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AI Strategy & Roadmapping
Monthly strategy sessions that adapt to new AI capabilities as they emerge. Prioritized use cases, tool selection, and phased implementation plans — kept current, not frozen in a one-time document.
AI moves faster than any roadmap stays current. Your business needs someone embedded — setting direction, evaluating tools, building working systems, and keeping your team ahead of the curve. Not a report. Ongoing results.
Delivered personally by Chris Short — hands-on AI engineer working in the Anthropic stack daily.
A full-time AI Director costs $180K–$250K annually. Most Charlotte SMBs don't need that level of overhead — they need the expertise, without the payroll commitment.
One-time consultants hand you a report and disappear. AI tools and models change monthly. The roadmap you paid for is stale in 90 days, and no one is accountable for making it work.
A Fractional AI Officer stays. Month-to-month. Embedded in your business. Responsible for outcomes, not just outputs.
This is not advisory from a distance. It is embedded, accountable AI leadership.
Monthly strategy sessions that adapt to new AI capabilities as they emerge. Prioritized use cases, tool selection, and phased implementation plans — kept current, not frozen in a one-time document.
Claude Code pipelines, Anthropic API integrations, agentic workflow design, and custom tooling. Strategy that stays connected to real implementation — built by someone who ships working systems, not just plans.
Practical skills training for your team embedded in the monthly engagement — not a separate purchase. Your people learn to use AI tools confidently, with workflows tailored to their actual roles.
New AI tools launch weekly. Your Fractional AI Officer evaluates them against your specific workflows so you adopt what actually moves the needle — and skip the expensive experiments that don't.
Monthly reporting on AI initiative performance — time saved, cost reduced, output improved. Clear metrics that connect AI investments to business outcomes, ready for leadership or board review.
Specialized expertise in Claude, Claude Code, and the full Anthropic API — not a generic overview of every AI tool on the market. Deep skill in agentic systems, prompt engineering at scale, and workflow orchestration.
All tiers are month-to-month. No long-term contracts. Delivered personally by Chris Short.
Best for businesses with a capable internal team that needs senior AI direction
Best for businesses ready to accelerate AI adoption with hands-on support
Best for businesses treating AI as a core competitive advantage
Not sure which tier fits?Start with a free 30-minute strategy call. We'll scope your needs and recommend the right engagement level — no pressure, no obligation.
Book Free Strategy CallA Fractional AI Officer is a senior AI leader embedded part-time in your business, providing the strategy, implementation oversight, and hands-on engineering of a full-time AI Director without the $200K+ salary. Unlike a one-time consultant who hands you a report and leaves, a Fractional AI Officer stays accountable month-to-month: setting direction, evaluating tools, enabling your team, and building working AI systems. The engagement is ongoing, embedded, and measured by results.
One-time AI consulting produces a deliverable: a report, a roadmap, a workshop. A Fractional AI Officer produces ongoing results. The difference is accountability. A consultant leaves after the engagement ends; a Fractional AI Officer stays engaged, adapts to new AI developments as they emerge, and is responsible for your AI outcomes month after month. For businesses serious about AI transformation rather than AI exploration, the fractional model is the right structure.
Chris Short builds production AI systems daily: agentic workflows, Claude Code pipelines, Anthropic API integrations, and multi-step automation. He is not a theorist or a reseller of generic AI advice. The Fractional AI Officer engagement draws on deep, current expertise in the Anthropic ecosystem (Claude, Claude Code, claude.ai), prompt engineering at the systems level, and the architecture of AI agents and workflows. Charlotte-area businesses get access to someone who ships working AI, not slide decks about it.
Holistic Consulting offers three Fractional AI Officer tiers: AI Advisor at $3,500/month (10 hours, monthly strategy session and async support), Fractional AI Officer at $6,500/month (25 hours, weekly check-ins, hands-on implementation, and team enablement), and Executive AI Officer at $9,500/month (40+ hours, deep automation work, and board-ready AI reporting). All engagements are month-to-month with no long-term contract required.
The Fractional AI Officer model is designed for businesses with 10 to 250 employees that are past the curiosity stage but not yet large enough to justify a full-time AI Director role ($180K to $250K+ annually). Typical clients are growing SMBs in professional services, healthcare, fintech, real estate, or operations-heavy industries who need ongoing AI leadership, not a one-time assessment. Nationally distributed teams are welcome; most strategic work is virtual, run from our Mooresville, NC base in the Lake Norman area.
No. All tiers are month-to-month. There is no annual lock-in. Most clients stay because the engagement delivers measurable results, not because they are contractually obligated to. A 30-day notice ends the engagement at any time.
Yes. Most strategic and implementation work is virtual. Our base is Mooresville, NC, and Charlotte, Davidson, Cornelius, and Lake Norman area clients are prioritized, but distributed teams across the US are welcome. If your business requires regular on-site presence in a different city, reach out to discuss feasibility.
Book a free 30-minute strategy call. We'll scope your business, identify the highest-leverage AI opportunities, and recommend the right engagement tier — no pressure, no commitment.
Start here. Map your processes, surface quick wins, and get a 90-day action roadmap before committing to ongoing engagement.
One-time strategy and implementation guidance. Right for teams with a defined scope and clear endpoint.
Working AI-integrated applications built with Claude Code and the Anthropic API. MVPs to production.