A senior Chief AI Officer who designs your roadmap, builds your custom agents, and embeds AI into how your team actually works — without the full-time executive salary.
Not a consultant who hands you a deck. A senior operator who designs the strategy, builds the systems, and stays accountable for the outcomes.
A clear 12-month plan tied to revenue, margin, or capacity goals. We rank opportunities by impact and feasibility so your team works on what actually matters.
Bespoke agents built for your workflows — sales, ops, support, research, internal knowledge. Deployed on infrastructure you control, not a generic SaaS box.
Which model, which vector DB, which orchestration layer, which to build vs. buy. We make those calls based on your data, scale, and compliance — not on hype.
Through our compliance partners, agents are deployed on infrastructure that satisfies enterprise security review. BAAs available for healthcare.
We don't keep the keys. Your team learns to use, evaluate, and extend what we build. Internal AI fluency is a deliverable, not an afterthought.
Quarterly AI-impact reviews for your board or leadership team. Metrics, costs, risks, and the next 90 days — written for executives, not engineers.
Mid-market companies that know AI is now table stakes, but can't justify a $500K full-time hire — and won't accept a generic consultant.
Running a company between $5M and $100M in revenue. You see competitors moving on AI. You want a senior partner who owns the strategy, not a vendor selling a tool.
Capacity-constrained team. Repetitive knowledge work eating margin. You want concrete agent deployments tied to throughput, not another platform license.
Portfolio company under pressure to show AI leverage. You need a credible AI voice in the boardroom and a 90-day plan that survives diligence.
Predictable phases. Tangible artifacts each month. No mystery deliverables.
Workflow audit, data inventory, AI roadmap with prioritized use cases and a clear ROI model.
Highest-leverage agent designed, built, and deployed into your stack with team training.
Additional agents, evaluation framework, internal enablement, vendor decisions, governance.
Hand-off to your team, hiring plan for full-time AI roles if you need them, board reporting cadence.
There is a difference between a deck and a deployed agent.
Strategic leadership or operational leverage — start where you are.
A senior AI executive embedded in your leadership team. Owns your AI strategy, builds your custom agents, and reports to your board. Typical engagement: 6–12 months.
A dedicated AI assistant that runs your email, calendar, projects, and operational follow-ups. For founders who want personal leverage, fast.
"We finally have an AI strategy that's actually shipping — not a deck collecting dust. The first agent paid for the engagement in 90 days."
A Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO) is a senior AI executive who leads your company's AI strategy on a part-time, retainer basis. They define your AI roadmap, identify high-leverage use cases, and oversee the design and deployment of custom AI agents — typically for $10,000 to $25,000 per month instead of the $400,000+ all-in cost of a full-time CAIO.
A fractional CAIO typically costs $10,000 to $25,000 per month, billed as a retainer. A full-time Chief AI Officer in the US averages $300,000 to $450,000 in base salary plus equity, benefits, and bonus — usually a fully-loaded cost of $450,000 to $700,000 per year. For most mid-market companies, a fractional engagement delivers the same strategic outcomes at 15 to 25 percent of the cost.
Chief Of is industry agnostic. We have engagements across professional services, healthcare, financial services, legal, real estate, e-commerce, and B2B SaaS. AI strategy fundamentals transfer; what differs is the data, the workflows, and the compliance posture. We adapt to all three.
Yes. We build on SOC2 Type II and HIPAA-ready infrastructure through our compliance partners. Your data stays in your environment or in a dedicated, audited tenant. We do not train on your data and we sign BAAs where applicable.
Most engagements run 6 to 12 months. The first 30 days focus on strategy and roadmap, the next 60 days deliver an initial production agent, and months 4 through 12 expand the agent fleet and operationalize AI inside your team. Engagements are month-to-month with no long-term contracts.
Both. The fractional CAIO sets the strategy and owns the outcome. Our team — engineers and AI specialists — builds the custom agents on the infrastructure we recommend. You get one accountable senior operator, not a vendor referral chain.
You own everything we build: the agents, the prompts, the evaluation framework, the runbooks. We hand off to your internal team, help you hire a full-time CAIO if that's the right next step, or stay on retainer at a reduced cadence for ongoing oversight.
A 30-minute strategy call to see if a Fractional CAIO is the right fit for your company. No pitch deck, no obligation.
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