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AI consulting·fractional CAIO
Strategy, custom build, and embedded leadership for teams adopting AI in earnest. We’re industry-agnostic. We start with what you’re trying to do — then build until it ships.
Engagements range from a one-week strategy sprint to a year-long fractional CAIO retainer. Pricing is by scope — we’ll quote after the first call.
What we do
Strategy engagements lay the roadmap. Build engagements ship the systems. Embed engagements put us inside your team. Most clients start with one and add the others.
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Strategy
Roadmap engagements that surface where AI earns its keep — and, as importantly, where it doesn't. We arrive without a vendor preference and leave a sequenced plan your team can defend in a board meeting.
Engagement shapes
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Build
Custom agents, automations, retrieval systems, and integrations. We build the boring pieces the way a craftsperson would, on whatever stack you already trust. Something working in weeks, not quarters.
Engagement shapes
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Embed
Fractional Chief AI Officer. We sit inside your team for the part of the journey that needs sustained judgment — vendor calls, hiring loops, architectural decisions, model selection. Two days a week, scoped by quarter.
Engagement shapes
How we work
We don’t do landscape decks or maturity quadrants. Week one is interviews and instrumentation. Week two is a prototype against your real data.
We treat consulting the way good engineering teams treat their craft: small, falsifiable claims; short feedback loops; receipts for everything. The first conversation is about your business, not our methodology. We don’t arrive with a landscape deck. We don’t leave with a slide-only deliverable. By the time you’d normally be approving a workstream charter, we’re showing you something running.
Read the full approachOutcomes first.
Every engagement names the thing we're trying to change in the business — revenue per FTE, time to resolution, contribution margin per cohort. Models, vendors, and architecture flow from there.
Working software in weeks.
Week one is interviews + instrumentation. Week two is a prototype against your real data. We refuse engagements that don't allow that pace.
Leave the team better.
Knowledge transfer is part of the deliverable, not the cleanup at the end. Your people should be able to extend what we built without us.
Selected work
We work across industries — coastal hospitality, claims operations, fintech ops, niche e-commerce, healthcare administration. The pattern is rarely the vertical; it’s the question.
Claims operations
Build · 8 weeks
Triage agent that routes incoming claims to the right adjuster in seconds.
First-touch time cut from 4h to 11min on the long tail. Backlog cleared in three weeks.
Coastal hospitality
Strategy + Embed · Quarter
An AI roadmap that the GM could explain to housekeepers.
Two pilots killed early, one shipped to all properties, $180k of vendor spend re-allocated.
Niche e-commerce
Build · 6 weeks
Customer-service agent grounded in twelve years of email history.
60% of tickets resolved end-to-end. Human team focused only on the calls worth their attention.
Insights
Field notes
8 min read
Most procurement decks compare features. The shortlists that age well compare assumptions — about cost curves, model release cadence, and where the moat actually is.
Practice
6 min read
When fractional executive arrangements break, they break in the same three ways. We learned each of them the slow way. Here's what we changed in the engagement model after each.
Start here
The first conversation is free, takes about thirty minutes, and goes wherever it needs to. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so and point you somewhere that is.