Candice Bryant is an advisor, strategist and trusted voice on narrative and AI. She spent nearly two decades at the CIA as an analyst, where she rose to Head of Public Communications. She later led Executive and Internal Communications for Search Quality and Global Security at Google. She now runs her own advisory, publishes the newsletter This Week in AI, and has built a suite of products and courses to make AI accessible and center human judgment.
Candice has appeared on TV and radio as a tech expert, her insights have been featured in The Hill, The Cipher Brief, and Federal News Network, and she has been profiled in Business Insider.
She holds a Master's from the American University School of International Service and a Bachelor's degree in political science from Towson University. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
Most AI advisors focus on what the machine can do. Candice focuses on what you can do.
To cut through the exhaustion of chasing every new software release, she designed an AI Tradecraft system that builds true AI stamina across three distinct layers of human skill: daily habit with her mobile app, Cello; cognitive discipline with her Mindful Prompting course; and analytic rigor with her flagship AI Tradecraft course. Designed to work together, they put human judgment at the center of AI training.
| Most AI Advisors | Candice |
|---|---|
| Focus on the machine — what can it do? | Focuses on you — what can you do? |
| Teach features: prompt hacks, new updates | Teaches you to catch blind spots, biases, and assumptions |
| Goal: speed — automate everything | Goal: stamina — keep human judgment alive |
Stop treating AI like a junior assistant. Start treating it like a thinking partner. Cello delivers strategic insights and practical prompts daily to help professionals build baseline AI stamina through daily practice. Free on iOS and Android.
We don't stop being perfectionists, fighting imposter syndrome, or falling into groupthink when we interact with AI. Mindful Prompting trains your team to notice their own human tendencies and cognitive biases when they open the laptop. Put your workforce back in the driver's seat: stop wasting time fighting prompts, ditch anxiety-driven CYA, and learn to trust human judgment over the machine.
Pair with the AI Tradecraft course. Ideal for corporate training, leadership offsites, and strategic workshops.
The machine brings data and scale; you bring judgment and tradecraft. Applying intelligence-grade analytic standards, this training equips leaders to evaluate outputs, spot subtle blind spots, and pressure-test data before making executive decisions.
Ideal for corporate training, leadership offsites, and strategic workshops.
Candice sits at the rare intersection of policy and product, translating powerful technology for decision-makers and everyday people.
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"You're an AI policy analyst AND a tech founder?"
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.
Tell me a little about your group and I'll follow up personally at hello@candicebryant.com.
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