Fractional AI Officer

Fractional AI Officer for Businesses

Senior AI leadership, embedded in your business, without a full-time hire

You do not need a six-figure Head of AI on payroll to make AI work. You need a senior, MIT Sloan-certified operator who owns your AI roadmap, sits in on the tool pitches, oversees every implementation, and keeps your team moving in one direction. On a fixed monthly retainer. That is a Fractional AI Officer.

Three things you get from day one

Part-time senior leadership. One to ten days a month depending on your tier, the same caliber of strategic guidance a full-time AI executive would bring, at a fraction of the cost.

A predictable monthly investment. Flat published pricing. No setup surprises, no per-hour billing, no long-term lock-in. Scale your tier up or down as your needs change.

One person accountable. You get a single named partner accountable for direction, decisions, and delivery quality across your entire AI agenda, not a rotating bench of junior consultants.

What a Fractional AI Officer actually does

Most businesses do not have an AI strategy problem because they lack ideas. They have one because nobody owns the AI agenda. Tools get bought without a plan. Pilots launch and quietly die. A Fractional AI Officer is the senior consultant who makes AI a managed function instead of a pile of disconnected experiments.

A typical engagement covers four areas:

Strategy and roadmap. We build and maintain your AI roadmap across both sides of the business: how AI runs your internal operations, and how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI find and recommend you. It stays current as the technology and your business evolve. Regular working sessions to review progress, reset priorities, and decide what to do next, and what to ignore.

Implementation oversight. We oversee every AI project, whether 360 Automation AI builds it directly, your internal team does, or a third party does. You get senior eyes on scope, quality, and whether the thing actually delivers ROI before you keep paying for it.

Vendor and tool evaluation. When a vendor pitches you an AI tool, we are in the room. We evaluate, pressure-test, and negotiate so every tool decision is grounded in business need, not a sales quota.

Team enablement. We coach your team on the AI tools you adopt, the right way to use them, and responsible-use guardrails, so the capability stays in your building instead of walking out the door with a contractor.

Between sessions, you have a direct line for the tool pitch that lands on a Tuesday or the half-formed idea you want a senior gut check on before you spend a dollar.

The roadmap is built on an MIT framework

Your roadmap is not a list of trendy tools. It is built with the same strategic framework taught in the MIT Sloan program Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy, the program our founder Shahzad Safri is certified in. The defining rule of that framework: every AI move has to earn its place by strengthening your competitive position, not by being impressive technology.

That means we start with how you actually compete, whether you win on cost, on being different, or on owning a focused niche, and then we only recommend AI that sharpens that edge. It is the discipline that separates a real strategy from a vendor pitch.

Your AI Initiative Roadmap lays out:

• Where you stand today. An honest read of your current operations and your competitive position, plus whether your data and systems are actually ready for AI, and how AI search engines describe your business today. Not a generic maturity score.
• Two tracks, one plan. Internal: the workflows, tools and automations that cut cost and time. External: what gets you found and recommended when buyers ask AI for a provider, from your website and listings to your content and reviews. Both tracks are ranked by return, so you know what comes first. See AI Search Optimization.
• What to build, and why. The specific internal and external AI initiatives that move your business, each tied to a clear competitive advantage and ranked by return, so you know exactly what comes first and what to ignore.
• How it gets done. The plan of action: timelines, what to build versus buy, what skills you build or hire, who owns what, and the governance and guardrails that decide what AI is allowed to do on its own and where a human stays in the loop.
• What could go wrong, handled up front. The real risks, including the honest ones about jobs and ethics, with a plan to manage each, plus the change-management work to get your team to actually adopt it.
• How you will know it worked. Defined success criteria up front, plus a path for extending the roadmap as your business and the technology evolve.

And because a one-time deck goes stale the moment the next model ships, your Fractional AI Officer keeps this roadmap live, revisiting it as you execute and as the landscape shifts.

The roadmap is built on a foundation of Business Context Engineering, the structured discipline of capturing and connecting everything an AI system needs to know about your business, so every recommendation compounds instead of starting from zero.

Choose your level of involvement

Every tier includes your complete AI Initiative Roadmap, covering your internal operations and your AI search visibility, plus a recurring AI search visibility review. The roadmap is the strategic core of the engagement, a competitively-grounded, prioritized plan for where AI creates real advantage in your business, built with the MIT Sloan strategy framework. You get the full roadmap whether you are an Advisor client or an Officer client.

The tiers do not differ on the thinking. They differ on how far we go with you on execution after the roadmap exists. Advisor, we build it and guide you while you execute. Partner, we build it and actively manage the execution with you. Officer, we build it and effectively run your AI function. Same strategist, same roadmap, escalating hands-on involvement.

Large consulting firms price strategic AI planning for enterprises. You get the same kind of strategic thinking, plus someone who stays to execute it, at a price built for a small or mid-size business.

Every engagement starts with a free discovery call so we recommend the right level before you commit. Flat monthly pricing, published up front.

