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Fractional Chief AI Officer

A Fractional Chief AI Officer you can name on the org chart.

I'm the fractional chief AI officer your org chart can point at when a customer asks who owns AI risk. I set up the governance an enterprise security review asks for, then get one process live for real users, with evals, tracing, a rollback path and a cost per outcome.

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Start here
2 weeks
AI Readiness & Risk Assessment
Where you stand, what a customer audit would find, and what to do first.
Then
90 days
90-Day Production Sprint
One process live for real users, with evals, tracing and a rollback path.
Or ongoing
1–2 days/wk
Fractional CAIO Retainer
A named officer, from procurement answers to the board update.
  • Open-source AI Governance Starter Kit
  • ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer course in progress
Track record
18+
years building and shipping software
1,000+
person fraud-detection company, my day job as a platform engineer
3
frameworks I map you against: NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, EU AI Act
2 wks
from kickoff to a memo you can hand to your board
Fit

Do you need a Fractional CAIO?

  1. You've run several AI pilots and none is in production.
  2. Your board or investors are asking for an AI strategy and nobody owns it.
  3. Nobody can say which company data employees are pasting into public models.
  4. A customer's procurement team asked who is accountable for your AI risks, and the deal stalled.
  5. You are spending AI budget, but no process has changed.

Three or more of these five signs? You're exactly who this is for.

Outcome

Where you are, and where you land.

Today

  • Pilots stall somewhere before production.
  • Nobody is accountable for AI risk by name.
  • Security questionnaires stall deals for weeks.
  • You have spent AI budget and no process has changed.

After the Sprint

  • One process is live, with evals watching every change.
  • A named officer owns AI risk and reports to the board.
  • Questionnaires get answered from a register, in a day.
  • Cost per outcome is visible against the price you agreed.
Offers

Services

Three ways in. Each one ends with an artifact you can hand to a customer, a board or an auditor.

Two weeks to a memo your board can act on.

  • Readiness score across strategy, data, delivery, people and governance
  • Gap list against NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act
  • Inventory of the AI tools and data flows already in the building
  • Three processes ranked by what automating them is worth this quarter
90 days

90-Day Production Sprint

Fixed scope, quoted once from the statement of work

One process live in production, with evals in CI.

  • One agentic workflow live in production, with rollback and a named owner
  • Evals in CI, so a prompt or model change cannot ship unnoticed
  • Tracing and cost per outcome on a dashboard your finance team can read
  • A success number written into the statement of work before the sprint starts
1–2 days a week

Fractional CAIO Retainer

Monthly fee

The AI officer your customers can ask for by name.

  • Named officer for security questionnaires, contracts and audits
  • Quarterly roadmap with a budget next to each item
  • Review of every AI initiative, including the shadow tools nobody approved
  • Handover plan, so an internal owner can run this without me

Not sure which one fits? Start with the two-week Assessment.

Book a 30-min fit call
Method

How I work

Six things decide whether an AI initiative reaches production. I measure all six, in this order, and the sixth is the one a stalled pilot has usually skipped.

  1. Data readiness

    What you hold, who owns it, and what may reach a model.

  2. Process fit

    Enough volume and a number worth automating.

  3. Governance

    The paperwork procurement will actually ask to see.

  4. Engineering capability

    Evals, tracing and a rollback your team can run.

  5. Adoption

    Telemetry, not a launch email, says if it lasted.

  6. Handover

    A named owner and a fixed end date.

Artifacts

Proof

Every template I use in engagements is described on its own page, so you can read the method before you buy it.

kit · v0.1 · MIT

AI Governance Starter Kit

AI governance starter kit: the paperwork a security review asks for — register, policy, data classification and a vendor questionnaire.

Available as a page on this site. A repository copy is not published yet.

scorecard · v0.1 · MIT

AI Readiness Scorecard

A five-axis AI readiness scorecard you score yourself in an afternoon: strategy, data, delivery, people, and governance.

Available as a page on this site. A repository copy is not published yet.

kit · v0.1 · MIT

Agent Evals CI Starter

A starter CI pipeline for agent evals. It runs on every pull request and blocks a bad merge before it ships, using a plain YAML case format.

Available as a page on this site. A repository copy is not published yet.

Start with a 30-minute fit call.

No slides. I go through where you actually stand, and I tell you whether an Assessment is worth your money. If it is not, I say so.

Book a 30-min fit call

Or email hello@meshin.co