About · Nexo

A small firm, for the next chapter.

Nexo was founded on a simple observation: the people with the most experience are the ones being left out of the AI conversation. We built this firm to sit on their side of the table.

Founded
2025, Spain
Team
Four, by design
Clients
Family firms & SMEs
Languages
Español · English
Why we exist

Big consultancies chase big corporations. Tech companies speak over people's heads. And the leaders who built the economy, from experienced business owners to senior executives to family firms, are left alone at the table.

Nexo's founding note, spring 2025
The story

A firm that begins with the question, not the tool.

Nexo grew out of conversations that kept repeating themselves.

A founder of a 40-year-old family business describing how every AI demo she'd been shown felt like it was in a language she hadn't been taught. A CEO whispering that he'd spent €60k on a transformation deck and still didn't know what to do on Monday morning. A director quietly asking, in a hallway, what a prompt was.

Between us: change management, engineering, consumer goods, design. We had a combined thirty years of watching organisations try to evolve, and we'd watched enough transformations fail, not because of technology, but because no one had translated it patiently.

So we built a firm whose first job isn't to sell a framework — but to sit next to you, and translate.

We work in small engagements. We use real AI, with your real data, in your real context. We speak your language. Literally. We don't hide behind a methodology; we explain what we're doing and why, every step.

We turn down work we shouldn't take. We say "we don't know" when we don't. We send our clients home with skills, not dependencies.

It's a quiet way to run a consultancy. We think it's the only honest one.

See how we work
Principles

Four rules we keep.

These aren't marketing lines. They're the filter we run every engagement through: before, during, and after. When we break one, the client has our permission to call it out.

i.

Patience as a method.

We'll explain the same thing three ways if it takes three ways. Understanding isn't a bottleneck — it's the work.

ii.

Tools, not theories.

Every session ends with something you've actually done. If you can't re-do it alone on Monday, we haven't finished.

iii.

Respect for what exists.

We start from what you've built. Thirty years of judgement doesn't get replaced by a prompt. It gets amplified by one.

iv.

Plain language, always.

If we use a term we haven't earned the right to use, stop us. Jargon is usually a sign someone hasn't done the work to understand it yet.

The team

Four partners, no associates.

When you hire Nexo, you get the people whose names are on the door. We've kept the firm small on purpose.

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Alejandro Correal
Founder · Nexo Consulting

Founded Nexo from a simple conviction: experienced leaders deserve a patient, honest guide through the AI transition, not a vendor selling them a framework. Alejandro brings a background spanning change management, digital adoption, and organisational design across Spain and beyond.

Based in
Spain · Est. 2025
Focus
Change management & AI adoption
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Javier Romero
Founding Partner · AI

An engineer who spent a decade building AI systems, and the last two years translating them. Javier runs AI Ready workshops and has a rare gift: he'd rather show you something working in twenty minutes than explain it for an hour.

Background
ML engineer · ex-Telefónica
Focus
Hands-on AI literacy
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Laia Martín
Partner · Design

From industrial design to service design to the spaces in between. Laia makes our engagements feel like objects: considered, touchable, finished. If a workshop feels good to be in, she wrote it.

Background
IDEO · Frog · ELISAVA
Focus
Experience of transformation
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Tomás Beltrán
Partner · Personal

Tomás runs Nexo Personal. He sat in boardrooms for twenty years before stepping into coaching, which is to say: he's been where you are. His sessions are discreet, unhurried, and a little bit stubborn about the basics.

Background
Board chair · Family-office advisor
Focus
Private executive coaching
The method

How a Nexo engagement actually unfolds.

Whether you come in through Change Navigator, AI Ready, or Nexo Personal, the shape of the work is the same. Small, specific, and honest about where you are.

i

Listen

A free introductory call. We listen more than we pitch. Most of what matters surfaces in the first hour.

ii

Diagnose

A short, paid diagnostic: two hours, one document, no slide deck. We tell you what's real and what's noise.

iii

Walk

The work itself. Sessions, workshops, companion hours. Always hands-on. Always with your actual context.

iv

Leave

Every engagement has an end. We'd rather you need us less over time than more. That's how we measure success.

Homes we've worked in
UnileverBrand transformation
TelefónicaAI integration
IDEOService design
DanoneCulture change
INSEADExecutive education
Walk with us

The bridge is shorter than it looks.

A thirty-minute call, no prep, no pitch. We'll listen to where you are and suggest a path forward, only if one makes sense.