Fractional CAIO

Fractional Chief AI Officer. Someone who owns your AI, without the executive salary.

Someone has to decide where AI goes in your company, what data it may touch, and whether it is paying for itself. In most growing companies nobody does — it lands on the CEO or the CTO, on top of everything else. A fractional Chief AI Officer from NordOps Consulting, for growing companies across Europe, takes that ownership, part-time, and builds what the decisions call for.

What is a fractional Chief AI Officer?

A fractional Chief AI Officer is an experienced executive who owns a company’s AI part-time: where AI pays, what data it may touch, which vendors and models to use, the EU AI Act duties, adoption and reporting. With NordOps Consulting it is about two days a month to two days a week — and the same person builds the agents. See the questions people ask.

Five things a Chief AI Officer owns.

Where AI pays

A short, ranked list of processes where AI returns more than it costs — each with a measured business case. Everything else waits.

What AI may touch

A clear policy on tools, data and access. An inventory of the AI already in use, including the personal tools nobody approved.

One source of truth

CRM, finance and product data connected and in agreement, so every agent answers from the same facts.

The agents themselves

AI agents your people use to pull answers and push actions into your systems — with permissions, approvals and an audit trail.

Adoption and reporting

The habit, not just the system: teams trained and using it, and a monthly report to management on what AI has returned.

The obligations

The EU AI Act duties that apply to you today, such as AI literacy and transparency, kept on record. It informs your decisions; it is not legal advice.

Process judgment before automation.

Most fractional AI leaders come from data science or strategy. Our founder spent 25 years running operations at SaaS, telecoms and cybersecurity companies, so we know what a process should look like before anyone automates it — and which ones should not be automated at all.

And the strategy and the build sit in the same team. The roadmap we write is the one we build, so nothing is lost between the consultant and the developer.

What is different

  • Measured, not estimated — every build starts from a business case built on your own numbers
  • Paid on the result — builds are priced at 30% of the first-year saving that is measured and proven
  • Model-agnostic — agents work with the AI assistant your team already uses, over MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Yours to own — code, data and infrastructure, hosted in the EU during the build

Pick the time you need. Change it as you go.

Advisor

From €3,000/month

About two days a month. The roadmap, the policy, vendor and model decisions, and a monthly review with management.

Operating

From €6,500/month

About one day a week. Everything in Advisor, plus running the AI programme week to week and overseeing the builds.

Embedded

From €11,000/month

About two days a week. A part-time member of your leadership team, owning AI across every department.

Three-month minimum, then month to month. Operating and Embedded are scoped on a call. We take on a limited number of retainers at a time.

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Growing companies in Europe where AI has no owner yet.

SaaS companies

Roughly 20 to 200 people, with renewals, handovers and pipeline running on CRM admin. AI for SaaS →

The CEO or COO

Who has been asked for an AI plan by the board and has nobody to give the job to.

The CFO or CTO

Who has been handed AI as a side duty and wants it owned, measured and safe.

Start small. Every step is credited to the next.

A free 30-minute call, then an AI Snapshot or an AI Readiness Assessment — credited in full if you continue.

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