Fractional AI Officer
An AI officer on your books for $2,900 a month, without the hire
Most companies do not need an AI department. They need one accountable party who keeps a roadmap honest, ships something real every month, and watches what is already running.
That is how our own group operates: agents do the production work, humans architect and approve, and every week ends with a written brief. The retainer gives you that operating model without making the hire.
$2,900 a month. Cancel monthly. Everything ships to your infrastructure, so canceling costs you nothing but the momentum.
Who it's for
- SMBs and mid-market teams that want AI capability compounding month over month without a $200k+ hire.
- Companies that finished an audit or sprint and want the roadmap executed steadily.
- Owners who want one accountable party for AI: roadmap, builds, monitoring, and costs.
Who it's not for
- Anyone who wants a weekly strategy call. The weekly deliverable is a written brief; the monthly deliverable is a shipped automation.
- Companies looking for a body to attend meetings with the board. We write; you present.
What you get
- Ownership of your AI roadmap: maintained, prioritized, and updated in writing every week.
- One new automation shipped to production every month, on your infrastructure.
- Monitoring of everything previously shipped, with incident notes in the weekly brief.
- A weekly written brief: what shipped, what is next, what it costs, what we recommend. Readable in five minutes.
How it runs, without meetings
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Roadmap in week one
We take your audit output, or build the roadmap fresh, and publish version one in your first weekly brief.
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Ship every month
Each month one automation from the roadmap goes to production on your accounts. Small, compounding, and owned by you.
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Review monthly, cancel monthly
The retainer renews monthly and cancels with a written notice. Everything shipped stays with you; there is nothing to unwind.
the proof behind this
This is the operating model of our own group: a 41-agent workforce, 9 live in production, 5,450 runs with zero failures over 13 days, as of July 2026.
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Questions, answered
What does a fractional AI officer do?
Owns your AI roadmap, ships one new automation to production every month, monitors what is already live, and reports in a weekly written brief. It is the compounding version of a one-off build.
How is $2,900/mo justified against hiring?
A full-time AI lead costs $180k to $250k plus ramp time in most of our markets. The retainer delivers a shipped automation monthly and roadmap ownership at a price that market retainers ($1k to $10k/mo in 2026) bracket comfortably, and it cancels monthly.
What counts as 'one automation per month'?
A scoped, production-deployed unit of work agreed in the roadmap: an agent, a pipeline, a report, an integration. Scope is written down at the start of each month so 'shipped' is checkable, not arguable.
Really no calls, ever?
Really. The weekly brief carries more decisions than a standing call, and it is searchable forever. Any question gets a written answer within one business day.
What happens when I cancel?
Everything keeps working. All systems live on your accounts with your keys, and each month's docs were part of the deliverable. Cancellation is a written notice, effective at the end of the paid month.