Fractional Chief AI Officer

AI is everywhere in your company. Nobody owns it.

From this month, someone does. I’m inside your startup one or two days a week. I rank the AI bets with a number on each, write the governance your investors ask for, and build agentic workflows and AI agents with your team, on your own machines. Seed to Series A. Three-month minimum, delivered by me.

when you need one

Three signs. Any one is enough.

  1. 01

    Pilots everywhere, nothing in production. Three tools on trial, a channel full of demos, and no one whose job it is to say yes or no.

  2. 02

    Someone asked for your AI position in writing. An investor at diligence, an enterprise customer’s security questionnaire, a regulator. You don’t have one yet.

  3. 03

    Every AI idea gets a little budget. Because no one can rank them, all of them get some money and none of them get enough.

And when you don’t.

You have a CTO who owns AI strategy and ships it. Or you want someone to run engineering. That’s a different hire, and I’ll say so on the first call.

what is different

Three things you can check before you call.

I build. I don’t only advise.

Every hour is delivered by me, on your machines, with your people at the keyboard. No deck handed over, no team of juniors behind me. What we build is yours to keep and runs without me.

Your data stays yours, and it says so in writing.

Nothing sensitive enters a model. The judgement stays in your company, not with me. No vendor holds your work. When an enterprise customer sends the security questionnaire, that section is already answered.

The work is public, every day.

Every morning at six an assistant writes down what I built the day before, named in the terms of its field. Read a week of it before you call. No one else you’re comparing me with has one.

sovran.works/log →
the first ninety days

The first ninety days have a fixed shape.

By day ninety you hold four things.

01

Your AI position, written.

Data, tools, responsible use. The one-page document an investor or an enterprise customer asks for, ready to send.

02

A ranked list of bets, with a number on each.

What deserves AI this year, what waits, what never. With what each one saves or earns.

03

Your first AI agents, in production.

Agentic workflows built with your team, running in your company, measured against the week before they existed.

04

A team that can continue without me.

Who was trained, on what, and what they can now build alone.

Then we decide together whether to continue, and at which level.

Against the full-time hire.

A full-time Chief AI Officer is a senior salary, a three-month search and months of ramp before the first decision. This starts this month, at the level you choose below, and ends after three if it should.

the retainer

Hire me as your Fractional Chief AI Officer

Not to run your engineering team — to run how your company actually works. A partner inside the build, not an adviser outside it. Standing access when the work needs a decision, and new workflows running every month — built with you, on your machine, yours to keep.

The main way I work
$2,900–$5,000/mofor 20–40 hours a month3-month minimum
I take three at a time, because I deliver every one myself.
Pick your level

Pick a level to see what the month looks like.

I reply personally within 24 hours.

Read the terms of agreement

Testimonials

What people who’ve taken a session say

“Gregorio has shone the light that I needed to find my footing on the path to agentic workflows. I had been looking on for a while since Claude Code was released but didn’t know where to dive in, or who to listen to. Gregorio helped me to find answers by illuminating the right questions. He showed me how ICM (Interpretable Context Methodology) was working practically for his own work, while maintaining custody of his own data, future-proofing his workflow against disruptive tech updates. Now I’m well on my AI power user’s journey thanks to him.”
Kiwan
Kiwan
Musician & entrepreneur, Tobago
“My session with Gregorio, simply put, marked the beginning of the rest of my career. As an entrepreneur I’ve never felt more empowered by the tools at hand. After 3 sessions I took off running — in a week I’ve put out multiple fully fledged, ready-for-market applications. Thanks to Gregorio’s folder structure I own all of the output and store it locally on my own hard drive. Gregorio is worth his weight in tokens 🙌”
James
James
Nightlife entrepreneur, NYC
“Learning how to use AI with Gregorio changed my life at 82. I can confidently talk about AI, use it, and rely on it for my work.”
Martin
Martin
Secretary General of a multilateral organization, Brazil
“I want to say thank you to Gregorio, and recommend him to anyone thinking about exploring this. Coding and AI can sometimes feel like a cold subject. Technical, a little impersonal, something happening at a distance from you. My sessions with Gregorio weren't like that at all. He's endlessly curious, and it's contagious. He'll try things simply to see what happens. But what really made the difference for me was that he was genuinely interested in my project, not in demonstrating what the software can do. He wanted to understand what I was trying to achieve, and then we worked out together how AI could help me get there. That's the part I didn't expect. He doesn't just teach you how to use Claude through the Sovran approach. He helps you look at your own thinking differently, and then shows you how you might stretch it further. He's generous with his time, practical, and very easy to talk to. I came away with new tools and a better understanding of how to use them, but also with a much longer list of things I now want to try. If you're curious about AI and want a way into it that actually feels human, go and talk to Gregorio. Bring a coffee and bring an idea. You'll be surprised by what comes out of it.”
Brice
Design Director
“I did a deep-dive session with Gregorio and he helped me to peak into a new world of possibilities with Claude AI. His warm patience is truly valuable for anyone, no matter what your experience with AI is. For those of us working in the world of a regenerative future for our planet, Gregorio can provide you with key insights into how to put this new technology at the service of noble causes.”
Alex Edleson
Biodynamic Agricultural Consultant
“Gregorio offered an impressive ion-line ntroduction to CLAUDE that was concise and appropriate to my start-up level. He was able to build my confidence to further explore this impressive newer AI technology! Just thrilled to have Gregorio's inspiration, and happy that I can seek his help in my next level of learning in another on-line course with him. Very well prepared instructor!!!”
Mary
Culinary Educator
“Hello, World ! During a call with Gregorio, he told me about Claude Code. At first, I wasn't convinced I needed to learn yet another platform, as my ChatGPT already fulfilled my needs. But I said, "Why not? Let's give it a try." So, I subscribed to a four-session, one-on-one pairing pack. After only two sessions, I started to discover its potential and quickly realized it was a game changer. At the end of the four sessions, I had all I needed to be fully independent with Code. It has now been a week, and it is absolutely a game changer. The potential for productivity is mind-blowing; it goes way beyond a chat box. I am now accomplishing work that would have taken me weeks in 2–3 hours. There is no way back. It's like moving from a fax machine to discovering email. We are all hearing about the revolution of AI, and Gregorio proved it to me. He is very knowledgeable and a superb teacher who understood my needs perfectly instead of just teaching a generic onboarding. His concept of data sovereignty and being AI-platform agnostic really prepared me for the future of computing while remaining human……and this message is typed by me, with no AI involved. I am Matthieu Rytz, an award-winning filmmaker who is working to make our living planet a better place, not by rejecting technology but by embracing it to empower positive change.”
Matthieu
Matthieu
Filmmaker
“Gregorio is very informative and working with him has simplified my understanding of Claude. I began from a standpoint of having very little knowledge within most realms of AI but with his help I am building a solid foundation and seeing AI from a different perspective.”
Linda
Creative
“I came to Gregorio as a producer, not a developer. Within a week of his Claude Code pairing sessions, I'd built and launched websites, automated a big chunk of my business admin, and set up agents that now save me so much time! If you want to go from curious about AI to shipping real work, book him.”
Jack
Producer

Questions

No. I sit beside your CTO on AI decisions and stay out of engineering management. If you don’t have a CTO, I’ll tell you when you need one.