Services
Two things you can buy, and one argument
Neither is a support contract. Both start with what the business is trying to do and treat the technology as the means. The argument is free, and you should read it first.
Fixed Scope · $5,000
AI Readiness Assessment
Three weeks that map where AI pays in your specific operation and where it does not. You get a prioritized opportunity list with effort and impact attached, the data and process gaps that would block each one, and a sequenced roadmap you own outright. The fee credits in full toward a retainer if you engage.
Best fit when you need a decision-grade answer before committing budget. You want it from someone with no software to sell you.
See the assessmentRetainer · from $4,500 / month
Fractional CIO / CTO
Technology leadership priced against the value of the decisions, not the hours. Roadmap ownership, your AI strategy, vendor and contract management, architecture review, security posture, and the unglamorous work of saying no to the wrong tool at the right moment. Three levels of presence: Advisor, Operating Partner, Embedded Lead.
Best fit when technology decisions are landing on a CEO, CFO, or COO who has better uses for that time, and no appetite for a six-figure hire yet.
See the tiersCame here about AI specifically? The same engagement, in that language, is at Fractional Chief AI Officer.
Free to read
AI on Purpose
Our position on why most companies are getting AI by accident, and what deploying it deliberately actually requires. Not an offer. It is the thinking the two engagements above are built on, and it will tell you fairly quickly whether we see your business the way you do.
Start here if you are not yet sure the problem is worth paying to diagnose.
Read the argumentNot Sure Which
Start with the problem, not the package
Most conversations begin with a symptom: a close that takes too long, a CRM nobody trusts, a board asking about AI. Describe the symptom and we will tell you which of these fits, or whether none of them does. Scoping you into an engagement you do not need is a bad trade for both of us.
Next Step
Thirty minutes, no deck
Tell us where the friction is. You will leave the call with a point of view whether or not you engage.