Fractional Chief AI Officer
A fractional Chief AI Officer owns the AI roadmap, governance, and investment decisions alongside your leadership team. The goal is your team's capability. The seat is temporary on purpose.
A fractional Chief AI Officer gives you executive AI leadership without a full-time hire. We sit alongside your leadership team on the roadmap, governance, and investment decisions: what to build, in what order, and who runs it. The goal is your team’s capability. They should be able to build this skill without us. This is temporary on purpose. A Chief AI Officer is not a full-time role, and it should not be treated as one from the company side.
The companies that struggle with AI don't have the wrong platform or budget. Their leaders weren't equipped to lead through the shift. You don't have to become the AI expert. You do have to know what to ask, bring your people with you, and hold AI to a return like any other investment.
Plenty of firms can build AI. We build too. The difference is what surrounds the build: tools, people, and process in balance, AI spend governed across the company, and returns measured, not estimated. The method is grounded in behavioral psychology and 15+ years of B2B technology work, and your team runs the result without us.
Most engagements start with a fixed fee: one project to prove it out, a workshop, or Warm-Up, so you know the cost before committing to more. Ongoing work runs on a monthly retainer, typically a fraction of a full-time AI executive’s fully loaded cost. Each step is measured against what it returns before you commit to the next.
Matt Wozniak founded Woz Digital after 15+ years helping B2B organizations adopt technology, and has been solely focused on AI since early 2024. The fractional CAIO work sits inside the WOZ AI System: Warm-Up governs what's running, Operate builds inside one business process, and Zoom is where sustained executive ownership lives when you need it.
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A fractional Chief AI Officer gives you executive AI leadership without a full-time hire. We sit alongside your leadership team on the roadmap, governance, and investment decisions: what to build, in what order, and who runs it. The goal is your team’s capability. They should be able to build this skill without us. This is temporary on purpose. A Chief AI Officer is not a full-time role, and it should not be treated as one from the company side.
Most engagements start with a fixed fee: one project to prove it out, a workshop, or Warm-Up, so you know the cost before committing to more. Ongoing work runs on a monthly retainer, typically a fraction of a full-time AI executive’s fully loaded cost. Each step is measured against what it returns before you commit to the next.
The WOZ AI System is our three-phase methodology. Warm-Up puts the foundation in place: an inventory of the AI already in use, guardrails, owners, and a plan. Operate builds inside one business process at a time, with governance and adoption built in. Zoom scales what works and hands the method to your team. It was co-developed with Dr. Bridget Wozniak, a licensed psychologist, because adoption depends as much on how people respond to change as on the technology itself.
Plenty of firms can build AI. We build too. The difference is what surrounds the build: tools, people, and process in balance, AI spend governed across the company, and returns measured, not estimated. The method is grounded in behavioral psychology and 15+ years of B2B technology work, and your team runs the result without us.
We will tell you plainly whether fractional AI leadership fits, or whether a smaller first step fits better.
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