Senior AI leadership for mid-market companies — strategic oversight, AI roadmap ownership, and vendor governance. Without the cost of a full-time executive.
30-minute fitting call. We'll assess whether fractional leadership is the right frame before proposing any engagement.
Five concrete responsibilities that go beyond maintenance. The Fractional AI Officer owns the AI agenda at the leadership level — direction, vendor governance, and cross-functional alignment.
Sets AI direction aligned to business goals. Reports into the C-suite, owns the AI point of view for the organization.
Writes and maintains the AI roadmap. Re-baselines priorities quarterly against new opportunities and operational changes.
Vets, procures, and manages AI vendors. Stops the team from buying overlapping tools or under-supported platforms.
Owns how AI systems connect to the rest of the org. Identifies integration gaps before they show up as production issues.
Runs the monthly AI roadmap review with leadership. Surfaces decision points, escalations, and ROI updates.
Asynchronous Slack/email response SLA for operational escalation. Decision-grade turnaround on hot-path issues.
A full-time Chief AI Officer is overkill at this size. A consultant who builds autoworkers is the wrong frame. The Fractional AI Officer fits between the two.
The right client is a mid-market company — typically $5M to $50M in annual revenue — with real AI ambition and an internal team that can execute against direction. You know AI is moving the needle on operations, and you know you need senior AI judgment in the room. You don't yet have the headcount budget for a full-time AI executive, and the C-suite has bandwidth to absorb one more strategic voice at the leadership level.
The wrong client is a 12-person startup looking for AI "advice" in Slack, or an enterprise looking to outsource the Chief AI Officer role entirely. The fractional frame only works when there's an internal team to translate strategy into delivery.
Choose the cadence that fits how actively your team is shipping AI right now. Either tier includes async Slack/email response, monthly leadership readout, and quarterly roadmap recalibration.
Strategic AI oversight for organizations with internal execution teams. We own direction and vendor guidance; your team owns delivery.
Everything in Strategy-Only plus active review of build output, delivery vendor management, and an asynchronous escalation path. For orgs actively shipping AI initiatives.
Every engagement tier includes these baseline deliverables. The Fractional AI Officer relationship is structured, not reactive.
Most engagements run 3–12 months. The shape follows a predictable structure: orientation, roadmap, steady-state oversight with quarterly re-baselines.
Structured stakeholder interviews, current-state AI investment review, workflow surface mapping, and a written audit with prioritized opportunity map.
Written AI roadmap accepted by leadership. First vendor procurement decisions made against it. Build starts against the strategic sequence.
Monthly readout cadence. Quarterly roadmap re-baselines. Async escalation path active. Handoff readiness built continuously.
Book a strategy call. We'll assess whether fractional leadership is the right frame for your stage, walk through which tier (if any) fits, and tell you honestly whether we're the right fit before any commitment.
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