For organizations that need the weight of a CTO or Head of AI in the room every week, but aren't ready — or don't need — to make that a full-time hire. We embed, we own outcomes, and we stay until you've outgrown us.
A fractional engagement is what happens when an organization needs senior AI or technology leadership — the kind of judgment that shapes decisions, owns a roadmap, and shows up in leadership meetings — but hiring a full-time executive is either premature or a poor fit for where the company is.
Instead of a tiered product with fixed hours, we step into a role. You'd introduce us to the rest of your organization the way you'd introduce a Head of AI or a VP of Engineering: as the person accountable for the technology strategy and the decisions that flow from it.
The scope, cadence, and shape of the engagement are designed around what your organization actually needs. Some engagements are two days a week in your Slack and standups. Others are a standing weekly meeting with your CEO. Most sit somewhere in between. We'll figure out the right shape in the first conversation — not pick from a menu.
The clearest signal is usually a feeling that technology decisions keep getting deferred, deflected, or made by people who shouldn't be making them. That's the gap we fill.
"Every AI conversation stalls the same way." You've got opportunity everywhere and conviction nowhere. Nobody senior in the building is credibly positioned to say yes, no, or later.
"We're not ready to hire a CTO." The role isn't defined, the scope is still emerging, or the runway doesn't justify a full-time exec yet. But the work is real today.
"We have developers but no one driving technical strategy." Your engineers are capable — but they're being asked to make strategic calls that should be coming from someone a level above.
"We're evaluating vendors every month." Tools, platforms, models, integrators. Every decision feels high-stakes and you don't have anyone whose job it is to own the pattern.
"The board is asking about our AI strategy." And you need someone who can credibly answer that question — in your voice — not a slide deck from a consulting firm.
"We just ran the Workshop — now what?" You have a roadmap and need someone to actually drive it forward inside the org, not just hand it over and walk away.
Fractional engagements aren't a pre-baked scope of work. They're a responsibility. Here's the kind of work you'd see us doing week to week.
We keep your AI and technology roadmap current, prioritized, and defensible. When something changes — market, budget, team — the roadmap moves with it.
In leadership meetings, board updates, and cross-functional planning, we're the person asking the right technical questions and translating the answers for the rest of the room.
Tool selection is a forever problem. We run the diligence, make the call, and own the rationale — so your team isn't starting from scratch every time.
Before code gets written on anything consequential, we pressure-test the design. After it ships, we review how it's holding up and what to revisit.
Your developers and operators get someone senior to bounce decisions off. We don't replace them — we raise the ceiling on what they can credibly commit to.
When a specific problem needs senior hands — a prototype, a critical integration, an AI workflow — we build it. Not as the default, but as a tool in the kit.
We don't sell a tier — but we don't show up vague either. Every engagement gets anchored on these three things before we start.
Head of AI. Fractional CTO. Technology Advisor to the CEO. Naming the role forces clarity on scope, authority, and what we're accountable for.
A standing weekly leadership meeting is the minimum. Most engagements add working time — Slack, async review, standups, or a dedicated half-day. We agree on the rhythm explicitly.
Fractional engagements work best on a six-month horizon with review gates. Long enough to make real decisions stick. Short enough that you're not stuck with us if the fit isn't right.
Fractional is a specific shape of engagement. It works beautifully for some situations and badly for others. We'd rather flag it now than three months in.
A 30-minute call to talk through what's pulling on your leadership attention, what the engagement would need to cover, and whether fractional is actually the right shape. If it isn't, we'll say so.
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