Fractional AI Leadership
AI strategy needs a full-time owner at executive level, and you can't yet justify a $400K CAIO hire, not before you know what the role should even be. This fills the gap: a senior operator in the AI seat on a quarterly retainer, owning the roadmap, the vendor calls, the hiring criteria, and the board narrative. The Chief AI Officer seat without the Chief AI Officer search.
Our founder takes the seat on a quarterly retainer. We own the AI roadmap end-to-end: what gets built, what gets bought, and what gets killed. We attend your executive cadence, run working sessions with your team, write the board narrative, and define the hiring bar for the full-time replacement. When you're ready, we hand it over to someone we've helped you scorecard.
Inclusions
- Weekly executive cadence + monthly working sessions with your team
- Roadmap ownership and quarterly planning aligned to your commercial cycle
- Vendor selection, build/buy/partner decisions, tooling consolidation
- Hiring scorecards and interview loops for your future full-time AI leader
- Board-ready reporting on AI investment, outcomes and risk
- Access to Alexandria, with the founder brought in directly on specific initiatives
Quarterly retainer, billed monthly. Minimum two quarters. Day rate and scope reviewed each quarter; either side may end the engagement with 30 days' notice after the minimum.
When this engagement is the right call
- You need executive-level AI ownership but aren't ready for a full-time hire
- Your AI work is fragmented across departments and nobody owns the whole
- You want the roadmap defended in the boardroom, not just the engineering roadmap review
- You want a deliberate path to a full-time CAIO, with the right scorecard when you get there
A 30-minute call with a founder
If you're deciding between hiring a Head of AI and renting one, that's the conversation. Thirty minutes with the operator who'd take the seat.