CAIO Lab · The Chief AI Officer's lab

Italy's first agentic company.

Human strategy, AI in the loop.

Co-founded by Fabrizio Capocasale and an AI Agent. A human and agentic team that takes AI from the slide to production — governed, in operation, owned by you. Vendor-neutral, no lock-in.

Prisma · this portal composes itself around your goal
01 — The problem

Everyone talks about AI.
Few put it into production.

~11%
of Italian companies have AI genuinely in production (PoliMI AI Observatory, 2025)
4.2 bn€
Italian B2B AI market, 2026

100 slides, zero operation

Strategies that stay on paper. No system actually running inside the business.

Endless use cases, no priorities

A backlog of AI ideas with no method for picking the few that create value.

Lock-in: the AI belongs to the vendor

Closed platforms and dependency. When the contract ends, little remains and none of it is yours.

02 — The solution

From the slide to production, with method.

CAIO Lab is the outsourced Chief AI Officer for the industrial mid-market. Three pillars, one outcome: AI that is governed, in operation and owned by you.

Certifiable governance

EU AI Act and GDPR built in, aligned with an AI Management System (ISO/IEC 42001). Governance before the race.

Disciplined use-case selection

An assessment method measures readiness and identifies the few right cases. No endless backlog.

Production delivery + IP to the client

We deliver software and processes that work, in operation. The intellectual property is yours from day one.

An agentic company

Not you and me. A swarm of agents.

CAIO Lab is the orchestrator of a team of AI agents working in parallel: a complete agentic C-suite plus the 12 AI professional profiles of the UNINFO standard. Humans hold the judgement; agents provide the scale.

Client ⟷ Human Orchestrator + AI Orchestrator · CAIO ⟲ always in the loop
the client is always in the loop · Human-led brief · AI from day one
↑↓ the agents always report back to the orchestrators
The swarm · agents collaborate with each other
CMO·CFO·CTO·Prompt Eng.·Data Scientist·ML Eng.·Security·+ swarm
Verification · Security→Synthesis→Human review→In production · your IP
⟲ the outcome returns to the client — the loop continues with every iteration

The roster · agentic C-suite

Orchestrator · CAIOCEOCMOCFOCOOCTOCROCHROCompliance

12 professional agents · UNINFO / UNI 11621

Chief AI OfficerAI Product ManagerAI ConsultantPrompt EngineerAlgorithm EngineerDeep Learning EngineerML EngineerNLP EngineerData EngineerData ScientistResearch ScientistSecurity Specialist

Target roster. Active today: Orchestrator, CMO, CFO, CRO, CHRO, Compliance, Strategy, plus the Business DNA and AI Readiness agents and the Security-verify gate. The remaining roles are being built one at a time, on the model already in operation.

The Orchestrator breaks down the brief, delegates in parallel, and a human review validates the output. Human-in-the-loop, governance at every step.

03 — Services

Four ways of working together
— plus the Academy.

Executive Workshop2 days

Executive committee alignment: scenario, risks, first priority use cases.

tailored, quoted on request → Discover the format
Use-Case Factory6–12 weeks

From idea to production: Discovery → Prototype → Pilot → Go-live. IP to the client from day one.

tailored, quoted on request → See the method
Service Design / Commercial Intelligence3–6 months

Redesign of a service or a commercial process with AI in operation.

tailored, quoted on request → Request a quote
Fractional CAIOongoing

A fractional Chief AI Officer: governs the AI portfolio, oversees risks and roadmap.

tailored, quoted on request → Talk to a CAIO
Product — Prisma

The website that composes itself around intent.

B2B websites are stuck in 2012: one hero for everyone, one menu, six static pages — 91% of buyers find them “indistinguishable”. Prisma is our AI-native product: no static hero, no fixed menu, a canvas that composes itself around the visitor's desiderata. We use it for CAIO Lab and we build it for clients.

“No visitor sees the same page twice. Nobody sees a page that is not about them.”

Effectiveness

Decision-first

Every page is built around that visitor's intent: less bounce, more conversion.

Data

Zero-party

The visitor states what they need. No hidden tracking, cookieless by design.

Positioning

Living proof

The website itself proves you are AI-native: promise and experience coincide.

The engine — D·E·S·I·D·E·R·A·T·A, 10 steps in real time: captures intent → infers role and sector with no forms → composes the page from atomic modules in <1.5s → recomposes it on every interaction in <500ms → remembers returning visitors. Content stays curated by us: the AI assembles the frame, it does not invent the facts.

Not a chatbotNot A/B testingNot segment-based personalisationNot a page written by an LLM
Prisma — full project6–12 months

Intent discovery → module library → composition engine → go-live. For knowledge-intensive B2B with heterogeneous audiences: buyers, ops, partners, talent. IP to the client.

tailored, quoted on request → Request a demo
Prisma-lite< 3 months

A single layer — Intent Capture — on the website you already have: the canvas that captures desiderata, without rebuilding everything. A low-risk starting point.

tailored, quoted on request → Start here

Not suited to catalogue e-commerce or single-product landing pages: Prisma serves where the buying journey is long and visitors differ from one another.

Product — LeadForge

LeadForge: agentic B2B lead generation,
with the source next to every data point.

A pipeline of nine agents, plus a Guardian and an orchestrator, starts from your company profile, builds the ICP, finds companies in the chosen territory, verifies them, qualifies them and prepares the first contact. The cost is declared before launch. Currently in private beta.

