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Sales, renewals, and fundraising — all won with something I built.

I build the machine that makes a CS team bigger than its headcount.

I’ve spent my career in the seams between functions, as a chief of staff, a product analyst, and a founding director of data science. What I build helps other teams succeed: the case studies a CEO used to chase a key renewal worth 11% of ARR, the GTM engine that grew top-of-funnel by 400%, and the analysis a C-suite used to close its Series B.

Nicky Bell perched on a wooden stool against a warm cream wall, laughing, in a light blue shirt

How I Work

Building the system is easy.
Keeping it running is the hard part.

Pull quote: “Nicky is synonymous with execution.” — Bri Brennan, Chief Growth Officer, Keywell.ai

I judge my work by what is still running after I leave. At Keywell that is a CRM migration I ran with an agent I built, a resume screen that took 50+ hours of manual review off the calendar, the first product manager the company hired, and an operating rhythm that outlasted my last day. Handing someone a document is not the same as handing them a system. I build for the person who inherits it.

Roles

Where I fit on your org chart.

CS Operations

I’ve run the operations behind a customer success team: the enablement assets, the renewal motions, the account data. As chief of staff for customer success at Keywell, I secured the new SOWs with existing accounts that grew revenue by over 40%.

Revenue Operations

I treat customer friction as a revenue problem. At FlagshipRTL I built the data-driven case that kept a key account from churning and preserved 11% of ARR. I don’t stop at the save — I trace the friction back to the process that produced it, so the next save isn’t needed.

Business Operations

I drop into complex environments, assess quickly, and execute. As a chief of staff I built the systems, processes, and internal AI agents an AI-native startup needed to scale. The through-line of my career is turning ad hoc work into process.

Experience

The titles changed. The job didn’t.

Chief of staff, analytics lead, founding director — every one of these was an operations job: find the blind spot, build the process, tie it to revenue.

2025 – present

Powered Analysis is my education laboratory where I experiment with what’s actually worth teaching about AI and data. It’s thought leadership, not an exit.

2025 – 2026

Chief of Staff & CS Lead

The voice of the customer for Keywell’s AI product launch. Oversaw Keywell’s enablement assets and secured new SOWs with existing accounts that grew revenue by over 40%.

2025

Analytics Lead

I came in to help retain a key customer in danger of churning, and I delivered the data-driven case studies used by the CEO to fight for their renewal and preserve 11% of ARR.

2022 – 2025

Founding Director of Data Science

I designed the analysis that got the first FDA approval of an AI algorithm to predict breast cancer risk. I taught our C-suite what the numbers meant, so they could close our Series B.

2020 – 2026

Data Science Instructor

University of Pennsylvania; George Washington Univ.

I started teaching before ChatGPT, and finished as an evangelist for AI. Proud to be one of the first faculty to treat AI as a learning objective, not a tool to be shunned.

2015 – 2022

PhD, Political Science

University of Pennsylvania

Spent years digging deeply into why a job training program with gold-tier benefits went almost entirely unused. It was my first enablement problem, and I’ve been working on versions of it ever since.

In practice

The ideas on this page have a syllabus.

I say retention is a system for moving people up the pyramid. Here is that machinery, built and shipped: a course that takes an operator from wary of data to fluent in it — the same climb I build for customers, productized end to end.

ONLINE course

Practical Data Analysis for the Modern Professional

Self-paced · 7 modules · 1 hr 40 min

Self-paced · 7 modules · 1 hr 40 min

Analysis isn’t about technique. It’s about judgment — and you can learn judgment. In under two hours, with no code and no math, I teach professionals to ask the right questions of any analysis, challenge the assumptions underneath it, and treat AI as an analyst whose work they know how to check.

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The Data Analyst Mindset

The skill that makes you a data person isn’t math or code; it’s knowing which questions to ask before anyone else does.

5:34

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02

Measurement

Every analysis lives or dies by one decision made before the numbers move: what you count, and how you count it.

19:52

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03

Randomization and Selection Bias

The most dangerous flaw in any analysis is the data that never made it into the room.

10:18

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04

Correlation vs. Causation

Everyone knows the phrase; here you learn to actually tell the two apart when a real decision is on the line.

19:54

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05

Sample Size, Variance, and Uncertainty

Small samples and noisy data make averages lie — learn to see the uncertainty AI hides behind a confident number.

13:00

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06

Missing Data and Outliers

The gaps in your data and the extremes on its edges can quietly tank your credibility.

12:05

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Data Visualization

AI builds charts for code, not comprehension. Become your audience’s last line of defense against a misleading graph.

21:24

Get in touch

If you’re building something that makes people better at their jobs rather than obsolete in them, I’d like to hear about it.

If you’re building something that makes people better at their jobs rather than obsolete in them, I’d like to hear about it.

If you’re building something that makes people better at their jobs rather than obsolete in them, I’d like to hear about it.

I’m exploring customer success, revenue, and business operations roles. The fastest way to reach me is a 30-minute call.