Pricing

Fractional Chief AI Officer pricing for growing companies in Europe. Builds are paid from the saving.

Three things can be bought from NordOps Consulting: a fixed-price first look at where AI pays in your company, a fractional Chief AI Officer on a monthly retainer, and the systems that come out of it. The first two have published prices. The builds are priced on what they prove they save you.

Two ways in. Both credited in full.

Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call. If there is something worth looking at, the next step is one of these two, at a fixed price agreed before it starts. Whatever you paid is credited in full against the retainer or the build if you go ahead.

About one week

AI Snapshot

€2,500–3,500, fixed

  • Where AI is already being used in your company, including the tools people brought in themselves
  • A check of what the EU AI Act already asks of you: AI literacy and transparency
  • A shortlist of the three processes where AI would pay first

For a company that wants to know where it stands before it spends more.

Two to three weeks

AI Readiness Assessment

From €4,500, fixed

  • Everything in the Snapshot
  • Your top three processes measured as they are really done, and costed
  • A business case for each, agreed in writing
  • A 90-day roadmap: what to build first, what to leave alone

For a company ready to act, which wants the numbers first.

What each one delivers →

One person who owns AI, by the month.

One person accountable for where AI goes in your company, what it touches and what it returns: the roadmap, the choice of tools and models, the rules for using them, adoption by your teams, reporting to management, and oversight of everything that gets built. Three levels of time, and you can move between them.

Advisor

About two days a month

From €3,000 a month

  • The AI roadmap and its priorities
  • Tool and vendor decisions
  • A monthly review with management

Operating

About one day a week

From €6,500 a month

  • Everything in Advisor
  • Rules for AI use, and the AI literacy record
  • Running adoption with your teams
  • Oversight of the builds

Embedded

About two days a week

From €11,000 a month

  • Everything in Operating
  • Part of your management team
  • Board-level reporting on AI

Operating and Embedded are scoped on a call, because what they cover depends on how much is being built. Every retainer has a three-month minimum, then runs month to month. The number of retainers taken on at the same time is limited, so the time sold is time that exists.

What a fractional Chief AI Officer does →
What gets built
30%

of the first-year saving, once it is measured and proven. That is how builds are priced.

One number, applied to a figure agreed together before anything is built, so there is nothing to reconcile at the end. If the measured saving is smaller than expected, the fee is smaller in exactly the same proportion.

Some builds are worth doing for a capability rather than a saving you can measure: a new report your board needs, an agent your team works through every day. Those get a fixed price, agreed before work starts. You choose the route for each build.

Every build ships with the NordOps AI Agent: your people ask it for data and reports, and tell it to update records, trigger a process or send something — within the permissions you set, with every action in an audit trail. And with an Admin Portal built for your business alongside it, for what is better done on a screen: adding and retiring records, uploading content, and reviewing what the agents did.

What 30% works out as

  • 3.6 months — time for the build to pay for itself
  • 3.3× — what you get back in the first year
  • 100% — of the code, owned by you

Those first two are not projections. At 30% of a year’s saving, the fee repays in 30% of a year and you keep the rest. Which is exactly why the saving is measured rather than estimated.

What gets measured

  • How long the process takes today, observed rather than reported
  • Loaded cost per hour — salary, bonus, employer charges, tools, overhead
  • How much of it survives after the fix, honestly stated
  • The difference, agreed in writing, before anything is built

What does not count

  • Capacity unlocked, retention uplift, pipeline recovered — reported separately
  • Anything nobody would put their name to as a saving
  • Savings that depend on someone being made redundant

You can do the same arithmetic yourself in the business-case calculator, or read three worked scenarios.

A worked example

  • Saving agreed at €120,000 a year
  • Fee is 30% — €36,000
  • Delivery runs 9 months, engagement 12
  • You are invoiced €3,000 a month

Monthly invoices, not a bill at the end.

Retainers are invoiced monthly. Build fees are spread in equal monthly payments across the engagement, which runs at least three months past delivery — the period when a system is installed properly, your team is trained on it, and it starts being used.

Where it fits, a build can start lower and let the balance fall due on hitting the targets agreed — no renegotiation, and NordOps Consulting’s own money on the outcome.

One retainer. It does not stop at handover.

There is no separate support contract. After delivery the retainer continues, rescoped to running and extending what was built. If you already have a Chief AI Officer retainer, it is part of that one.

It is rescoped, not renewed

After each deliverable you agree what the next period looks like. It grows as what is run for you grows, and it shrinks when it should.

You own what was built

Source code, documentation and infrastructure are yours at handover. The handover is part of the build price, whether that is 30% of the proven saving or a fixed price, so there is no separate transfer fee. If you would rather your own team ran it, that is your call. If you end the retainer, anything just delivered carries a 60-day warranty.

Third-party costs, at cost.

Hosting, licences and anything else bought on your behalf reach you at what they actually cost, with nothing added and the invoice available if you want to see it.

Models, licences and products

We never mark up your model contract or your licences. If you would rather have what we build as a product, it is available on standard SaaS terms — and your data and your custom work stay yours.

A free call first, then a fixed price.

Thirty minutes on how your company works today and where AI is already turning up. If there is something worth looking at, you will know which first step fits, and what it costs, before the call ends.

Book a 30-minute call →