Fractional Head of Data & AI

A senior data and AI lead on your team, before you’re ready to hire one full-time.

For founders whose data and AI matter to the business but don’t yet justify a full-time executive. I join your leadership team, own the function, and run it from inside until your team can.

~10 hrs/week3 months minimumMonthly retainer
What’s usually broken

Your data and AI are now too important to leave to whoever has time, but a full-time head is too early or too expensive. So decisions slip, the roadmap drifts, and good people work on the wrong things. You need someone senior owning this now, not a job posting that takes six months to fill.

How I work inside the business
01

Diagnose

Find what’s moving growth, and what’s quietly leaking.

02

Prioritize

Decide which bets and which AI earn the work, in what order.

03

Build

Ship the systems and decision logic the team runs on.

04

Transfer

Hand it over so the team runs it without me.

What I do inside the business
Sit in your leadership team and own the data and AI function.
Set the roadmap: what to build, what to fix, what to leave alone.
Build the systems and decision logic your team runs on.
Set up the rituals and coach or hire the people who take it over.
What you walk away with
A clear roadmap your team actually follows.
Working systems live in production, not slideware.
A team that runs more of it on their own each month.
A function that’s ready for a full-time head when you are.
What this is not
Not a part-time pair of hands taking tickets.
Not a strategy deck with no one to execute it.
Not a permanent dependency. The goal is to leave.
When founders call me for this
“We have data people but no one owning the direction.”
“We know AI matters but keep starting and stopping.”
“We’re a year from a full-time hire and can’t wait that long.”

Need this on your team?

A 30-minute call to see if a fractional engagement fits where you are. No pitch.

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