The Fractional CAIO Playbook
Boards are asking for AI leadership faster than the market can supply it. This track is for senior operators reinventing themselves as Chief AI Officers: the mandate, the baseline, the governance calls and the fractional path to market.
5 lessons· All free
- 01
What a Chief AI Officer Actually Does
The CAIO role is not a technical job. It is an accountability job. Here is the mandate, how it differs from CTO and CIO and why operators win it.
9 min read - 02
The 60-Day AI Baseline
The first thing a CAIO delivers is not a strategy. It is a defensible baseline: what is actually happening, what is allowed and what gets measured.
10 min read - 03
Your First AI Governance Decision
Before frameworks and committees, one rule decides your AI risk posture: which data may enter which tools. Here is how to draw that line in a week.
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Build, Buy or Platform: The Triage
Every AI request that reaches you is secretly a budget decision. Four questions sort them into build, buy or use-what-you-have before money moves.
9 min read - 05
Fractional vs Full-Time: The Market and the Math
Mid-market companies need CAIO capability they cannot fill full-time. That mismatch is the fractional opening. Here is the model, the math and the positioning.
10 min read