01
0%
of enterprise AI projects never reach production.
BCG · 2025
AI consulting is noise. We deploy.
Two operators on a 12-month fractional Chief AI Officer mandate — embedded at executive level inside one enterprise at a time. Strategy + engineering in the same room. We ship production AI systems into your stack — not pilots into a deck. Four engagements per quarter. No handoffs, no friction.
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Most AI initiatives don’t fail.
They suffocate.
You bought the seats. You ran the pilot. You hired the consultant. Eighteen months later you have a steering committee, a dormant Slack channel, and a budget line you can’t defend in front of the board. Meanwhile, the company down the road is shipping its third use case this quarter. You don’t have an AI problem. You have a system problem.
02
0%
of corporate AI initiatives are scrapped outright.
S&P Global · 2025
03
0%
of C-suites cannot put a euro figure on AI ROI.
McKinsey · 2025
04
0%
of employees use unauthorized AI tools at work.
Workplace · 2026
/ VERDICT
Strategy without execution is theatre. Code without strategy is a hobby. Training without infrastructure is sunk cost. You don’t need another vendor. You need a unit.
Fractional Chief AI Officer.
Embedded. Surgical. Decisive.
We don’t sit outside your business. We embed inside it — at executive level, accountable for the AI mandate end-to-end. We own it the way a Chief AI Officer would, without your board having to commit to a hire that won’t materialise until 2028. Four capabilities. One unit. Zero handoffs.
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Four capabilities. One mandate. The same operators who scope the strategy ship the system.
We map where the euros hide.
Two weeks embedded inside the business. Floor walks, data walkthroughs, decision-pathway interviews. Output is a target list ranked by euros saved — not a 60-page deck.
- Process & data audit
- Use-case ROI ranking
- 12-month battle plan
We don’t pilot. We deploy.
The same operators that scope it ship it. Production systems wired into your stack, your data, your workflows — in weeks. The thing we demo Monday is the thing that runs your business by Friday.
- Custom agents & copilots
- RAG & eval pipelines
- Production-grade integrations
Your people lead with AI.
Generic seminars are how adoption dies. We train on the contract clauses your legal rewrites every Tuesday and the quotes your sales engineers tune by hand — until AI is the way the work gets done.
- Workflow-grounded training
- Cohort-based enablement
- Champion network buildout
The platform that holds the line.
Models, agents, evals, integrations, governance — the platform underneath the use cases. SOC- and GDPR-grade on infrastructure you control. Boring on purpose. Bulletproof by design.
- Multi-model routing
- Audit-grade governance
- Self-hosted & private cloud
Two operators.
Twenty-eight years of scar tissue.
Most enterprises hire a strategy firm to design AI, a tooling vendor to license it, and a body shop of engineers to build it — and lose the war in the seams between them. We close every seam by carrying both halves of the mandate inside one team. The operator that scopes the strategy ships the production system. The operator that codes the system briefs your board.
OP / 01 Strategy & Scale
The corporate executive who knows where the dollars hide.
Built and scaled multi-million-euro business units inside European industrial corporates. Ran the boardroom rhythm. Won the CFO knife-fight over budget. Knows the political seam that kills most AI projects before they ship — and how to stitch it shut. Translates AI to executives in the language they actually speak: P&L, EBITDA, time-to-cash. Not parameters.
- Built
- BUs > €50M revenue · DAX-30
- Tenure
- 18+ years · corporate transformation
- Languages
- CFO · COO · Board chair
OP / 02 Engineering & Execution
The engineer shipping production AI since it was “data mining”.
Eighteen years in the engine room. Code, systems, automation, infrastructure. Built production AI before the category had a name. Speaks LLM, embeddings, agents, evals, RAG, fine-tuning — fluent. Doesn’t show up to admire the problem; shows up to ship the system.
- Shipped
- Production AI · ML pipelines · agents
- Tenure
- 18+ yrs · software, infra, automation
- Languages
- CTO · Principal eng · Devops
/ COMPARED TO
- Corporate consultancy Deck. Handoff. Ghosted.
- Dev agency Builds what you spec. Won’t argue.
- Freelancer pool Ten resumes. Zero accountability.
- Say Digital Strategy + ship + accountability. One unit.
/ ON THE RECORD
We stand for what “Made in Germany”
We stand for what “Made in Germany”
once stood for.
Precision. Punctuality. Vorsprung durch Technik. The bumper sticker is dated. The discipline is not. We sit in the Mittelstand belt where “Made in Germany” still gets built daily — and took the slogan from gearboxes to AI, while Berlin spent eighteen months scheduling another steering committee.
- /01PRECISIONEvery demo ships to production by Friday.
- /02PUNCTUALITYTwelve months to handoff. Dated, scoped, accountable.
- /03VORSPRUNG · TECHNIKBoth founders. Both halves of the mandate. One unit.
