AI leadership for the mid-market.

Fractional Chief AI Officer Advisory

Your team is already using AI. We give your leadership team the governance, strategy, and senior advisory to use it responsibly, plus the builders to put it to work.

AI is moving faster than your policies.

Your people use AI tools every day. Many are on personal accounts, and some are working with proprietary material. Insurers want a written policy at renewal. Your board wants a plan. Most companies your size have no one at the leadership level guiding any of it.

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Senior AI advisory, sized to your company.

Fractional CFOs and CHROs gave growing companies senior expertise without a full-time hire. We bring the same model to AI. You get a C-level advisor working alongside your executive team on policy, investment decisions, team adoption, and security. You skip the executive search and the guesswork about what the role should be.

How fractional CAIO advisory works

Understand usage, develop governance, recommend and build.

  1. We interview your team, run an AI usage survey, and inventory every AI tool in use. In two to four weeks you get a clear understanding of where you stand today and where AI should take you.

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  2. An Acceptable Use Policy, data rules, an approved tools list, contract language for your counsel and insurers, platform setup, and training by role. Every process gets a named owner.

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  3. Agentic workflows and AI systems that save time and boost productivity, built inside the tools your team already uses and handed off with documentation and training.

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  4. Ongoing fractional Chief AI Officer advisory: leadership sessions, quarterly governance reviews, annual roadmap design, and clear answers for your board.

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Operators and builders on one team.

With Acalanes Partners, you get deep technical experience coupled with strategy and advisory from C-suite operators.

Start with the Assessment.

In two to four weeks you'll know how AI is being used across your company, where the gaps and risks are, and what to do first.

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