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05 / Fractional AI Director

Senior AI and technology leadership without hiring a full-time AI executive.

Work directly with Matthew Hutchings as your Fractional AI Director in the UK: ongoing AI strategy, adoption priorities, supplier decisions and technical oversight.

Discuss fractional AI leadership
05 / Keep moving forward

What this looks like in practice.

AI is moving too quickly for most businesses to make one technology decision and forget about it. New models, products, platforms and capabilities are appearing continuously.

At the same time, businesses need someone who understands their operations, systems and commercial priorities well enough to separate genuine opportunities from hype.

As your Fractional AI Director, I provide ongoing strategic and technical leadership. I can also regularly review the business to identify new opportunities as AI capabilities improve.

I can help with

  • AI strategy
  • Technology roadmaps
  • Identifying new opportunities
  • Evaluating AI products
  • Reviewing vendors
  • Evaluating software proposals
  • Architecture decisions
  • Automation strategy
  • Integration planning
  • Build-vs-buy decisions
  • AI governance
  • Security considerations
  • Internal AI adoption
  • Staff training
  • Project oversight
  • Supplier management
  • Development planning
  • Technical due diligence

The benefit

Instead of making isolated technology decisions, you have an experienced technical partner who understands the business and helps guide its AI development over time.

The objective

You gain access to senior AI and technology expertise without the cost or commitment of hiring a full-time CTO, CIO or Head of AI.

Discuss fractional AI leadership

I agree scope and price with you before work starts, and discuss software subscriptions and ongoing running costs separately where relevant.

A Fractional AI Director focuses on AI priorities, adoption, vendor decisions and governance. If you need wider engineering leadership, architecture and software delivery direction, explore fractional CTO and technical leadership support. We agree the responsibilities around your business, rather than treating the two roles as interchangeable.

A simple path to AI adoption

Start where you are.
Move towards what matters.

You do not need to work through every step. Start with clarity, bring your team together, or go straight to a defined implementation.

  1. 01

    Not sure where to start?

    AI & Automation Opportunity Review

    I independently review your processes, systems and manual work, and provide a written AI & Automation Roadmap, practical priorities and indicative costs.

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  2. 02

    Want to identify opportunities with your team?

    AI Quick Wins Workshop

    A practical AI workshop for UK business leadership teams. Identify useful automation opportunities and prioritise quick wins by impact, complexity and speed.

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  3. 03

    Already know what you want to improve?

    10-Day Automation Sprint

    Hands-on workflow automation services for UK businesses: improve one agreed process, connect the necessary systems, test the result and hand it over to your team.

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  4. 04

    Want to seriously change how the business operates?

    90-Day AI Transformation

    Founder-led AI transformation consultancy for UK businesses. A scoped 90-day programme combining AI adoption strategy, initial implementation and longer-term priorities.

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  5. 05

    Want ongoing AI and technology leadership?

    Fractional AI Director

    Work directly with Matthew Hutchings as your Fractional AI Director in the UK: ongoing AI strategy, adoption priorities, supplier decisions and technical oversight.

    Explore this service
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The ladder explains how an engagement can work. These service pages explain what I deliver. You can discuss a scoped project directly without starting with a review.

From interest to implementation

“We should probably be doing something with AI.”

“This is how AI is changing the way our business operates.”

Not sure where to start? Begin with an independent AI & Automation Opportunity Review.

Start with the Opportunity Review