Fractional Chief AI Officer

Your business needs AI leadership. Not a full-time hire.

Jeff Chapman

I love solving problems — and I've got the track record to prove it. As an established senior leader, I've led product engineering at Podium and helped startups build the MVPs that won them funding: I know how to solve problems with software at any scale. After leading engineering at Podium, I stepped into a solution-architect role and built the company's enterprise AI arm end to end — scoping and architecting the solution, helping win the deals as the solution architect, then leading the teams that delivered it hand-in-hand with the client. That drove $20M+ in a single year, including Podium's $8M largest deal ever. Now I bring that range to companies that know they're behind on AI but don't have a CTO.

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Jeff Chapman

$20M+ in enterprise AI deals I scoped, architected & delivered — my final year at Podium
$8M largest deal in Podium's history
Built Podium's enterprise AI arm end to end — as its solution architect
Led product engineering behind Podium's customer-facing products — Payments · Phones · CRM · Messaging
Podium's longest-tenured engineering leader · 50+ engineer org · reported to the CTO
Also helped startups build the MVPs that won them funding

$20M+ in enterprise AI deals I scoped, architected & delivered Podium's largest deal ever — $8M Built Podium's enterprise AI arm end to end — its solution architect Podium's AI spotlighted by NVIDIA Worked with execs at household-name national brands Led 50+ engineers behind Podium's core products MVPs that won startups their funding $20M+ in enterprise AI deals I scoped, architected & delivered Podium's largest deal ever — $8M Built Podium's enterprise AI arm end to end — its solution architect Podium's AI spotlighted by NVIDIA Worked with execs at household-name national brands Led 50+ engineers behind Podium's core products MVPs that won startups their funding
From enterprise to your front door

I led the teams that built the foundation of Podium — the platform 60,000+ local businesses run on. Let me bring it to yours.

More revenue, fewer hours lost to busywork — built around what your business actually needs, not a prepackaged solution.

Where to start

Start with the assessment.

The $1,500 AI Assessment is the front door — a fast, low-risk way to see exactly where AI pays off in your business, with a plan you can run yourself. Most people start there. When you want a hand running it, I take on a few fractional Chief AI Officer clients at a time.

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The AI Assessment

$1,500 · one-time · plan in 48 hours

Tell an AI agent about your business — on your schedule, no meeting to book. I turn it into a prioritized plan you can run yourself.

  • An AI agent interviews you (or book a live call)
  • A prioritized, dollar-quantified plan in 48 hours
  • Off-the-shelf tools and step-by-step quick wins
  • Implement it yourself — or hand it to me
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Fractional Chief AI Officer

Monthly retainer · a few clients at a time

When the assessment surfaces more than you want to run alone, I step in as your part-time AI leader — strategy, builds, and training, month over month. I keep the roster small so it stays hands-on.

  • Strategy — where AI takes your industry, and how you stay ahead
  • Transformation — the systems and automations, built and managed
  • Education — your whole team, fluent and faster
  • A coach who makes your team self-sufficient — not a dev shop
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How the assessment works

A plan in 48 hours — without a meeting on your calendar.

The whole point is leverage: you talk when it's convenient, an AI agent captures it, and I turn it into your plan. No scheduling, no homework.

01 — Intake

An AI agent interviews you

Call a number or click a link whenever it suits you. An AI agent walks you through your operation, your tools, and your headaches — and asks the follow-ups. Prefer a human? Book a 30-minute call instead.

02 — Your plan

A plan you can run yourself

Within 48 hours: a prioritized plan — the exact tools for your biggest time-sinks, the hours and dollars each one saves, and step-by-step quick wins. Plus the bigger opportunities, if you want to go further.

03 — Your move

Run it yourself, or hand it to me

Implement the plan on your own — it's yours to keep. Or bring me in to build it, or to run AI for you ongoing as your fractional Chief AI Officer.

The fractional CAIO

What an AI leader actually does for you.

