AdvisorySteward

Fractional leadership.

Senior technical decisions every month, and no case yet for a full-time hire. A Fractional CTO, Head of AI Enablement or Transformation Director, on a monthly retainer.

Stage
Steward
Duration
Monthly, three-month minimum
Price
From £6,000 a monthabout US$8,000 a month
Terms
Monthly in advanceThree-month minimum
Who it is for

Organisations that need senior technical leadership every month but not every day: no CTO, or a CTO stretched across too much.

Leadership teams adopting AI who want one accountable person to govern it, prove it and embed it.

Boards with a programme in flight that is late, over budget or drifting, who need it diagnosed and led.

What every role includes

  • A named senior leader on a fixed number of days each month
  • Supplier and budget oversight, so proposals are judged by someone on your side
  • Security, governance and people held by one accountable person
  • A written monthly report to the board or leadership team
Three roles

Senior leadership, by the month.

Every role is a monthly retainer, paid in advance, with a three-month minimum. Days are a commitment of time, not a rate.

Fractional CTO

Leadership, suppliers, security and people

A senior technical leader at the table: owning the roadmap, holding suppliers to account, keeping security in hand and building the team.

  • 2 days a month: from £6,000 (about US$8,000)
  • 4 days a month: £11,250 (about US$15,000)
  • 8 days a month: £21,000 (about US$28,000)
Head of AI Enablement

Govern, then prove, then embed

Put governance in place first, prove value on a small number of use cases, then embed what works into how the organisation runs.

  • From £6,900 a month (about US$9,200)
  • AI-led roles are priced at the CTO tiers plus 15%
Transformation Director

Diagnose, reset and lead a programme in flight

For programmes already under way and not going to plan. Find out why, reset the scope and the team, and lead it to a finish.

  • Scoped to the programme
Framework / Regulated organisations

Governed AI adoption in four questions.

Before any AI system touches your work, someone senior should be able to answer these four questions in writing. If they cannot, that is where we start.

  1. What data does it touch?Which records, whose records, and where they go once the model has seen them.
  2. Who is accountable for its output?A named person, not a team or a supplier, who answers for what it produces.
  3. How would you prove to an auditor what it did?The logs, versions and decisions you could put in front of a regulator tomorrow.
  4. How do you switch it off?Who can stop it, how quickly, and what the work falls back to when they do.
Price and terms

A fixed outcome, not a day rate.

Fractional CTO from £6,000 a month (about US$8,000) for two days. Head of AI Enablement from £6,900 a month. Transformation Director scoped.

50% at signature, 25% at midpoint, 25% on delivery. Retainers monthly in advance, three-month minimum. If the price is more than you can commit to, the answer is a smaller first step, not the same work for less. Prices in GBP, plus VAT where applicable; US dollar figures are indicative.

Where it sits
Let's get to work

Ask about fractional leadership.

Two sentences is enough: who you are, and what you need to decide. Ben will reply with a short call slot and, where it helps, a written scope.