New: 2026 CEO AI Benchmark — 139 CEOs surveyed, 86% aren't measuring ROI
    Your AI Department

    Your company's AI team

    We educate your people, find your starting point and help you become AI-native while keeping humans at the center. 

    We come from:

    Meta
    Google
    Samsung
    Berkeley University
    World Bank
    University of Waterloo
    Coinbase
    Meta
    Google
    Samsung
    Berkeley University
    World Bank
    University of Waterloo
    Coinbase

    Where is your company in its AI journey?

    Whether your team needs AI education or deep technical expertise, we meet you where you are.

    Stage 1 · Learning

    Problem:

    "Our team needs fundamental AI skills training."

    Solution:

    AI Education

    Stage 2 · Strategizing

    Problem:

    "We're ready to invest, but need direction."

    Solution:

    System Readiness Audit & Custom Roadmap

    Stage 3 · Deploying

    Problem:

    "We have direction, but no horsepower."

    Solution:

    Embedded AI Execution Team

    Stage 4 · Scaling

    Problem:

    "We have horsepower, but need expertise."

    Solution:

    Fractional AI Officer

    Stage 1 · Learning

    Problem:

    "Our team needs fundamental AI skills training."

    Solution:

    AI Education

    Stage 2 · Strategizing

    Problem:

    "We're ready to invest, but need direction."

    Solution:

    System Readiness Audit & Custom Roadmap

    Stage 3 · Deploying

    Problem:

    "We have direction, but no horsepower."

    Solution:

    Embedded AI Execution Team

    Stage 4 · Scaling

    Problem:

    "We have horsepower, but need expertise."

    Solution:

    Fractional AI Officer

    When we engage, it's ROI first.

    We're exited founders and FAANG-trained operators who work as a team and become Your AI Department: educate, plan, build.

    Problem

    • 70% of mid‑market CEOs can't pinpoint a single ROI‑positive AI project.
    • 1 in 5 fear being outpaced by competitors within a year.
    • Only 8% call their AI adoption "mature."

    Solution

    • We educate your team to build with AI, not just talk about it
    • Readiness audits and development roadmaps show clearpaths, dependencies, and ROI
    • Production-grade AI systems shipped by an embedded team of AI engineers
    Source: 2025 AI Readiness Benchmark

    We're not consultants or offshore devs

    AI consultants learn on your dime. Not us. We've cut our teeth building AI products at a dozen companies, and have built $100M+ businesses ourselves. We bring you ROI, not ideas.

    Strategy, not hype

    We start in the boardroom, linking every recommendation to revenue, cost, or risk KPIs.

    CEO-level guidance

    Because we've been there. We've taken companies public, raised $100M+, and scaled AI products at Google, Meta, Samsung, and Coinbase.

    Operate like a startup

    We ship, measure, and iterate fast: pilot in 30 days, production in 90 and stay until the ROI case is proven on your P&L.

    Ready to move from AI hype
    to board‑level wins?

    Case Studies

    Read how companies achieve AI ROI with us.

    70%

    of mid‑market CEOs can't pinpoint a single ROI‑positive AI project

    1 in 5

    fear being outpaced by competitors within a year

    8%

    call their AI adoption mature

    Source: 2025 AI Readiness Benchmark

    Engagement Models

    We engage you where you are and move to the next stage, together.

    Stage 1 · Learning

    AI Education

    Practitioner-led education straight from the trenches

    • Turn your people into self-direct builders by building real AI applications using best practices
    • Enable leadership and non-technical teams to become AI-augmented and 10x their workflows
    • Bespoke, high-touch training using your own company data and systems
    • Continuous enablement and support beyond the education
    Stage 2 · Strategizing

    AI Readiness Audit & Roadmap

    Enterprise-ready roadmaps built around your systems, people and processes

    • Assess your operations, pain points, and organizational readiness for AI
    • Identify high-impact use cases and distinguish AI-led from human-led work
    • Develop ROI-tailored roadmaps connecting strategy to current data and systems
    • Execution support and continuous refinement as real results emerge
    Stage 3 · Applying

    AI Engineering

    Production-grade AI systems built to evolve as the models evolve

    • Forward-deployed AI experts who embed with your team
    • AI products with evaluation and observability built in from day one
    • Architecture designed for scalability and continuous improvement
    • Hands-on knowledge transfer so your team can own and evolve what we build together
    Stage 4 · Scaling

    Fractional AI Officer

    Senior AI leadership without full-time executive overhead

    • Unbiased vendor evaluation to prevent costly lock-in and mistakes
    • Strategic technology coordination so AI systems don't create silos
    • Future-proof architecture guidance that adapts as AI evolves
    • On-call decision support for urgent technology choices

    Not sure where you are? Book a 30-minute consult and we'll map the right next step. Zero commitment.