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AI Strategy

Made for: Leadership teams with budget and urgency who want a plan worth committing to

Strategy written to be executed: priorities, sequencing, and a straight answer on what AI is worth here — from people who also build.

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HOW IT WORKS

AI Strategy is for leadership teams that have the budget and the urgency and want a plan worth committing to. The output is not a deck. It is a set of decisions — where AI is worth pursuing in your business, in what order, and what it is not worth — written by people who also build, so every recommendation is one we would be willing to deliver.

The Strategy Sprint runs two to three weeks. We interview the people who own the work and the people who pay for it, look at the systems and data you actually have, and pressure-test the ideas already floating around the organization. The readout gives you a prioritized roadmap with sequencing and a straight answer on expected value, and you leave the final session with a decision made rather than a follow-up scheduled.

Most plans meet reality within a quarter. The Advisory Retainer is a standing monthly seat at the table for that: reviewing what shipped, re-sequencing when the facts change, and being the person leadership calls before committing to a vendor or a hire. Fractional AI Leadership goes further — a days-per-week, quarterly engagement where we own the AI strategy as it becomes real, at board level, without the cost or the search of a full-time hire.

If the strategy points to building, the same people who wrote it can build it. That continuity is the point: no handoff between the team that promised and the team that delivers.

PACKAGES · 3 WAYS TO ENGAGE

2–3 weeks · fixed fee

Strategy Sprint

Two to three weeks with your leadership team, ending in a decision: where AI is worth pursuing here, in what order, and what it is not worth.

  • Duration2–3 weeks
  • WhoLeadership team plus the people who own the work
  • FormatInterviews, working sessions, one readout
  • FeeFixed
You leave with

A prioritized, sequenced roadmap with a straight answer on expected value, and a decision made in the final session rather than a follow-up scheduled.

What you get
  • Prioritized roadmap with sequencing and dependencies
  • Value estimate per initiative, with the assumptions written down
  • Build, buy, or partner call on each initiative, including vendor evaluation where relevant
  • The first initiative specified to the point a team could start
  • A readout written for the board, not for the engineers
How it runs
  1. 01Listen

    Interviews across leadership and the teams doing the work; the ideas already in circulation collected and pressure-tested.

  2. 02Look

    The systems, data, and vendors you actually have, and what they can and cannot support.

  3. 03Decide

    Options scored on value, cost, risk, and time; sequencing that respects real dependencies; a clear no on the ideas that do not hold up.

  4. 04Readout

    A decision session with leadership: the roadmap, the first move, and the case that goes to the board.

Choose this if there is budget and urgency but no plan anyone would defend in front of the CFO.

monthly

Advisory Retainer

A standing monthly seat at the table for the quarters after the plan meets reality: reviewing what shipped, re-sequencing when facts change, and answering the vendor pitch before you sign.

  • CadenceMonthly, month to month
  • AccessScheduled sessions plus questions in between
  • WhoLeadership and the initiative owners
  • Best afterA Strategy Sprint or an assessment
You leave with

Decisions made with a practitioner in the room every month, without a full-time hire.

What you get
  • A monthly working session with leadership
  • Written answers on vendor, hiring, and build decisions between sessions
  • The roadmap kept current as facts change
  • A direct line into the engineering work when a decision becomes a build
How it runs
  1. 01Monthly review

    What shipped, what stalled, and what the numbers say; the roadmap adjusted.

  2. 02Between sessions

    Vendor pitches, hiring questions, and architecture calls sent our way and answered in writing.

  3. 03Quarterly reset

    Priorities re-sequenced against the year: what to stop, start, and fund next.

Choose this if the plan exists and you want it to survive contact with the quarter.

days per week · quarterly

Fractional AI Leadership

Board-level ownership of your AI strategy as it becomes real: set days per week on a quarterly commitment, accountable for the results rather than the advice.

  • PresenceOne to two days per week, on-site or remote
  • CommitmentQuarterly
  • Reports toCEO or the executive team
  • ScopeStrategy, vendors, hiring, delivery oversight
You leave with

Someone senior owning AI across the business, from strategy and vendors to hires and delivery, without the cost or the search of a full-time executive.

What you get
  • Quarterly AI plan and budget, owned and reported on
  • Board and executive briefings
  • Vendor and partner management
  • Hiring plan for the permanent role, with us on the interview panel
  • Delivery oversight across every AI initiative
How it runs
  1. 01Take ownership

    The AI portfolio, budget, and vendor relationships inventoried; a quarterly plan set with the executive team.

  2. 02Run the quarter

    Weekly presence: steering initiatives, unblocking teams, holding vendors to account, briefing the board.

  3. 03Build the bench

    A hiring plan and interviews for the in-house leader who eventually replaces us. The exit is part of the job.

Choose this if AI is a company-level priority and nobody senior owns it yet.