How We Work

INTELLIGENCE&Co. is a retained executive search firm. We take on a small number of AI leadership assignments at a time, each with the full attention of our team.

The Retained Search

Listen

We begin with the business: strategy, product and data maturity, the team the new leader will inherit, culture, and what success must look like in the first year.

Define

Together we refine the mandate: scope, reporting line, success measures and the profile that can deliver them. The brief stays precise enough to search well and flexible enough for exceptional candidates.

Map

Our team maps the market across companies, sectors and disciplines where AI leaders are building real capability, including careers that cross brand, creative, product and digital. Approaches are made in confidence.

Assess

We evaluate leadership judgment, technical depth where the role requires it, and the ability to build and scale beside commercial and creative partners. Clients receive a considered shortlist, never a stack of résumés.

Guide

We stay close through interviews, offer, negotiation and transition, protecting discretion for both client and candidate at every stage.

Searching Across Two Worlds

AI leadership rarely sits in isolation. The people who succeed often speak both the language of models and platforms and the language of brand, product and experience. Some arrive from creative systems, digital product or marketing technology and grow into enterprise AI seats. Others come from data and machine learning and must earn the trust of creative and commercial leadership.

Because INTELLIGENCE&Co. is a BIANCHI&Co. company, our team already works in that brand and creative market. Retained searches here draw on that fluency: we look for AI leaders who can build and scale, and we recognize when the right hire is someone whose career already bridges those worlds, in either direction.

Discretion at Every Stage

Leaders considering a move need to know their interest is held in confidence. Companies planning a change need to know their plans stay private. Confidentiality is built into every stage of our process, from the first approach to the announcement.

Who We Advise

Our primary focus is mid-market and growth companies, roughly two hundred to ten thousand people, creating their first lasting AI leadership seat. Fortune 500 Chief AI Officer work is secondary and selective.

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If you are planning an AI leadership appointment, write to ai@bianchiandco.com or call +1 212 414 8514.