Fractional AI leadership
Your AI departmentWithout the department
Making AI pay is a full-time job, and everyone senior on your team already has one. We carry it with you: leading adoption with your people, building the systems they can't get to, and putting real numbers on what it returns.
The call is 30 minutes. You leave knowing where AI pays off first in your business. No pitch.
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Seats bought
One lunch-and-learn
Nothing stuck
It plays out the same way in most companies. The tools work fine. What goes missing is anyone with the capacity to make it stick, make it visible, and make it count.
A handful of enthusiasts use AI well. Everyone else works the way they did last year.
Or the opposite: your keen people are already building with AI, and no one can say what exists, what it saves, or whether it is safe. The wins are real, but invisible.
The training day created a burst of energy that faded within a month.
Industry-wide, 30 to 55 percent of paid AI seats get weekly use. On 150 seats, the idle ones run about $40,000 a year in shelfware.
The board keeps asking about AI, and no one owns the answer.
Seat-use figure: independent surveys of enterprise Copilot deployments, year one. Directional across studies.
Start where it hurts
One path gets your people working differently with AI. The other builds and runs what your team can't get to.
Adoption
Your people, working differently
Pick this if your people have the licenses and still work the way they did last year.
Your fractional AI leadershipBuild
The systems your team can't get to
Pick this if a process eats your month and no one on your team should be doing it by hand.
Your fractional AI development teamMost clients end up doing both. If the right path is not obvious, there are two ways in. The Executive Briefing is a working session with your executive team or board: where you stand, and the next move. The AI Adoption Assessment is us in your business doing the diagnostic work: a ranked plan of where AI pays off first. Half of either fee credits toward whatever you build next.
And everything runs under guardrails you set: AI that supports your people, not one that replaces them.
Operators first. Consultants second
You have watched AI go from exciting to stalled, and heard the board start asking questions no one can fully answer yet. We have sat on your side of that table.
We didn't learn AI on a conference circuit. Colin spent over a decade as an operator and COO, including running Activision's Demonware studio, then eight years coaching CEOs. Tony is a computer scientist who served as COO at Electronic Arts, Director of Operations at Microsoft Game Studios, and a venture investor at Vanedge Capital. We made payroll and answered for the P&L before we ever advised anyone else's.
The trainers and advisors can't ship software, and the dev shops can't sit with your executive team. We do both, in one relationship. That pairing is why our clients stay.
Colin Cox
Co-Founder
Former COO, Activision Demonware
Tony Lam
Co-Founder
Former COO, Electronic Arts
Colin and Tony delivered an exceptional AI workshop for our leadership team at ZayZoon. What stood out most was how they met our team exactly where they were, from first-time users to seasoned practitioners, and brought everyone meaningfully forward in a single day. Beyond the tactical skills, this session created real alignment across our organization. We left with a shared understanding of the tools, a clearer picture of cross-functional leverage we didn't even know existed, and a common language for how AI fits into the way we work. In the practice time alone, two of our leaders automated away 30 hours of work a month. Watching our team build functional applications from scratch in 20-minute sprints was genuinely jaw-dropping.
Darcy Tuer
Co-Founder & CEO, ZayZoon
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In the room
This is what the work looks like.
Executive rooms, working sessions, and keynote stages across Vancouver. The operators who lead your adoption are the ones standing at the front.
We take a handful of new clients each quarter
Every engagement gets Colin and Tony personally. That only works if the client list stays short.