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fractional chief ai officer

Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO), UK

Senior AI leadership on tap — a fractional Chief AI Officer without the full-time hire, giving you the roadmap, governance, and steer to adopt AI safely.

What it is

A fractional CAIO gives you the seniority of a Chief AI Officer without the full-time salary or the risk of hiring for a role most companies can't yet define. You get someone accountable for where AI goes in your business: setting the roadmap, standing up governance, choosing vendors on merit, and enabling your team to own what gets built. Because we also engineer the systems, the leadership is grounded in delivery — not advice that stops at the whiteboard.

What’s included

AI leadership

A senior, accountable steer on where AI goes in your business — and where it shouldn't.

Team enablement

Your people learn to own what gets built, so capability stays in-house.

Vendor selection

Tools and platforms chosen on merit for the job, not on a reseller relationship.

Ongoing steer

A roadmap kept current as the technology and your business move — with governance built in.

Where it fits

Enterprise AI strategy

A clear roadmap for where AI creates leverage and where it doesn't, with risk and governance built in.

Regulated firms

For companies whose AI use will be audited — a leader accountable for the governance to pass it.

Scaling teams

Senior direction while you build the in-house capability to eventually take it on yourself.

Risk reversal

We take the risk. You keep the asset.

Every commitment below is written into the contract — not implied, not verbal. Risk transfers to us during delivery.

90-day warranty

90-Day Defect Warranty

Any defect against the agreed acceptance criteria, found within 90 days of launch, is fixed at no cost.

Critical: 4 business hours · Major: 2 business days · Written into the contract.

100% IP

100% IP Assigned on Payment

You own everything — code, infrastructure, and the full decision trail — assigned to you on payment.

No lock-in. No hostage code. No dependency on us to keep it running.

Per-phase approval

Approve Every Phase Before You Pay

The build is decomposed into phases with written acceptance criteria agreed before each begins. You approve each phase before the next starts.

Invoiced per phase · Stop at any phase boundary.

Stage 0 credited

Stage 0 Credited Against the Build

The Discovery & Technical Audit is a fixed fee, credited in full against your build.

Not the right fit? You keep the architecture proposal, threat model, and roadmap.

Questions, answered

A fractional Chief AI Officer is senior AI leadership on a part-time, ongoing basis — the accountability and direction of a CAIO without the full-time hire. You get roadmap ownership, governance, vendor selection, and team enablement, scaled to what you actually need.
Consultancy delivers a strategy and hands it over; a fractional CAIO stays accountable for executing it — setting direction, standing up governance, and steering delivery over time. Because we also build the systems, the leadership is grounded in what ships.
It's scoped to your needs and reviewed as they change — monthly engagement is typical. The point is senior accountability on tap, not a fixed number of hours you pay for whether you use them or not.
Yes — UK-based and UK-supported. Real people, UK hours, no offshore black box.

Related services

You are not buying code. You are buying certainty.

Stage 0 turns your problem into a fixed-price roadmap — credited in full against the build if you proceed.

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