AI leadership from someone who built it before it was a trend.
Work with George Krasadakis as your fractional Chief AI Officer: statistical modelling since 1991, automated credit scoring and price intelligence for corporations since 1999, a 2016 patent filing at Microsoft on AI agents that negotiate and buy on people’s behalf, years before agentic commerce had a name, and an agentic AI platform in production today. He sets your AI strategy and governance, gets the first use cases under way, and recruits the permanent leader who takes them over.
25 years of building data-driven systems; 18 patent families, most in AI. Architect of Ainna.ai. Senior roles at Microsoft, Accenture, GSK and ResMed.
- For
- Leaders who need someone accountable for AI at C-level now, before a full-time Chief AI Officer is justified or found.
- Objective
- An AI roadmap and governance your leadership has approved, the first use cases under way with the business, and a permanent leader ready to run them.
- Structure
- A monthly retainer set one quarter ahead: heaviest while the roadmap and governance are set, lighter as your AI team takes over. Reporting to your executive sponsor; on site for the key workshops.
A Chief AI Officer’s mandate, without the full-time hire
A fractional Chief AI Officer holds the CAIO mandate for as long as the company needs one: a seat with your leadership team, accountability for how the company adopts AI, and the authority to hire and lead. Where AI Strategy Advisory shapes the strategy with your team, to a fixed scope, a fractional CAIO owns that strategy and puts it to work: inside the organisation, reporting to an executive sponsor, running the governance and building your AI team, until a permanent leader takes over.
Four situations where a fractional CAIO is the right call
And one where it is not: if a capable Chief AI Officer is already in post, give them on-demand days or ongoing advisory instead. Not sure whether you need a Chief AI Officer or a Chief Innovation Officer? See Chief AI Officer vs Chief Innovation Officer.
- No one owns AI yetPilots run in several teams, vendors are chosen one at a time, and the board wants a plan and an accountable leader.
- AI run as an IT projectAI sits in IT or the data team as a technology programme, far from the business decisions it should change. The fractional CAIO brings it to the leadership table.
- Between Chief AI OfficersThe interim role keeps the roadmap moving, and its sponsors engaged, while you recruit.
- AI in a regulated marketYou use AI where regulation applies and need an accountable owner for AI governance now, not after a long search.
From the readiness assessment to the handover, and after
You agree the retainer one quarter ahead. The direction-setting quarter is the busiest; at the end of each quarter, you and your sponsor review progress against the roadmap and decide the next quarter’s days, or stop. The assessment comes first, as a fixed-price step of its own, and its fee is credited in full against the first quarter if you continue. The work follows the method of AI Strategy Advisory, and the engagement is designed to end: a company that depends on AI needs a permanent AI leader.
- Weeks 1–3Before the retainer, the AI Readiness Assessment, at a fixed price: leadership interviews and a review of your AI initiatives, data and vendorsOutputA readiness score on five dimensions and a shortlist of opportunities
- Quarter 1Set the direction, the quarter with the most days: the AI strategy and roadmap with your executives, the use cases scored and prioritised, and governance for data use, model validation, bias, human oversight and regulationOutputAn AI roadmap and governance framework approved by your leadership
- Quarters 2–3Deliver, with fewer days as your team takes on the work: the first use cases with the business teams, the technology and vendor choices, and the first hires of the AI teamOutputThe first use cases under way, measured from the start
- Quarters 3–4Hand over: the permanent Chief AI Officer recruited, a period of overlap, and the role transferredOutputYour Chief AI Officer in place, with the roadmap they will run
- AfterOn-demand days: a prepaid allowance your new Chief AI Officer draws on for roadmap and board reviews, key hires, vendor decisions and the difficult callsOutputSenior support when it is needed, without a retainer
Four ways to work together
Most engagements open with the AI Readiness Assessment: it gives a new AI leader the facts on data, talent and current initiatives, and tells you whether you need a fractional CAIO at all.
- 30 minutes
Strategy call
FreeYour AI leadership, your current initiatives and whether a fractional role fits, with George directly. No preparation needed.
Arrange a call → - Recommended first stepThree weeks
AI Readiness Assessment
€15,000, fixedThe assessment every new AI leader should run first: leadership interviews and a review of your AI initiatives, data and vendors, with a readiness score on five dimensions and a shortlist of opportunities.
Request the assessment → - Quarter by quarter
Fractional Chief AI Officer
Priced on proposalThe CAIO mandate on a monthly retainer set one quarter ahead, heaviest while the roadmap and governance are set. The roadmap approved, the first use cases under way and your permanent leader in place.
Request a proposal → - After the handover
On-demand days
Priced on proposalA prepaid allowance of days your Chief AI Officer draws on as needed: roadmap and board reviews, key hires, vendor decisions and the difficult calls. No retainer.
Ask about on-demand days →
Bold about what comes next, precise about what works today
George was building statistical models in the early 1990s and data-driven systems for corporations from 1999, when the field barely had a name, and filing patents on AI agents years before agentic AI became an industry term. That history makes him ambitious and pragmatic at once: he knows what today’s AI can and cannot do, and what is coming next. As your fractional Chief AI Officer he brings that judgement to your roadmap: where AI creates value in your business now, where it will soon, and what to build, buy or stop.
- 1991 to 1997Statistical modelling: a degree in statistics and actuarial science, then an MSc in computational statistics
- 1999 to 2004Data-driven systems for large corporations, including automated consumer credit scoring for a telecoms operator and an analytics engine for media competition analysis
- 2004Founded Datamine: price intelligence, competition analysis and data mining for telcos, banks and online retailers, with a team of 20+ engineers and data scientists, years before “data scientist” was a common job title
- From 201518 patent families, most filed between 2015 and 2018 and most as sole inventor: AI agents, answer synthesis, language systems and predictive interfaces
- 2016Filed the AI negotiation agent at Microsoft: autonomous agents that locate deals and negotiate terms for buyers and sellers, the core of what is now called agentic commerce, six years before ChatGPT. Later AI-agent patents from IBM, Visa and others cite it as prior art
- TodayArchitect of Ainna Enterprise, an agentic platform in production, in which AI agents discover and assess opportunities
Independent choices. As your Chief AI Officer, George chooses technology and vendors against your use cases, your data and your criteria. He also built Ainna.ai; where a platform of that kind is relevant, the comparison states that interest up front.
In a fully digitized environment, powered by artificial intelligence, operational aspects get streamlined, efficient, and eventually fully automated. … In this environment, the focus shifts from running the business to pursuing opportunities.George Krasadakis, on the AI-powered company, in The Innovation Mode (Springer, 2020)
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Also available: AI Strategy Advisory, a board-ready AI strategy in eight weeks, and the fractional Chief Innovation Officer, for innovation leadership on the same model.
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