Set the operating model
- ownership across product, engineering, and platform
- release rules that do not move every week
- practical boundaries on the roadmap
leadership / fractional role
Fractional Head of AI.
Standards, decisions, and pressure where it matters.
Some teams do not need another brainstorm. They need someone to set the operating model, reduce drift, and keep product and engineering pointed at systems that work.
- → Operating model
- → Quality bars
- → Cross-team decisions
- → 90-day mandates
What the role changes
Get teams speaking plainly
- less hand-waving
- tighter prioritization
- one definition of what good looks like
Normalize reliability work
- evals become standard practice
- failure handling stops being cleanup work
- ownership becomes visible
Drive 90-day outcomes
- visible movement
- less advisory drift
- clear accountability for change
Best fit
Scaling teams
- AI is materially important now
- the company is not ready for a full-time executive hire
- coordination is getting expensive
Expected outcome
- clearer accountability
- fewer regressions
- less time wasted on strategy theater
Related track
When deeper build support is needed, implementation work can sit underneath the leadership mandate.
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