Ongoing engagement · 1 to 2 days a week · 3-month minimum

Fractional Chief AI Officer.

For CEOs who know they need senior AI leadership in the business but can't justify a full-time hire. We sit on your leadership team, own the AI agenda, and lead the work until it compounds.

What we own.

  • The AI agenda: priorities, sequencing, kill decisions
  • Build-versus-buy calls and vendor selection
  • Execution leadership across your existing engineering and product team
  • Quarterly reviews with you and the board
  • Translating AI work into commercial outcomes the leadership team can see

What we don't.

  • Be your sole engineer. We will prototype, review code, and build with your team, but we will not replace your engineering function
  • Run your IT helpdesk or manage your wider tech stack
  • Replace your existing CTO, Head of Engineering, or Head of Data
  • Sell you a platform, license, or anything with a margin attached

A typical twelve months.

Q1

Get oriented. Ship something real.

Diagnose, prioritise, and ship one or two early initiatives that prove the model. Build trust with the team.

Q2

Build the operating rhythm.

AI work becomes part of how the leadership team operates. Initiatives are scoped, owned, and reviewed on a predictable cadence.

Q3

Compound.

Earlier work starts paying back. We scale what's working, kill what isn't, and start the second wave of harder bets.

Q4

Hand off, or keep going.

By now you either have an internal owner ready to take it (we help recruit them) or the cadence works and we keep running.

Every quarter ends the same way.

  • A written review: what shipped, what it cost, what it returned
  • The next quarter's agenda: what we scale, what we kill, what we start
  • The governance position, kept current as the work changes
  • A decision that is yours to make: step up, continue, or stop

Investment.

Three-month minimum. Designed to run 12 months or more. Pricing depends on cadence (one or two days a week), travel, and the complexity of the business. We'll work it out on the call.

Not sure if you're ready?

Start with the 90-day AI Strategy Jump Start instead. Scoped engagement, three months, and you'll know by the end whether ongoing fractional leadership makes sense.

See 90-day AI Strategy Jump Start →

Talk it through.

Thirty minutes. We work out if there's a fit.