Fractional AI Leadership
One to two days a week embedded with your leadership team. Strategy, vendor conversations, team capability, implementation oversight and board reporting — with a clean handover at the end.
- Timing
- 3-month min
- Cadence
- 1–2 days / week
- Investment
- From £4,000 / month
- Ends with
- Handover plan
You need senior AI cover. You don't need a full-time hire.
An in-house head of AI is a £150k+ commitment before you know whether the workload justifies it. Meanwhile decisions pile up: vendor selection, governance, hiring, board questions, roadmap trade-offs.
A fractional arrangement gives you a senior operator in the room for the decisions that matter, without the salary, equity conversation or hiring timeline.
Step 01
Onboard
Two weeks aligning on priorities, stakeholders and success measures.
Step 02
Operate
Weekly leadership rhythm, vendor calls, working sessions with delivery teams.
Step 03
Report
One-page board update every month. Costs, risks, wins, next decisions.
Step 04
Handover
Structured transition to internal ownership at the end of the engagement.
- 01Quarterly AI strategy aligned to business priorities
- 02Vendor support: shortlisting, negotiation, contract review with your legal team
- 03Team capability plan and hiring input where needed
- 04Implementation oversight across in-flight builds
- 05Monthly board report — one page, no fluff
- 06Handover plan that leaves your team independent
- You're between 'we need to do something' and 'we've hired a leader'
- There's a real portfolio of AI work — not one small automation
- Your leadership team wants a single voice on AI in board meetings
- You're comfortable with a fractional engagement, not a subcontractor role
- You want someone to sit inside a delivery team as an engineer — hire one
- You need a full-time head of AI right now — do that hire
- The scope is one small automation — take Automation & Implementation instead
Common questions from leadership teams.
Yes, before any commercial detail is shared.
No. I run a small number of engagements at any time — four per quarter across the whole practice — so attention is real.
Yours. Any code, docs and playbooks live in your accounts and are covered in the engagement letter.
Often, in three-month blocks. The handover plan is written from month one so extension is a choice, not a dependency.
Ready to cut through the noise?
Sixty minutes. One clear answer. Book a paid strategy call and leave with a costed, honest next step.