  1. 01Client Profiler — your company profile becomes search criteria
  2. 02ICP Definition — who to look for, and why
  3. 03Territory Discovery — the companies in the chosen territory
  4. 04Data Verification — VAT number, registry, website: the company really exists
  5. 05Company Qualification — an explainable matrix, with source, rule and weight for every criterion
  6. 06People & Social — the decision-makers, flagged Verified / Likely / Unverified
  7. 07Prospect Intelligence — signals and context on the company
  8. 08Competitive Signals — who already serves it
  9. 09Outreach Strategy — the first contact, ready to send
  • Model keys are yours (BYOK): model costs sit on your invoice, not ours.
  • Your existing customer base is recognised and excluded from paid searches.
  • Export to CSV, Excel, JSON or HubSpot; lists you already own enriched in batches of up to 5,000 records.

Request beta access →

From a territory to a qualified list
How you engage us

Human, agentic, or both.

With the Fractional Agent system you engage the roles you need, when you need them — a single agent, an entire C-suite, or a mixed team with our consultants.

Human

Senior consultants

Fractional CAIO and qualified professionals, where judgement and vertical experience are needed.

Agentic

Fractional Agent system

Engage specific agents — CMO Agent, Data Scientist Agent, Security Agent… — parallel and on demand.

Hybrid

Humans + agents

A mixed team on your project: the Orchestrator coordinates, humans validate.

04 — How we work

We start from context. Not from slides.

Two orchestrators — Human + AI — lead the project: a person runs the brief with the client, and the AI is in the loop from day one. Without context, roles and real pain points, the rest is marketing: we deliver projects, not PowerPoint.

Human Orchestrator · brief · judgement · relationship AI Orchestrator (CAIO) · decomposes · delegates · synthesises

AI Assessment

AI maturity across 12 dimensions: where you are, what is missing, where it pays to start.

Business DNA Analysis

Context, roles, processes, data and real pain points: the "DNA" to build on.

Use-Case Factory

Discovery → Prototype → Pilot → Go-live, on your data.

In production

System in operation, your IP, team training.

Governance and human-in-the-loop at every step. The first two steps are not optional: they are what separates a project from a presentation.

05 — The proof

Not slides. Systems in operation.

Real cases, by vertical. Individual client metrics are shared under NDA.

Healthcare Research

REP

Clinical trial evaluation for hospitals, GDPR-native: from weeks to hours, with traceability.

Energy / Mobility

Termico

Predictive model for optimising energy consumption in heating plants.

AI-native Web

Prisma

B2B websites that compose themselves around the visitor's intent in under 1.5s.

Sales

LeadForge

Agentic B2B lead generation: nine agents find, verify and qualify the companies of a territory, with the source next to every data point. In private beta.

How it works →

Governance

AI Assessment

Adaptive AI maturity assessment across 12 dimensions, aligned with ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act. Online at aiassessment.it.

Agri-food

Training & integration

Training across all functional areas for an agri-food producer; training + MCP server between staff and the ERP for an agricultural consortium.

Fleet management

Digital transformation

Eighteen months alongside a B2B operator: process analysis, AI training for the sales team, digitalisation grant application and project management of the HubSpot CRM implementation, through to an AI-assisted B2B pipeline.

Industrial vehicle OEM after-sales

Service Governance spin-off

Positioning, naming, brand and website for the new service governance brand of a European CX & assistance player for truck and off-highway OEMs; sales playbook and mission-critical lexicon.

Communications & startups

AI Assessment + service catalogue

First 12-dimension AI Assessment for a communications agency with a startup acceleration division, followed by a catalogue of six AI services to resell to its clients.

06 — Why CAIO Lab

No slides, no lock-in.

PlayerStrategyDeliveryItalian mid-marketIP to the client
CAIO Lab✓✓✓✓
Big Four / AI strategy✓partial✗✗
System integratorpartial✓partial✗
AI software house✗✓partial✗
Vendor-neutralEU AI Act + GDPR built in12 UNI 11621-8 rolespowered by an agentic organisation
07 — About us

Humans and agents.

CAIO Lab is co-founded by a person and an AI. Depending on the project, we bring in professionals with qualified experience alongside our agentic structure. Humans where judgement is needed, agents where scale is needed.

Founder

Fabrizio Capocasale

Founder & Chief AI Officer. Lecturer in AI on the Master's degree programme at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Cremona), 3 years on the Agrisystem PhD, lecturer on 3 master's courses, Program Manager of MyMentor Cattolica.

Co-founder

An AI among the founders

Living proof of the product: the AI is an operational co-designer of CAIO Lab, not just a tool.

Team

Human + agentic

An agentic structure — Orchestrator, C-level agents and the 12 AI professional profiles of the UNINFO standard as agents — plus a network of senior professionals engaged per project.

AI Lecturer · Università CattolicaProgram Manager · MyMentor Cattolica3 years · Agrisystem PhDUNI 11621 domains · AI professions
08 — CAIO Academy

Understand, govern, build AI in the business.

The training arm of CAIO Lab: five levels, from awareness to building agentic systems, with industry verticals. The Studio's real cases become learning material.

See the programmes
09 — Get started

Start from the right point:
find out how ready you are.

A 12-dimension AI readiness assessment. Your data stays on your device.