AI Strategy That
Ships Code.
Most companies can't afford a $400K Chief AI Officer — but the need for AI leadership has never been more urgent. A Fractional CAIO gives you executive-level AI strategy without the full-time salary. Strategy plus implementation. Embedded in your operations. Deployed in your infrastructure. No slide decks, no chatbots, no generic wrappers.
Big 4 Consultancy
$500K+ engagement. 12-week discovery phase. Generic AI deck. Junior consultants. No production code.
Fractional AI Officer
$4,500 audit. Custom pilot. Working software in your infrastructure. Senior engineer who ships. Zero data egress.
// NOT SLIDEWARE. PRODUCTION CODE.
Big 4 Firms Sell Strategy.
We Ship Production Code.
Enterprise Price Tag
Deloitte, Accenture, McKinsey start at half a million. Their model requires armies of junior consultants — you pay for the brand and the overhead, not the output.
Discovery Phase That Delivers a Deck
A Big 4 AI engagement spends 12 weeks interviewing stakeholders, building PowerPoint decks, and delivering a "roadmap" — then hands you a PDF and leaves.
Of Production Code
The engagement ends with a strategy document. No embedded AI. No working pipeline. No code in your infrastructure. You paid for a diagnosis with no treatment plan.
What You Get With Beyond SaaS
- ▸ Production AI, not slideware. We ship working code inside your infrastructure.
- ▸ Senior engineer who builds. Not a team of junior consultants. Michael writes code, runs pipelines, and debugs your actual data.
- ▸ Data sovereignty. Every model runs in your VPC or on-prem. No data egress. No third-party APIs.
- ▸ Deployed in days, not quarters. Audit in week 1, pilot in week 2, production in week 3.
What Big 4 Gives You
- ▸ PowerPoint deck with AI strategy
- ▸ Junior consultants billing $400/hr
- ▸ Cloud-only solutions (more vendor lock-in)
- ▸ 12-week discovery before any implementation
Real Results.
Anonymous. Verified. Repeatable.
These case studies are anonymized representations of actual AI implementations. Names and identifying details changed. The results are real.
// THE PROBLEM
OTA commissions eating 22% of revenue. Complaint response time averaging 47 hours. No unified guest data across properties.
// THE SOLUTION
Embedded AI agent that monitors OTA booking feeds, auto-adjusts pricing by occupancy, and drafts personalized guest responses. Runs on a server in the back office — zero data egress.
// THE RESULTS
$127K recovered from OTA commissions annually. Response time dropped to 9 hours. 11 more rooms booked per month. Staff reallocated from data entry to guest experience.
// THE PROBLEM
Insurance intake processing bottleneck: 6 hours per new patient. Prior authorization averaging 11 business days. Denial rate at 18%.
// THE SOLUTION
AI intake pipeline that pre-fills insurance verification, generates prior-auth packages, and flags documentation gaps before submission. HIPAA-compliant, on-premise deployment.
// THE RESULTS
Intake time reduced to 45 minutes. Prior authorization down to 2.3 days. Denial rate dropped to 6%. Three billing staff reassigned to patient outreach.
// THE PROBLEM
Dispatch coordination handled via spreadsheets and phone. Load matching taking 45 minutes per shipment. Carrier payment disputes averaging 18 days to resolve.
// THE SOLUTION
AI dispatch layer that matches loads to preferred carriers by route, history, and rate. Automated payment reconciliation with real-time status tracking.
// THE RESULTS
Load matching time reduced to 4 minutes. Payment disputes down to 2 days. Carrier retention improved 23%. Dispatch team handles 3x volume without adding headcount.
Audit → Pilot → Retainer.
No Lock-In. No Surprises.
AI Readiness Audit
1 week · $4,500 — A collaborative strategy session mapping your workflows, scoring automation potential, assessing data readiness, and delivering a prioritized implementation blueprint and ROI projection.
Workflow Automation Pilot
2-6 weeks · $15,000 — Custom agentic pipelines built and deployed inside your infrastructure (VPC). Includes private model setup, vector database integration, error handling, and complete handoff documentation.
Fractional AI Officer
$5,000/mo — Ongoing AI leadership embedded in your operations. Michael manages strategy, vendor selection, data architecture, security/compliance, board reporting, and team building.
30-minute call. No pitch deck. We'll tell you if we can help.
The Fractional CAIO One-Pager
A one-page executive brief for CTOs and operations leaders. Covers: the AI implementation gap, the Fractional CAIO model, pricing structure, engagement process, and real ROI figures from anonymized implementations.
No email gate. No CRM capture. Just the information you need.