Decisions about AI are reaching leadership teams faster than most organisations can build the expertise to make them. We step into the Chief AI Officer role on a part-time basis, helping you decide what to build, buy, fix, and ignore, and staying involved long enough to see those decisions through.
A Chief AI Officer is the person accountable for how an organisation uses AI, data, and automation. In practice, that means setting priorities, making architecture and vendor decisions, putting sensible governance in place, and making sure the people affected by change are brought along with it.
We take on that role for organisations that need the thinking before they need, or can justify, a full-time appointment. Because there are four of us, you draw on strategy, engineering, operations, and people expertise rather than a single perspective.
A full-time Chief AI Officer is a significant appointment, and for many mid-sized organisations the role is still hard to define. An outsourced arrangement puts senior thinking in place now, while you learn what the role needs to look like in your business.
If you later decide to make a permanent appointment, the groundwork will already be in place, from agreed priorities to governance your teams know how to follow.
Our AI strategy and transformation service runs as a defined programme with a clear end. The outsourced Chief AI Officer role is ongoing leadership, suited to organisations where AI decisions will keep arriving long after the first plan is written. The two can run together or one after the other.
ABOUT AI STRATEGY AND TRANSFORMATION +Yes. Outsourced and fractional describe the same arrangement: senior, part-time AI leadership in place of a full-time hire.
That depends on your stage and the decisions in front of you. We agree a working rhythm with your leadership team at the start and adjust it as priorities change.
No. We work alongside your IT team, developers, and vendors, and help them focus on the work that matters most. Our role is leadership and oversight, with hands-on building where that is useful.
No. Our work is about making teams more capable by moving repetitive, low-judgement work off their plate. We are open with clients that headcount reduction is not something we help with.
If the first two months are not bringing clarity and better technical decisions, we reset the scope or pause the engagement. We would rather raise it early.
A defined programme to set your AI strategy and lead the change across operations, marketing, and HR, from the first plan to new ways of working that last.
EXPLORE THE SERVICE +A structured assessment of where your organisation stands across five dimensions, with a prioritised view of where AI could create value you are not yet capturing.
EXPLORE THE SERVICE +Share a little about your organisation and what you are working on. One of us will reply personally and suggest a sensible first step, even if that step does not involve us.