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From £1,500 a month

Fractional AI Specialist: a senior head of AI inside your team

An experienced AI lead working in your business one day a month. They own the plan, the tools, the training and the reporting, without the full-time salary.

What a fractional AI specialist is

A fractional AI specialist is a senior AI lead who works inside your team for a set amount of time each month. You may also see the role called a fractional head of AI or a fractional chief AI officer. It is the same job: someone experienced who owns AI in your business, part-time.

Most businesses do not have that person. They have AI licences that are barely used, a few enthusiasts doing their own thing, and a board asking what the business is getting for the money. Hiring a full-time head of AI is expensive and the shortlist is thin.

Fractional is the practical answer. You get one day a month of someone senior, spread across the month as the work needs it, rather than a full-time salary for a role you cannot yet fill.

What we take on

We take responsibility for AI as a discipline in your business, not a list of tasks.

The plan

Where AI genuinely helps your business and where it would just add noise, written as clear priorities and reviewed every month.

The tools

Choosing them, setting them up in your accounts and making sure you are not paying for licences nobody uses.

Your team

Training people on their own real tasks, setting up shared projects and prompts, and showing what good output looks like.

The rules

A plain acceptable use policy, where a person must approve AI output, and what UK GDPR means for the data you put into AI tools.

The reporting

What AI is saving or earning, written for your leadership rather than for us, with the evidence behind every figure.

The budget

Being in the room when AI spend is questioned or a supplier pitches you, with the data to make the call.

Specialist or Operator?

We offer two monthly services, and the difference is who does the day-to-day work.

  • Fractional AI Specialist. Sets the direction and helps your own people do the work. The right fit when you have a capable team that needs a senior lead on AI.
  • Fractional AI Operator. We run agreed AI workflows for you, inside your systems, every month. The right fit when nobody has the time to run them.

The two combine well: the specialist decides what is worth doing, and the Fractional AI Operator runs the workflows you would rather not run yourselves.

How it works

  • 1. Understand your starting point. We review the tools you already pay for, how your team uses AI today and where the time goes. If you have had our AI Ops Audit, we start from its roadmap.
  • 2. Agree priorities. We agree a short list of what to do first, who owns each piece and how we will know it worked.
  • 3. Guide the work and refine it. We brief your team, review progress and adjust priorities each month as you learn what AI does well in your business.

This works best when

  • Licences without results. You pay for AI licences but cannot say what the business is getting for them.
  • Nobody owns AI. A few keen people are doing their own thing with it, and nobody is setting the direction.
  • Hiring is hard to justify. You have looked at a full-time head of AI and found the cost or the shortlist difficult.
  • Leadership wants answers. Your board or investors want a straight answer on where you stand with AI and what comes next.

Who turns up

Sam Morris-Warburton, our founder, every time. Sam founded the agency in Chichester in 2014 and led our own move onto AI, from our CRM to our client reporting, before offering the same work to clients. Read Sam's profile.

Price: from £1,500 a month for one day a month, on a rolling monthly agreement with a month's notice to stop. Confirmed in writing after a short call.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is a fractional AI specialist the right fit?

A 20 minute call is enough to tell. We will look at where you are with AI and be straight about whether you need this, the Operator, the AI Ops Audit, or none of them yet.

Book a 20 minute call

Want a full picture first? Start with the AI Ops Audit.