- Situation
- An FMCG producer wanted AI across sales and finance while its ERP migration was still open.
- Decision
- Hold the spend. Map the seven core processes and fix the costing data underneath first.
- Effect
- $30,000 of planned AI spend held back until the numbers underneath were right.
The right AI decisions, made once.
Attain is independent fractional Chief AI Officer advisory for founder-led, mid-market companies.
The problem
Founder-led companies are making six and seven figure AI decisions with no senior AI judgment in the room, surrounded by sellers.
A fractional Chief AI Officer is a part-time senior AI executive who owns AI strategy, vendor decisions, and governance. Attain provides the role independently: advice with nothing else attached, for companies whose AI decisions have outgrown gut feel but not yet justified a full-time hire.
Three situations this solves
-
The vendor pitch
A convincing platform demo is on the table. The price is six figures. Nobody in the room has evaluated ten of these.
-
The board question
The board wants your AI position at the next meeting. The honest current answer is a list of experiments.
-
The stalled pilots
Three pilots ran this year. None reached production. Nobody owns the decision about what happens next.
Independence
Advice is the product. Nothing else is for sale.
- We build nothing and implement nothing. Our only revenue is advice.
- We take no vendor commissions and no referral fees. A recommendation carries no kickback.
- We serve 5 clients at most, published as a ceiling. Attention is the raw material of judgment.
How it works
Fit call to operating rhythm
-
Start with a fit call, or with the standalone diagnostic if you want proof before commitment.
-
The onboarding month produces your baseline and a prioritized 90-day decision agenda. That agenda is the scoreboard.
-
The operating rhythm works the agenda: decisions made, documented, and reviewed quarterly.
The ladder
Three tiers, published in the open
Advisory runs $6,000–$15,000 per month. Most clients engage at $10,000.
| Tier | Outcome | Price per month |
|---|---|---|
| Lite | Direction | $6,000 |
| Core | Decisions | $10,000 |
| Executive | Operating Rhythm | $15,000 |
Proof
Decisions on record
- Situation
- A cross-border medical device distributor took two weeks to turn a customer request into a priced proposal.
- Decision
- Rebuild the proposal path on the catalogue and pricing data already in the business, with sign-off left human.
- Effect
- Proposal turnaround fell from two weeks to two hours.
- Situation
- A financial institution spent six weeks deciding whether to run a pilot, then a month running it.
- Decision
- Collapse approval into one scored decision session and cap every pilot at five working days.
- Effect
- Decision to pilot in eight hours; execution in five days.
References are available on request. We never name clients.
Point of view