

Governments & public institutions

Policymakers, regulators and public agencies shaping how AI is governed, adopted and overseen.

Managers & front-line teams

Managers, practitioners and teams across the organization looking for training, upskilling and support for putting AI to work.

Cited By

Why Nestor

Five years of experience building the most trusted global report on AI. Now he brings that discipline to your strategy.

As Editor-in-Chief of Stanford HAI’s AI Index, Nestor helped lead the report governments, journalists, and Fortune 500 boards trust for an unbiased take on the state of AI. He also co-authored the International AI Safety Report (2026) and currently remains a part-time Research Associate at Stanford.

Today, Nestor helps businesses put AI to work, productively and responsibly, with the same discipline he brought to the world’s most cited report on AI. No hype, no vendor pitch: just an honest assessment of where you stand and what to do next.

50+

Organizations Briefed

30+

Governmental Bodies Citing Nestor

1500+

Media Citations Worldwide

4700+

Academic Citations

INSIGHTS

From the record.

Report

15 September 2026

AI Companions: Emerging Evidence, Open Questions, and Paths Toward Responsible Design

A new report from Stanford’s Tech Impact and Policy Center is offering one of the first cross-sector attempts to make sense of a technology moving faster than the research meant to understand it: AI companions.

Opinions

23 July 2026

The AI Race Will Be Won on Price, Not Intelligence

An opinion piece exploring how the history of previous technologies like steel and DRAM suggests that business leadership goes to whoever reaches the frontier cheaply, not whoever reaches it first.

Report

14 April 2026

Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2026

The most recent version of the AI Index report unpacks the latest AI trends from technical performance to economics, geopolitics to public opinion and more. Some of the top highlights include the continued climb of AI capabilities, staggering rates of AI adoption and record revenues reported by major AI developers.

THE DIRECT LINE

Every engagement is answered by the principal.

No leverage model, no junior teams, no vendor to sell. Write directly and the reply comes from Nestor.