Canadian FundingChief AI Officer · fractional
Fractional AI leadership: identifying the practical opportunities, setting the technology roadmap, and applying AI responsibly across the business.
Fractional CAIO & CTO — Toronto
Previously running Deloitte's national NLP practice. Now on retainer to companies that cannot hire that full-time.
Fractional Chief AI Officer and CTO mandates for scaling companies: the architecture, evaluation, vendor and hiring decisions, at an agreed number of days per month.
30+AI solutions delivered
25Practitioners scaled
50%Timeline reduction
$10M+Contract value contributed
The record.
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Led and expanded the NLP Center of Excellence to 25 practitioners. Built a deployment accelerator that cut delivery timelines by 50%, and directly negotiated $500K+ in AI contracts.
Current mandates Former engagements
In their words.
From engagements led through AI Forward.
“Within a couple of calls we got the concise roadmap we wanted. The whole deliverable was very smooth.”
“Brought world-class experience into our startup environment to give us a genuine edge against the competition.”
“Knowledgeable, versatile, and efficient — they know this space better than most companies we've worked with.”
What I take on.
People call at three moments: the roadmap has too many AI ideas and no way to rank them; a pilot works in the demo and dies before production; or a build-versus-buy, platform, hire or vendor call is about to be made and is hard to reverse.
- Cadence
- An agreed number of days per month, booked in your calendar in advance.
- Horizon
- Bounded and reviewed on a fixed cycle — not an open-ended retainer.
- Access
- Leadership meetings, the engineering team, and the real systems.
Own
- AI and technology strategy tied to a business metric
- Architecture decisions and build / buy / skip calls
- Evaluation criteria, guardrails, and failure boundaries
- Vendor selection and technical due diligence
- Technical hiring: scorecards, interviews, calibration
- Translating the technical position for your board
Do not own
- Daily project management
- Line management of your engineers
- Production monitoring, on-call, or incident response
- An operational SLA
- Hands-on implementation — scoped separately, with its own delivery team
Four steps. Stop at any of them.
Each step ends in something you can act on, and none of them commits you to the next.
- 01 · Free · 30 minutes
Intro call
We find the decision or workflow in question, who owns it, and what changes if it goes well. If there is no real problem here, I will tell you.
- 02 · 10 business days
Diagnostic
A focused engagement that maps the real process, sets the baseline and business case, defines the evaluation plan, and produces a build-ready 90-day path.
- 03 · Ongoing · bounded
Fractional mandate
Embedded CAIO or CTO at an agreed cadence. Architecture, evaluation, risk, vendor and executive decision reviews while your team executes.
- 04 · Scoped separately
Implementation
If a build is the right answer, it runs as its own engagement with a dedicated project manager, engineering owner, and support terms.
Thirty minutes. Bring the hardest question on the roadmap.
If there is no mandate worth having, I will say so on the call.