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Fractional AI Officer 6 capacity slots available

AI leadership for your business

I work with your leadership and technical teams part-time to choose AI tools, plan projects, and put them into use.

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Deciding where to use AI

AI projects involve choices about cost, reliability, security, and how people will use the system.

I help your leadership team answer questions such as:

  1. 01 Where could AI save time or improve a service?
  2. 02 What should we build, buy, automate, or leave alone?
  3. 03 Which models and vendors meet our requirements?
  4. 04 How do we integrate AI into the systems the business already runs on?
  5. 05 Which decisions need human review?
  6. 06 How do we put a prototype into daily use?

Advice and implementation

As your Fractional AI Officer, I help make those decisions and oversee implementation. I work directly with founders, leadership teams, and developers, and can take on development myself.

What I help with

AI strategy

Find useful applications of AI in your business and make a prioritized plan.

Systems & automation

Design AI agents, internal tools, workflows, integrations, and custom software, and oversee development.

Technology decisions

Compare models, platforms, vendors, infrastructure, security requirements, and costs.

Implementation

Build prototypes, direct development, review the results, and put systems into production.

Working with your team

Help your staff learn to use AI tools and maintain the systems we introduce.

Governance

Set rules for automation, approvals, and human review.

Choose the level of involvement you need.

Monthly engagements reserve recurring capacity in my schedule. The daily hours are target availability, not hourly billing.

Reserve directly below, or request a slot and we'll talk first. Monthly engagements renew each month until cancelled.

Advisory

$5,000 / month

Target: approximately 1 hour per business day

Advice and ongoing reviews for your leadership team, covering project plans, architecture, vendor selection, and implementation.

Capacity
Uses 1 capacity slot
Short-term engagement
$1,500 / week
Prefer to talk first? Request an Advisory slot →

Part-Time

$10,000 / month

Target: approximately 2 hours per business day

More time with your leadership and technical teams to direct implementation, review systems, and help deliver AI projects.

Capacity
Uses 2 capacity slots
Short-term engagement
$3,000 / week
Prefer to talk first? Request a Part-Time slot →

Why the weekly rate is higher

Monthly clients reserve time in my schedule on an ongoing basis.

Weekly engagements are designed for short, concentrated needs and carry a higher effective rate.

Availability

I already work directly with a small portfolio of companies.

I'm opening 6 additional capacity slots for Fractional AI Officer engagements. All of them are open right now.

Advisory engagements use one slot. Part-Time engagements use two.

When those slots are committed, I'll stop accepting new fractional AI engagements until capacity opens again.

Sean Talbot

Building and maintaining software since 2008

I've built and operated production software since 2008. I've rebuilt legacy platforms, helped launch products, and managed technical vendors and teams. I now use AI daily in software development.

Introducing AI also means considering your existing software, staff, data, customers, and security requirements, along with the cost of running it.

Start with a business problem.

We define what needs to improve, who will use the system, and how to assess the results before choosing tools.

Client voices

What owners say

CoolFrames couldn't run without Sean. For more than a decade, he's been the technical backbone of our platform. He can get deep into the implementation when needed, then step back and think like a CTO.

Dan Blessing Dan Blessing CEO, CoolFrames

Sean helped us build Peak's auction platform from the ground up. His oversight has been essential—without him, we wouldn't be where we are today.

Matt Davison Matt Davison President, Peak Auto Auctions

Tell me about your business

Describe your business, the problem you're trying to solve, and the help you need.

I'll read your message and discuss the engagement with you personally.

Engagement interest