Operator first. Advisor by design.

I'm Jason Gilbreath — an AI & data advisor to owner-led and PE-backed mid-market companies, and the principal of GITLAI, LLC, my advisory practice.

Most recently, I served as Chief Innovation Officer at MedPro Healthcare Staffing, a PE-backed firm where I led Business Intelligence and Innovation and shipped more than 20 production AI applications in a single year — not demos, not pilots, but systems running daily across the entire business. Before MedPro, I was the first Chief Innovation Officer at Triage Staffing, where I helped lead the company from $120M to $1.2B in revenue during the pandemic-driven healthcare staffing surge. Before healthcare, I spent six years at First National Bank of Omaha leading transformation initiatives that contributed to $67M in profit improvement across an $11B enterprise.

GITLAI is also not my first advisory practice. Between Triage and MedPro, I founded Next Stage Advisors, working fractionally with executives and early-stage ventures on strategy and execution, and using AI myself to deliver the work — proof, before GITLAI, that an outside advisor can deliver working results rather than strategy decks.

Earlier, I built a company from scratch — Omaha's first reclaimed materials design and furniture business — because I needed to know what it felt like to build something with my hands before I could build systems that scale. It was profitable in year three, and I sold it in year five to an operator who still runs it today.

What connects all of it: I find the system underneath the problem, and I build the method to move past it. Right now, that means helping companies turn their data into a usable asset and make AI part of how the work gets done — capability built inside the team, not around it.

I hold a bachelor's degree and an MBA from Creighton University, and I live in Omaha, Nebraska.