About

Nicholas Harris

Builder. Operator. Dad. I am an AI-native operator working at the intersection of generative AI and consumer growth. President at CreativeOS, where production AI powers workflows for 25,000+ brands. Founder at Automatic, an AI consultancy for consumer brands. Three exits, decades of consumer-brand operations from SMB to nine-figure scale. Currently open to VP AI, AI Transformation, Head of Growth, and Fractional CTO roles at consumer-facing companies.

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Now

I am President at CreativeOS, an AI-powered SaaS platform serving 25,000+ consumer brands with production LLM workflows, image generation, and AI agent orchestration. I also run Automatic, an AI consultancy I founded in 2024 to help consumer brands ship production AI (not demos). I advise Magic Mind on growth and AI integration.

Day to day, I am shipping AI inside consumer workflows, hiring engineers and operators, and writing the playbook on what production AI actually looks like outside the demo reel.

Looking for

I am open to VP AI, AI Transformation, Head of Growth, and Fractional CTO roles at consumer-facing companies. Remote, Phoenix metro, or Monterey Peninsula preferred. I take on selective AI consulting engagements through Automatic when the problem is worth my time and the operator on the other side is serious.

If you are running a consumer brand and want AI that moves a P&L line (not a press release), send a note.

Track record

I have operated consumer-brand growth from SMB through nine-figure scale. I have built the marketing technology stack at NASM, productized CRO into an 11x EBITDA exit at SplitTesting.com, run optimization across a DTC portfolio at Acadia, and shipped AI workflows at consumer scale at CreativeOS. Three exits over the arc.

110.6% e-commerce growth at NASM 11x EBITDA exit at SplitTesting.com 27.8% avg conversion lift at Acadia 17% MoM at nine-figure scale (Veyl) 2.3x paid media efficiency at ISSA 25,000+ brands at CreativeOS Three career exits Best of Arizona Business x4

Operating history

PresidentCreativeOS, present
FounderAutomatic, 2024 to present
Advisor, Growth and AIMagic Mind, 2023 to present
SVP MarketingISSA, 2023 to 2024
Partner, Head of OptimizationAcadia, 2023
Founder and CEOSplitTesting.com, 2022 to 2023 (exited)
Senior Director of GrowthVeyl Ventures, 2021 to 2022
Head of GrowthNASM, 2019 to 2022
Director of Marketing OperationsEnjoy Arizona, 2011 to 2019
Founder and CEOMy Discount Tech / Fast Fix, 2008 to 2020 (sold)

How I think

The work is 90% thinking, 10% prompting. Most teams flip those numbers and wonder why their AI ships demoware. The V1 Framework is the methodology I use to keep that ratio honest: strip assumptions, decompose to the irreducible unit of work, constrain the problem, define done, then instruct. The instruction is the easy part if you did the thinking.

The same logic scales up. The AI Transformation Playbook runs the same discipline across the five phases of a real program: diagnose, anchor, pilot, scale, operate. The mistake most consumer brands make is buying tools before picking the anchor. I take the opposite stance. Anchor first, tools last.

I am a builder-operator. I write code, I run P&Ls, I hire teams, I ship product. The reason any of that compounds is that I do not split those identities. The same person who writes the spec runs the standup and reviews the migration. That is what production AI requires now.

Education

Building and Leading Effective TeamsMIT Open Learning
Advanced StrategyMIT Open Learning
Practical LeadershipMIT Open Learning
Executing Strategy for ResultsMIT Open Learning
Readings in OptimizationMIT Open Learning

Get in touch

Best route is email. I read everything that lands at [email protected] and reply to the ones that warrant it. LinkedIn works for context and connections. Automatic is the front door for paid AI consulting engagements.

Based in Mesa, AZ. Open to remote, Phoenix metro, or Monterey Peninsula.