Ánimo is an enterprise AI deployment firm for companies of 5–50 employees. We design, deploy, and document a portable intelligence layer — then instrument it so you can measure what it's actually worth. No internal dev team required.
"The power of modern AI intelligence is complementing the incredible brains that Anthropic and Open AI have created, and layering the context and scaffolding around your company, your values, your data, and making sure employees can access all the information they need in one platform. Winning AI is simply intelligence times company context engineering"
— Jonathan Nichols, Founder and CEO
Why I started Ánimo — Jon Nichols, Founder and CEO
Most consultancies sell tools you can't maintain, or build solutions locked to a single vendor. Ánimo is an enterprise AI deployment firm — focused only on the intelligence layer — that designs your stack to be portable, documented, and operable by your real team. Whether you start on Anthropic, Gemini, or OpenAI, your architecture moves with you. And when it's live, we instrument it: usage metrics, quality evals, and a back-end ROI report so you know what the investment actually returned. Specific beats generic, every time.
The right starting point for most companies. You get a working, documented, vendor-portable AI layer — built for your team, not for a demo.
Workflow audit, data inventory, security posture, and a prioritized use-case backlog. We find where AI creates real value before writing a line of code.
Your AI sounds like your company. We encode your voice, org context, and communication patterns into a portable system prompt and skill library.
The intelligence layer itself: skills, MCP data connectors, identity controls, and multi-device rollout. Vendor-portable from day one.
Eval harness, data freshness monitoring, quarterly intelligence reviews, and a back-end ROI report — so you can see exactly what your investment returned. 12-month support included.
For companies ready to go further: a fully customized agent workforce wired into your workflows — the same kind of system we run internally.
We design and deploy a team of specialized AI agents — each scoped to a specific function — working synchronously across your tasks and data. Sales, ops, research, communications: the work runs in parallel, not in a queue.
Every agent workforce needs a coordinator. We build a complete agent console — including a head-of-staff layer that routes tasks, manages context, and keeps the team working together. You get a single point of control over the whole system.
We prefer Claude — it's the best model for the kinds of structured, agentic work most businesses need. But we build every architecture as a headless intelligence layer: skills as markdown, prompts as plain text, MCP for data, agnostic auth. If you ever need to move to Gemini or OpenAI, the artifacts come with you.
Your investment is in your intelligence — not someone else's API.
Your stack, portable.
Transparent onboarding & deployment hub, that acts as the project management tool for first 60 days, and then gives the tools your employees need to integrate and understand the process.
Stakeholder interviews, data audit, security review, and prioritized use-case backlog.
Architecture diagram, brand kit, skill library outline, and signed scope for build.
Connectors built, skills authored, evals running, team trained on day-to-day operation.
Production rollout, welcome guide for end users, and the 12-month support clock starts.
The first call starts with you, not us. We want to understand your culture, your data, and the work that's quietly eating your team's hours. Once we have that picture, we'll follow up with a tailored proposal — and a pitch that's actually about your business.
30-minute discovery call. We start by listening — your culture, your data, the things eating your team's time. The pitch comes after we understand what you actually need.
Want to see how AI-ready your business is? The assessment takes 3 minutes and gives you a rough score — useful context for the call.
All inquiries reach Jonathan Nichols, CEO & Founder.