Fractional Chief AI Officer · Europe and UK

A fractional Chief AI Officer for enterprises not ready to bet €300k on a full-time hire.

AI leadership is a board problem before it is a hiring problem. I take the seat part-time: setting direction, killing weak projects, shipping the strong ones. From €9,500 a month.

Book a 30-minute triage call

Confidential. No pitch. Two new engagements per quarter.

The seat

What the role covers.

Direction: an AI agenda tied to operating results, not to vendor roadmaps.

Governance: risk, compliance and the EU AI Act handled before they become press releases.

Delivery pressure: vendors and internal teams held to production dates by someone who has shipped. Board reporting in plain numbers.

The full-time version of this seat costs €200k to €350k plus a six-month search; the fractional version starts this month.

The operator

Who takes this seat.

Twenty years delivering for Shell, Freshfields, JP Morgan and T-Mobile, and founder of Helionics, where our agents were proven on a public 500,000-email corpus.

I have sat on both sides: the consultant selling the programme and the operator accountable for it. That second seat is the one your board is missing.

Cadence

How it runs.

A monthly retainer from €9,500. Cadence set by your calendar: leadership sessions, delivery reviews, vendor scrutiny, board preparation.

Quarterly you get a written state of AI: what is live, what it returns, what to kill and what to fund.

If a build is needed, my delivery offers plug in with the pricing on this site; no hidden day rates.

Recent work

Four programmes. Four hard numbers.

01

40% to 80% adoption in six weeks. 2,500 lawyers. Freshfields.

Adoption stuck at 40%, partner scepticism, hallucination risk existential. Shifted from tech demos to safe sandboxes and workflow-based training.

40% → 80% adoption in 6 weeks
02

A digital twin in production in eight weeks. Shell.

Two strategic vendors refused to collaborate, with 8 weeks to a presentation in front of global leadership. Lightweight middleware bypassed the deadlock entirely.

Delivered in 8 weeks, on time
03

A £5M programme rescued, zero penalties. T-Mobile.

Inherited a failing programme weeks from contractual penalties. Merged Dev and QA, daily risk-based testing, coaching instead of blame.

£5M saved · zero penalties
04

Agents proven on a public 500,000-email corpus. Helionics.

Founder proof. Helios reads purchase orders, certificates and deviation emails, and its AI agents turn them into evidence an auditor can check.

500k emails, public-corpus proof

FAQ

Answers before you book.

What does a fractional Chief AI Officer cost?

From €9,500 a month, against €200k to €350k plus search fees for the full-time equivalent.

How is this different from an AI consultant?

A consultant delivers a project. A fractional Chief AI Officer owns the agenda across projects: priorities, governance, vendors and the board conversation, continuously.

How much of your time do we get?

Enough to own the agenda; the cadence is fixed to your leadership rhythm in the first month. If the workload outgrows the retainer, we both see it in the numbers first.

Can you also build?

Yes. Strategy without delivery capacity is how pilots stall in the first place. Builds run as separate fixed-price engagements so the retainer stays honest.

The triage call is thirty minutes and costs nothing.

Book a 30-minute triage call

Confidential. No pitch. Two new engagements per quarter.