Practical AI for your business, worked out in the room with peers.

Everyone who came gets an email from us asking one question: who would you like to meet? Tell us what you do, who you'd like to meet and how we should introduce you. We look in the network and ask them first, names are shared only when both sides say yes, and your first introduction is on us. Read the October recap →

There's no membership fee. Evenings have a ticket that covers the evening. For introductions, asking is free and so is your first introduction; after that, £10 for each introduction you accept. The person you're introduced to never pays.

To accept an introduction, yes: you join Axia, at no cost. Asking doesn't require it.

It can take a few weeks. A person checks every possible match, so we'd rather be right than quick.

Then you hear nothing until someone does. Your ask stays on file, and nothing is shared.

Only the person you agree to meet, and only after both of you say yes. You can turn down an introduction at any point before you accept it.

Three pieces of work, charged together only when you accept: setting up your ask, finding the person, and asking them first. Your first introduction is on us, the person you're introduced to never pays, and we take no commission on any deal. If you're in a regulated profession, check your regulator's rules on paying for introductions before you accept one. Read how introductions work →

As a role, a kind of firm, a place and the moment they need you. "Everyone" gives us nothing to look for; a name is even better. How to ask for an introduction →

In Alan's own 90-day count, 482 comments on AI creators' posts led to 3 or 4 of about 72 meetings. Most meetings came from people who know people: introductions, events and direct outreach to a named person. Read the numbers →

Business owners modernising how they work, professionals in legal, finance, property and consulting who want introductions they can trust, and people building with AI. The evenings are in central London. The network is open to anyone with someone they'd like to meet.

It works alongside them, not instead of them. There's no one-per-profession rule, so members of any group can join, and nothing about Nexus asks you to leave one. What Nexus adds is the introductions: we look for the people you want to meet, between evenings as well as at them.

Gina runs the room. Before every evening she reads who is coming and looks for the overlaps worth acting on; on the night she makes those introductions herself, in person, with the reason said out loud.

Nexus is the face, Axia is the engine behind it, and the room is where trust is built. Axia, V8 Global's AI operating system, keeps track of who is looking for whom and spots likely fits. A person checks every match and sends every message.

Most likely, a different job. Your group gives you a room and a set of regular faces; what it rarely gives you is someone looking for the people you want to meet once you've left the room. Nexus is built for that gap, and it sits alongside whatever you're already in. Read Gina's full argument →

Curated introductions, made in person and with a reason. Before each event Gina reviews who's attending and identifies the overlaps worth acting on: complementary services, people whose businesses touch without competing. Those introductions happen on the night, face to face, with the context explained. There's no speaker programme dominating the evening and no pitch round. Evenings run in central London by invitation and are capped at forty guests. Read more →

A course teaches you to build the system. A Slack community of a thousand silent members doesn't help you when something breaks. V8 Nexus is the room in between: small enough that members know each other, deliberate enough that the conversations are about real systems running in real businesses. The room is where the long game gets played. Read the full argument →

Trust transfer. When a network member references you, you inherit their credibility. AI can scale content reach but cannot transfer trust. For SMEs with limited brand recognition, that inherited credibility is often the difference between a reply and silence. Read more →

The launch night at iFAST Global Bank set the template: around thirty curated leaders in one room, a keynote from a senior practitioner, a venue partner and a community partner, and introductions made deliberately rather than left to chance. Read the launch night recap →

Nexus is a peer community first. Practical AI literacy comes from being in regular contact with people who run the same questions you do: what is real, what is hype, what is worth your time. Peer discussions where members share what is working in their own businesses, and direct conversations that give you a sounding board before you act on something you saw online. The verification habit covered in this post is one example of the kind of practical instinct the community builds together rather than something each of us has to figure out alone. Read the full post →

Most pitches are lost before they start, not because the offer is wrong, but because the prospect arrived with the wrong frame. A warm introduction fixes the frame before you say anything. Read more →

Nexus supports events that share its philosophy of curated, deliberate community-building over open-mingle networking. The filter is whether the room is built on purpose. Read more →

The AI consultant market is noisy right now. Almost everyone in a business networking room is calling themselves an AI expert, and the price gap between them is enormous. The community is where members compare notes on who actually delivers. Read more →

If you focus on physical business development, you're already doing the hardest part: building trust face to face. Where most networking businesses lose value is what happens afterwards, and that is the part a system can carry. Read more →

It's the most common thing we hear, and it isn't a discipline problem. You meet eleven people at an event, follow up with two while it's fresh, and lose the rest to a busy week. The motion is wrong, not you. Read Gina's full argument →

Yes, through V8's partnership with Hongkongers Magazine. The magazine reaches Hong Kong readers across the UK in Chinese, and V8 handles the editorial and distribution side. Read more →

Ask what they already have covering it, rather than naming the gap. A question phrased so that both answers are equally welcome keeps them explaining; naming the gap ends the conversation. Read more →

Evenings run roughly monthly at the Grosvenor Rialto in Piccadilly and are capped at forty so that introductions can actually be made rather than left to chance. The next date is announced once it's set; tell us who you'd like to meet below and Gina will let you know.

Yes. Many people come to V8 Nexus while they're working out whether a side project could become a one-person business. The evenings are where a first client, a collaborator or an honest gut-check on an idea tends to come from, because it's someone you've met rather than a cold pitch. Gina's article on going from side hustle to one-person business →