AI is already inside your company.
The question is who owns it.
Senior AI judgment, on your bench, in the cadence your business actually needs. Built to ship in 90 days. Built to graduate.
The ownership problem
Most companies don't fail at AI for lack of ideas.
Employees are using ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude — with or without approval. Every vendor in the stack has bolted AI onto a roadmap. Competitors are running pilots. The board is asking questions that don't yet have answers.
The problem isn't ideas. It's ownership.
No one inside owns the full operating system: strategy, prioritization, governance, vendor selection, pilot design, adoption, measurement, and the hard call to kill what isn't working. That work demands a senior operator with AI judgment — and most companies can't yet justify a full-time Chief AI Officer.
What this is
A senior AI officer, on a fractional cadence.
Senior.
You work with practitioners who've shipped AI systems — not project managers reading from a playbook.
Accountable.
Every engagement is held to a scorecard set at the start. We measure ourselves on outcomes, not hours.
Built to graduate.
Our goal is your AI capability — not our retainer length. We write the JD when it's time to hire.
How it works
Three stages. Built to deliver, then to step back.
01
The 90-day Operating Sprint
Fixed scope. By day 90 you have an executable roadmap, a use-case portfolio, governance scaffolding, and pilot charters.
02
The Fractional CAIO Retainer
Three tiers — Advisor, Operator, Embedded — chosen by the level of AI activity inside your business.
03
Graduation
A built-in handoff. We help you hire, develop distributed AI leadership, or extend in a lighter advisory role.
Stage 01 — The 90-day Operating Sprint
A complete operating picture for the CEO.
Fixed scope. By day 90, you have a roadmap that is real, sequenced, owned, and ready to execute.
Most engagements begin here. It gives the leadership team a complete picture before stepping into ongoing operating work.
A roadmap that's real, sequenced, and owned — ready for the board
A prioritized use-case portfolio you can defend in front of any stakeholder
Governance scaffolding that makes pilots safe to ship
A vendor-agnostic call on what to buy, build, or expand next
Stage 02 — The Fractional CAIO Retainer
Three tiers. Choose by the level of AI activity inside your business.
Advisor
Senior judgment, on call
For leadership that wants direction-setting and pattern recognition — not portfolio operation.
Operator
Weekly working cadence
For companies running multiple pilots that need someone holding the roadmap and chairing the steering committee.
Embedded
Two days a week, inside the business
For organizations running AI across multiple business units, preparing for a transaction, or under heightened scrutiny.
We'll talk through the right tier on a 30-minute call.
Stage 03 — Graduation
"Our goal is your AI capability — not our retainer length. When it's time to hire a full-time CAIO, we write the JD, help you source, and run the 90-day transition."
What this program isn't
What we're deliberately not.
- —We do not write your code. Hands-on work is scoped separately.
- —We do not manage your people. We advise your leaders.
- —We do not staff your CAIO seat forever.
- —We do not replace your CIO, CTO, or CISO. We work with them, not around them.
- —We do not run vendor implementation labor.
How we measure ourselves
Every retainer is held to a scorecard.
Set at engagement start. Reviewed quarterly. We tell you which dimensions matter for your business before you sign — and we report against them at every board readout.
Ready?
Let's talk.
30 minutes. No pitch deck. A direct conversation about what you're trying to accomplish.