Mother-Daughter Team Launches PreFlight AI™ — Organizational Readiness Diagnostic
Kim Nelson-Wright and Taylor Chaney, Co-Founders of PreFlight AI™, at LA Mayor & LA Chamber of Commerce Women in Leadership Event. Getty House, March 31, 2026
Los Angeles Black founders launch AI diagnostic fixing 80-95% project failure rate before implementation begins
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Mother-Daughter Team Launches PreFlight AI™ — The Diagnostic Platform Organizations Need Before Any AI Implementation Begins
Los Angeles startup addresses the structural gap behind the 80-95% AI project failure rate with the leading organizational readiness diagnostic built for the human side of AI adoption
LOS ANGELES, CA — April 2, 2026 — PreFlight AI™, a leading AI-native organizational readiness diagnostic platform, officially launched its MVP and opened its waitlist today. Co-founded by Kim Nelson-Wright, Fractional COO and Structural Leadership Strategist, and her daughter Taylor Chaney, a full-stack engineer, PreFlight AI™ is built to answer the question most organizations skip before investing in AI: are we actually structurally ready for this?
The Problem PreFlight AI™ Solves
Research consistently shows that 80 to 95 percent of AI projects fail. The technology is almost never the reason. Organizations rush into AI implementation without evaluating whether their decision architecture is clear, their data is trusted, their workflows are documented, their leadership is aligned, or their operational systems can support what they are about to build.
PreFlight AI™ diagnoses those gaps before a single vendor is selected, a single contract is signed, or a single dollar is spent on implementation. The platform evaluates organizational readiness across five dimensions — Operational Clarity, Data Readiness, Decision Architecture, Workflow Friction, and Leadership AI Readiness — and delivers a structured diagnostic report with prioritized interventions.
"Most AI projects don't fail because the technology is wrong," said Kim Nelson-Wright, Co-Founder and CEO. "They fail because the organization was never structurally ready to receive it. PreFlight AI™ is the diagnostic that should happen before every AI investment. Clarity before automation."
A Mother and Daughter Building the Infrastructure the AI Economy Is Missing
PreFlight AI™—joining the less than 1% of AI companies founded by Black women, is co-founded by Kim Nelson-Wright and Taylor Chaney. This mother-daughter team brings 20 years of operational leadership expertise and full-stack engineering capability together to fix AI's 80-95% failure rate through operator-led diagnostics. Nelson-Wright is the creator of the Structural Leadership Model™ and author of Leadership in the Wild™. Chaney brings technical depth across Next.js, Clerk, Supabase, and the Anthropic API.
"Building this with Taylor isn't just personal — it's strategic," said Nelson-Wright. "She brings the technical architecture. I bring the organizational diagnosis. Together we built something neither of us could have built alone."
"Building this with Taylor isn't just personal — it's strategic," said Nelson-Wright. "She brings the technical architecture. I bring the organizational diagnosis. Together we built something neither of us could have built alone."
The co-founders are currently raising a pre-seed round of $500,000 to $1,000,000 on a SAFE note with a $4 to $6 million cap.
Built for the Moment Every Organization Is Living Right Now
PreFlight AI™ launches at a moment when organizations across every sector are facing mounting pressure to adopt AI — often without the structural foundation to support it. The platform serves COOs, HR leaders, Chiefs of Staff, founders, and AI implementation firms who need to evaluate readiness before they begin.
The platform also offers an enterprise licensing and white label track for AI implementation firms, professional associations, and universities who want to embed the PreFlight AI™ diagnostic into their own client engagements and programs.
Active partnership conversations are underway with AI implementation firms in the US and the UK.
About PreFlight AI™
PreFlight AI™—Built for Operators, by Operators—is a leading organizational AI readiness diagnostic platform built on the Structural Leadership Model™. The platform evaluates whether organizations are structurally ready for AI implementation across five dimensions — Operational Clarity, Data Readiness, Decision Architecture, Workflow Friction, and Leadership AI Readiness — and delivers actionable diagnostic reports that help organizations fix the right things before they invest in AI tools.
Tagline: Clarity Before Automation™
Waitlist: GetPreFlightAI.com
Co-Founders: Kim Nelson-Wright, CEO and Taylor Chaney, CTO
Headquarters: Los Angeles, California
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Kimberly@KNWBusinessAdvisors.com | (443) 960-1978
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