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Fractional Head of AI Engineering

Senior leadership for your AI engineering — strategy, architecture, and team mentoring.

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PriceFrom $30K/mo
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We own the senior AI engineering decisions your team can't afford to get wrong. Agent and platform strategy, architecture review and sign-off, roadmap ownership, team mentoring, and executive presence — a credible AI voice in the room, on a fractional basis.

For teams scaling AI without a full-time AI lead yet. A peer and advisor to the CTO, not a replacement — with a written strategy memo every month.

The cadence
01Week 1

Assess

We map where AI stands across your engineering org — strategy, architecture, team, and the gaps.

02Ongoing

Steer

Architecture reviews and sign-offs, roadmap ownership, and the calls that keep AI on-strategy.

03Ongoing

Mentor

We level up your engineers on agentic practice and support hiring for the eventual full-time lead.

04Monthly

Report

A written monthly strategy memo — decisions, direction, and what the board needs to hear.

Scope

What the engagement covers

AI strategy

What they own
  • Agent + platform strategy
  • Build vs buy
  • Roadmap ownership
What you get

A coherent AI direction the whole org runs on — not a pile of disconnected experiments.

What you receive

Senior leadership, delivered as decisions and direction — not just meetings.

What ownership looks like: the strategy memo, the architecture sign-offs, and the roadmap the org runs on. A sample is shown; yours is scoped to your org.

Architecture sign-offs

Senior sign-off on the calls that are expensive to get wrong.

decisions · q2Sample
APPROVEDMCP over per-vendor function-callingQ2
APPROVEDBuild a custom agent vs AgentforceQ2
HELDMulti-model routing — revisit at scaleQ2
APPROVEDEval-gated CI before agent rolloutQ2

The AI roadmap

A sequenced plan the whole org runs on.

ai-roadmapSample
Q2In progress
Foundations
  • Context layer + evals
  • CI agent-gate
  • Team training
Q3Planned
Agents in production
  • Custom support agent
  • MCP over core APIs
  • Observability
Q4Planned
Scale
  • Multi-agent workflows
  • Hire full-time lead
  • Org-wide rollout

The monthly strategy memo

Direction and decisions, written down — so strategy is legible to the whole org, not trapped in one head.

strategy/2026-04.mdSample
1# AI Strategy — April
2 
3## Decisions
4- Ship eval-gated CI before any agent reaches main
5- Standardize on MCP for all tool access
6- Build the support agent in-house, not Agentforce
7 
8## Risks
9- Model cost trending +12% MoM — cap + route
10- One engineer owns the eval harness (bus factor)
11 
12## Next
13- Scope the custom support agent (Q3)
14- Open the full-time Head of AI search
PlusA monthly written strategy memo · executive presence in reviews · 30-day cancellation.
Fit

Built for

Founder / CEO

Scaling AI without a full-time lead

Senior AI leadership and executive presence — before you're ready to hire a VP.

CTO

Extending the leadership bench

A peer and advisor on agent strategy and architecture, not an org-chart replacement.

Board

Mandating a senior AI hire

Credible senior ownership of AI strategy while the full-time search runs.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Common questions

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We scope the exact number with you, and sign a mutual NDA before any code or data is shared.

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