What is fractional AI?
Fractional AI is a part-time arrangement where one experienced AI and data contractor builds and runs the AI side of your business for a set share of each week.
A fractional AI contractor works the way a fractional CFO does: senior judgment for the part of the week a small business can actually use, without a full-time salary.
With me, the work is AI and data together, because AI is only as good as the data behind it. You stay in the driver's seat: AI proposes, and a person decides.
How a fractional engagement works
It starts with a free 45-minute call, then I build and run the work inside your business on a flat monthly, with a written plan every quarter.
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A free Discovery Call
45 minutes. I map your business and tell you honestly whether a fractional engagement fits. No pitch, no pressure.
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We scope it together
We pick what matters most: busywork AI should take over, data you are not using yet, and systems that should talk to each other.
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I build it and run it
The work runs inside your business, on the same cloud setup that runs my own business, and it is kept running while the engagement runs.
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A written plan every quarter
It says what lands next, so you always know what the monthly is paying for.
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Flat monthly, 30 days' notice
Some weeks run heavier and some lighter, and the monthly stays the same. Either side can end it with 30 days' notice.
Half a day a week or a day a week?
Half a day a week fits a business with one or two things AI and data should be doing for it right now, and a day a week fits a business with several systems to connect or a data project with real stakes.
About half a day a week
For a business with one or two things AI and data should be doing for it right now.
About a day a week
For a business with several systems to connect, or a data project with real stakes.
I take two clients at a time, so the work gets real attention. The details are on the pricing page.
What gets built inside the contract
Automations, dashboards and reporting, forecasts and flags, connected systems, and a website rebuild when the business needs one all happen inside the same contract.
None of them is sold on its own, because AI and data work is too custom to price in a box. The building blocks show what each one does.
Fractional AI, a full-time hire, or a one-off project?
Fractional AI fits a small business that needs senior AI and data work every week, but not a full week of it.
A full-time hire
Makes sense once there is a full week of AI and data work to fill.
A one-off project
Ends when the build ends, unless someone is paid to keep it running and improve it.
Fractional AI
Built and run for you, with a plan every quarter, for a set share of the week. If it is not paying for itself, you stop.
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Who does the work
I do the work myself: 20 years at Verizon, from the front lines to revenue assurance, systems analysis, and data engineering, plus a Professional Certificate in AI and Machine Learning from the University of Michigan.
I am based in Plain City and serve businesses in Columbus, Dublin, Worthington, Westerville, Powell, Hilliard, Upper Arlington, New Albany, Gahanna, Grove City, and Delaware, and I take on work across the country. More on my about page.