George Nico

George Nico

Technologist Director Agentic Solutions Architect

I lead procurement and supply chain transformation for enterprise clients, and design the AI and agentic systems that come with it. After hours I build my own: a personal agent, a smart home, and the homelab they run on.

MIT xPRO AI Strategy & Leadership PMP Project Management Prosci Change Management B.Com Toronto Metropolitan
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Currently

Optis Consulting

Jul 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 1 mo

Director

I came up through procurement transformations; analyst to program director, every seat on the delivery side. Requirements, integrations, cutovers, adoption; project after project, across industries. I know where these programs win and where they stall. Now I help organizations find the real value in them and the technology behind them; more and more of that is AI.

analyst workstream lead integrations lead project manager program director sales director

Experimenting

Rooted Legacy

early

Every AI you use starts from zero. I'm building the fix: one home for who you are; owned by you, versioned, readable by any AI you permit. It's live in production, and my own agent reads from it and writes back with my approval.

JJ

living

My personal agent, and the first live test of the Rooted Legacy idea. Its memory carries across every session; each night it decides what was worth keeping. It answers its own phone line, runs real errands in my name, and pushes back when I'm wrong. Every action is logged.

Project Jetson

autopilot

My smart home, named for the cartoon. The house knows whether I'm home, away, or asleep; lights, climate, the wall panel, and spoken announcements all follow from that. There's even a landline that answers with my agent on the other end. Nobody here configures anything.

The Homelab

foundation

Proxmox, UniFi, and Cloudflare tunnels in a closet; ten-odd virtual machines, self-hosted secrets, nothing port-forwarded to the internet. It runs my agent, my house, and every public site I own, including this one. Push to a branch and it deploys itself, snapshot first.

Expertise

Advisory
Digital transformation Business strategy AI strategy & adoption Change management
Delivery
Program management Procurement platforms Systems integration
Building
Agentic systems Self-hosted infrastructure Digital identity Smart home