84% of the world has never used AI. Candice Bryant is on a mission to change that.
A former CIA leader turned Googler turned founder, Candice sits at the rare intersection of policy and product — translating powerful technology for decisionmakers and everyday people.
Most of us are barely scratching the surface of what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can do — simply because we don't know what to ask. Cello changes that.
Get one bite-sized, brilliantly practical prompt delivered every morning.
Candice built Cello because she saw a massive imagination gap. Professionals don't have time to learn how to save time. Founders are overwhelmed. Job seekers need an edge. The AI revolution isn't about learning to code — it's about learning to reimagine.
Copy, paste, go.
"The AI revolution isn't about learning to code — it's about learning to reimagine."— Candice Bryant
If you are only paying attention to the new tools being built, you are only seeing half the board. The rules governing the biggest technological shift of our generation are being written right now in real time.
This Week in AI connects the two. It takes the week's most complex policy and defense shifts and translates them into plain English. No Washington jargon, no doom-scrolling, no fluff.
Just calm, nonpartisan analysis trusted by founders, policymakers, and builders. Because true AI literacy doesn't stop at knowing how to prompt.
Subscribe on Substack
"You're an AI policy analyst AND a tech founder?"
Candice Bryant has never planned a single day of her career. She has only stayed open. A kid from Baltimore who almost skipped the career fair because she didn't have the right professional attire. She went anyway — and walked into a conversation with the CIA that would shape the next two decades of her life.
She spent those two decades at the Agency, growing from a 21-year-old recruit into the Head of Public Communications, writing for the President's Daily Brief across administrations and serving as an on-the-record voice for an institution defined by its secrecy.
She left when another opportunity she hadn't planned for came calling — Google, where she helped employees and the public understand AI as it was being built in real time.
Then, in 2025, she left again. Because she'd seen the gap. The most powerful technology in a generation was being built — and almost no one she knew was using it.
Today, Candice spends her days advising, sharing, and building. She publishes This Week in AI, a newsletter trusted by policymakers, tech and business leaders. She invests in early-stage founders. She mentors emerging leaders and serves as a pro bono advisor to an international nonprofit working to combat gender-based violence. And she's building a growing portfolio of consumer products — starting with Cello — designed to make AI accessible to the people who need it most.
Her work is guided by a simple conviction: AI is for you. Not just for engineers, not just for the people in the room where the rules are made. For everyone.
A woman of faith who has never once doubted what was ahead of her, Candice lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband — a Navy veteran and senior acquisitions leader — their daughter, and their pug and Boston terrier.
Op-eds, interviews, and select projects
"She went anyway."
A founder's reflection on the year everything changed.
And Suddenly is Candice Bryant's first book — a candid account of her first year as a founder after leaving Big Tech to build on her own terms. It's a book about leaps of faith, the moments that arrive without warning, and what it actually takes to turn conviction into a company.
Equal parts memoir and field guide, And Suddenly is for anyone standing at the edge of their own next chapter, wondering whether to jump.
Join the Waitlist →
