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I run AI adoption from inside your team.

The calm operator who makes AI earn its keep.

The 4× CTO who bridges AI with real work, and knows when not to use it. Systems over hype. ROI over demos. Judgment over automation.

For leaders of SMEs and scale-ups: CEOs, COOs, founders, heads of ops. Big enough to feel the pressure to adopt AI. Too small for an in-house AI team.

Fractional AI Operator Retainer

2 to 4 days a month, embedded in your leadership team. I own AI adoption, ROI tracking, and governance, so it doesn't sit with whoever has the most spare time.

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AI Adoption Audit & Roadmap Sprint

Fixed price, 1 to 2 weeks. I map your workflows, surface the shadow AI your team is already running, set ROI targets, and hand you a 90-day plan. The front door to the retainer.

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AI ROI Leadership Workshop

One day with your exec team. We align CEO, COO, and CTO on where AI actually creates value in your model, and leave with three scoped pilots that can reach production.

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Workflow-Embedded Enablement Program

Role-specific training built into the tasks your team already does. The workflow itself is the training material.

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Builder Advisory

1:1 call packages for founders and operators building their own AI systems. Bring the hard decision; leave with a system you can run.

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Speaking / Media Kit

A six-year-old with a Commodore 64, then a teenage web freelancer, then 8 years at IBM until the glass ceiling, then 4× CTO and founder through startup chaos. That's how I arrived at the Operator: someone who builds intentional systems that make AI pay off, proven in software (internal AI adoption, 90% of tasks via technology) and in music (Dark Beauty).

Credentials

  • 20 years in tech: IBM developer/PM, 4× CTO, founder
  • Runs an internal AI adoption mandate: 90% of tasks done with technology
  • Founder of Dark Beauty (music label/community helping independent artists)
  • Performed at Burning Man 3 times (also became a music lead on regional Burning Man events)
  • Writes publicly on applied AI adoption and “when not to use AI” at ai-operator.dev

Talk Topics

  • Why 95% of AI pilots die, and the boring system design that survives
  • Running a “90% of tasks” mandate from the inside: what actually changed
  • Feeling faster vs. being faster: measuring AI adoption honestly
  • The SME AI maturity ladder: where you really are, and the one next step
  • Knowing when not to use AI is a competitive skill, for a person and for a company
  • I build AI systems for companies by day and musicians by night: what each taught the other

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