Fractional AI Lead
A senior AI engineer and product lead on your team part-time — architecture, build oversight, and hands-on delivery, without a full-time hire.
A senior AI engineer and product lead on your team part-time — setting architecture, overseeing builds, and shipping hands-on — without a full-time hire. You get someone who has taken production AI products end to end, not a consultant who only produces slides.
What you get
- ✓Senior AI architecture and build oversight without a full-time salary
- ✓Hands-on delivery on the highest-risk parts, not just advice
- ✓A team that levels up on evals, retrieval, and shipping AI that holds up
Who it's for
- —Funded startups adding AI who need senior direction a few days a week
- —Non-technical founders who need a trustworthy senior AI hand
- —Teams with an AI roadmap but no one senior enough to own it
How we work
A real engagement, week by week.
- 1Advisory
~1 day / week
- Architecture, direction, and review
- Unblock the team on AI decisions
- Lightest-touch tier — senior direction without the day-to-day
- 2Embedded
~2 days / week
- Everything in Advisory, plus hands-on build on key pieces
- Own evals and reliability for your AI features
- Part of the team, not just an advisor
- 3Lead
~3 days / week
- Hands-on delivery leading the AI workstream
- Ship production features end to end
- Deepest commitment — owns the AI workstream
Why us
Why us.
You get someone who has shipped production AI — Iris, Nous, EvidenceVault — not a strategist who's never deployed.
Month to month, cancel anytime: we earn the retainer by moving the work, not by locking you in.
Senior across AI and backend, so architecture decisions account for what actually ships and scales.
Common questions
Things prospects ask first.
You get senior architecture and product judgment plus hands-on delivery, scaled to a few days a week — the seniority of a lead without the full-time cost or a long hire cycle.
Yes — most engagements are exactly that: I set direction and take the risky AI pieces, your team ships the rest and levels up in the process.
Month to month, cancel anytime. Most start at Advisory or Embedded and adjust as the work demands.
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- →AI Agent Reliability & EvalsOn-call reliability, eval suites, observability, and model/cost optimization for production AI agents.
- →AI Integration for Existing SoftwareLLM features inside a real backend: streaming, auth, rate limits, retries, fallback, and cost control.
Ready to start this?
20-minute scoping call. We'll tell you straight whether it's a fit.