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The AI intake form that blocks pet projects

If a proposed AI use case cannot name the problem, owner, workflow, data, evidence threshold, risk, and next decision, it is not ready for your roadmap. It is ready for more homework.

Lucas Brown, Noah Davis, and Jason Lee · Aug 29, 2026

fractional14 min read

The weekly cadence template

Part-time AI leadership only works when the week has a visible shape. Here is the operating rhythm, the decision register, the delivery review, and the ownership map that keep work moving between working days.

Noah Davis, Jason Lee, and Lucas Brown · Aug 29, 2026

ai-leadership22 min read

Who owns the AI backlog

Five departments, five pilots, five people certain theirs goes first. Somebody has to hold the single list. Here is who that is, what they are allowed to reject, and how the order actually gets decided.

Lucas Brown, Noah Davis, and Jason Lee · Aug 28, 2026

comparison23 min read

Fractional AI officer providers, compared

The five pages that own this search never mention each other. So we compiled the list, put ourselves on it, and put ourselves last.

Noah Davis and Isabella Clark · Aug 27, 2026

fractional20 min read

When not to hire a fractional AI officer

Every page selling this role has a section on when to hire one. None of them has an honest section on when not to. Six situations where the model fails, and what to buy instead, with the prices.

Lucas Brown, Noah Davis, and Maya Thompson · Aug 26, 2026

fractional23 min read

The week-one plan template

Every provider promises a 30-60-90 day plan and most of them hand it over in month two, by which point you have already paid for it. Here is the whole template, the twelve lines it has to contain, and the scorecard to mark it against.

Jason Lee, Liam Anderson, and Noah Davis · Aug 25, 2026

ai-leadership23 min read

The interview questions that separate an operator from an advisor

Two jobs hide under one title and the invoices look similar. These are the questions that tell you which one is sitting across from you, and the answers that should end the call.

Lucas Brown and Sophie Adams · Aug 24, 2026

ai-leadership26 min read

What ships in the first ninety days

Every provider publishes the same three phases and list of documents. Here is the operating cadence, the week-two and week-six readiness checks, the three formal decision gates, and the evidence that changes the plan.

Noah Davis, Sophie Adams, and Jason Lee · Aug 23, 2026

fractional21 min read

Roadmap only, or roadmap plus builders

Part-time AI leadership is sold in two shapes and priced like one. Here is what the failure data says about buying the plan without the people, and the three questions that decide which shape you need.

Lucas Brown · Aug 22, 2026

ai-leadership22 min read

Who owns what: CAIO, CTO, CDO

Your CTO already exists. So does your chief data officer. Here is the line between all three, decision by decision, and the two vetoes nobody should be able to overrule.

Lucas Brown, Noah Davis, and Sophie Adams · Aug 20, 2026

comparison20 min read

Three routes to AI leadership, priced

Every page that compares these three routes is written by somebody who sells one of them. Here is the year-one arithmetic for all three, built from court filings, a federal pay table and published prices.

Noah Davis · Aug 19, 2026

fractional16 min read

What fractional AI leadership costs per day

Every rate you can find for this role is a range published by somebody who wants the engagement. Here is the arithmetic that turns any of them into a number you can compare, and our own prices next to it.

Noah Davis, Lucas Brown, and Sophie Adams · Aug 18, 2026

ai-leadership22 min read

Six months with an AI owner

Fifty people, eighteen of them engineers, two pilots stuck since February, and nobody in charge of either. Here is what changes month by month once one person owns it.

Lucas Brown · Aug 17, 2026

ai-leadership22 min read

What a fractional AI officer does

Every page ranking for this term was written by somebody selling the role, so none of them will tell you when not to buy it. Here is the scope, the money, and the anti-fit case.

Lucas Brown and Noah Davis · Aug 16, 2026