AI-As-A-Service · Fractional Leadership
One fractional Chief AI Officer. One build team. One 90-day sprint.
Built for founder-led SMBs where big goals keep running into full calendars. Working tools in week one. Measurable ROI inside 90 days. From $3,500/mo, month-to-month after the first quarter.
What you get
The real cost of a Chief AI Officer
A full-time hire runs $250K-$350K base. With benefits, equity and ramp time, you’re over $400K in year one for one person. ChiefAI: senior AI leadership, an active build team and a proven process. Starting at $3,500/month.
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The problem
You know AI matters. No one inside is driving it.
The gap between “we should be doing something with AI” and software your team actually uses is where most growing companies get stuck. Usually for one of three reasons.
PROBLEM / 01
No one inside owns it.
AI sits on someone’s “I’ll look into it” list for nine months. Meanwhile competitors are shipping. The work isn’t complicated. It’s unowned.
PROBLEM / 02
Consultants oversell, then underdeliver.
Big firms sell a six-figure strategy deck that sits in a shared drive. Twelve months later, nothing ships. Your team loses faith before the real work starts.
PROBLEM / 03
Tools pile up without a strategy.
ChatGPT licenses, a Zapier flow, a Copilot trial. No one can answer whether any of it actually moved the business. Tools without ownership is just expense.
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How we work
A 90-day sprint. One working tool in week one.
Every engagement runs on the same rhythm. No discovery phases. No strategy decks that never ship. Just a time-waster we can kill, then a tool that kills it.
Step 01 · Week 1
Assess & ship the first tool.
We run our AI Pulse, a lightweight survey plus a working session with your leadership. By day seven, the highest-leverage time-waster is identified and the first AI tool is deployed to the team that needs it.
Step 02 · Weeks 2 to 8
Build across the business.
We roll out additional tools on a quarterly cadence: custom GPTs, agent workflows, prompt libraries and light automations, each one tied back to a measurable business outcome.
Step 03 · Weeks 9 to 12
Scale the adoption.
Training, policy, task force facilitation and an operating rhythm that keeps AI work moving after we’re gone. The sprint ends with tangible results and a standing offer to keep going.
We structure engagements in 90-day sprints. Month one: assess and build the first tool. Months two and three: build, train, prove ROI. At the end of ninety days you have tangible results, not a roadmap.
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Four pillars of service
Advisory. Consulting. Training. Governance.
Every engagement draws from the same four disciplines. How much of each you get depends on your tier.
PILLAR / 01
Advisory
- AI strategy & roadmap
- Executive coaching
- Competitive intelligence
- Bi-weekly strategy calls
PILLAR / 02
Consulting
- Quick win deployed week one
- Custom GPTs & agent workflows
- Prompt libraries & automations
- Custom projects on top
PILLAR / 03
Training
- Tool-specific team training
- Leadership workshops
- Role-based programs
- Task force facilitation
PILLAR / 04
Governance
- AI usage policy
- Risk framework
- Compliance templates
- Responsible-use standards
I’ve been burned both ways. By consultants whose fancy strategy deck nobody could execute. By tool vendors whose product didn’t fit how the team actually works. The strategy is the work between them, turning the plan into tools your team actually uses to drive real results.
Jeff Provost, Strategic Advisor, ChiefAI
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Service tiers
Three tiers. Flat pricing. Pick your ambition.
Pricing reflects the speed and reach of the work, not your headcount. 90-day minimum, then month-to-month. 30-day notice to cancel.
Stop bleeding hours on one broken process.
AI running across the business, not just one corner.
A full AI function without hiring one.
BEST FOR
Stop bleeding hours on one broken process.
AI running across the business, not just one corner.
A full AI function without hiring one.
*AI tools scope: Custom GPTs, Claude Projects, agent workflows, prompt libraries and light automations. Deeper integrations and custom applications (ATS, CRM, ERP, embedded workflow automation) are scoped and priced separately as Custom Projects on top of your subscription.
The Math
Essentials costs $42,000/year. One role’s reporting automated, one rep’s outreach streamlined and one backfill avoided can return $80,000-$150,000 in reallocated capacity and preserved revenue. That’s not a cost. That’s a growth lever.
Need Something Custom?
ATS, CRM and ERP integrations. Custom applications. Embedded automations. We scope it. You approve it. We build it. Priced separately on top of your subscription.
Why 90 Days?
Real results take more than a kickoff call. Our sprint model means deployed tools, trained teams and measurable ROI before the engagement renews. Month-to-month after that. We’d rather earn your continued business than lock you in.
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Signature quick wins
Working tools. Running in production. Deployable in days.
