Measure · Teach · Build · On retainer

Fractional Chief
AI Officer.

Someone has to own AI at your company: the strategy, the training cadence, the build decisions, and the proof it is working. The Fractional Chief AI Officer program puts that owner on your team for twelve months, without the executive hire.

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The whole LaunchReady system, running continuously inside your company.

01The empty seat

Every company has AI questions.
Few have an AI owner.

Tools get bought, a few people experiment, and a year later nobody can say what changed. A full-time AI executive is a senior hire most mid-market companies cannot justify, and qualified AI leadership is hard to find on the open market. So the seat stays empty, and the questions keep coming from the board.

02What a year looks like

Measured quarterly.
Working monthly.

The program runs the three LaunchReady verbs on a calendar, so AI capability stops being a project and becomes an operating rhythm.

Measure, quarterly

Where do we stand, and is it moving?

The program opens with a full AI Audit baseline. Every quarter after, your team is re-measured on The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency and you get a written progress report your board can read.

Teach, monthly

Is the team getting better at the work?

Monthly live working sessions with your people, on your real work, with current material. Founder-led office hours between sessions for the questions that cannot wait.

Build, continuously

Is any of this in the business yet?

A prioritized build roadmap, refreshed each quarter. Where a workflow is ready for AI to carry it, SAM builds are scoped and shipped, owned by you.

03Who it serves

Built for companies where AI
has no owner.

The program fits mid-market leadership teams that cannot answer "what is our AI strategy," companies that finished the AI Audit or The 7 Levels Team Program and want the momentum to hold, and boards that want AI progress reported like every other operating number.

04How it starts

One call. One baseline.
Then the calendar takes over.

A short call scopes the proposal: team size, how much building you want in year one, and the reporting your board expects. The annual retainer is quoted there. The program opens with the audit baseline and the first quarter's plan.

Not ready for the year?

Start with the measurement

The AI Audit is the program's opening move, available on its own: a team baseline, a workflow map, and a written report.

Explore the AI Audit

05FAQ

Questions boards
ask first.

What is a fractional Chief AI Officer?

A fractional Chief AI Officer gives a company senior AI leadership on a part-time, annual basis instead of a full-time executive hire. In LaunchReady's Fractional Chief AI Officer program, Harrison Painter takes that seat: quarterly capability re-audits on The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency, monthly working sessions with your team, a prioritized build roadmap, and written progress reports your board can read.

What is included in the Fractional Chief AI Officer program?

A 12-month program: a full AI Audit baseline, quarterly re-measurement on The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency, monthly live working sessions with your team, a prioritized build roadmap with SAM builds scoped as the business needs them, founder-led office hours, and a written progress report every quarter. It is the whole LaunchReady system, measure, teach, and build, running continuously.

How is this different from hiring a Chief AI Officer?

A full-time AI executive is a senior hire most mid-market companies cannot justify, and qualified AI leadership is hard to find on the open market. The fractional program delivers the leadership layer, strategy, measurement, training cadence, and build decisions, without the executive search, and it arrives with a published framework and a working measurement instrument on day one.

How much does a fractional Chief AI Officer cost?

The Fractional Chief AI Officer program is an annual retainer quoted in a proposal after a short call, scoped to your team size and how much building you want done in year one. If you want to start smaller, The 7 Levels Team Program is the six-week version, and the AI Audit is the measurement on its own.

Do we need the AI Audit first?

It is built in. The program opens with a full AI Audit baseline so every quarter after it is measured against something real. If you have already run the audit or The 7 Levels Team Program, the program picks up from your existing baseline instead of starting over.

Fill the seat.
Keep the proof.

One call scopes the proposal. The program opens with a measured baseline, and every quarter after that your board sees the movement in writing.

Book a call Start with the AI Audit

The individual 7 Levels assessment is free and takes 10 minutes.