THE BRIDGE
AI leadership at your table, without the full-time hire.
AI-native companies have real AI decisions to make and often nobody at the table who owns them. Aitronaut fills that seat: a fractional Chief AI Officer (fCAIO) with a fixed monthly rhythm and build capacity behind it, from solopreneurs to large public enterprises.
WHO IT'S FOR
You have the business. You're missing the seat.
- AI decisions land on your desk by default, not by expertise.
- A full-time Chief AI Officer at market rate isn't justifiable, and the good ones won't come.
- Vendors are selling you things and nobody on your side can call their bluff.
- The board asks about AI and the answer is improvised every time.
If three of those four sound familiar, this page is for you.
THE SEAT
What we own when we sit down.
AI strategy and roadmap
Owned at leadership level, reviewed monthly, written so the board can read it.
Build-versus-buy and vendor calls
We've sat on the other side of those pitches; bluffs get called.
Engineering oversight
Where a team exists we make it effective; where it doesn't we decide honestly whether you need one.
Board reporting on AI, tech and digital risk
Telemetry: adoption, delivery and risk in numbers, every month.
And behind the seat, the rest of Aitronaut: strategy, implementation and training capacity when the roadmap calls for it.
THE RHYTHM
Mission Control: a fixed monthly cadence, not a pile of hours.
Mission Control is how the engagement runs. Four phases, every month, same order:
Align. Your leadership sets the priorities. Thirty minutes, decisions made.
Activate. The right people briefed, the month's work scoped and owned.
Build. The work ships: roadmap items, agentic flows, vendor decisions, fixes.
Report. What we did, what it changed, what's next. With numbers in it.
You always know what you're paying for, because you read it once a month.
MISSION TELEMETRY
The report is an instrument panel, not a slide deck.
Every month closes with a readout your leadership can act on. Adoption, delivery and risk in numbers, against the 90-day Flightpath. This is what a month looks like:
You are here: Phase 2 · Ascent, month 2 of 3.
Of the team using AI in a normal working week.
Workflows shipped to production this quarter.
Median time from idea to production.
Ungoverned tools in use across the company.
SEE IT LIVE
A live Mission Control dashboard, on sample data.
Not a screenshot. Click through the views your leadership lives in every month: who owns what, the full AI register, the 90-day Flightpath and exactly where you sit on the arc from first AI to AI-native. The company is invented. The instrument is the real one.
Best on a desktop screen. Sample data throughout. Client numbers stay with the client.
THE LAUNCH SEQUENCE
Month one, in plain terms.
The first weeks follow the Launch Sequence: a deep readout of your stack, your team and your operation, conversations with the people who actually do the work, then your Flightpath: a 90-day roadmap with priorities, costs and owners. After that the monthly rhythm takes over. By month two you forget we were ever new.
THE SHAPE
Engagement terms, no surprises.
Monthly retainer, three-month minimum, scale up or down as the roadmap demands. One senior counterpart, founder-level involvement. We don't do timesheets and we don't bill for phone calls.
After the minimum, stop at any month-end, no penalty, no exit fee. Everything we've built lives in your repositories and your accounts, owned outright, and keeps running without us. The confidence is in how easy we are to leave.
PREFLIGHT
Still have questions?
Fit, cost, commitment, data and handover, answered in one place.
The seat is open. Talk to us.
Thirty minutes with a founder, not a sales team.