AI Consulting · Fractional Chief AI Officer

A Fractional Chief AI Officer for your organization.

A named senior runs your AI programme two to four days a month — owns the 90-day roadmap, chairs the monthly cadence, and hands the operating model to your team. Governance mapped to NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act. Same posture as our vCISO service, applied to AI.

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  • $6.6B federal benefits programme
  • 16+ yrs direct state HHS
  • CREST certified security practice
  • 40,000+ vulnerabilities identified

THE MODEL

A Fractional Chief AI Officer — not a full-time hire.

Most organizations don’t need a full-time Chief AI Officer. They need a senior running the roadmap two to four days a month — with authority to make decisions, not just influence them.

That’s the vCAIO: a Fractional Chief AI Officer embedded in your operating rhythm. Same model as our vCISO cybersecurity service, applied to AI. Named senior, fixed monthly cadence, 3-month minimum.

The person in the scoping call is the person who runs your programme. No handoff. No rotating bench.

THE CADENCE

One month, four beats.

A fixed monthly rhythm. Senior owns each week. Same four beats every month, no exceptions.

Week 1

Executive alignment

KPI review, roadmap adjustment, priority and risk decisions with the exec team. Two-hour session, agenda sent in advance.

Week 2

Department activation

Workflow discovery, model and data risk review, use-case selection with the operating teams. One session per active department.

Week 3

Implementation sprint

High-impact builds, automations, guardrails, agentic AI safety checks. Delivered against the current-month roadmap.

Week 4

Training & reporting

Team enablement session, written impact report to the exec team, next month’s roadmap pre-loaded and approved.

GOVERNANCE

Model risk, data governance, agentic safety — mapped to real frameworks.

Model risk. Data governance. Agentic AI safety. Vendor and AI-platform risk. Mapped to NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act.

The team securing your systems is the team governing your AI. Same practitioners, same posture — the cybersecurity practice runs your AI risk register too. Not a separate department bolted on later.

NIST AI RMF ISO 42001 EU AI Act

ENGAGEMENT

Four tiers. Pick by scope.

Every tier includes the same monthly cadence. Scope of implementation and days-per-month step up. Pick based on the transformation you’re funding.

TIER 01

AI Leadership

The operating cadence, on retainer.

  • Monthly executive cadence (Week 1)
  • Named senior AI leader
  • 90-day roadmap + KPI review
  • Training framework, no implementation

TIER 02

Most common

AI Enablement

Leadership plus first workflows delivered.

  • Everything in AI Leadership
  • Department activation (Week 2)
  • Workflow implementations + guardrails
  • One department fully rolled out

TIER 03

AI Transformation

Multi-department activation, at pace.

  • Everything in AI Enablement
  • Multi-department activation
  • Accelerated initiative velocity
  • Model + agentic risk registers live

TIER 04

Full Transformation

Company-wide with embedded presence.

  • Everything in AI Transformation
  • Company-wide rollout
  • Embedded senior presence
  • Board-level reporting cadence

Minimum engagement · 3 months · Scope + tier confirmed in the scoping call

CAPABILITY TRANSFER

We hand over the operating model.

The engagement ends with your team running the cadence without us. Documented decision rights, named handover milestones, a written cadence playbook your internal leaders use to chair Week 1 themselves. Contracted from day one.

EVIDENCE

Practitioner-run, not theoretical.

$6.6B federal benefits modernization programme
16+ yrs multi-state direct HHS contracts
40,000+ vulnerabilities identified · 1,000+ organizations
CREST certified security practice
20+ yrs government IT delivery

QUESTIONS

The questions we get on the scoping call.

How does "fractional" actually work?

A named senior leads your AI programme two to four days a month, scaled to the tier. The cadence is fixed — Week 1 exec alignment, Week 2 department activation, Week 3 implementation, Week 4 training and reporting. The senior owns the roadmap end-to-end. Not a shared bench.

Who runs it — named seniors or a rotating team?

Named seniors. The person in the scoping call is the person who runs your programme. We do not rotate off mid-engagement. Any specialist brought in for depth on a specific framework or platform is named up front, in writing.

How is this different from a training vendor or a Big Four AI consultancy?

Training vendors ship courses. Consultancies ship slide decks. We install an operating cadence, run it, then hand the keys to your team. Success is measured by whether you can chair the Week 1 exec meeting yourself at the end of the engagement.

How is governance and compliance handled?

The same team that runs our cybersecurity practice runs your AI risk register. Model risk, data governance, agentic AI safety, and vendor risk mapped to NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act. Not a separate department bolted on later.

What is capability transfer, in practice?

Documented decision rights. A cadence playbook your internal leaders can chair. Named handover milestones. By the last month of the engagement, your team runs the Week 1 exec meeting; we sit in an advisory seat. Then we exit.

What is the minimum engagement shape?

Three months. One tier, one monthly cadence, one 90-day roadmap. Shorter than that we deliver as a scoped workshop, priced separately — different product.

BOOK THE CALL

A senior responds within 48 hours.

Not a sales rep. Not a chatbot. The person you talk to is the person who would run your programme.

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