Fractional AI Officer tiers, as of November 2026

	Advisor	Partner	Officer
Price	$2,800 per month	$4,800 per month	$7,000 per month
Time	1 to 3 days per month	4 to 6 days per month	7 to 10 days per month
Our role	We build the roadmap and guide you	We build it and manage execution with you	We build it and run your AI function
Strategy sessions	Monthly	Regular	Weekly
AI search visibility review	Quarterly	Monthly, with fixes managed	Monthly, and we run the AI search track
Support	Email and chat	Priority	Dedicated channel

Advisor: we build your roadmap and guide you

$2,800 / month
1-3 days per month

For owners who want senior strategic direction and will drive execution with their own team.

• Your complete AI Initiative Roadmap, built and kept current.
• Monthly strategy sessions.
• Tool advisory when decisions come up.
• Quarterly progress and ROI check-in against the roadmap.
• Quarterly AI search visibility review: how ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI describe you, and what to fix.
• Async support by email and chat.
• You lead execution; we keep you pointed the right way.

Partner: we build it and manage execution with you

$4,800 / month
4-6 days per month

For businesses actively implementing AI that want a partner hands-on in the rollout.

• Everything in Advisor, plus:
• Regular strategy sessions.
• Active project oversight and implementation management.
• Team coaching as new workflows go live.
• Adoption and ROI tracking against the roadmap.
• Monthly AI search visibility review, with fixes managed alongside your other projects.
• Priority async support.

Officer: we build it and run your AI function

$7,000 / month
7-10 days per month

For businesses changing how they operate and wanting a near-embedded leader to own the AI agenda end to end.

• Everything in Partner, plus:
• Weekly strategy sessions.
• Full implementation ownership across the business, not one workflow at a time.
• Direct access to our MIT Sloan-certified founder.
• Priority, same-week turnaround on decisions and reviews between sessions.
• Cross-functional AI integration.
• Team training program.
• Stakeholder reporting and quarterly readiness re-scoring.
• Monthly AI search visibility review, and we run the AI search track end to end.
• Dedicated async channel.

Every tier includes the full roadmap, internal and external. 3-month minimum, then month-to-month with 30 days notice. Save 15% on annual prepay.

Is a Fractional AI Officer right for you?

This fits best if you are:

• A growing business without a Head of AI or Chief Digital Officer, and not ready to hire one.
• A company that bought AI tools but never built a coherent strategy around them.
• An owner who wants one accountable expert overseeing AI decisions, not another vendor.
• A team implementing AI that needs senior direction to avoid expensive wrong turns.
• A business weighing a major technology investment and wanting a second set of expert eyes first.
• An owner who wants enterprise-caliber strategic thinking at a price built for an SMB.
• A company that needs ongoing optimization, not a one-and-done project.

If your last AI project stalled, or you feel pressure to "do AI" without knowing where to start, this is the role that fixes it.

Prefer to start with just the roadmap?

Not ready for an ongoing retainer? You can buy the Strategic AI Roadmap on its own: a 3 to 6 week engagement where we analyze your business, identify your highest-ROI AI opportunities, inside your business and in AI search, and hand you the same prioritized, competitively-grounded plan that anchors every retainer tier, with realistic budgets and timelines. The difference is simply that you take it and run, with no ongoing involvement from us.

One-time Strategic AI Roadmap: $3,000. It covers your internal operations and your AI search visibility. Many owners start here to see the thinking, then step into an Advisor, Partner, or Officer engagement to execute it with us. If you convert within 30 days, the full $3,000 is credited toward any of our services.

A failed AI project costs more than the strategy to prevent it

A 2025 report from MIT's Project NANDA, The GenAI Divide, found that 95% of the organizations it studied saw no measurable return from their generative AI pilots. The report points to how companies used the tools, not to the quality of the AI models. A failed AI project costs software, staff time and months you do not get back. The roadmap costs less than a failed project and identifies the right opportunities before you spend on building.

Why work with 360 Automation AI

Enterprise strategy, small-business pricing. Our MIT Sloan certified founder, Shahzad Safri, brings the MIT Sloan strategy framework to small and mid-size businesses. You get executive level AI leadership without an executive salary or a big firm invoice.

Business outcomes over technology. Every engagement starts with one question: how does this create competitive advantage? Recommendations flow from strategy, not from whatever tool is trending. Success means measurable results, not deployed software.

Local presence, real accountability. On-site in the Kansas City metro and remote across the Midwest, with one named partner accountable to you, an ongoing-partnership approach rather than a one-off project handed off and forgotten.

A limited number of engagements at a time so every client gets senior attention.

Ready to put senior leadership on your AI agenda?

Book a free discovery call. We will learn your context, your stack, and what you are trying to accomplish, then recommend the right level of involvement. No pressure, no obligation, just a clear read on where AI creates real advantage for your business.

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Questions about whether a Fractional AI Officer fits your stage? Email [email protected] for honest feedback. No sales pitch.