A full-time AI executive is a $200K+ hire most companies can't justify. As your fractional Chief AI Officer, you get the same leadership — strategy, building, and training — for a fraction of the cost, month to month.

Strategy

Stay ahead, on purpose

Where AI is taking your industry, what your competitors are doing, and a quarter-by-quarter roadmap so you're leading the change instead of reacting to it.

Transformation

Build the systems

The automations, dashboards, and tools that take real work off your team's plate — built on proven platforms, managed, and improved over time.

Education

Level up your whole team

Hands-on training that makes every employee faster with AI — and self-sufficient enough to keep building without me in the room.

The shift

What changes when you stop guessing.

Today
  • You know you're behind on AI — but not where to start
  • Your team loses hours a week to repetitive busywork
  • No one internally owns it, so nothing actually happens
With me
  • A clear plan, mapped to how your business actually works
  • The right work handed off to AI, on proven tools
  • An AI leader driving it forward — and a team that keeps up
$20M+
Enterprise AI deals I scoped, architected & delivered, my last year at Podium
$8M
Largest deal in Podium's history
50+
Engineers in the org I led
Who you'd be working with

I'm Jeff. A husband and dad to four boys — an entrepreneur at heart, but an even better intrapreneur. I love solving problems with software, and I've done it at every scale. I led product engineering at Podium as its longest-tenured engineering leader — reporting to the CTO, running an organization of 50+ engineers behind the foundational products (Payments, Phones, CRM, Messaging) tens of thousands of local businesses run on — and I've helped startups build the MVPs that won them their funding. When AI came, it was built on the foundation we laid. I stepped into a solution-architect role and built Podium's enterprise AI arm end to end — scoping the technical solution, architecting it, helping win the deals in the room, then leading the engineering teams who delivered it hand-in-hand with the client. That drove $20M+ in a single year, including the $8M largest deal in company history — work that now runs at national brands you'd recognize across auto, retail, home services, and hearing care. (Podium's AI got called out by NVIDIA along the way.)

That whole time, the customers were companies exactly like yours: real operations, no in-house tech leader, and a growing sense they were falling behind on AI. I was the person who actually built it. Now I do that for one business at a time — as the AI leader you don't have to hire full-time.

I'm not here to sell you a custom build you don't need, or to become your dev shop. I'm here to set the strategy, stand up the systems that matter, and make your team self-sufficient.

Made concrete

What AI could actually do in a business like yours.

Not “automation” in the abstract — the specific, unglamorous work that quietly eats your team's week. You're not behind on this; you're early, and that's the advantage. Here's the kind of thing the assessment turns up.

Speed-to-lead

The job you'd have missed

An AI receptionist answers after-hours, qualifies the lead, and books it — so the call that used to hit voicemail becomes revenue.

Quotes & invoices

Paperwork, in minutes

Turn a few details into a polished proposal or invoice in minutes instead of an afternoon — and stop letting billing slip.

Follow-up

No lead goes cold

Automatic, personal follow-up keeps prospects and past customers warm while your team does the work only people can do.

Reporting

Reports that build themselves

The weekly numbers someone assembles by hand — pulled together and in your inbox, without the manual busywork.

Forecasting

Stop guessing

AI spots the patterns in your own data so you stop over- or under-ordering, over- or under-staffing — and stop leaving money on the table.

Your team

Everyone, faster

Hands-on training so each person does their job in a fraction of the time — and keeps finding wins after I'm gone.

Most businesses I look at are leaking 5–15 hours a week — and real dollars — to work like this. And I don't just point at it: I've built this kind of thing at enterprise scale. The assessment finds exactly where it's hiding in your business, and what it's worth. See what yours might be costing →

Let's talk

Find out where AI actually
moves the needle for you.

Book a free 15-minute call to learn more — no pitch, no pressure. From there, start with the $1,500 assessment or talk about an ongoing fractional CAIO retainer.

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