AI doesn’t start with the tool. It starts with leadership.
We prepare C-level executives, VPs and directors to bring AI into their own work and lead the company’s reinvention with clarity.
Before transforming processes, leadership has to transform how it works, thinks, decides and gets things done with AI.
Everyone gets that AI matters. Almost no one has changed how they work.
The market is stuck between talk and execution: experiments with no shared direction, no priorities and no executive judgment, which don’t add up to real change.
Before there’s an AI-First company, there has to be AI-First leadership. The point is no longer to innovate. It’s to change how leadership works, in time.
If the board doesn’t work with AI, the company is only playing at transformation.
C-level executives, VPs and directors set the direction, priorities, budget, culture and pace of growth.
Starting with operations feels like speed, but it doesn’t change how the company thinks. The shift happens when the C-level executive puts AI into their own routine.
Almai works alongside that leadership to turn AI into productivity, better decisions and strategic direction.
What’s good for the tech team isn’t necessarily good for leadership.
For CTOs and technology teams, AI quickly becomes architecture, integration, agents, automation and stack. That isn’t the best way in for the whole company.
For C-level executives, VPs and directors, the first step is different: putting AI into their own daily work to move faster at everything they already do.
- think
- decide
- write
- analyze
- prioritize
- review
- run scenarios
When leaders feel the gain day to day, adoption stops being talk and becomes conviction.
A company only becomes AI-First when its leadership works AI-First.
From executive productivity to the company’s reinvention.
Live programs, remote or on site, designed around participants’ real work. No coding required.
AI-First Executive Journey
C-levels, VPs and directors
The complete program for bringing AI into leadership’s routine and turning learning into real application.
AI for Middle Managers
Managers
For the people who review what their teams already produce with AI: quality, coaching, workflow redesign and standards.
In-Company Executive Immersion
One or two days, at the company
Intensive training to align VPs, directors and key leaders around the practical and strategic use of AI.
Exclusive 1:1 Classes for Founders and C-Levels
One-on-one, live
For decision makers who can’t keep a class schedule: little time, big decisions and zero room for anything generic.
Advanced Modules
Specific topics
Governance, security, MCP, AEO and GEO, agents and the other critical fronts of the new AI agenda.
First, AI enters leadership’s routine. Then, the way the company works.
After the board, AI has to reach middle management.
When the top speeds up with AI, the pressure lands in the middle. The board sets the direction; middle managers are the ones who turn AI into real operations, or let it turn into chaos.
AI saves time at the base and creates new work in the middle. The team does in 30 minutes the research that used to take days, and in hours the analysis that took weeks. But someone has to decide whether it holds up. That someone is the manager.
Managers take on four roles:
- Translator
- turns strategy into the team’s work
- Guardian
- reviews the quality of what AI helped produce
- Coach
- teaches the team to use AI with judgment
- Architect
- redesigns workflows and standards
Without prepared managers, AI doesn’t reduce work. It shifts work to the middle of the organization.
Prepare my managers
The gains start with leadership. Then they spread across the business.
From the first module
Executive productivity
Leaders start using AI for analysis, decisions, writing, research, meetings and planning.
Within weeks
The first prioritized systems
With a new repertoire, the company identifies the workflows, skills, automations and agents with the highest impact.
After the program
The autonomy to keep going
The team doesn’t come out dependent on a vendor. It comes out with a method to adapt, fix and evolve its use of AI on its own.
The immediate ROI is in leadership’s productivity. The structural ROI is in the company learning to think with AI.
From education to fintech, from delivery to law.
Companies that trust Almai to train their C-level executives, VPs and strategic leaders
- Wuma
“Working with Almai was a turning point in our AI transformation journey. It was after the immersion that the team became fully convinced that we are facing the biggest transformation in technology in decades, and that we should lead this process.”
Bruno Machado
VP of Technology and Digital Mindset, Ânima Educação
Translated from Portuguese
He has spent more than 17 years at Ânima Educação, watching the group grow more than a hundredfold, to 390,000 students and over 14 brands. In 2026, Forbes Brasil named him one of the ten Best CIOs in Brazil.
Forbes Brasil: Melhores CIOs do Brasil 2026“When I signed up, I expected to take a course. What I found, though, went far beyond that: a truly personalized learning experience that respected my path, engaged with my interests and changed the way I learn.”
Janes Fidélis Tomelin on LinkedIn
Ânima Educação
Translated from Portuguese
A manager and educator, now at Ânima Educação in Florianópolis. He writes about learning and higher education and, in 2026, spoke about hyper-personalized education at EDUTIC Florianópolis.
“Almai and Horácio have been challenging the board with questions and frameworks that broaden our vision. The agents training for the board was well worth it.”
Lucas Vargas
CEO, Nomad
Translated from Portuguese
“The training was really good. It opened everyone’s minds.”
Nérope Bulgarelli
CEO, Zig Fun
Translated from Portuguese
“We were already using AI day to day, but the training with Almai flipped the switch for our senior leaders.”
Felipe M. Lo Sardo
CEO, Goomer
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We’ve been building AI that talks for 14 years.
Long before it became a topic the whole world talks about, Horacio Poblete founded Ledface in 2012, when almost no one understood what conversational AI could be. Since then, conversational AI has become our life.
Today Almai specializes in humanizing artificial intelligence. The agents we build talk with millions of people every month.
But the best way to understand what we do isn’t by reading. It’s by talking.
A small spoiler: Gabriel is an AI. But if we hadn’t told you, you probably wouldn’t have known.
Frequently asked questions about Almai.
All questionsWhat is Almai?
Almai is a leading Brazilian name in executive training in artificial intelligence. It prepares C-level executives, VPs, directors and managers to bring AI into their routine, make better decisions and lead their organizations’ AI-First transformation.
Read the full answerWho is Almai for?
Almai works with companies that need to train their CEOs, C-level executives, VPs, directors, strategic leaders and middle managers.
Read the full answerWhat sets Almai apart?
Almai starts with leadership and applies AI to the real routine of the people who decide before extending the transformation to managers and operations.
Read the full answerDoes Almai build agents?
Almai guides the building of agents as part of its training and technology transfer. It doesn’t sell standalone agent development as its main offering.
Read the full answerDoes Almai work outside Brazil?
Yes. Almai works with companies across Latin America, in Portuguese, Spanish or English.
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The difference isn’t the investment. It’s the direction.
A few years from now, there will be a clear line between two kinds of companies: the ones that started thinking with AI early and the ones that started too late.
AI can’t stay concentrated in a few people. It has to become a capability of the whole company, part of everyone’s daily work.
Let’s talk about a clear, prioritized plan for your company to learn, implement and evolve with AI in practice. So that AI-First is real, and not just another nice-sounding corporate buzzword.