Fractional Chief AI Officer

Senior AI leadership, without the executive hire.

Chief AI Officer is the C-suite's fastest-growing seat; supply hasn't kept pace. Most sit in the middle: AI needs ownership, not yet a permanent executive.

A fractional engagement closes that gap: the same job, part-time.

What the engagement covers

  • Strategy. Where AI belongs in your operation, sequenced by what you can absorb.

  • Governance. What's permitted, who approves, how it's recorded, what happens when it goes wrong, agreed and written down.

  • Build versus buy. What to build, buy, or leave alone, with criteria documented so reasoning survives you.

  • A defensible roadmap. A plan for a board, rector or executive committee, trade-offs stated.

  • Vendor and tooling decisions. Independent assessment: no platform licence carries our name, nothing we're incentivised to recommend.

When this fits

  • AI is consequential enough that someone should own it explicitly.
  • Decisions are made one tool at a time; one criterion would connect them.
  • An internal audience - board, committee, leadership - needs to approve the direction.

When it does not

  • The decision is made; what's needed is execution. Start with Agentic Automation instead.
  • No one internally has authority to act on the roadmap.

How it starts

A session on one concrete decision you're facing now. Fixed scope, fixed end. You leave with a position either way.