Fragmented Intelligence
Market research, competitive intelligence, internal data, and strategic assumptions scattered across different sources.
Our Story
Strategy Was a Black Box. Not Anymore.
We believe great strategy shouldn't depend on expensive consultants, disconnected tools, or a handful of experts. We're building a future where organizations can turn intelligence into decisions, decisions into action, and action into growth.
The problem
Strategy Was Too Important to Remain This Fragmented.
Across organizations of different sizes, industries, and geographies, we kept encountering similar challenges. The strategic questions were different, but the underlying process was remarkably familiar.
Disconnected Decisions
Important strategic choices made through presentations, meetings, and spreadsheets without a consistent decision framework.
Execution Gaps
Strong strategies that struggled to translate into coordinated action, clear accountability, and measurable results.
Limited Strategic Capacity
Organizations relying on small internal strategy teams or expensive external advisory projects to address increasingly complex growth decisions.
The problem wasn't a lack of strategic ambition. It was the infrastructure available to turn ambition into results.
Our journey
The Experiences That Brought Us Here.
Global Copilot didn't begin with a technology trend. It emerged from years of working on real strategic growth challenges, learning what makes expansion and transformation difficult, and questioning how organizations could approach those decisions differently.
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We Saw the Problem Firsthand.
Across boardrooms and strategy engagements on five continents, we saw companies making million-dollar growth decisions with incomplete information, generic frameworks, and too much gut instinct. The stakes were high, but the tools weren't keeping up.
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One Question. Hundreds of Conversations.
We launched Global Class to learn directly from founders, executives, and strategy leaders around the world. The question was simple: why was making great growth decisions still so difficult, and what would it take to change that?
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From Disconnected Tools to One Connected Platform.
Years of experimentation revealed the opportunity: strategy didn't need another spreadsheet, presentation, or standalone AI tool. It needed a connected system that could turn research into decisions, decisions into plans, and plans into action.
Before · scattered & disconnected- Spreadsheets for market sizing
- Slide decks for the business case
- Docs for research notes
After · one connected platformMore Than Tools. An Intelligent Strategy Engine.
One connected intelligence layer that turns research into decisions, decisions into action, and outcomes into continuous learning.
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Turning Strategic Expertise Into AI.
With Gabe joining as CTO, we began building the AI architecture behind Global Copilot—combining strategic methodologies, data, and intelligent workflows to create something far more useful than a chatbot: an AI-powered growth strategy platform.
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Global Copilot Goes Live.
We launched Global Copilot for corporate growth teams, government agencies, and business chambers—bringing rigorous strategic thinking into an accessible, AI-powered platform built to help organizations make and execute better growth decisions.
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Making World-Class Strategy Accessible to Everyone.
We're building toward a future where every organization has access to an AI growth consultant—one that helps teams discover opportunities, make informed decisions, execute strategies, and continuously adapt as the world changes.
The people behind Global Copilot
Built by People Who've Made the Decisions.
Our founders bring together global strategy, corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, and AI engineering. We've experienced the challenges of building growth strategies firsthand, and came together to build a better way.
Aaron McDaniel
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
A former corporate executive, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author. Aaron brings experience building businesses and products, combining enterprise leadership with the practical challenges of turning new ideas into scalable ventures.
Gabe Krambs
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
A serial technology entrepreneur, co-founder, and CTO with experience building multiple companies, including a publicly traded business. Gabe brings the engineering and product architecture expertise behind Global Copilot's AI-powered strategic workflows.
Klaus Wehage
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
A global business leader and bestselling author who has lived and worked in Vietnam, Chile, and the United States. Klaus has led strategic growth initiatives for one of the world's largest brewing companies and advised businesses across Silicon Valley and international markets.
The turning point
What If Great Strategy Didn't Have to Depend on a Consulting Project?
Traditional consulting has developed powerful methods for researching opportunities, solving complex problems, and making strategic recommendations. But much of that expertise has historically been delivered through time-intensive projects.
Strategy as a project
Engagement starts→Research→Recommendations→Engagement ends
Expertise arrives in bursts. Context and momentum fade between projects.
Strategy as infrastructure
Methodology→Intelligence→Planning→Execution↺
Strategic capability is part of everyday operations and keeps learning from results.
The opportunity wasn't simply to make consulting faster. It was to make strategic capability more accessible, continuous, and scalable.
Why Global Copilot
Sales has CRM. HR has HRIS. Strategy has… PowerPoint? Until Now
Strategy has often remained fragmented across presentations, spreadsheets, research tools, and disconnected workflows. We built Global Copilot around the belief that strategy deserves its own connected intelligence and execution infrastructure.
Sales
CRM Systems
Contact and account management, funnel management, activity tracking.
Connected sales operations
HR
HRIS Platforms
People, roles, talent and payroll managed in purpose-built platforms.
Connected people operations
Strategy
PowerPoint + Spreadsheets?
Strategy_v7_FINAL.pptx
BU_plans.xlsx
Market_research.pdf
KPI_tracker_Q3.xlsx
Disconnected planning and reporting
Strategy
Global Copilot
Connected Strategy Intelligence & Execution
- Research
- Decisions
- Initiatives
- Performance
Our mission
Make Great Strategy Accessible to Every Organization.
Great strategy shouldn't be a privilege. We're making world-class strategic intelligence accessible to every organization—helping leaders discover opportunities, make smarter decisions, align teams, and turn strategy into measurable growth.
Our approach
Built From Strategy Experience. Designed for the AI Era.
Global Copilot combines strategic methodology, AI-powered intelligence, and connected execution workflows to help organizations move from uncertainty to strategic clarity, and from strategic decisions to measurable growth.
Strategy Before Technology
Start with the strategic decisions organizations need to make, then apply technology to support them.
Methodology Built In
Embed structured approaches to market research, growth strategy, business cases, and implementation.
Intelligence Connected to Action
Move beyond generating insights to supporting planning, execution, monitoring, and adjustment.
Capability That Scales
Enable strategy teams, executives, and partners to support more growth initiatives without relying entirely on additional advisory capacity.
The future
We're Building the Intelligence Layer for Strategic Growth.
We envision a world where every organization can access an intelligent strategic partner: one that helps teams understand opportunities, build strategies, act on decisions, and measure the impact.
Three-layer architecture
Intelligence layer active
01Strategy professionals
Inactive
Chief Strategy Officers
Set direction and guide enterprise bets.
Inactive
Strategy Directors
Run analysis, planning and decision processes.
Inactive
Business-Unit Leaders
Own growth targets and unit strategies.
Inactive
Growth Teams
Find, test and scale new opportunities.
Inactive
Decision-Makers
Approve investments and trade-offs.
02 · Global CopilotIntelligence, structure and execution visibility for every strategic role
AI intelligenceStrategic methodologiesDecision frameworksWorkflow automationInstitutional memoryPortfolio visibility
Inactive
Internal Company Data
Plans, financials and operating data.
Inactive
Market Intelligence
Markets, competitors and trends.
Inactive
Customer Information
Segments, accounts and feedback.
Inactive
Collaboration Tools
Where teams discuss and decide.
Inactive
Execution Systems
Projects, tasks and milestones.
03Existing enterprise infrastructure
The future of strategy isn't another dashboard. It's an intelligent system that helps organizations grow.
Let's Build the Future Together.
Discover how Global Copilot is helping organizations rethink how they identify opportunities, make strategic decisions, and execute growth.