Fractional AI Partner

A fractional AI partner who actually builds.

From $8,500 a month: a senior AI engineer embedded in your business, shipping agents, MCP servers, and automations — every month. Not a strategy deck. Not a retainer that renews itself while nothing changes. Working software, and you own all of it.

Charlotte, NC + remote  ·  Month to month  ·  Everything built is yours

Why fractional

You don't need an AI department. You need output.

A senior AI engineer runs $200K+ before benefits — and most mid-market operations don't have forty hours a week of AI work to keep one busy. What they have is a backlog: the quoting workflow nobody automated, the report someone still builds by hand, the agent idea that never got past “we should.”

Fractional means you get the senior engineer without the seat: a fixed slice of my capacity, pointed at your highest-ROI build every month.

The rhythm

Every month, something ships.

A build queue, ranked by ROI

We keep a standing list of automation targets — from the audit roadmap, your team's requests, and what I see in your systems. Highest return builds first.

Working software in production

Agents, MCP servers, integrations, dashboards — built, deployed, and documented inside your infrastructure. Not prototypes.

Systems that stay healthy

What's already shipped gets maintained and hardened as your stack and volumes change. Automation that quietly breaks is worse than none.

A direct line

You talk to the engineer doing the work. No account manager, no ticket queue, no telephone game.

Straight answers

This is not a retainer.

  • A retainer that bills whether value ships or not. If the build queue runs dry, I'll say so — it's month to month for a reason.
  • A lock-in. Month to month; everything built — code, infrastructure, docs — is yours whether you stay or go.
  • A junior farmed out under a senior's name. You get me: the engineer whose MCP and agent systems run in production today.
  • A strategy subscription. Advice comes with the work, not instead of it.
Investment

One number, no timesheet. You're buying what ships.

From $8,500per month · month to month · no lock-in
Everything built — code, infrastructure, docs — is yours, whether you stay or go.

What sets the number: the size of your build queue and how fast you want it worked down.

Where it starts: partnerships begin after the $4,500 operations audit — its roadmap becomes the build queue, and the fee is credited toward your first build.

Is this for you?

Built for operators with a backlog — not a headcount problem.

A fit if you're…

  • Running $3M–$50M with real operations and no internal AI team
  • Sitting on a backlog of “we should automate this” that never gets touched
  • Past a first build and don't want the second one to sit in the backlog
  • An owner who wants one accountable senior builder, not an agency handoff chain

Skip it if…

  • You have 40 hours a week of AI work, every week — hire full-time, and I'll help you write the job description
  • You want research and recommendations, not working software
  • Nobody on your side owns outcomes between check-ins
Owner questions

The fractional questions owners actually ask.

What is a fractional AI partner?

A senior AI engineer who works inside your business on a part-time, ongoing basis — the accountability of a hire without the $200K seat. I keep a ranked queue of automation targets and ship from it every month: agents, MCP servers, integrations. You own everything that ships.

How is this different from an agency retainer?

An agency sells you a team and a process; a fractional partner gives you one senior engineer with direct accountability. It runs month to month, and everything built — code, infrastructure, docs — is yours whether you stay or go.

What does it cost?

From $8,500 per month. The number scales with the size of the build queue and the pace you want — not hours on a timesheet. Every engagement starts with the $4,500 operations audit, so the ROI case exists before the partnership does.

Do you work remotely or on-site?

Based in Charlotte, NC, working with operators across the U.S. Most fractional work runs remote with scheduled on-sites — North Carolina companies get me in the building more often.

If the backlog keeps growing, that's the signal.

Start with the audit: one week, $4,500, and the roadmap becomes the build queue. If it doesn't surface savings worth more than its cost, you don't pay.

Or read how the operations audit works →

Not sure it's worth it? Run the numbers first →

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