Senior AI leadership, a few days a month
A full-time AI executive costs hundreds of thousands a year. Most businesses need the judgement, not the headcount. Fractional AI enablement consulting gives you an accountable AI leader on a monthly retainer, with no long lock-in.
An AI executive's job, sized to your business
The same responsibilities a Chief AI Officer carries, delivered part-time and measured on outcomes.
Roadmap ownership
A living AI roadmap tied to revenue and cost, reviewed monthly. Use cases ranked by return, each with an owner and a number attached.
Build versus buy
Vendor evaluation, platform selection and honest build-versus-buy calls for each capability, so you stop renting what you should own.
Governance and risk
Data permissions, human review points, audit trails and an AI policy your team actually follows. Guardrails before incidents, not after.
Team upskilling
Hands-on training for the people who will live with the tools, so the capability stays in your business when the engagement scales down.
Deployment oversight
Pilots run to production standards from day one: measured on task completion, wired to real data through the Digital Brain.
Board-level reporting
A monthly report your leadership can act on: what shipped, what it returned, what is next and what it needs.
The economics are simple
A capable full-time AI executive is scarce, expensive and hard to keep. For a business of 10 to 500 employees, the workload rarely justifies the seat. What the business needs is a few days a month of experienced judgement, applied consistently, with accountability that survives from one month to the next.
That is the fractional model. Fixed monthly retainer. Scale up when the roadmap is heavy, scale down when it is running. Stop with notice. And because we also deploy digital staff on performance-based terms, our advice has to survive contact with our own delivery. We do not recommend what we would not build.
How engagements run
- Starts with the free enablement audit, so month one begins with a roadmap, not a discovery phase
- Fixed monthly retainer, sized to the roadmap
- Monthly outcomes report to leadership
- Scale up, scale down or stop with notice
- Capability handover built in from day one
- Australian company, working in Australian time zones
Frequently asked questions
What is fractional AI consulting?
Senior AI leadership on a part-time, ongoing basis. We own your AI roadmap, make build-versus-buy and vendor decisions, set governance and upskill your team, typically a few days a month. You get the judgement of an AI executive without the cost of the headcount.
How is this different from a project-based consultant?
A project consultant delivers a report and leaves. A fractional consultant is accountable over time: the roadmap is owned, decisions are made and revisited, and capability is built inside your team. The engagement is measured on outcomes, not documents.
How much time do we get and what does it cost?
Engagements run on a fixed monthly retainer, typically one to a few days a week depending on the roadmap. It costs a fraction of a full-time AI executive, and you can scale up, scale down or stop with notice. No long lock-in contracts. Contact us for a quote sized to your roadmap.
Does this replace hiring our own AI lead?
Often it precedes it. We build the strategy, governance and first deployments, and upskill your people as we go. If and when a full-time hire makes sense, we help define the role and hand over a working program instead of a blank page.
Should we build AI capability in-house or buy it?
Usually both, decided per capability rather than once. Own your context, data and workflows, because they are your moat. Rent the models, because they improve every quarter. Buy judgement until you have grown your own. Making that call honestly for each capability is a core part of the fractional role.
Can you work with our existing IT provider or MSP?
Yes. We set direction, governance and standards, and work alongside your MSP, developers or internal IT. They are included by design, because they keep what gets built running after each engagement scales down.
Every fractional engagement starts with the free enablement audit, so you see the roadmap before you spend a dollar.
Get the free audit