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.
6 MINUTES · TAILORED 12-MONTH PLAN · PDF TO YOUR INBOX · NO SALES CALL REQUIRED
00 · FREE ENTRY POINT
A 6-minute diagnostic. 14 questions across 5 sections. Get a tailored 12-month AI plan, your top 3 opportunities, and an estimate of the hours and pounds at stake. Delivered as a PDF to your inbox.
01 · HOW WE WORK
Most AI consultancies sell hours. The CAIO sells decisions. Four engagement types, all priced for outcome and structured for momentum. Most clients start with the free AI Audit, pick the right path from the findings, then either run the 14-day paid Audit or jump straight into Embed.
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.
A senior advisor inside your leadership team. Up to 8 hours of direct time per month, full ownership of the roadmap, and one Quarterly Build included in the fee.
A named senior AI executive on your org chart. Two to three days a week, sign-off authority, change management, AI register, and continuous build capacity. For CEOs without a CTO.
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.