Four phases.
One mandate. One unit.
We don’t sell hours. We don’t sell licenses. We don’t sell pilots, audits, or “discovery sprints” — those are the dead-end loops your previous vendors trapped you in. We run engagements like campaigns: scoped, dated, accountable, measured in production systems on the floor.
- 01 WK 01 — 02 Recon
We embed. We listen. We map the terrain.
Two weeks inside your business. Floor walks, data walkthroughs, decision-pathway interviews. We come out with a target list ranked by euros saved, hours returned, and risk removed.
- Process & data audit
- Use-case ROI ranking
- Battle plan · 12 months
- 02 WK 03 — 08 Deploy
First production system. Live. Wired. Working.
Highest-value target on the list, engineered into your real data and fitted to your actual workflow. Not a demo. Not a sandbox. By week eight, your team is using it daily.
- Production AI system live
- Internal champions trained
- Hard ROI report · board-grade
- 03 MO 03 + Scale
Use case two. Use case three. The platform underneath.
We add the second and third use cases on top of the platform we built. We train your people, build the champion network, measure adoption, and report to your board the way a CAIO would.
- 3+ use cases in production
- Internal AI platform
- Board-level reporting cadence
- 04 AT YOUR ORDER Handoff
Your team owns it. We exit cleanly. Or stay embedded.
The mandate is yours from day one — including the right to end the engagement whenever you choose. We document, we train your in-house lead, we make ourselves replaceable on purpose. Or we stay as the embedded fractional CAIO indefinitely. Your call.
- Internal AI lead onboarded
- Operating playbook · documented
- Clean exit. Or continued embed.
What we can share.
Most engagements run under NDA.
We operate at executive level inside enterprises that don’t issue press releases when we win. The clients you read about hire consultants for the slide deck. Our clients hire us for the production system. Below: anonymised snapshots from live deployments. Specifics under NDA on request.
Quote engineering. DAX-30 industrial.
/ BEFORE
Engineers in 12 markets tuning quotes by hand. Weeks per cycle. Sales waiting on engineering.
/ AFTER
AI quote generator wired into ERP and CPQ. Inbound spec → priced quote in minutes.
0% Cycle-time reduction
Sales close-rate climbed inside six weeks. Engineers redeployed off quote tuning.
Underwriting copilot. EU insurance group.
/ BEFORE
Underwriters reading dossiers cold. Bad-risk policies slipping through. Quarterly loss-ratio review the only feedback loop.
/ AFTER
AI copilot pre-screens, risk-flags, and routes inside the underwriter’s daily workflow.
0M EUR Annual loss reduction
Dossier review pulled forward six days on average. Bad-risk acceptance halved.
Internal AI platform. Scale-up SaaS.
/ BEFORE
Engineers and GTM teams pasting prompts into consumer ChatGPT. No governance. No reuse. No audit trail.
/ AFTER
Internal AI platform with agents, prompts, knowledge bases. Audit-grade. Self-serve for the whole org.
0 + Weekly active users · 90 days
Adoption was earned, not enforced. Shadow-AI usage dropped to zero.
Knowledge agent. Family-owned chemical group.
/ BEFORE
Four decades of safety data sheets and regulatory documents trapped in 18,000 PDFs. Every question = 24-hour email loop with the regulatory desk.
/ AFTER
Knowledge agent indexed and grounded over the full archive. Cited sources by paragraph and page.
0% Answer accuracy
24-hour email loop collapsed to a two-second answer. Regulatory desk re-focused on the actual hard cases.
AI rollup playbook. PE holding.
/ BEFORE
Four portcos, four AI strategies, four budgets, four sets of stalled pilots. Board frustrated. CFO sceptical.
/ AFTER
One platform underneath, repeatable use-case patterns on top, central governance. Each portco picks from a shipped library.
0 Use cases live across 4 portcos
Board reviews ROI quarterly. They asked for the next four portcos onto the platform.
AI-led service. Listed manufacturer.
/ BEFORE
Three languages, four product lines, ticket backlog growing weekly. Agents Googling their own product docs.
/ AFTER
AI-led service agents trained on the actual product knowledge. They handle most tickets; humans take the edge cases.
0% First-contact resolution lift
NPS climbed. Queue times dropped. Escalation rate to engineering down by half.
FROM 0 EUR / 0 USD PER MONTH
If the number is the question, the AI mandate inside your enterprise is not yet at the level we operate at. That answer is the point.
We don’t sell seats. We don’t sell a SKU. We engineer the fractional Chief AI Officer mandate around your business — your scale, your stakes, the size of the prize on the table — and price it the same way. Custom. Senior. Application only.
