Not sure where to start with AI?We help bring clarity amid the noise.

Metanola helps small businesses, mission-driven organizations, and the people who run them decide where AI fits, where it does not, and what to do next.

Enterprise practice · Local scale · New Orleans

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A01 The premise

New tools ship fasterthan anyone can evaluate them.

A new tool, feature, or model lands almost every week, each one arriving with a claim on how you work. No owner has time to test all of it, and most of it will never matter to you. We filter the noise, work out what genuinely fits, and put it where it belongs. Your workflow should not bend around a new AI tool. The tool should fit the way your team already works.

How the work moves

Discovery

Goals, workflows, people, tools, data, and risk. We sit with the team and find the real friction, not the assumed one.

Prioritize

We rank opportunities by value, feasibility, effort, readiness, and responsibility. The result is a decision, not a backlog.

Implement

We build the playbook, develop the use cases you choose, and stay with it until your team is actually using them.

B02 How we help

Three ways in.Each one builds on the last.

Before any of it · Free

The Readiness Scorecard

Eleven questions, about three minutes, scored on the page. An honest readout of where you stand against published baselines, where AI could give you time back, and what to do next, before you ever talk to us.

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Start here

Exploration

Start with Exploration →

The discovery piece. We interview the people doing the work, map how it actually moves, and surface the opportunities and workflow efficiencies already sitting inside it. The lightest way to begin.

Get the roadmap

The Compass

Book the Compass →

Exploration, plus the decision that follows it. We go deeper on the opportunities worth pursuing, rank them against your constraints, and hand you a complete adoption playbook with the use cases already prioritized.

Keep a guide close

The Navigator

Talk it through →

A deeper partnership where we become an extension of your team. We develop the prioritized use cases alongside your people and steer adoption while it takes hold.

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Governance models

What is allowed, what is not, who decides, and what happens when the answer is unclear.

Company Brain

Capture institutional knowledge and make it accessible to your people, your assistants, and your next hire.

Tool and vendor vetting

Bring us in when you are being pitched or sold a new tool, before you sign, renew, or expand.

Prompt library development

A tested, documented set of prompts your team can reuse instead of rewriting from scratch.

Prototypes and internal tools

Small working software built to test an idea before the organization commits to it.

Thought leadership

Board briefings, leadership sessions, and written pieces. Small rooms rather than big stages.

Every engagement is scoped in conversation. You will know exactly what the work is, what it costs, and what you walk away with before you commit. If you do not need us, we will tell you. That is the point of starting honest.

A quieter practice · Metanola Private

Personal AI, for work and life.

One advisor, one person at a time, for people whose time is worth more than the learning curve. No jargon, no coding, no endless list of tools. Mostly by introduction.

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C03 AI for good

The box is open.What matters now is who is holding it.

AI is not going back in the box, and pretending otherwise helps nobody. It is a tool. Like any tool it can build or it can wreck, and the only part any of us can influence is how many careful people are holding one. We need more people using it for good.

Accessible creativity · Work led at Adobe

A new path to creative expression for Steve Gleason.

Working with Steve Gleason and Team Gleason, Adam explored how eye tracking and Adobe Firefly could open a new form of creative expression, grounded in Steve's earlier drawings and new ideas.

Technology matters when it expands what people can do.

Context

ALS, accessibility, creative expression

Output

Seven works shown in New Orleans

Partners

Adobe and Team Gleason

Role

Exploration, enablement, collaboration

Read the Adobe story ↗

Attribution note: this work belongs to Adam's body of work at Adobe. It is not a Metanola client engagement.

Metanola Labs

Experiment

We test tools and workflows here before any of it reaches a recommendation.

Develop

Working prototypes and internal tools, built small and tested early.

Create

Projects that begin with a question rather than a client brief.

If a recommendation ever reaches you, it came through Labs first.

D04 Who you will work with

Enterprise transformation, at local scale.

Metanola is led by Adam Wood, an AI adoption and digital transformation advisor whose work spans Fortune 500 companies, AI product teams, nonprofits, and civic organizations. He led enterprise transformation at Adobe, worked closely with Team Gleason on accessible creativity with Adobe Firefly, and serves on the boards of French Quarter Festivals and 504GOOD.

"Identify the curious problem solvers. Turn them into champions. Watch them lead the change."
The Metanola operating belief

Enterprise transformation leadership at Adobe
AI product adoption and change management
Adobe Firefly and Team Gleason accessible creativity project
Board service with French Quarter Festivals and 504GOOD
Independent advisory for business and mission-driven organizations

E05 Connect

Tell us what is not working.

You do not need a polished brief. Name the decision, the bottleneck, or the pressure you are feeling. Adam reads every note and replies within two business days.

adam@metanola.ai

Not ready to write yet? Take the Scorecard and bring the readout when you are.

Where

New Orleans based. Available for remote work and selected on site engagements.

Open to

Assessments, working sessions, ongoing advisory, select speaking, and mission-aligned collaborations.

Response

Adam reads every note. No mailing list, no automated sequence, just a real reply.