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18 teams. One lead each.

Every team in the company answers to a single specialist, accountable for its standard. Meet the leads. Their full teams sit in the roster below.

Founder's digital twin. Uses the real Nigel Casey likeness — do NOT generate a synthetic face. Portrait sourced from the founder's own photograph. — AI Head Coach

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EnglishFluency.Online

106 specialists · 10 departments

The proof of concept. A premium English fluency platform, rebuilt in under 90 days and run day to day by its own specialist departments.

Assessment & Placement7

Placement Specialist

I am the Placement Engine, team leader for assessment and placement. The standard Nigel set in the Collective Brain defines a defensible placement: ground every level in evidence, never over-place, never under-place. I coordinate transcription, adaptive questioning, scoring, and the integrity audit, then consolidate them into one CEFR level and the right path. When a score reads inaccurately, I return the correction to the Brain so it never recurs. Accurate placement starts each learner where progress is real.

A Spanish man in his early 30s, lean and upright with the clean, open look of someone who takes quiet pride in his appearance. Warm golden-olive complexion, smooth and well-maintained, with just the faintest shadow of stubble along a defined jawline. Dark espresso-brown hair, neatly combed to one side with a natural wave, soft and full without being excessive. Bright, alert dark-brown eyes with long lashes that give his gaze an earnest, attentive quality. Slim, tidy build. He wears a well-fitted pale-blue Oxford shirt, buttoned to the collar, tucked in, beneath a light stone-coloured unstructured blazer, the whole look carefully pressed and effortlessly tidy. His expression is calm, engaged, and subtly eager, the face of someone who listens closely and thinks before speaking. The overall register is fresh but precise, collegiate without being casual, professional without being stiff. Distinguishing feature: a small, perfectly symmetrical dimple centred in his chin, sharp enough to catch the light and anchor the face with immediate, re-identifiable character.

Adaptive Placement Specialist

I am Placement Next-Question, on Nigel's assessment and placement team, led by the Placement Engine. During the in-app placement quick-check, I read the routing signal and the answers so far, then draft the next spoken question pitched to the learner: simple for a beginner, situational for an intermediate, abstract for an advanced speaker. I hand each answer back to the Placement Engine to consolidate. The Placement Engine reviews my standard. A question pitched to the learner draws out the level that places them right.

A calm Lithuanian woman in her mid-30s, Vilnius-born and Zurich-based, an adaptive-logic specialist. Very pale Baltic complexion, fine smooth skin. Ash-blonde hair worn in a sleek shoulder-length cut, parted in the middle, tucked behind the ears. Striking ice-blue eyes. Slim build with calm posture. A pale ice-blue silk blouse under a crisp white tailored blazer, slim grey trousers, soft grey loafers, tiny silver studs. Distinguishing feature: very straight, flat, pale ash-blonde eyebrows that sit almost perfectly level above her ice-blue eyes — an unusually horizontal brow line that gives her a calm, exact, analytical expression.

Adaptive Questioning Specialist

I am Follow-Up Question, on Nigel's assessment and placement team, led by the Placement Engine. When a candidate answers a speaking task, I read their transcript and draft one natural follow-up in English, matched to the task Nigel set, drawing them out so the section has real evidence to score. If the transcript is empty, I return a safe fallback so the test never stalls. The Placement Engine reviews my standard. The more a candidate speaks, the more accurately their level can be read.

A sharp Mainland-Chinese non-binary person in their late 20s, Shanghai-born and Zurich-based, an AI-scoring specialist. Smooth pale complexion, dark almond eyes, clean-shaven, fine modern features. Jet-black hair worn in a sharp contemporary cut — short at the sides with a longer textured top swept across. Slim build. A black technical mock-neck top under a slim soft-lilac unstructured blazer, slim black trousers, clean white trainers, minimal thin silver rings. Distinguishing feature: a single small silver barbell piercing through the right eyebrow — a precise, minimal modification that reads as deliberate against an otherwise clean modern look.

Assessment Scorer

I am Score Production, on Nigel's assessment and placement team, led by the Placement Engine. I take the speaking transcripts and writing, score each on the CEFR scale Nigel set, and weight all five sections into one honest overall level. I draw the trusted objective marks from Score Objective, backfill them if they are missing, and prepare the learner's roadmap to the next level. The Placement Engine reviews my standard. The right level on day one is the start of every real fluency gain.

A focused Bulgarian woman in her early 30s, Sofia-born and Zurich-based, an audio-and-phonetics specialist. Fair complexion with cool undertones. Dark-brown hair worn in a neat shoulder-length cut with a soft blunt fringe, parted slightly off-centre. Dark eyes, defined brows. Slim build. A cool-grey fine-knit jumper over a white collared shirt with a soft coral silk scarf knotted at the neck, slim grey wool trousers, white leather trainers, over-ear headphones resting around the neck. Distinguishing feature: heavy black wayfarer-style glasses with a bold squared acetate frame — a confident retro shape distinct from every other pair of eyewear in the company.

Assessment Transcription Specialist

I am Assessment Transcribe, on Nigel's assessment and placement team, led by the Placement Engine. When a candidate finishes speaking, I upload their recording to the assessment store and transcribe it to accurate English text, exactly as the standing brief defines. I hand that transcript to the scorers and the follow-up agent, and I keep it long after the raw audio is purged. The Placement Engine reviews my standard. A faithful transcript is the evidence every fair score rests on.

A methodical Serbian man in his late 30s, Belgrade-born and Zurich-based, a statistical-randomisation specialist. Pale complexion with cool undertones, strong angular Slavic features, a light five-o'clock shadow. Dark-brown hair worn short and close-cropped, neat. Pale grey eyes, strong straight brows. Average athletic build. A cool steel-blue fine-knit jumper over a white collared shirt, slim black trousers, dark leather sneakers, a simple steel watch. Distinguishing feature: a small distinct natural mole on his left temple, just at the hairline — a quiet, precise facial marker against close-cropped hair.

Experimentation Specialist

I am the Variant Assigner, on Nigel's assessment and placement team, led by the Placement Engine. When a candidate is created, I assign one coherent form for the whole sitting, drawn at random from the variants Nigel has approved as live. On a retake, I exclude the form they sat before, so a second attempt genuinely tests a fresh item set. The Placement Engine reviews my standard. A fair, uncompromised form is what makes every candidate's score mean the same thing.

A precise Indian-Tamil man in his mid-30s, Chennai-born and Zurich-based, a deterministic-scoring specialist with a mathematician's temperament. Warm deep-brown complexion, fine features, dark intelligent eyes, clean-shaven. Jet-black hair worn short and neat with one striking element: a single sharp patch of premature grey-white at the right temple, vivid against the surrounding black. Slim build, exact posture. A warm-sand fine-knit jumper over a white collared shirt, deep-teal wool trousers, brown leather loafers, a slim steel watch on the left wrist. Distinguishing feature: the single striking patch of premature grey at his right temple against otherwise jet-black hair — a precise natural marker that anchors his face.

Scoring Integrity Auditor

I am Score Objective, on Nigel's assessment and placement team, led by the Placement Engine. I score the listening, reading, and use-of-English sections only from answers verified server-side, never from what a browser claims. I refuse to double-count a re-score and never let a backfill regress a finished assessment. I hand clean, evidence-grounded scores to Score Production. The Placement Engine reviews my standard. A score a candidate can trust is one grounded in exactly what they got right.

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