New tools, features and models land almost every week, and most will never matter to you. Metanola helps small businesses, mission-driven organizations, and the people who run them decide where AI fits, where it does not, and what to do next.

Start with what you know.Your answers already live in your drives, inboxes and people. We connect those first.
Fit the tool to the team.AI should work the way your team already works.
Leave with a decision.Each step ends with a ranked plan and an owner for every piece.
Stay until it sticks.We stay with it until your team is actually using it.

And if you do not need us, we will tell you.

The pathThree steps, one destination

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AI for goodWhy we do this

The box is open. What matters now is who is holding it.

AI is not going back in the box, and pretending otherwise helps nobody. It is a tool. Like any tool it can build or it can wreck, and the only part any of us can influence is how many careful people are holding one. We need more people using it for good.

Accessible creativity · Work led at Adobe

A new path to creative expression for Steve Gleason.

Working with Steve Gleason and Team Gleason, Adam explored how eye tracking and Adobe Firefly could open a new form of creative expression, grounded in Steve’s earlier drawings and new ideas.

Technology matters when it expands what people can do.

Context: ALS, accessibility, creative expression
Output: Seven works shown in New Orleans
Partners: Adobe and Team Gleason
Role: Exploration, enablement, collaboration

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Attribution note: this work belongs to Adam’s body of work at Adobe. It is not a Metanola client engagement.

The test bench

Metanola Labs

ExperimentWe test tools and workflows here before any of it reaches a recommendation.
DevelopWorking prototypes and internal tools, built small and tested early.
CreateProjects that begin with a question rather than a client brief.

If a recommendation ever reaches you, it came through Labs first.

AboutWho you work with

Enterprise transformation, at local scale.

“Identify the curious problem solvers. Turn them into champions. Watch them lead the change.”
The Metanola operating belief

Metanola is led by Adam Wood, an AI adoption and digital transformation advisor whose work spans Fortune 500 companies, AI product teams, nonprofits, and civic organizations. He led enterprise transformation at Adobe, worked closely with Team Gleason on accessible creativity with Adobe Firefly, and serves on the boards of French Quarter Festivals and 504GOOD.

Enterprise transformation leadership at Adobe
AI product adoption and change management
Adobe Firefly and Team Gleason accessible creativity project
Board service with French Quarter Festivals and 504GOOD
Independent advisory for business and mission-driven organizations

ConnectStart a conversation

Tell us what is not working.

You do not need a polished brief. Name the decision, the bottleneck, or the pressure you are feeling. Adam reads every note and replies within two business days.

adam@metanola.ai

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AI Workflow AuditFind your starting point →A few questions, then the use cases and services that fit. Readiness ScorecardSee where you stand →Take it, and bring the readout when you are ready to talk.

Where: New Orleans based. Available for remote work and selected on site engagements.
Open to: Assessments, working sessions, ongoing advisory, select speaking, and mission-aligned collaborations.
Response: Adam reads every note. No mailing list, no automated sequence, just a real reply.