Fractional CTO / CAIO / Enterprise AI Architect Retainer — Blu Wingu

Senior AI leadership, embedded. Without the full-time cost.

A Fractional CTO, Chief AI Officer (CAIO), or Enterprise AI Architect retainer places a named Blu Wingu senior practitioner inside your organisation two to three days per week — embedded in your leadership team, accountable for a defined mandate, and operating at the level of judgement your board expects from a C-suite hire. The engagement runs for a minimum of three months, renewable quarterly, and is scoped at the start with a specific set of deliverables and success criteria.

What you get

• Named senior practitioner, embedded — not a resource pool rotation. The same practitioner, two to three days per week, with continuity of context and accountability for outcomes. Agentic AI tooling materially extends the reach of a two-to-three-day embedded engagement beyond what an unaugmented generalist could deliver in the same window.
• Defined mandate and measurable milestones — the retainer is scoped against a specific mandate: agentic architecture design, platform governance, team AI-augmentation, AI risk and model governance, or executive alignment. Milestones are agreed at initiation and reviewed quarterly.
• We leave an augmented workforce behind, not a consultant dependency — every retainer engagement is designed to transfer capability. The exit condition is an internal team that can run the programme without us, not one that requires our continued presence to maintain it.

Who it is for

Growth-stage companies and regulated-sector enterprises that need AI leadership at board-credible seniority but cannot justify or fill a full-time C-suite AI hire. Typical profiles: Series B or C technology company with an AI product that has outgrown its founding architecture; regulated-sector organisation that needs a named AI governance lead for an audit or compliance programme; established enterprise with a platform transformation in flight that has lost its technical anchor.

Pricing

Retained day-rate, structured on a three-month minimum engagement with quarterly review. Outcome NAV structures — where a portion of the retainer is tied to defined milestones — are available for organisations with clear, measurable targets.

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