Every engagement opens with one of these deployed in week one. Each is already running for another client, so your week-one tool is days of configuration, not months of build.
TOOL / 01
Salesforce Org Health Report
One-click audit of stale opportunities, dead workflows and data gaps across your CRM.
TOOL / 02
Resume-to-JD Matcher
Ranks candidates against any open req with reasoning. Built for staffing and in-house recruiting teams.
TOOL / 03
BD Research Agent
Pulls company intel, news and hiring signals for any target account list. Feeds directly into outreach.
TOOL / 04
Daily Briefing Agent
Inbox, calendar and priorities compressed into a single morning email. One of our most-deployed tools.
TOOL / 05
Weekly SEO Briefing
GA4 and Search Console performance, branded vs non-branded breakdown and a prioritized action list every Monday.
TOOL / 06
Proposal & SOW Drafter
Prior deals as templates. Claude fills in the new scope in minutes, not hours.
TOOL / 07
AI Policy GPT
Your AI usage policy, queryable by any employee. Answers “can I use Claude for this?” without pinging legal.
TOOL / 08
LinkedIn Post Generator
Trained on your founder’s voice. Ships weekly posts that actually sound like them.
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Who it’s for
A sharp fit, honestly described.
We’re not for everyone, and we’d rather tell you that now than ten minutes into a discovery call.
Who we are for
- + $5M to $100M B2B companies: staffing, professional services, recruiting, marketing, financial advisory, accounting
- + Operations-heavy businesses where team time gets eaten by repetitive work an AI tool could handle
- + Leaders who want results, not theory. CEOs who are “tired of hearing about AI” and want to see it working
- + Companies where AI matters but no one internal is driving it
Who we’re not
- – Pre-revenue startups looking for a technical co-founder
- – Enterprises that need a 200-page governance framework before touching a tool
- – Buyers shopping for the cheapest ChatGPT reseller
- – Teams looking to replace people, not amplify them
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Why ChiefAI
One team. One relationship. One invoice.
We sit in the gap between the big consulting firms (too slow, too theoretical, too expensive) and the AI tool vendors (no strategy, no adoption support).
vs. Big consulting
Delivered in days, not months.
Accenture, Deloitte and McKinsey will sell you a strategy deck for six figures and a twelve-month engagement. We ship a working tool in week one for a fraction of the price.
vs. AI tool vendors
Strategy and adoption, built in.
A ChatGPT license isn’t a strategy. A Copilot trial isn’t a plan. We bring the executive-level thinking that makes the tools land, and the training that makes your team use them.
vs. Generalist consultants
Depth, production, compounding.
Our tools already run in production. That means your week-one tool is days of configuration, not weeks of invention. The second client pays less for the same capability because we’ve built it before.
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Frequently asked
The questions real buyers ask us.
We run our AI Pulse, a lightweight survey plus a working session with your leadership, to identify the highest-leverage time-waster in the business. By day seven, the first AI tool is deployed to the team that needs it. Usually this is something like a daily briefing agent, a BD research tool or an automated status report. The point is that something measurable ships before your first invoice is due.
Custom GPTs, Claude Projects, agent workflows, prompt libraries and light automations. These are tools that ship inside the systems your team already uses (Slack, Google Workspace, your CRM) without requiring a full integration build. Deeper integrations (ATS, CRM, ERP wiring, embedded workflow automation, custom apps) are scoped and priced separately as Custom Projects on top of your subscription.
A fractional CTO is a generalist technologist. We’re specialists in AI deployment: the tools, the models, the governance, the training, and we ship working software on a 90-day cadence. If you need a head of engineering, hire a fractional CTO. If you need someone to make AI useful in your business by next month, that’s us.
No. 90-day minimum so we have room to assess, build and prove ROI. After that, month-to-month with 30 days’ notice to pause or cancel. If we’re not producing results in 90 days, you shouldn’t stay.
Each engagement is led by a Dedicated AI Officer from our team: the exec-level relationship, strategic direction and weekly cadence. The build work is delivered by our production team, which ships tools that are already running for other clients. You get senior thinking and fast execution, not a solo founder juggling twelve things.
Custom apps, ATS/CRM/ERP integrations and embedded workflow automations are scoped as Custom Projects, priced separately on top of your subscription. We scope it, you approve it, we build it. This keeps the tier menu legible and prevents scope creep from eroding the subscription.
No. You own every tool we build for you. Our expectation is that what we build compounds across clients (a Salesforce dashboard builder we ship for you makes the next one faster for someone else) but your configuration, your data and your workflows are yours.
The next AI meeting ships a tool.
Book a 30-minute call with us. If we’re a fit, we’ll tell you. If we’re not, we’ll tell you that too, and point you to what is.