Fractional AI Leadership
Your team, actually using AIEvery day
Getting AI to pay off is a full-time job, and nobody senior on your team has room for another one. As your fractional AI leadership, we carry it: training your people, setting the guardrails, and showing the board every month what it returns. Whether you have no CTO or a good one stretched thin.
The full-time version of this role, a Chief AI Officer, runs $200K+ and barely exists at mid-market salaries. You get a fractional Chief AI Officer instead, doing the same work at a fraction of the cost.
The front door is a 90-minute Executive Briefing for $5,000: your leadership team, a straight answer on where you stand, and the next move.
Trusted by leadership teams at ZayZoon, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, and Heritage Trust.
Safe by design, not as an afterthought. Every tool your people touch runs under rules you set: what data can go where, who reviews a tool before anyone relies on it, and a record your board can see. The point is capacity, not replacement. AI supports your people, it does not stand in for them.
First, we find your stage
Every organization we work with sits somewhere on the same five-stage climb, from Curious to Compounding. Naming your stage takes minutes and it changes the whole conversation, because the right next move is different at every rung.
Most mid-market companies we meet are at Chaotic: licenses bought, a couple of enthusiasts doing real work, and no floor under everyone else.
That is the license graveyard. What gets a company past this is senior capacity: someone whose actual job is making AI pay off, week after week, with the guardrails to keep it safe. That is the capacity we bring.
Building goes two ways
As you climb, your organization starts building its own AI tools. Some your own people should build, coached and governed. Some an outside team should build and run for you. We do both, and the choice is part of the model.
Your people building safely is the AI Champions Program below. When something needs an outside team, that is our build practice. See how the fork works on the Five C's.
Two programs, one senior partnership
Whatever your stage, the work starts the same way: a briefing your leadership team can say yes to. From there, the programs build the capability, and the partnership adds senior AI capacity beside your team.
The front door
Executive Briefing - $5,000
Ninety minutes with your leadership team: where you stand on the Five C's, what your peers are doing, and the single next move. One session, one price, designed to be an easy yes. Half the fee credits toward whatever you start next.
We teach your people
AI Skills Program
A monthly session series built on your workflows, live and in the room. The literacy floor first, then firm-specific depth: your tools, your sector, your data rules. Weekly tips and recordings keep it compounding between sessions.
The flagship
AI Champions Program
We turn your keen people into safe builders. A 12-week arc for four to eight of your best: learn, apply, mentor. Each champion ships one governed working tool, and you leave with a live tool registry and a publishing standard your whole company follows.
The ongoing senior layer
The Adoption Partnership
Both programs, wrapped in fractional AI leadership with two seats: a senior AI advisor for your leadership, another for your IT person. It runs at two depths. We advise while you hold the pen, or we author and own the use policy, publishing standard, rollout plans, and board reporting, executed through your named people.
Depth and terms are decided in a conversation, and you can move between depths as the work matures.
What the partnership puts in place
By the end of a foundational year, six things are true that were not before:
Everyone has the right AI tools, with data protection rules they follow.
You can see adoption across every team instead of guessing at it.
A set of use cases proven to pay off in your business, shared instead of siloed.
Training that compounds month over month, not a one-day event that fades.
Metrics that show leadership and the board the hours and dollars AI returns.
Clear, written rules for safe and responsible use, adopted across the company.
The Monthly Value Report
Every month, a board-ready page
What was taught, who is using what, the hours saved, and what happens next. Signed by your people's wins, certified by us. When your board asks what AI is returning, this is the page that answers them.
How clients come in, and stay
Meet us
A briefing, a workshop, or a keynote. Your leadership sees what the work looks like.
Locate yourself
We find your stage on the Five C’s and the next move it points to.
Start
A program, scoped with a start and an end, or running monthly. Your choice of container.
Partner
The partnership carries it: senior AI capacity beside your team, month after month.
What Leaders Say
“Colin and Tony delivered AI training for our management team, and the response was overwhelmingly positive. They provided practical, actionable strategies that our team began immediately incorporating into their daily workflows. I highly recommend them to any organization looking to build AI confidence.”
“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.”
“We brought Colin and Tony in for a full-day AI training session with our executive leadership team, and the ROI was immediate. This wasn't a lecture about what AI can do someday. By lunch, our team was building custom skills, connecting Claude to our actual tools, and setting up automated workflows that could be applied to the actual day-to-day of the business. Colin's approach is hands-on and practical. Highly recommend.”
Common questions
What people ask before they start
Why not just do this ourselves? We have keen people
Most companies try, and the usual result is the license graveyard. The difference is structure: a real curriculum, a coached champions track, governance somebody finishes, and measurement from day one. Keen people are the raw material. Structure turns them into a capability.
The AI vendors offer free training
They do, and almost nobody finishes it. What free training cannot give you is a credible person in the room, a curriculum built on your workflows and your data rules, and a forcing function that keeps people going. That is the part that makes it stick.
Our Microsoft partner offers a Copilot adoption program, subsidized
Microsoft pays partners to drive Copilot seat usage, so that is who those programs serve. We are vendor-neutral: Copilot where it fits, Claude where it fits. And we measure the hours your team saves.
We already did an AI training day. What is different here?
A training day transfers knowledge once, and it fades. The Skills Program compounds month over month, the Champions Program turns your best people into a build capability, and the partnership keeps a senior owner on it as the tools change.
How do we know it is working?
A one-page Monthly Value Report the board can read in a minute. Only 2% of Canadian companies can show ROI on AI. Our clients can show the hours.
Our board is asking about AI risk
Good. That is a signal worth acting on. Governance and board-ready reporting are partnership deliverables, written by us when we own them.
Our people want to build things themselves. Can you support that instead of replacing it?
That is exactly the AI Champions Program: selection, co-build, and a safe path from sandbox to production. Your team keeps building, with a production-grade home waiting for anything that becomes business-critical.
The graduation moment: when something your team builds becomes business-critical, our Build practice takes over the production review and keeps it running.
Where Adoption fits
When you need the building done, it's already here
Advisory firms stop at the deck. Ours comes with a build practice one hallway over, so the advice and the software answer to the same people.
Adoption, Build, and where they meet.
Adoption & Enablement
Your team, working differently
We get your whole team using AI on real work, put the guardrails around it, and write the policies your board keeps asking about.
Your fractional AI leadershipBuild
A system, working for you
The process that eats your month? We build the system that does it instead, and we keep that system running in production.
Your fractional AI development teamAnd when your own team builds something business-critical, our build practice takes it into production and keeps it running.
Either waythe safe first step is a scoped assessment. Half the fee credits toward whatever you do next.
See the assessmentLooking for 1:1 AI coaching? Mention it when you book a call.
Put senior AI capacity beside your teamLet's talk about whether ours fits
30 minutes. We will place you on the Five C's, and you will leave knowing your next move, whoever you hire to make it.