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Whether you’re exploring use cases, shaping a strategy, or building a PoC, our Chief AI Officer-as-a-Service leads the process end-to-end — identifying high-value opportunities, designing the path forward, and delivering pilots that make AI real in your business and lay the foundation for scalable enterprise adoption.

Results in 90 days

Go from AI opportunity to a validated PoC that proves value and facilitates your path to scaling.

CAIO-as-a-Service

Advisory, discovery, strategy and planning, and PoC execution — all under one leadership model.

Innovation Approach

Designed for success in a high uncertainty environment with rapidly evolving AI technologies.

Mid-Market Focus

Flexible engagement models and services that fit your budgets, teams, and sense of urgency.

You want to harness AI, but struggle to turn ideas into real impact. The reality is, building and scaling AI inside a mid-market enterprise is hard. As a result, AI projects get stuck in endless planning cycles, pilots go nowhere, and your AI ambitions fail to launch or fall short of their potential.

AI project dead ends

Ownership and Accountability

No internal AI resources

Limited Budgets. High Expectations.

Unfocused and Reactionary

Data availability and quality

Our Chief AI Officer-as-a-Service is built specifically for mid-market enterprises: flexible where you need it, structured where it matters, and relentlessly focused on outcomes. Whether you’re shaping your first AI strategy, validating use cases, or building a PoC or pilot, we provide the leadership, expertise, and delivery power to help you succeed.

AI Advisor 

Fractional CAIO leadership and on-demand expertise

Use us to (examples):

• Step in as your part time CAIO to lead and guide your AI efforts

• Advise on key AI decisions, investments and priorities

• Answer questions, assist on specific projects on-demand

What you get: Clear AI direction, informed decisions, and confident leadership.

AI Explorer

Find the AI opportunities that deliver real business impact

Use us to (examples):

• Identify AI opportunities well-suited for your business

• Assess your current AI projects portfolio

• Find “quick win” opportunities to prove business value early

What you get: High-impact, realistic AI projects that align with business goals and deliver measurable value.

AI Planner 

Strategy, planning, scaling and operational readiness

Use us to (examples):

• Develop an enterprise-wide AI strategy and roadmap

• Develop and implement AI risk management program

• Set up policies, rules and guardrails for responsible AI use

What you get: Execution and investments aligned to strategy, business needs and priorities.

AI Innovator

 Concept to working AI PoC in 90 Days

Use us to (examples):

• Design, test and evaluate AI PoCs in under 90 days

• Develop operational requirements for scaling 

• Build business cases for funding AI use cases and pilots

What  you get: Tested AI PoCs in 90 days that prove value early, reduce risk, and inform future investments.

Traditional ways of operationalizing AI don’t work. The technology is still evolving, use cases are emerging, and standards, regulations, and best practices are not yet settled. Most businesses lack the infrastructure, policies, and governance to support responsible AI adoption.

We take an innovation-driven approach shaped by our experience with early-stage IoT and intelligent systems. Our CAIO-as-a-Service offerings balance the need to capture AI’s benefits today while managing the risks of a fast-changing technology. Each service is designed for mid-market realities - tight budgets, lean teams, and the need to deliver results quickly.

Outcomes Focus

We start with the problem, not the technology. AI technology is fast-evolving and what works today may be obsolete tomorrow. An outcome-first focus ensures that our solutions remain effective, sustainable and resilient even when the underlying AI technology evolves.

Rapid Innovation

We prove what works and what doesn’t, in weeks, not months, using lean innovation methods, AI-enabled tools and our PoC platform. This minimizes risk, maximizes effectiveness of limited budgets, and accelerates learning so you can make smarter, faster decisions.

Agile Adaptation

AI capabilities change almost daily. We plan for technology evolution in every plan and project so your AI strategy evolves with new tools, models, and realities, futureproofing your investments, and keeping your solutions effective and business relevant.

Field Insights

Much of the real AI knowledge is being created in real time everyday from  practitioners doing real projects. We systematically and continuously gather this intelligence, and put the insights to use immediately so you avoid pitfalls, cut waste, and move faster toward value.

The AI world moves fast and is full of hype, noise, and constant change. You don’t need more uncertainty. You need clarity, structure, and results. At Strategy of Things, we help you cut through the confusion with proven frameworks, field-tested insights, and a pragmatic approach that turns disruption into progress. We bring order to the chaos to guide you from ideas to impact, safely and confidently.

We tame chaos

The AI landscape is noisy, fast, and full of hype. We bring clarity and control through proven frameworks, practical tools, and real-world insights — cutting through the noise so you can act confidently and reduce risk.

We focus on business

We focus on those business and operational challenges that matter most to you. We use AI to deliver outcomes that are important to you: value, consistency, reliability, accuracy, fairness, and trust. 

We scale with your needs

Access Chief AI Officer expertise when you need it — without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. Our modular services let you start small, scale as you grow, and align AI initiatives with your budget, capacity, and priorities.

We are built for mid-market

We are lean and agile. We move at your speed with your sense of urgency to deliver right-sized AI leadership, flexible engagement models, and practical solutions that fit your budgets, teams, and pace of change.

Drone Compliance with FAA Regulations

Designed, launched and evaluated the use of generative AI in a software application to help commercial drone operators plan flights while complying with Federal Aviation Administration regulations. (AI Innovator)

Fractional CAIO

Establish CAIO function and capability in remote care healthcare support business. Act as a fractional CAIO to plan, develop, pilot and scale their various AI initiatives. (AI Advisor)

Internal Knowledge CoPilot

Design, develop, and operationalize internal knowledge system to assist consulting business in automating field knowledge collection, and scaling system for use in company day to day operations. (AI Planner, AI Innovator)