A standing strategy seat.
Regular working sessions where we look at the whole business and decide where AI moves next. We come in weekly as the baseline, and we set the rhythm to your scope.
Fractional AI Strategist
A fractional Chief AI Officer for your whole business, for less than the price of an entry-level admin.
Senior AI advisory and leadership across every function of your business, on a monthly retainer. We sit at the strategy table, set the direction, and keep the system improving as the tools change underneath it. We come in regularly and keep it moving.
From $2,497 a month,
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The problem
The AI you set up six months ago is already behind. New tools ship every week, half of them matter to you and half of them are noise, and telling the two apart is a full-time job nobody on your team has the room for.
So the system drifts. The strategy you paid to build goes stale while you run the business. And the question of where AI goes next, which function, which workflow, which tool, sits on a list you keep meaning to get to.
That is the seat a Fractional AI Strategist fills.
What this is
A Fractional AI Strategist is senior AI leadership for your whole business, on retainer. We hold the AI strategy across Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Products, and Finance. We watch what is changing, decide what applies to you, and keep your system pointed at the work that compounds. We come in regularly and keep it improving.
You get the judgment of an in-house AI leader for less than the price of an entry-level admin, and you keep every account and every system we touch.
What you get every month
Answers between sessions.
Questions, decisions, and quick inputs by email or message. You get an answer when you need it, on a real workday, with the context of someone who already knows your business.
The watch on what is changing.
We track the tools and the shifts that matter to your operation, decide what actually applies, and bring you the ones worth your attention with the reasoning attached.
A quarterly direction reset.
Every three months we step back, assess what is working, retire what has stopped earning its place, and reset the priorities for the quarter ahead.
How it works
- Start from a real map. The retainer builds on a clear picture of your business and where AI fits. Most clients come in through the AI Growth Plan, which maps the whole operation and ranks the opportunities in order. If you have done equivalent diagnostic work already, we start from there.
- Set the cadence. We establish your weekly meeting rhythm, open the line for between-session questions, and start bringing you the changes worth acting on. Your AI strategy stays current while you run the business.
- Review and reset every quarter. Each quarter we assess, adjust, and reset priorities. The strategy stays alive as the tools evolve, so the system you own keeps getting sharper.
Most retainers start after the AI Growth Plan maps the business and sets the baseline. From there, the weekly cadence keeps your AI strategy current and your system improving.
Where this fits in the lineup
The monthly plan on an AI Employee keeps one hire running: the single role you built it for, healthy and improving.
The Fractional AI Strategist works a level up. We advise the whole business: every function, every system, and the direction of all of it. One keeps a single hire running well. The other keeps the entire business pointed in the right direction.
Built in the open
Kai is the AI system Kaizn built to run Kaizn. We use it on ourselves every day before we point it at your business. Three verifier agents, Skeptic, Red Team, and Simplifier, argue with everything Kai produces before it ships.
Out of more than 3,400 checks, they have flagged more than 1,600 issues, more than 170 of them outright failures, and sent the work back until it held. The strategy you would buy is the strategy that gets argued with first.
950+
Sessions Logged
2,500+
Strategic Decisions Logged
3,400+
Verification Reports Run
Questions about the Fractional AI Strategist
Recommended, and not required. Most retainers start after the AI Growth Plan maps the business and sets a baseline, because the strategy sessions have more to build on. If you have done equivalent diagnostic work with another provider or in-house, we can start from there.
Weekly working sessions as the baseline, set to your scope. Answers between sessions as questions come up. A briefing on any tool or shift worth acting on. And the full direction reset every quarter.
We cover it on the call. Most retainers start with a three-month minimum so the cadence has time to take hold. After that, month to month.
The AI Growth Plan maps your business and ranks the opportunities in order, as a one-time engagement. The retainer keeps that strategy current as the tools move, so the system you own stays sharp while you run the business.
The AI Employee plan keeps one hire running well in its single role. The Fractional AI Strategist advises the whole business across every function. One maintains a build; the other leads the strategy.
Yes. When a new workflow or tool needs to be built mid-retainer, we scope that build separately and run it alongside the strategy cadence.
The floor is $2,497. The number above it depends on scope: how many functions are in play and how much is moving. We quote it to your business on the call.
Ready for AI leadership on retainer?
A 30-minute call covers it. We learn how your business runs, then we show you what ongoing AI leadership would look like at your scope.
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Most clients start with the AI Growth Plan to map the business first.
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Want just one role covered? See the AI Employee.