Fractional AI Director
A Fractional AI Director is senior AI leadership embedded in your business on a monthly retainer, typically two to four days a month, without the cost of a full-time executive or the risk of going it alone. Advancer embeds an experienced AI Director who leads your AI agenda, works with your leadership team and brings our full delivery capability behind them.
AI is moving fast. Most leadership teams aren't keeping up.
Your team is experimenting with AI tools. Your board is asking about AI strategy. Your competitors are making moves. But you don't have anyone internally who can connect the dots: someone who understands the technology, your operations and how to make AI actually work across the business.
Hiring a full-time Head of AI is expensive, slow and risky when the field is changing this fast. You need experienced AI leadership now, not in six months.
What does a Fractional AI Director actually do?
A senior Advancer team member becomes your Fractional AI Director, embedded on a retained basis. They lead your AI agenda with Advancer's full capability behind them.
AI strategy and roadmap
A clear, prioritised plan for where AI creates value in your business, aligned to your goals, not hype.
Leadership team alignment
Regular sessions with your executive team and board to keep AI governance, risk and opportunity on track.
Use case identification
Systematic assessment of where AI will have the highest impact in your business and what to do first.
Vendor and tool selection
Independent guidance on which platforms, tools and partners are right for your business, not whoever is selling hardest.
Implementation oversight
Hands-on direction of AI projects from pilot through to production, with access to Advancer's delivery team when needed.
Workforce readiness
Skills assessment, change management and training plans so your people are equipped to work with AI, not replaced by it.
How does a Fractional AI Director engagement work?
We start with a discovery session to understand your business, your current AI maturity and where you want to go. From there, we scope a retained engagement tailored to your needs.
Monthly retainer
Your AI Director is available on an ongoing basis, typically two to four days per month depending on scope.
Quarterly reviews
Formal progress reviews against your AI roadmap with updated priorities and recommendations.
Delivery access
When it is time to build, your AI Director brings in Advancer's engineers, data specialists and automation team at agreed rates.
Board-ready reporting
Clear, jargon-free updates your board and leadership team can act on.
Built for organisations that are serious about AI but not ready for a full-time hire: mid-market businesses with 30 to 500 employees, AI ambition but no dedicated AI leadership, and leadership teams that want to move beyond pilots into real operational impact.
Why hire fractional instead of full time?
The AI landscape changes every quarter. A fractional model gives you senior leadership that stays current, backed by a team that builds AI every day.
Speed
Start in weeks, not months. No recruitment process, no onboarding lag. Your AI Director is operational from day one.
Depth
You are not getting one person's experience. You are getting the collective knowledge of Advancer's entire AI practice.
Flexibility
Scale up or down as your needs evolve. No fixed headcount, no long-term employment commitment. Just the right level of AI leadership.
Fractional AI Director questions, answered straight
The retainer starts from $8,000 a month, typically covering two to four days of senior AI leadership depending on scope. Compare that to a full-time Head of AI at $250,000 plus a year, before recruitment cost and risk.
In weeks, not months. There is no recruitment process or onboarding lag. After a discovery session to understand your business and AI maturity, your AI Director is operational from day one of the engagement.
Mid-market Australian businesses with 30 to 500 employees that have AI ambition but no dedicated AI leadership, and leadership teams that want to move beyond pilots into real operational impact.
AI consulting is typically a scoped project: an audit, a roadmap or an implementation. A Fractional AI Director is an ongoing embedded role who owns your AI agenda month to month, attends leadership meetings and is accountable for outcomes over time.
Your AI Director brings in Advancer's engineers, data specialists and automation team at agreed rates, and directs the work from pilot through to production. You get one accountable leader with a full delivery team behind them.
Engagements are scoped to your needs and can scale up or down as they evolve. There is no fixed headcount and no long-term employment commitment. Talk to us about the right starting scope for your business.
Ready to bring AI leadership into your business?
Book a 30-minute conversation to discuss what a Fractional AI Director engagement could look like for your organisation.