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AI Technology Leadership

A senior AI leader, without the full-time hire.

  • AI roadmap
  • Build or buy
  • Architecture review
  • Vendor selection
  • Hiring
  • Delivery oversight

When AI is on the agenda and nobody owns it, a fractional AI CTO sets the direction: what to build, what to buy, who to hire, and in what order. Then stays to see it shipped.

When to bring us in

Four signs you need one.

  1. 01

    The board wants an AI plan

    And the plan you have is a list of ideas.

  2. 02

    You have pilots and no production

    Several experiments, none of them carrying real work.

  3. 03

    You are about to choose a vendor or make a senior hire

    And nobody inside can test the claims.

  4. 04

    Your investors expect AI in the plan

    With numbers attached, and a date.

What you get

Direction, decisions and a first result.

  • A roadmap tied to the business

    Each initiative with its value, its cost, its risk and its owner.

  • Build, buy or wait

    A clear call on each, with the reasoning written down.

  • Architecture and vendor review

    An independent view of what you are being sold.

  • Hiring

    Role definitions, interviews, and the first ninety days of each hire.

  • A working first version

    An early prototype of the first use case, built to be handed to a team.

  • Oversight of the build

    Someone senior accountable for what ships.

Who you work with

A senior leader, and the team that builds.

Zaid Marji, Fractional AI CTO

Zaid Marji

Fractional AI CTO

Sets the direction: what to build, what to buy, who to hire, and in what order.

Launched Moody’s Analytics’ first machine-learning product, which reads borrowers’ financial statements for lenders. Solutions architect at AWS, then head of analytics technology at Alter Domus. Founder of Loom Labs. Twenty years in software, data and AI.

Pedro Nogueira

Pedro Nogueira

Technical Strategy & Delivery Lead

Runs the engineering: the team that builds what the roadmap calls for.

Former Sr Director of Engineering & AI Delivery at Turing, Head of AI at Toptal. Expert in AI delivery, technical vetting, and engineering teams.

How it begins

Start with two weeks.

We spend two weeks inside one part of your operation and come back with the numbers: which automations are worth building, which aren’t, and a plan for the best one. One fixed price, agreed before we begin.

  1. 01

    Executive decision memo

  2. 02

    Current-state workflow map

  3. 03

    Prioritized AI opportunities

  4. 04

    Editable ROI model

  5. 05

    A verdict on every candidate

  6. 06

    Build-ready implementation plan

  7. 07

    Final working session

After the audit

Leadership, then the build.

  1. Monthly

    Fractional AI CTO

    Direction, decisions and oversight, scoped each month to the stage you are at.

  2. 6 to 16 weeks

    The build

    Delivered by Eventum’s engineers, under the same leadership.

  3. When you are ready

    Handover

    We help you hire the permanent leader and hand over cleanly.

Questions

Fair questions,straight answers.

How much time do we get?

We agree it each month, to fit the stage you are at. Early on it is usually more.

Is this advice, or accountability?

Accountability. A fractional AI CTO owns the roadmap and the decisions, and answers for what ships.

Do you also build?

Yes. Eventum’s engineers deliver what the roadmap calls for, which means the person who set the direction also sees it through.

What happens when we hire a full-time leader?

We help define the role, interview the candidates and hand over. That is a good outcome, not a lost client.

What size of company is this for?

Companies large enough to have real operations and data, and not yet large enough to need a full-time AI executive.

Next step

Put someone senior in charge of the question.

A short call on where you are and what a first month would cover.

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