/ Q3 2026 · ENGAGEMENT WINDOW FOUR SLOTS · BOTH FOUNDERS · TWELVE-MONTH MANDATES 03 BOOKED · 01 OPEN · DEADLINE 14 JUN
SECTOR · INDUSTRIALDAX-30
SECTOR · INSURANCEUSD 3B+
SECTOR · PRIVATE EQUITY4 PORTCOS
YOUR ENGAGEMENTAPPLY
The Embedded Fractional CAIO Mandate
Long-term, embedded AI leadership for the most valuable AI initiative on your roadmap. Owned at executive level by both founders. Strategy, engineering, enablement and infrastructure under one contract — scoped, executed, and reported on by the same operators. Measured in production systems shipped, not in hours billed.
Engagements are scoped to your scale. Our smallest current mandate runs at 25.000 EUR / 30.000 USD per month. Our largest is multiples of that. The number is set after we understand the prize on the table.
- Both founders embedded · executive level
- Strategy & roadmap ownership
- Production engineering capacity
- AI platform & infrastructure
- Enablement & champion buildout
- Quarterly board-level reporting
- 60-day exit-on-notice clause
/ SCOPE
Owned, not rented.
We own the AI mandate at executive level — in your roadmap calls, your engineering standups, your board prep — accountable for the outcome, not metered by the hour.
/ SENIORITY
Both founders.
Every engagement is staffed with both operators. There is no junior team in a different time zone, because there is no junior team.
/ CADENCE
EUR or USD. Monthly.
12-month minimum on the embedded mandate. 60 days exit-on-notice for both sides — trust beats lock-in. EUR for European entities, USD for North American ones.
/ JURISDICTION
Ostwestfalen. Yes, really.
GmbH-based. GDPR-grade. We sit in the Mittelstand belt — same postcode as Miele, Beckhoff, Phoenix Contact — where “Made in Germany” still gets built daily. We applied the discipline to AI. Shipped systems for European industrial giants and US growth-stage leaders alike.
Questions executives ask
before they apply.
Q · 01 We’ve already burned a year on AI consultants. Why is this different?
Because the engagement does not end at the recommendation. The same senior operator that writes the strategy stays through engineering, training, and rollout. There is no handoff to a junior team in a different time zone, because there is no junior team. Both founders staff every engagement. That is the whole differentiator — and it is not a marketing claim, it is the contract.
Q · 02 What does “fractional” mean in practice?
Embedded at executive level — fully accountable for the AI mandate, not metered by the hour. We are in your standups, your roadmap calls, your board prep, your engineering reviews. We are not freelancers parked on a project. We are the AI leadership your enterprise has not hired yet, measured in production systems on the floor — not in days on a timesheet.
Q · 03 Why 25.000 EUR / 30.000 USD per month minimum?
Senior bandwidth is the bottleneck. We staff every engagement with the founders, not with analysts on a markup. The math only works at this rate — in either currency. If the number is the question, the AI mandate inside your enterprise is not yet at the level we operate at, and we will say so on the application call. We invoice EUR for European entities, USD for North American ones.
Q · 04 We are a US company. Can you operate inside our time zones?
Yes. Most of our recent engagements have a US footprint. Our European morning overlaps your US east-coast afternoon — that window carries the work. For west-coast operators we hold a fixed late-day slot.
Q · 05 Can we start with a smaller scope — pilot, audit, sprint?
We don’t run pilots, audits, or “discovery sprints.” Those are the dead-end loops your previous vendors trapped you in — paid to look at the problem, never to solve it. We run engagements. If the mandate is not ready for an embedded operator, the timing is not right yet — and we will tell you so on the call.
Q · 06 Why “application only”? Sounds like a stunt.
It is not. We accept four engagements per quarter, each staffed with both founders. Senior bandwidth is finite — and we would rather turn down an engagement than ship a watered-down version of it. We expect to fit perhaps one in twenty enterprises that ask. The other nineteen still get an honest conversation.
Q · 07 What is the time commitment from our side?
An executive sponsor at C-level who can clear roadblocks when we run into them — and every enterprise has a few. Access to your data, systems, and operating team. A reporting cadence that fits your board. Everything else — strategy, engineering, enablement, infrastructure, governance — we bring.
Q · 08 What about data sovereignty and IP?
Your data is yours. Your IP is yours. Our infrastructure runs on tooling you control — including private cloud and on-prem deployments — with audit trails and GDPR-grade data handling baked in from day one. We sign your NDA on the application call. Most of our work runs under one. The case studies above are anonymised for that reason.
FINAL BRIEFING
Stop running pilots.
Stop running pilots.
Start shipping AI.
Eighteen months from now, your AI initiative is either embedded inside your P&L — or it is a slide in a deck no one reads. We pick the engagements that win. The application below is read inside 48 hours by both founders, in person. If we are the wrong unit, we will tell you on the call.
- 01 Application read in 48 h By both founders. Personally.
- 02 One short call · 30 min We learn the mandate. You learn the unit.
- 03 Decision in one week Fit, scope, fee, start date. No procurement theatre.