A FRACTIONAL CHIEF AI OFFICER PRACTICE · SHEFFIELD
For UK service businesses doing £3M to £20M, AI strategy is too important for an external consultant and too expensive for a full-time hire. The CAIO is the operator who sits between.
01 · HOW WE WORK
Most AI consultancies sell hours. The CAIO sells decisions. Three engagement types, all priced for outcome and structured for momentum.
Two weeks. One operator. The 13-Angle Framework against your business. A 40-page report and a 12-month roadmap. Money-back guarantee if it tells you nothing you didn't already know.
Strategic AI leadership embedded into your senior team. Up to 8 hours of direct time per month, full ownership of the roadmap, and one Quarterly Build included in the fee.
A discrete AI build engagement when the priority is clear and ongoing strategic involvement isn't needed. Scoped, priced, and delivered against a fixed timeline.
02 · THE METHODOLOGY
Most businesses ask "where do we plug AI in?" The wrong question. The right question is "where, in our specific business, does AI move a number worth measuring?" The 13-Angle Framework is the answer.
FIVE CLUSTERS · THIRTEEN ANGLES
Five clusters. Thirteen specific angles. Sales & Revenue (4 angles), Marketing & Content (3), Operations (3), Customer (2), and Talent (1). Most engagements concentrate leverage in two or three of them. Knowing which two or three is the entire point.
SCORED · RANKED · DEFENDABLE
Each angle scores against your business on five dimensions. The composite ranks them. The top three become Q1. The next three become Q2. The remaining seven enter a documented parking lot — explicitly deferred, not ignored.
03 · THE PORTFOLIO
Before The CAIO, half a dozen AI-augmented ventures. The methodology I sell isn't theory — it's the system I've already used.
The Synaptic Authority Engine — a methodology built specifically for how generative engines retrieve, weight, and cite content. Operating at industrial scale.
Inbound call triage, booking, and follow-up. The Workflow Automation and Inbound Triage angles operating as a complete Business OS.
The Brand & Social Presence angle as commercial infrastructure. Demand generation for the wider portfolio that pays for itself in audience.
The regional positioning that runs through everything The CAIO does. Anti-corporate by default, Northern by design.