Fractional Chief AI Officer · AI that pays
We take real jobs off your desk, put a number on each one, and run them as your fractional Chief AI Officer. Quoting, order status, follow-ups, the Monday report: each job moves a number you already watch. Spencer Wilkinson picks the jobs that pay, builds them himself, and stays on to run them.
What you get
Moves: quote turnaround.
The RFQ is read, the parts are matched against your catalog and the customer’s pricing, and a priced quote lands in front of a rep to approve. The rep’s day starts with quotes to check, not quotes to type.
Moves: hours lost to re-keying.
Orders that arrive by email, PDF or portal go into your system once, checked, instead of being typed and retyped by hand. At a Carolinas distributor, orders that were typed three times are now typed once.
Moves: inbound call volume.
Where-is-my-order is answered from live order and shipping data, in email or on your site, and a person steps in only when it matters. Then the next job: follow-ups, the Monday report, the question your team asks ten times a day.
Cost-saving calculator
Hours spent on quotes, order entry, status calls and chasing paperwork are a cost. Put a number on yours, then choose how much of that work AI could take off the desk.
Based on 3 people spending 6 hours a week at $35 an hour, this work costs about $32,760 a year. If an agent took on half of it, you would save about $16,380 a year and your team would get 9 hours a week back. Half is your assumption, not our promise: the share depends on the workflow.
Your own numbers, simple arithmetic: people × hours × 52 weeks × hourly cost, times the share you chose. Running costs and our fee come off that figure; the Brain Map puts both in writing before you commit.
This is the work the first job is built for. The Brain Map finds it; the build makes it live.
Book a Brain MapHow it works and what it costs
Four weeks, $7,500 fixed. We sit with your team, find where time and margin leak, and agree the first three jobs and what each one is worth. You get the plan and the cost before you commit to anything else. Credited in full against your first retainer invoice.
Months one to three. The first jobs go live in front of real users and real customers, measured from day one. Narrow enough to ship, with a number you can point to. A person approves what goes out.
From $5,000 a month. A new job every quarter, or every month on the Plus plan. One number a month for the board on what changed and what it cost, and a straight answer on vendors, build-versus-buy and risk from someone who has run the engineering teams. Twelve-month term, ninety-day out.
How the jobs run
The jobs above run on one system, connected to the software you already use, that knows how your business works. A model on its own knows nothing about your business, can’t reach your systems and can’t tell you when it’s wrong. Everyone buys the model. We build and run the six layers around it, so the work gets done on your business rather than on the internet.
The intelligence. Claude, GPT or Gemini, the right one for each job. This is the part everyone buys, and the part we don’t need to build.
What it knows about you. Your documents, inboxes, trackers, pricing and playbooks, indexed and kept current, plus the facts your team teaches it as it goes.
What it can reach. Email, calendar, Drive, CRM, accounting, ERP, Slack and your website, read and written through secure connections.
How work gets done. It picks the right sources in the right order, runs scheduled jobs like morning briefs and meeting prep, and follows your rules on what it may do alone and what needs a yes.
Where your people use it. A web app, Slack, Teams, email, your website chat, or inside the Claude or Copilot licences you already pay for.
Where it runs. A private, US-hosted cloud with each company’s data walled off, multi-factor sign-in and a record of every action.
How you know it’s right. Sources on every answer, test question sets, and a report showing owners what it was asked, what it got wrong and what the business doesn’t know yet.
Updated November 2026
Jobs taken off your team’s desk, each with a number on it: quotes out the same day, orders typed once, status calls answered without the phone ringing, the Monday report written for you. Spencer sits on your leadership team as fractional Chief AI Officer, picks the jobs that pay, builds them and runs them.
Owns AI for the company without being a full-time hire. Spencer picks the first jobs, builds them with you, then stays on monthly to run them, add the next one, report one number to the leadership team and make the calls on vendors, data and risk. Strategy and build from the same person, so nothing gets recommended that cannot ship.
A four-week, fixed-fee diagnostic. We find where time and margin leak, agree the first three jobs and what each one is worth, and put the build plan and the cost in writing. If you go ahead within sixty days, the fee is credited in full against your first retainer invoice.
The Brain Map is $7,500 fixed. The Fractional Chief AI Officer retainer starts at $5,000 a month on a twelve-month term with a ninety-day out, and the build happens inside the first three months of it. The free AI visibility check costs nothing and is the easiest way to see how we work. Based in Greenville? See AI consulting in Greenville, SC.
Usually the ones you already run: ERP and accounting, CRM, email and calendars, spreadsheets, e-commerce and your website. If a system has an inbox or an API, the jobs can generally read from it and write to it, with a person approving.
One private system, connected to the data and software your company already runs, that knows how the business works. We call it the AI brain. Your people and your customers use it. You own it.
No. An agent is one layer. We build the whole stack around the model: the company memory it draws on, the connections to your tools, the workflows and schedules that run it, where your team uses it, the private infrastructure it runs on, and the testing that shows it’s right. That is what makes a job work on day one rather than in a demo.
The Chief AI Officer retainer is built for companies between roughly $10M and $250M in revenue. For a company of five to fifty people, Relay is a private AI that has read everything your business has and answers anyone on the team with the source, with a free Preview Week.
No. If your team can use email, they can use this. We handle the models, the plumbing and the safety rails; your team sees the work done.
Fractional Chief AI Officer · Former CTO
Twenty years shipping AI and data platforms. Spencer led one of Airbus’s first machine-learning platforms, then as CTO and SVP at ScanSource owned the platforms behind $3.5B in revenue and $1B in self-service quoting.
He now takes real jobs off owner-led and mid-market companies’ desks, puts a number on each one, and runs them as their fractional Chief AI Officer. At a Carolinas distributor, orders that were typed three times are now typed once. Twice a week he writes the AI Log: what it did, what it moved and what it cost.
Can also be found at a ballpark.
More about the studioBring the three things that eat your team’s week. You leave knowing which one pays back first, what number it moves, and what it would cost. Not ready for a call? Start with the free AI visibility check.
