You don’t have an AI strategy problem. You have an execution problem.
Every executive team has been to the AI strategy offsite. Everyone agrees AI is important. Everyone has read the McKinsey report. The deck is beautiful. Twelve months later, what’s actually running in production? A ChatGPT subscription and a few half-finished pilots.
The gap isn’t strategy. It’s leadership that can hold both ends of the rope — the boardroom vocabulary AND the GitHub commit history. Most companies don’t need to hire a $400k VP of AI. They need someone in the room two days a week who can write the roadmap, vet the vendor pitches, audit the model contracts, and personally ship the first three production agents.
That’s the Fractional CAIO engagement.
How it works
Step 1: Embed and assess
We spend the first 30 days inside your business. We sit in your ops calls. We read your data warehouse schema. We talk to the people doing the work. The output is an honest AI Opportunity Map — what to build first, what to leave alone, where the ROI is real, and where the consultants oversold you.
Step 2: Build the roadmap and the first system
By day 60, we have a written AI roadmap aligned to your business goals — and we’ve already shipped your first production AI system. Not a pilot. Not a demo. Something running, generating value, with observability and budgets. Because if month two ends without working code, the engagement has already failed.
Step 3: Operate, govern, and scale
From day 90 onward we’re embedded as your AI leader. We own vendor selection, model upgrades, governance frameworks, security review of every AI integration, and quarterly board updates. We enable your existing engineering team so they own what we build. The goal is to make ourselves replaceable inside 18 months — not perpetually billable.
What’s included
- Weekly strategy + execution sync with your executive team
- Quarterly AI roadmap aligned to business OKRs
- AI vendor and model selection (Claude, GPT, open-source — we’re not loyal to any single provider)
- Architecture review for every AI initiative across your org
- Governance, security, and compliance framework (SOC 2, HIPAA-aware, data residency)
- Hands-on build of the first 1–3 production AI systems
- Team enablement: hiring, training, internal playbooks
- Board and investor-ready AI narrative + reporting
- Direct Slack/email access between syncs
Who it’s for
- CEOs and operators tired of consultancies that ship slides and disappear
- Mid-market companies who need senior AI leadership but don’t have the budget (or the workload) for a full-time CAIO
- Enterprises with a stalled AI strategy and want someone accountable for shipping
- PE-backed portfolio companies under pressure to show AI value before next raise
Powered by our own stack
Every Fractional CAIO engagement gets access to the Titanium Labs platform — Ottolax for multi-agent orchestration, Claude Gateway for credential infrastructure, and emails4agents for autonomous email pipelines. Your team doesn’t waste six months building plumbing. We bring the plumbing.