Executive AI Advisory
Executive AI Advisory is an ongoing retainer that puts a senior, hands-on AI operator alongside your leadership. Think of it as a fractional Chief AI Officer: independent, vendor-neutral guidance on strategy, investment and risk, with the same person who advises you also doing the work. It is how organisations sustain and re-measure the gains over time.
Most AI advice comes with an agenda.
Every vendor in the market is selling certainty, and every board is asking harder questions. The leaders carrying AI strategy sit between the two. What they need is counsel from someone with no product to sell and real operating scars, not another glossy strategy deck that ages in a drawer.
Most of the advice on offer is too junior, too generic, or too conflicted. The analyst doing the work has never run a technology function. The framework was written for everyone, so it fits no one. Or the adviser profits from the tools they recommend. None of that helps an executive who has to stand behind the decision.
What the retainer covers.
- Monthly senior counsel for the executive team.
- Strategy, vendor and investment decisions pressure-tested by someone vendor-neutral.
- A sounding board that has run the function, owned the budget and answered to a board.
What you can count on.
- The principal, every time, with no junior delivery layer.
- Decisions pressure-tested before they get expensive.
- A standing senior counsel cadence your executive team can rely on.
- Vendor claims translated into plain English.
We have held the seat ourselves, including Head of Technology, owning AI strategy end to end. The counsel on this retainer comes from operating experience, not observation.
Questions we get asked
What is executive AI advisory?
A retained advisory relationship at leadership level, often described as a fractional Chief AI Officer. You get senior, independent guidance on AI strategy, investment, adoption and risk, on call, without hiring a full-time executive.
What is a fractional Chief AI Officer?
A senior AI leader engaged part-time, on retainer, rather than as a permanent hire. Senior accountability for AI is increasingly expected: Australian government agencies are now required to designate an accountable official for AI, and many mid-market organisations need the same senior capability without a full-time hire. A fractional arrangement gives you that seniority when you need it.
Who is the advisor?
The principal. There is no bait and switch and no junior delivery layer. The person who advises your leadership is the same senior operator who does the work, which is the advantage of a boutique over a big firm.
How is this different from a one-off project?
A project ends. Advisory is continuous. It suits organisations that want a senior hand kept on their AI as it changes, with the gains sustained, re-measured and built on over time rather than left to drift after a programme finishes.
How much does it cost?
Pricing is scoped to the engagement and agreed before work begins.