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Hi, I'm Nicc. I build things and find patterns where others see noise.

I've worked with AI for 15 years. Studied the science of music for 20. Shipped products, raised venture capital, built companies. Before all that, I was a professional DJ.

Nicc Johnson

At nine I was the rhythm guitarist in a high school blues band. At sixteen I was DJing professionally. By twenty-five, a resident at Pacha Ibiza.

Music taught me how to listen. Business taught me how to see.

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I work one on one with founders and business owners to get them unstuck. Strategy and AI systems.

Most businesses aren't stuck on the wrong thing. They're working the right thing in the wrong phase. The FOG® Diagnostic works out which phase you are actually in, then runs the moves for that phase so you grow in the right order.

Execution runs through Optimize Labs, the agency I founded, where we build the AI harness and application layer a business owns rather than rents. It is also where the free tools come from.

In my spare time I work on passion projects. I've just finished the manuscript for a children's book about the science of music. I'm building the running app I always wanted, where the music adapts to your run automatically based on how you're actually performing. I'm a fan of padel, so I built a WhatsApp booking system for organising games with friends. And I recently went through all the vinyl from my DJ days, turned it into a website, and now I can't decide whether to sell or keep it.

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JUL · 2026

Where is the value?

You're not buying software anymore. You're buying the outcome.

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