A senior AI leader for your business — without the hire.
Most companies don't need more AI tools. They need a team who owns the plan. Your Fractional Chief AI Leadership Team sets the roadmap, runs the AI Tech Audit, and decides what to build first — so your AI spend turns into results instead of experiments.
Start with an AI Tech Audit — half-day or full-day · then a monthly rhythm.
You know AI matters. You don't know where to start.
The gap isn't ambition or budget. It's ownership — nobody senior holds the whole picture.
"We're doing AI in ten places and none of it adds up."
Scattered pilots and tools, no strategy tying them together, no way to tell what's actually working.
"We can't justify a full-time Head of AI yet."
The talent is scarce and expensive, and you're not ready to commit to a permanent hire for a role you're still defining.
"We think we need Claude training. Do we?"
Teams ask for tool training when the real question is which problems to point AI at — and in what order.
Two ways in. The same engineering team.
Either way, you're working with the engineers who build this for a living.
Senior AI leadership, on retainer.
Your Fractional Chief AI Leadership Team is an experienced AI engineering lead — backed by the engineers who ship — embedded in your business part-time. They set strategy, run the AI Tech Audit, prioritise the roadmap and steer delivery. All the ownership of a senior hire, at a fraction of the cost and commitment, backed by a team that can actually build what the plan calls for.
What the audit actually is.
Not a market-opportunity guess. We go through your real systems — your tools, data, integrations, workflows and existing AI spend — and hand back a technical, ranked read of where AI will genuinely pay off, what's buildable now, and what isn't worth it. An engineer's assessment of your stack, not a slide deck.
- 01Tier 01Support triage & routingHigh · Low effort
- 02Tier 02Sales research assistantHigh · Med effort
- 03Tier 03Ops copilot inside your appHigh · Med effort
- 04Tier 04Cross-team orchestration layerVery high · Large
The audit turns your stack into a ranked, buildable roadmap.
The deliverables behind every good AI decision.
Concrete outputs, not just advice in a room. These are the assets your Fractional Chief AI Leadership Team produces.
AI Tech Audit
A technical, ranked read of your workflows, data and stack — the highest-ROI AI opportunities, sized and sequenced.
Prioritised AI roadmap
A sequenced plan — what to build, in what order, at what tier, with the business case for each move.
Organisation & readiness analysis
An honest assessment of your data, tools, skills and processes, and what needs to be true for AI to land.
Team enablement & governance
The guardrails, standards and upskilling that let your people use AI safely and well.
From "where do we start?" to a plan you can act on.
The lowest-commitment way to get senior direction — and the front door to everything else we do.
Discovery call
A 30-minute call to understand the business and whether fractional AI leadership is the right fit.
AI Tech Audit
A working session built around your business that produces the technical audit and your first roadmap and priorities. Valuable on its own, whether or not you continue. Half-day = focused on one area; full-day = deeper, whole-org.
- 01Support triage & routingTier 01
- 02Sales research assistantTier 01
- 03Ops copilot in your appTier 02
- 04Cross-team orchestrationTier 03
- —Skip for now — low ROI
Your Fractional Chief AI Leadership Team
An embedded team of AI engineers on a monthly strategy cadence: refining the roadmap, steering delivery, enabling your people.
Build the right tier
When it's time to build, the roadmap points to the exact tier — and we ship it or hand it to your team.
- Discovery
- Free
- Audit
- ½ or full day
- Team
- Monthly
- Build
- Right tier (01–04)
- Result
- A plan you act on
Clarity first. Then the right things get built.
"We were about to spend six figures on the wrong AI project. Codefully reprioritised the whole roadmap in a half-day session and pointed us at the workflow that actually mattered. Best money we've spent on AI, full stop."
An AI engineering firm — not a consultancy with slides.
Our strategy comes from builders.
Your roadmap is set by people who ship AI systems for a living — so the plan is grounded in what's actually buildable.
Advice that turns into working software.
The audit and roadmap flow straight into delivery. No handoff to a separate vendor, no gap between plan and build.
Built to white-label.
Consultancies and agencies bring us in as their fractional AI leadership, delivered under their own brand.
This isn't consulting.
You get an engineering-led audit and a plan judged by what's actually buildable — delivered by the team that builds it, not advice you take elsewhere to execute.
You're not hiring blind.
Start with a half-day, keep it monthly, scale up or stop — no permanent six-figure commitment for a role you're still defining.
The audit is honest.
We'll tell you where AI won't pay off, not just where it will — we don't win by selling you builds you don't need.
A team, not a lone advisor.
You get a senior AI lead backed by the engineers who ship, so the plan never outruns what can be built.
You keep the capability.
We build, document and enable your team so the roadmap and systems don't depend on us forever.
Where Fractional Chief AI Leadership fits.
The right first move when you need direction and ownership more than you need another build. Here's how it compares to hiring for the role.
| What you need | Fractional Chief AI Leadership · 05 The flagship | Full-time Head of AI |
|---|---|---|
| Senior AI ownership | ✓ | |
| Start in days, not months | Immediately | ✗ Long hire cycle |
| Cost to get going | Monthly retainer | High salary + equity |
| A team that can also build | Built in | Depends on hire |
| Commit before you're ready | Flexible | Permanent |
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