Fractional CAIO
Embedded AI leadership on monthly retainer — strategy, roadmap, governance, and execution oversight from a builder who ships code.
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AI systems that run the business while you sleep.
I'm Michael Smith. I built Titanium Labs because most AI consultancies ship slide decks instead of systems. We do strategy AND execution — fractional CAIO leadership, custom multi-agent builds, and an in-house platform (Ottolax, Claude Gateway, emails4agents) you can license directly.
10+ AI Products Shipped
85+ MCP Tools in Production
Multi-Agent Systems Running 24/7
Built on Frontier Models
What We Offer
Our Services
Explore our full range of professional services tailored to your needs.
AI Readiness Audit
A 2–4 week paid engagement producing your written AI roadmap, opportunity map, and capability gap analysis — with a working prototype of the highest-leverage system.
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Custom AI Builds
Project-based engagements: bespoke agents, RAG systems, MCP servers, multi-agent orchestration, automations. Production code, not POCs.
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AI Infrastructure Access
Licensed access to the Titanium Labs platform — Ottolax multi-agent OS, Claude Gateway credential infrastructure, emails4agents email primitive. Skip the plumbing.
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The systems that power our work
Every Titanium Labs engagement is built on infrastructure we own and operate. License it directly, or get access as part of a Fractional CAIO or Custom AI Build engagement.
Multi-Agent AIOS
Ottolax™
The AI Office Automation Platform. 85+ MCP tools, multi-agent orchestrator, 95+ React dashboard components. Runs our agency end-to-end.
Learn more →Credential Infrastructure
Claude Gateway™
OAuth refresh, token rotation, and credential storage for AI agents. Replace dozens of app env vars with four.
Learn more →Email API for Agents
emails4agents™
Email send/receive primitive designed for autonomous agents. Replaces SendGrid/Postmark for AI-driven pipelines.
Learn more →Titanium Labs
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Years Experience
5000+
Clients Helped
98%
Satisfaction Rate
About Us
We ship code, not slide decks.
Most consultancies hand you a 60-page strategy and a goodbye. We embed as your fractional CAIO, build the agents and infrastructure, and stay until the system is running in production. Our own products — Ottolax, Claude Gateway, emails4agents — are proof of what we ship. They power our agency, The Leading Practice, end-to-end.
- Founder-led, builder-first — strategy AND execution
- Frontier-native: Claude Opus/Sonnet, GPT, Qwen, multi-provider orchestration
- Production multi-agent systems with budgets, sandboxing, and metering
- Own platform (Ottolax) — license it, don't rebuild it
Titanium Labs vs. Typical AI Consultancies
We ship code. They ship slides.
An honest comparison of how we run engagements vs. how the big-name consultancies do.
| Titanium Labs | Typical AI Consultancy | |
|---|---|---|
| Deliverable | Working code in production | Slide deck + separate implementation SOW |
| Senior team | Same partner writes roadmap AND commits | Partner sells, body shop implements |
| Engagement length | 6–18 months, replace ourselves | 12+ months, perpetual billable |
| Stack philosophy | Frontier-native, multi-provider | Tied to one vendor relationship |
| Proof | Our own platform runs our own businesses | Case studies under NDA |
| Pricing | Fixed-fee per milestone | Time & materials, change orders |
Selected Build · The Leading Practice
A full marketing agency, run on Titanium Labs infrastructure.
The Leading Practice (TLP) is our chiropractic marketing agency. Every operational function — lead routing, ad audits, content production, client reporting, recurring follow-ups — runs through Ottolax agents and our own infrastructure. It's the most honest case study we can offer: we built the system, we operate the system, and the system runs a business.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Honest answers to what we hear from operators evaluating an engagement.
A Fractional Chief AI Officer is an embedded senior AI leader on a monthly retainer — typically 2 days per week — who owns your AI strategy AND ships the first production systems. It’s the right fit for mid-market companies that need executive-level AI leadership but don’t have the budget or workload for a full-time $400k+ hire. Unlike a consultant, the Fractional CAIO is accountable for shipping working systems, not delivering slide decks.
Big consultancies sell strategy decks. We sell working systems. Their typical AI engagement is a 12-week deliverable that ends with a beautiful roadmap and a separate, much larger statement of work for implementation — usually subcontracted to a body shop. Our engagements end with code running in your production environment. We don’t subcontract the build. The same senior team that writes the roadmap writes the commits.
We ship code. Every engagement — including Fractional CAIO and AI Readiness Audits — ends with at least one working AI system deployed in your environment. Our team is senior engineers and operators, not slide-deck consultants. We use our own platform (Ottolax, Claude Gateway, emails4agents) to run our own businesses, which is the strongest proof we can offer that the systems work in production.
Frontier models first: Claude (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), GPT-4o/5, Qwen, Llama — selected per use case. Orchestration with LangGraph or our own Ottolax multi-agent platform. Backend in FastAPI or Node, data in Postgres/Supabase (pgvector for retrieval), frontends in Next.js/Astro/React. We have no vendor loyalty — we pick the best tool for the job and document why in the architecture spec.
AI Readiness Audits are fixed scope at 2–4 weeks. Fractional CAIO engagements are monthly retainers — most run 6–18 months, and we explicitly aim to make ourselves replaceable inside 18 months by training your internal team. Custom AI Builds run 6–16 weeks per project. Infrastructure Access (Ottolax, Claude Gateway, emails4agents) is annual licensing.
- Fractional CAIO: monthly retainer, scaled to days/week of access
- AI Readiness Audit: fixed fee per engagement, scoped to company size
- Custom AI Builds: fixed fee per milestone, paid as we ship
- AI Infrastructure Access: annual license, per-tenant or per-seat
No hourly billing. No surprise change orders. Pricing is shared on the strategy call once we understand scope.
Ready to ship an AI system that actually runs your business?
Book a 30-minute strategy call. We'll map your highest-leverage AI opportunities and tell you exactly what we'd build.