Vlad

Meet Vlad,
the Chief AI Officer.

The only Chief AI Officer you need.

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7 days free · No credit card required

Vlad runs the full transformation journey
Find the workflows actually worth automating.Use cases
Score how hard each one is to build.Complexity
Pick the models and tools to build it on.Stack
Sequence it into a capacity-aware plan.Roadmap
Hours, money and payback for each move.ROI
Callable skills that run the work end-to-end.Skills
Lessons clustered from real operator conversations.Playbooks
Export it all as a board-ready presentation.Decks

All of it for $99/month·7 days free

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Watch how Vlad works · product walkthrough

Where Vlad comes from

An AI advisor you run yourself. The exact tools and workflows we built at Elements, advising and delivering for MDs and CEOs at global firms. Now it's yours to run.

Advisor to executives at
Goldman SachsMirabaudBackbaseFinomSamskipVanMoofPrestigiaBackboneLean TechnologiesGoldman SachsMirabaudBackbaseFinomSamskipVanMoofPrestigiaBackboneLean Technologies

Everything a Chief AI Officer does, handled for you.

A Chief AI Officer costs hundreds of thousands a year. Vlad answers the same questions on demand.

Find the use cases

Maps where work gets stuck and scores each candidate on volume, repeatability, cost, and variability — so you chase what moves the P&L.

Score the complexity

Describe a workflow in plain words; Vlad scores it across the seven build dimensions and lands a band with a real build estimate.

Pick the stack

Recommends the models, frameworks, and integrations that fit the job and your constraints — and prices them before you commit.

Build the roadmap

Sequences the backlog against your real dev capacity into a month-by-month plan with a Gantt you can actually defend.

Attach the ROI

Hours reclaimed, money saved, and payback per initiative — so every move on the roadmap has a number next to it.

Brief you on schedule

On a cadence you set, what actually changed and what to do — how to use Hermes, how to cut Claude spend, which model is worth the switch.

Run the workflows

Beyond advice, Vlad ships the work — a growing library of skills: get cited by AI (AEO), cut shorts from video, turn transcripts into copy, research a market.

Hand you the playbooks

Vlad clusters thousands of real operator conversations into topics, then distills each into a playbook — what worked, what broke, what they'd skip.

Export the deck

Turns the roadmap and ROI into an in-brand presentation you download and put in front of leadership. The artifact that drives adoption.

Right where you already work.

Vlad lives inside the tools you use every day — figuring out what to automate, building the plan, shipping the skills to execute, and keeping you ahead.

01 · Available where you work

20+ tools, from what to automate to a full roadmap.

No new app to learn. Vlad shows up in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT and VS Code with 20+ tools that run the whole journey — find the use cases worth automating, score their complexity, pick the stack, build a capacity-aware roadmap with ROI, and export the board deck. The advisory brain of a Chief AI Officer, on demand.

◆ what should we automate in finance?◆ score this workflow's complexity◆ build me a 2-quarter roadmap + ROI◆ turn it into a board deck
02 · Skills & workflows

It doesn't just advise. It does the work.

Beyond the roadmap, Vlad ships a growing library of skills that run real work end-to-end — get your content cited by AI (AEO), cut shorts from long videos, turn transcripts into copy, research a market, audit a site. New skills land every week.

◆ make our content cited by AI (AEO)◆ cut shorts from this video◆ turn this transcript into copy◆ research this market for me
03 · Briefings

Updates, on a schedule.

On a cadence you set, Vlad tells you what actually changed and what to do about it — how to use Hermes, how to cut your Claude subscription spend, which new model is worth switching to. The reading you don't have time to do.

Mon Claude prompt-caching cut your token bill ~40% →
Wed Hermes now routes WhatsApp + email in one flow →
Fri New model worth a switch for extraction →

One price. The whole Chief AI Officer.

A Chief AI Officer is one of the most expensive hires you can make. Vlad is one of the cheapest.

Vlad
$99/ month

7 days free · No card to start · Cancel anytime

  • The full advisory brain — use cases, complexity, stack, roadmap & ROI
  • A growing library of skills & workflows (AEO, shorts, copy, research)
  • Playbooks clustered from thousands of real operator conversations
  • Scheduled briefings on tooling & model changes
  • Downloadable, in-brand board decks
  • Every tool, skill & workflow we ship — and we ship weekly
  • Works in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT & VS Code
The comparison
$300k+A Chief AI Officer / year
$1,188Vlad / year

Vlad won't replace a great exec on a hard, bespoke transformation. For everything up to that point — knowing what to build, in what order, and why — it does the job.

The honest answers.

What's an MCP, in plain terms?

It's a standard way to plug a tool into an AI assistant. Connect Vlad once and it's available right inside Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or VS Code — no new app to learn, no tab to babysit.

Why is it called Vlad?

Because it's the product version of the advisor. Vlad runs Elements, the AI agency, advising managing directors and CEOs at global firms — Goldman Sachs, Mirabaud, Samskip, Finom, Backbase. Vlad-the-MCP is built from the exact tools he developed doing that work.

Is Vlad really a Chief AI Officer?

For the deep, bespoke work a great exec does in person, no — and we won't pretend otherwise. For the work most teams actually need — deciding what's worth building, how hard it is, what to build it on, and in what order — it does that job, on demand.

How does the free trial work?

Seven days, no card up front. Connect Vlad, run it against your real workflows, generate a deck. If it doesn't earn the $99, walk away before the trial ends.

What can its skills and workflows actually do?

Real work, end-to-end — not just advice. Today: make your content discoverable to AI (AEO), cut shorts from long videos, turn transcripts into copy, cluster a content corpus into topics, research a market, and build the board deck. The library grows every week as we ship new skills.

Where do the playbooks come from?

They're mined, not hand-written. Vlad clusters thousands of real operator conversations — interviews, sessions, transcripts — into topics, then distills each into a playbook: what worked, what broke, what they'd skip. The corpus grows every week.

Have Vlad on your team by the end of the day.

Seven days free. Point it at one workflow and see the roadmap it gives back.

Skills you can call.

Name a skill and Vlad runs it, end to end. The library grows every week.

Vlad texts you what changed.

Every week, the AI moves that actually matter — announced in a chat, in chronological order, tagged by type. No feeds to scroll.

Last week in AI
13 MAYCompetition
OpenAI pays teams to leave Claude
14 MAYPricing
Heavy Claude users get a price hike
19 MAYTalent
Karpathy joins Anthropic
20 MAYCost
Gemini does the task for 1/7 the cost
21 MAYCapital
Anthropic posts its first profit
VladAI Officer · online
COMPETITIONOpenAI pays teams to leave Claude. Two free months of Codex to anyone who switches.09:24
PRICINGHeavy Claude users get a price hike. Automated usage moves to API rates from June 15.11:02
TALENTKarpathy joins Anthropic. Top talent is back to building — right before the IPO.16:40
COSTGemini does the task for 1/7 the cost. 87¢ vs $6.31 — cost-per-task is the new metric.08:15
CAPITALAnthropic posts its first profit. $559M in Q2 — the IPO is unlocked.14:08
Briefed by Vlad · from The Elements Gazette · refreshed weekly