Fractional AI Officer: AI run like a function, not a project
A Fractional AI Officer from KOI AI is a senior AI leader who joins a mid-market leadership team part time. Each month you get an executive briefing, a rolling pipeline of new use cases scored for value, an evaluation of the vendors and tools you are being sold, and continuous optimization of the agents already in production. It starts at $8K a month, about 15–25% of the cost of a full-time Chief AI Officer, and it is a monthly arrangement rather than a long contract.
Ongoing, monthly
15–25%
of the cost of a full-time executive
From $8K a month
What the role covers
Executive briefings
A monthly readout on what is live, what it returned, and what comes next, in your numbers.
A pipeline of use cases
New opportunities identified, scored, and sequenced, so the next agent is ready when the current one is paying back.
Vendor and tool evaluation
An independent read on the platforms, tools, and pitches crossing your desk.
Optimization of what is live
Tuning the agents in production as volumes, systems, and policies change.
Governance and risk
The controls, oversight, and accountability your board, auditors, and regulators expect, kept current.
Build, buy, or hire
What to build in-house, what to buy, and when a full-time hire makes sense.
How a month runs
- Week 1
Review
The previous month's results against the agreed metrics, agent by agent.
- Weeks 2–3
Pipeline and optimization
The next use cases scoped, live agents tuned, and vendor questions answered.
- Week 4
Executive briefing
The readout to your leadership team: results, decisions needed, and recommendations.
- Any time
On call
A senior AI leader to call when a decision cannot wait for the briefing.
The deliverables
- ◆A monthly executive briefing
- ◆A rolling pipeline of new use cases, scored and sequenced
- ◆Vendor and tool evaluation
- ◆Continuous optimization of the agents in production
- ◆A governance review kept current
The controls every engagement runs under
- ◆One named senior KOI consultant, consistent month to month, not a rotating bench.
- ◆Every recommendation is in writing with its reasoning.
- ◆The officer directs KOI's agents and evaluates your vendors. Nothing changes in your systems without your approvals.
- ◆A monthly arrangement. It is not a condition of keeping what was built.
From $8K a month
A full-time Chief AI Officer costs $300K+ fully loaded. The fractional role is 15–25% of that.
Measured in clients' numbers
Questions about the Fractional AI Officer
How much of the officer's time do we get?
Enough to run the month described above: the review, the pipeline work, the vendor questions, and the briefing, plus availability for decisions that cannot wait. The cadence is agreed when the engagement starts and adjusted as the portfolio grows.
Can we stop?
Yes. It is a monthly arrangement, not a condition of keeping what was built. The agents run inside your systems and your team is trained to run them.
How is this different from the strategy and roadmap engagement?
The roadmap is a plan, delivered once. The Fractional AI Officer runs the plan month after month, re-ranks the pipeline as the business changes, and keeps what is live performing.
Will the officer manage our other AI vendors?
They evaluate them and tell you plainly what fits. Managing a vendor relationship on your behalf can be part of the arrangement if you want it.
Who is the officer?
One of KOI's senior consultants, named at the start and consistent month to month. KOI's leadership ran technology, data, and operations at IBM Consulting, Red Hat, KeyBank, PNC, and Progressive before they built agents.
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