AI Advisory

A senior AI executive, without the full-time hire.

We embed in your business as a fractional AI leader, setting strategy, building the right tooling, and shipping outcomes your team can own.

Guaranteed valueNo multi-year commitmentsMeasured on outcomes
What an engagement covers
  • Strategy & roadmapWhere AI moves your numbers, sequenced
  • Tooling & workflowsBuilt and integrated where work happens
  • Team enablementYour people fluent, with guardrails that stick
Outcomes in weeks, not quarters.
What you get

Strategy, tooling, and enablement

Not a deck and a goodbye. A leader accountable for results, working inside your team.

AI strategy & roadmap

Where AI moves the needle for your business, prioritized by impact, sequenced into a roadmap your board can read.

Tooling & workflow build-out

The right stack, configured and integrated. We build working pipelines, not proofs of concept that gather dust.

Team enablement

Your people, fluent in AI. Hands-on training, playbooks, and the guardrails that make adoption stick.

Governance & risk

Policy, data handling, and review processes so AI moves fast without creating exposure.

Vendor & build decisions

Buy, build, or wait. We cut through the hype and tell you where your dollars actually return.

Measurement

Every engagement tied to metrics. We report on outcomes, not activity.

Example engagements

What putting a fractional AI exec to work looks like

A few of the ways teams actually use us. Most start with one and grow from there.

01

One-to-one CEO coaching

Direct AI education and guidance for the CEO, so the person setting the direction actually understands the tools shaping it.

02

AI workflows for your executives

We build and manage the AI workflows your C-suite runs day to day, from board prep to analysis to communications, and keep them sharp as the tools change.

03

A standing radar on what’s next

We keep your team current on the AI shifts that matter and the opportunities coming, so you move early instead of scrambling to catch up.

04

Tailored team training, measured on ROI

Hands-on AI training built for your C-suite and your teams, designed to drive real engagement and adoption, with ROI as the scorecard.

05

Cut the AI spend waste

Companies burn fortunes trying to figure AI out. We get you onto a stack that fits your business and scales only where the return is real.

06

Ship a first high-ROI use case

We pick one real problem and put a working AI solution in your team’s hands, with a metric attached, in weeks, not quarters.

07

Automate a workflow your team dreads

Take a recurring time-sink like reporting, intake, or research, and turn it into an AI workflow that quietly runs in the background.

08

Get your data and process AI-ready

The unglamorous groundwork: shaping your data, docs, and processes so AI has something good to work with, because you can’t automate what nobody has written down.

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How it works

From intro call to shipped outcomes

01

Discover

We map your goals, data, and team, and find the highest-leverage opportunities.

02

Plan

A prioritized roadmap with clear owners, milestones, and success metrics.

03

Build

We stand up tooling and workflows alongside your team, shipping in weeks.

04

Enable

We hand over playbooks and train your people so the gains outlast us.

Who it's for

Built for teams ready to move

You don't need a 12-month transformation program. You need a senior operator who's done this before.

  • Founders and CEOs who want AI leverage without a C-level hire
  • Teams with momentum but no internal AI owner
  • Operators who value shipped outcomes over strategy theatre
  • Companies preparing data and process for what's next
"We don't advise from the sidelines. We operate, then we make it repeatable."
The Wiltshire approach
The build-it-yourself math

An in-house AI team is a high-six-figure commitment, every year

Before you hire, look at the real cost of a team that can actually deliver, and how long it takes to get there.

$850K+/yr
To staff the minimum real team: an AI/data leader, a data scientist, and an AI/data engineer, fully loaded.
18-24 mo
To hire, ramp, and get that team delivering in production, then it's a permanent cost to maintain.
80%+
Of AI projects fail, about double the rate of non-AI IT projects.1
28%
Of AI use cases actually meet their ROI target.2

Roughly: AI/data leader ~$320K + senior data scientist ~$240K + AI/data engineer ~$210K, fully loaded, plus tooling, compute, and recruiting.

A fractional AI executive gives you that senior judgment in weeks, at a fraction of a full team's cost, with no one to recruit, manage, or retain.

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Sources:1RAND Corporation, 2024;2Gartner survey of 782 I&O leaders, 2026. Salary figures indicative of U.S. total comp.

Engagements

Ways to work together

Flexible by design. Start small, scale as the value compounds.

Sprint
2-4 wks

A focused engagement to assess, prioritize, and produce a roadmap.

  • AI opportunity audit
  • Prioritized roadmap
  • Quick-win prototype
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Advisory
Light / retainer

On-call senior guidance for teams that have an owner but want a sounding board.

  • Strategy office hours
  • Architecture & vendor reviews
  • Async support
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Ready to put AI to work?

Tell us where you're headed. We'll tell you how we'd get there.

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