GrayBeard · Fractional Chief AI Officer
You hire me. You get the whole team.
I take the Chief AI Officer seat on your leadership team, part time, with a named roster behind me. We scope the work so the results at least cover what the seat costs you.
About two minutes. Rather read? It's all written out below.
The core offer
A fractional Chief AI Officer
Most mid-market companies need someone senior to own AI. Few need that person full time. So I join your e-team part time and do the job.
- I sit on your leadership team and own the AI agenda, accountable to you and the board.
- I take a zero-based look at people, process, and technology. Adopt what pays. Retire what doesn't.
- Every AI bet gets sequenced, with a kill criterion, so it either earns its keep or stops.
- Governance, security, and controls your company will actually run.
- Results are scoped to at least cover the cost of the seat. We agree on how we'll measure that up front.
- Scope and fee get set on the first call, based on the gap. There's no price list.
The whole team
The roster behind the seat
Each agent owns a lane. I stay fully accountable for all of it. You get named owners, not a pile of chatbots.
Iris
Turns the roster into one engagement. Routes the live lane and what never reaches you.
ProductVera
Turns “we should do AI” into a sequenced production bet with a kill criterion.
DeliveryHolt
Holds multi-month transformations to hard outcomes and the critical path.
Technology InfrastructureKnox
Makes the boring stack non-negotiable: identity, endpoints, platform, hosting.
OperationsWeld
Joins broken operating process to the system that should own it.
Risk & ComplianceRook
Writes controls a mid-market company will actually run, and still pass audit.
Want a fixed-scope start?
The Grokbot Launch Sprint
This is the offer in the video. A good first step if you'd rather start with something bounded before you commit to the seat.
- AI Portfolio Tracker. A portfolio and ROI tool built for you. Dashboards that show the return, a risk matrix to pick the right work next, a backlog and a board to run it. You keep it after we leave.
- Adoption program. We stand up a cohort of 4 to 6 early adopters. 3 to 6 key people get pilot workflows that pay off inside the window, plus personal training to get productive in Grokbot inside the guardrails.
- Policies and governance. Written policies and procedures, with the controls to back them up. People know where the lines are.
- AI readiness assessment. We check the security base your AI program stands on, name the gaps, and tell you plainly how to close them.
- Role-based training videos. Personalized, branded Grokbot videos for the actual pilot roles in finance, IT, sales, wherever. Those teams get productive right away, and the same materials scale the rollout.
- ROI and payback. We jointly scope pilots to deliver at least $25,000 in documented gains within 90 days, tracked in the Portfolio Tracker. If early results lag, we keep supporting you at no extra fee until they clear the bar.
Proof
I've run this play before
CIO seat
Fortnite / Unreal Engine online launch era; recommended retiring the dedicated seat and backfilled.
Cloud · ERP · velocity
Millions reduction in cost structure: cloud transformation, ERP deployment, and massive acceleration of solution delivery velocity.
Fractional CTO
Digital-transformation case that secured private-equity commitment to modernize operations.
Book a 15-minute call
Start with a short call.
Tell me where AI is stuck, or where it hasn't started. In fifteen minutes we'll know whether the seat, the sprint, or neither makes sense. Pick a time below and it books as a Zoom call.
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