Embedded AI Leadership · By Invitation

An AI Officer. Embedded in your business. Building. Daily.

A senior AI strategist + technical builder on retainer — without the seven-figure salary or the six-month hiring cycle. Your agents get tuned. Your systems get optimized. New AI capability ships every month. We start the week you sign.

Explore Tiers → Book a Call First
50+
Systems Deployed
$200M+
Business Impact
100%
Code Ownership
Why Fractional

Hire a Chief AI Officer without hiring a CAIO.

Most founders need senior AI leadership — but the role doesn't exist on your org chart yet, and the talent costs $200K–$400K a year. This is the bridge.

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Strategic Before Technical

We don't just maintain the agents. We look at the whole business and decide what AI should automate next — and what NOT to automate.

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Always-On Optimization

Agents, prompts, drips, and integrations get tuned every week. A/B subject lines, agent reasoning, cadence — improved while you sleep.

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Progressive Deployment

Your operating system keeps advancing every month. New agents, new integrations, new capability — deployed in functional stages, never an empty handoff.

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Built for the AI Era

Claude, OpenAI, MCP, multi-agent orchestration, vector DBs, custom edge functions. Modern stack from day one. We use what we recommend.

Two Ways In

Pick the depth of leadership your organization needs.

Engagement 01 · Embedded

The Operator

$7,500/ month +

For organizations with a team and real revenue that need someone to own AI operations, not advise on them.

  • Weekly leadership session with your executive team
  • Ownership of your AI operations roadmap
  • Same-day Slack/email priority response
  • Ongoing agent tuning, monitoring, and optimization
  • Monthly impact review with your leadership
  • Progressive deployment — functional value every month
  • Supabase + edge function stewardship
  • Full ownership of every system and line of code
  • Cancel anytime · 30-day notice
Start With a Tech Discovery Call → Systems Blueprint Session
Cancel anytime · No long-term contract
★ Recommended
Engagement 02 · Expanded

The Architect

Scopedto your org

For organizations running multiple teams and revenue lines that need deeper capacity and advanced orchestration.

  • Everything in Embedded
  • Expanded deployment capacity across layers
  • Dedicated architecture sprints quarterly
  • Custom Claude agent development
  • Multi-agent orchestration across departments
  • MCP server design + maintenance
  • Monthly AI operations roadmap review
  • Quarterly executive briefing
  • Slack DM access (2hr business response)
  • Cancel anytime · 30-day notice
Start With a Tech Discovery Call → Systems Blueprint Session
Scope and investment set in your Blueprint Session
Knight Ops vs. The Alternatives

What the same outcomes cost elsewhere.

What you need
Hire full-time CAIO
Stack 3 SaaS tools
Knight Ops FAO
Monthly cost
$15K–$25K/mo
$1,200/mo
From $7,500/mo
Deployment capacity
40+ hrs/wk
None
Continuous
Time to start
3–6 months
Same week
Same week
Strategic guidance
Yes
No
Yes
Owns the code
You
Vendor
You
Cancel anytime
Severance + risk
Yes
Yes · 30-day notice
Common Questions

The honest answers before you ask.

Is this for us if we're not running AI in our business yet?+
Often yes. Most organizations we embed with start with disconnected tools and manual process, not AI. We begin with a Systems Blueprint Session to map your operations and return the architecture and deployment sequence. If your foundation needs to be built first, we deploy the Knight Ops AI Business OS and the fractional engagement runs alongside it.
What actually gets deployed each month?+
Whatever the roadmap says is next and highest-value. We deploy progressively in functional stages, so every month your organization gets something it can actually use — never an empty handoff and never a six-month black box.
How is this different from a one-time build?+
The Knight Ops AI Business OS is a deployment. The fractional engagement is ongoing ownership. You want the fractional officer when your operating system is live and needs to be led, evolved, and expanded continuously — not just shipped once.
Can I cancel anytime?+
Yes. 30-day notice. No long-term contract. You own all code, all data, all agents — even after you cancel. We hand off everything.
Do you sign NDAs?+
Yes. Mutual NDA available. We handle financial models to private client data with appropriate care.
Can you work with our existing dev team?+
Yes. The fractional officer is often the layer that bridges your existing team and real AI capability. We mentor your developers, document the architecture, and split work as makes sense.
How quickly can we start?+
Same week. Start with a Tech Discovery Call, and if we're a fit we schedule your Systems Blueprint Session within 3 business days. Deployment begins as soon as the architecture is agreed.
Not sure which tier fits?

Get a custom recommendation in 30 minutes.

Book a free Blueprint Session. You'll walk away with a custom HTML roadmap of what to build, in what order, and the expected impact — even if you decide the retainer isn't right yet.

Schedule Your Systems Blueprint Session → Or Run the AI Audit