Strategy design

    for human-machine
  
collaboration

About

Where clarity becomes action, and systems work for people.

At Machinista I/O, we design decision-making systems for teams navigating complexity. Our work helps organizations align across disciplines, cultures, and technologies, without losing their human core.

We use symbolic facilitation methods like LEGO® Serious Play®, friction mapping, and strategy signal to make challenges visible, tensions workable, and collaboration real.

Whether you’re introducing AI, scaling across geographies, or facing team fatigue, we help you move from confusion to coherence, quickly, and with care.

Real Time Reframing® Model by Adriana Lodolo at the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Advanced Trainings and International Conference 2024. Billund, Denmark.

Approach

Grounded strategy for a changing world.

Machinista I/O is a strategy design studio based in Los Angeles. We support global teams in making meaningful progress, even in environments shaped by rapid change, hybrid work, and AI uncertainty.

Our approach blends system thinking and emotional attunement. We work with physical models, metaphors, and collaborative frameworks that help teams see clearly, decide together, and take action that sticks.

Clients turn to us when internal strategies stall, when teams are misaligned across functions or cultures, or when AI adoption creates new forms of doubt or disconnection. We help teams sense what matters, and move from reactivity to shared direction.

We believe in:

Action over perfection.

Strategy that starts and ends with humans in mind.

Making complex things make sense.

Services

From Team Friction to Strategic Flow.

We design workshops that help teams move forward, intentionally, and together. Each session is rooted in clarity, symbolic tools, and decision-making that includes both humans and the systems they work within.

LEGO® Serious Play® Workshops

Think with your hands. Decide with your whole team.

We use the LEGO® Serious Play® methodology to unlock insight and build trust—fast. Beyond sticky notes or slides, these workshops use structured play and physical metaphor to help teams make the invisible visible.

Perfect for vision alignment, role clarity, decision mapping, or exploring tensions between people and AI tools. Each format is designed to invite honest dialogue, collective understanding, and team resilience.

Mind.Lab

A 1:1 strategic session for solopreneurs, creatives, and decision-makers.

Mind.Lab is a personalized workshop space designed to reconnect your work with your values. Using LEGO® Serious Play® and visual strategy tools, we help you clarify what matters, and build a plan that feels not just possible, but aligned.

This is not productivity theatre. It’s a way to see your direction clean.

Co.Labs

For teams navigating growth, complexity, or misalignment.

Co.Labs are structured yet adaptive sessions tailored to your team’s needs, whether you lead a startup, a cross-functional unit, or an NGO. We guide your team to map real friction, surface useful tension, and co-create paths forward that everyone understands.

Each session ends with shared commitments, not just ideas. You leave with clarity, cohesion, and the tools to keep momentum alive.

Success.Lab

For solopreneurs building purpose-led offers.

Offered in partnership with IdeaCompass (Amsterdam), this intensive in-person session helps solo founders move from scattered ideas to clear purpose and traction. You’ll define what you’re here to build, and how to move forward without losing yourself in the noise.

Discover

Let’s Talk

Book a free 30-minute Discovery Call to explore what’s emerging in your team and how we might work together to move through complexity with clarity.

This is not a sales pitch. It’s a thinking space where you bring the challenge, we help sense what’s possible.

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Story

Rooted in people. Designed for systems.

Founded in 2024 in Los Angeles, Machinista I/O is led by Adriana Lodolo—strategy facilitator, collaboration designer, and systems thinker with a background in creative leadership.

Her work is grounded in decades of pattern recognition: across teams, technologies, and cultural change. Adriana brings together analytical clarity and emotional depth to help teams move forward, on purpose.

She is certified in the LEGO® Serious Play® methodology, a Workshopper Master, and holds an MFA in Documentary Filmmaking. Her training includes advanced facilitation studies with MIT, IDEO, Stanford, and Wharton.

What unites it all is one belief: strategy should be human-shaped.