Hi, I'm Chris Gulotta. Founder of NxtLayr AI.
I have spent over a decade in sales and business development before starting NxtLayr AI. That background is the whole reason this firm exists. I have sat across the table from hundreds of leadership teams who were stuck - drowning in admin, leaking calls, burning hours on work that should take minutes - and I watched them get pitched enterprise software, six-figure consulting engagements, and tools they would never use.
Practical AI is the first thing in my career that has actually fixed those problems. Not a generic chatbot subscription. Real systems, built and run by someone who speaks the language of the businesses using them.
NxtLayr AI was founded in 2025 with a specific purpose: be the fractional AI team for Australian mid-market businesses. Audit, advise, build, run. No jargon. No enterprise scope. No consultant who has never sold anything in their life. Just clear answers and working software - on a monthly cadence that keeps compounding.
What I actually do, day to day.
- AI Business Audits - diagnosing where time and money are going, and what to fix first
- Managed AI Operations - a fractional AI operations team for lower-market businesses ($1M–$10M)
- Fractional Head of AI - senior AI leadership for mid-market and top-tier ($10M–$100M)
- AI roadmapping and vendor selection - choosing the right tools, in the right order, for the right problem
- Team training and AI champion development - so AI actually gets adopted internally
- Board-ready AI reporting - monthly impact reports that make sense to non-technical leadership
Four principles, no exceptions.
Plain English, always
Every recommendation comes with a non-technical explanation. If you cannot tell another business owner what we are doing and why in two sentences, the explanation is not finished.
Conservative numbers
ROI estimates are deliberately on the low end. We would rather under-promise and over-deliver than impress you on a slide and disappoint you in production.
Build it and run it
We do not just write strategy decks. We build the AI systems we recommend, keep them running, and stay accountable for whether they actually move the number.
Australian SMBs only
No enterprise consulting. No US SaaS founders. The work, the language, and the price point are built for Australian owners running real businesses.
I share most of what I learn.
The fastest way to see how I think is to watch the YouTube videos or read the LinkedIn posts. Most of the case studies, audit findings, and actual builds end up there in some form.
If your team is stuck where those hundreds of teams were - this is where it stops.
Start with an audit. You’ll see exactly where AI fits your business, and what it’s worth, before you commit to anything.
Australia