What I do
I support and advise owners as they get their team aligned on AI, set the strategy together, and implement the systems that put it to work. Strategy and the build, not a report.
Automation replaces people.
Augmentation multiplies them.
You bought the seats. Sent the “we’re using AI now” memo. Nothing grew. Tool-first rollouts skip the one part that actually works: training people to use it well.
The operating model
Open the workforce. Keep the people.
Human judgment stays at the center. Defined AI seats take repeatable work. The same team has more range.
HUMAN CORE
- 01 RESEARCH Briefs before every call
- 02 QUALITY Checks work before it ships
- 03 MEMORY Remembers every client
- 04 FOLLOW-UP Drafts the next step
The Problem
Big budgets still got this wrong.
Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. More budget wasn’t the fix.
Source: TechCrunch, June 2, 2026
4 MONTHS
TO BURN A YEAR’S AI BUDGET
The Data
3.6X
Your people are the mechanism.
BetterUp Labs and Stanford’s Social Media Lab tracked more than 12,000 workers across 18 industries. People with high agency and high optimism about AI, the study’s “Pilots”, were 3.6x more productive than the “Passengers”, BetterUp reports.
The gap isn’t the tool. It’s whether people actually own it.
Source: BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab, “Pilots vs Passengers” (PDF, Jan 2025)
Fractional CAIO
An AI lead, without the full-time hire.
How it works
Map the business. Pick the battles. Build the systems. Install and hand off. Part-time, on a retainer, done for you.
Hours are set around your business, starting at 5 hours a week.
Who it’s for
Owners of 5 to 50 person professional-services firms: consultancies, agencies, accounting, legal, advisory.
Podcast
The Coffee Brief. One idea, one cup.
Executive coach Julia LeFevre and I talk about what sits under your team's fear of AI, why facts and training won't calm it, what leaders can do instead, and why AI made good enough easy.
Free 2-minute check
Where’s your week leaking?
Five quick questions. You get the one part of your business most likely eating your time, and one small place to start.
Start the 2-minute checkWhy me
Start with one conversation.
Thirty minutes. No deck, no pitch. You leave with the start of your AI Org Roadmap, whether or not we work together.
Book your 30-minute call Or get the AI Org Roadmap starter guide.