The roadmap has too many AI ideas and no way to rank them
Everything sounds plausible, nothing has an owner, and the list keeps growing. You need someone who will say which one is worth building and which three are not.
Senior AI leadership, without the full-time hire.
I take on fractional CAIO and CTO mandates for scaling companies — owning the AI and technology decisions that are too consequential to guess at, and too infrequent to justify a full-time executive.
- Former National Head, AI CoE at Deloitte
- 30+ AI and automation solutions delivered
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
- Toronto · working remote across North America
People call me at three moments.
A pilot works in the demo and dies before production
The model is usually fine. What is missing is the evaluation, the exception handling, the escalation path, and a named person accountable when it is wrong.
You are about to make an expensive, hard-to-reverse call
A build-versus-buy decision, a platform commitment, a senior hire, or a vendor contract. These are the moments where a wrong answer costs a year.
What a mandate looks like.
Most fractional arrangements go wrong because nobody wrote down the shape of them. Here is mine, before you ask.
CadenceAn agreed number of days per month, booked in your calendar in advance.
HorizonBounded and reviewed on a fixed cycle — not an open-ended retainer.
AccessLeadership meetings, the engineering team, and the real systems.
What I own
- AI and technology strategy tied to a business metric
- Architecture decisions and build / buy / skip calls
- Evaluation criteria, guardrails, and failure boundaries
- Vendor selection and technical due diligence
- Technical hiring: scorecards, interviews, calibration
- Translating the technical position for your board
What I don't
- Daily project management
- Line management of your engineers
- Production monitoring, on-call, or incident response
- An operational SLA
- Hands-on implementation — scoped separately, with its own delivery team
Four steps. Stop at any of them.
- 01
Intro call Free · 30 minutes
We find the decision or workflow in question, who owns it, and what changes if it goes well. If there is no real problem here, I will tell you.
- 02
Diagnostic 10 business days
A focused engagement that maps the real process, sets the baseline and business case, defines the evaluation plan, and produces a build-ready 90-day path.
- 03
Fractional mandate Ongoing · bounded
Embedded CAIO or CTO at an agreed cadence. Architecture, evaluation, risk, vendor and executive decision reviews while your team executes.
- 04
Implementation Scoped separately
If a build is the right answer, it runs as its own engagement with a dedicated project manager, engineering owner, and support terms.
What clients say.
“Within a couple of calls we got the concise roadmap we wanted. The whole deliverable was very smooth.”
“Brought world-class experience into our startup environment to give us a genuine edge against the competition.”
“Knowledgeable, versatile, and efficient — they know this space better than most companies we've worked with.”
From engagements I led through my consultancy.
Track record.
Read the case studiesDeloitte
National Head, AI CoELed and expanded the NLP Center of Excellence to 25 practitioners, and built a deployment accelerator that cut delivery timelines by 50%.
Paperstack
Fractional Chief AI OfficerArchitected the data and analytics platform during the company's expansion to $10M+ ARR, for a Forbes 30 Under 30 fintech team. The work was presented to and positively reviewed by Peter Norvig.
Statistics Canada · PFES
AI engineer and data scientistA financial analytics application reaching 92–97% accuracy on structured data, and LiDAR/GIS models that cut processing time by 40%.
Current fractional mandates
Bring one decision. Leave with a clearer answer.
If the roadmap has too many options, or a pilot cannot cross into production, start with a free call. We will work out whether there is a mandate worth having.