Fractional AI Delivery Leadership
Someone on your side of the AI project.
We lead your AI project part-time, from inside your team. We scope the work, manage whoever is building it, and keep it on track until it's running and your people own it.
AI projects rarely fail on the technology
They fail because nobody owns the delivery. Most small companies don't need a full-time AI executive. They need someone with the experience to run one project well, for as long as it takes.
Demos, not results
The pilot looked great in a meeting. Months later it still isn't part of anyone's actual work.
No one to check the vendor
You're paying a developer or agency, but nobody on your side can tell whether the work is on track or the estimate is real.
Status that sounds fine
Every update says "going well." Then the deadline arrives and the real picture shows up with it.
Example: a stalled customer-service assistant
Imagine a property management company in Northern Colorado. They hired a developer to build an AI assistant that answers tenant questions from their leases and policies. Six months and several demos later, it still isn't answering real tenants. The office manager is running the project on top of her real job, and every update sounds promising.
A fractional delivery lead would step in for a few days a week.
- Review what's been built against what the business actually needs, and cut the scope to one job it can do well: answering the twenty questions tenants ask most.
- Write down what "done" means in plain terms the developer, the office manager and the owner all agree on.
- Replace status meetings with evidence: test results on real tenant questions, reviewed every week.
- Launch it with a person approving every answer at first, then hand the day-to-day to the office staff with documentation and training.
Same developer, same budget conversation, and a project that finally has an owner.
What we take on
We fill the delivery role on your side of the table, whether the work is being built by us, your own staff or an outside vendor.
Scope and plan
Before anything is built
- Turn the idea into a scope with clear limits
- Define what "done" means and how it will be tested
- Build a realistic plan and budget
Vendors and builders
Developers, agencies and software vendors
- Help you choose who builds it, and check their estimates
- Review the work as it comes in
- Keep changes to scope visible and deliberate
Status and risk
What's actually happening
- Report progress from test results and delivered work, not opinions
- Surface risks while there's still time to act on them
- Give the owner a short, honest update every week
Your team and launch
The people who will use it
- Involve the staff who do the work from the start
- Plan the launch, the training and the review steps
- Hand ownership to someone on your team
How an engagement works
Assess
We review the project, the people and the vendor, and tell you plainly where it stands.
Plan
We agree on scope, what "done" means, the timeline and how progress will be measured.
Deliver
We lead the work a few days a week, with weekly evidence-based updates.
Hand off
We launch it, train your team, and hand ownership to someone on your side.
Every engagement starts with an agreed scope and a clear definition of "done". You can stop after any step.
Fractional work is billed at $175 per hour, sold in prepaid monthly blocks starting at 10 hours. Most clients use between 10 and 30 hours a month for strategy, vendor evaluation, team training, and oversight of AI projects. Unused hours roll over for one month.
Your people stay in charge
We run the delivery. You and your team keep the decisions, and the result.
- You make the calls. We bring options and a recommendation. Scope, budget and launch decisions stay with you.
- Evidence over optimism. Progress is measured by what's been built and tested, so there are no surprises at the deadline.
- A person approves the result. Nothing the AI produces reaches a customer without someone on your team signing off.
- We plan to leave. From the first week, the goal is a project your own people can run without us.
Further reading
Start with an honest look at the project
Tell us what you're trying to build, or what's stuck. We'll tell you where it stands and what it would take to get it delivered.
We work with companies in Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor and Longmont.