The gap that used
to define us.

There are three founders at NxTelligence. My father Ray, my sister Monika, and me. We share a last name, a company, and something we don’t talk about often: all three of us are dyslexic. Thanks, Pap.

For most of my life, that word carried weight. Not the diagnosis itself, but everything that came with it. The slower reading. The typos that slipped through no matter how many times I checked. The quiet fear that someone, somewhere, was reading something I wrote and judging me for it. School had a way of making you feel like the part of your brain that struggled with words was the part that mattered most.

What it taught me, eventually, was that the creative side was always there. Dyslexic brains tend to think in patterns, images, and connections. We see whole systems before we see the steps. Ray and Monika are both incredible artists. They can hold a space in their head in three dimensions, walk through it, notice the light hitting a corner, and then replicate it on paper with a level of detail that still amazes me. I have that same way of seeing things, even if my hands never developed the same refinement theirs did. That part of us was never broken. It just lived behind a wall of friction every time we had to translate it into written language.

AI tools changed that, and not in the way most people describe it. It’s not about writing emails faster or fixing spelling. It’s that the distance between having an idea and putting it into the world shrank to almost nothing. The thing that used to slow us down — the part where I’d stare at a blank page knowing exactly what I wanted to say but dreading the act of writing it — that part doesn’t carry the same weight anymore.

Ray spent thirty years building a consulting career on strategic thinking, despite the friction of writing. Monika builds systems that solve problems most people can’t even see clearly yet. I think in visuals and patterns and connections, then move fast between ideas. None of that changed. What changed is that we can now move from idea to execution at the speed we actually think, instead of the speed we could write.

There are still typos. Things I misread. Concepts I have to read three times before they land. That’s not going away, and I’ve stopped expecting it to. But the muscle I’m growing now is the creative one, not the compensating one. That’s a different way to spend your energy.

When people ask us why we started an AI consulting firm, the answer usually lands on strategy or transformation or where the market is headed. All of that is true. But there’s a quieter reason underneath it. The three of us spent a long time working around something. Now we get to work with tools that meet us where our thinking actually lives. It’s hard not to want to help other people find that same shift, in whatever form it takes for them.