Your organisation needs a Chief AI Officer. It may not need one full-time.
Fractional CAIO and CDAO advisory for Government of Canada departments and enterprise organisations. Executive-level AI accountability, governance, and strategy on a retainer model, delivered by the practitioner whose name is on this page.
The deadline has passed. The accountability question has not.
The Treasury Board Directive on Automated Decision-Making required Level 3 and Level 4 compliance by June 24, 2026. Departments operating automated decision systems without a named, senior AI accountability function are now exposed, not preparing. The United States mandated a Chief AI Officer in every federal agency in March 2024; the GC AI Register now covers 400-plus systems across 42 institutions. AI accountability is becoming a named executive function.
70 days since the 24 June 2026 compliance deadline.
| Constraint | Reality |
|---|---|
| A full-time CAIO is a $300K+ commitment | Salary, benefits, and a 6-to-12-month search, for a function still being defined. |
| The talent pool is thin | Executives combining AI fluency, governance depth, and delivery are scarce; those with GC experience and clearance are scarcer. |
| The need is immediate but not constant | Governance and strategy require senior judgement in concentrated doses, not forty hours a week. |
The fractional model resolves all three.
The 70% that decides AI outcomes is people, process and governance. Considered Intelligence™ is how we deliver it.
EVIDENCE: BCG transformation research
METHOD: Considered Intelligence™ operationalises the 70%
Govern before you deploy
Accountability mapping, policy architecture, AIA readiness, risk thresholds set before systems ship.
Decision velocity over tool velocity
Investments sequenced by decision value; every use case anchored to a measurable outcome.
Adoption as architecture
Capability, role redesign, and change reinforcement engineered in, not appended as training.
Compliance as advantage
Treasury Board alignment and audit-ready documentation converted into procurement and trust differentiators.
BCG puts 10% of AI value in the algorithms and 20% in the technology. The remaining 70% comes from rethinking the people component. AltNexus reads that layer as people, process and governance, and the founder delivers it personally.
Retainer economics: anchored to the cost of the problem.
$300K+
Full-time CAIO, per year, before the function has proven its shape. A stalled AI programme routinely costs seven figures beyond it.
Fixed retainer
Three tiers, defined monthly deliverables, an outcome guarantee on every tier. Engagements run in 90-day cycles: at day 90, you decide to scale, continue, or conclude. A fraction of one executive salary; an ROI decision, not a cost decision.
The graduated path: most engagements begin with the AI Velocity Gap Diagnostic™ (roadmap or refund). You buy certainty first, then capacity.
ACTIVE ENGAGEMENTS ARE LIMITED to protect founder-level delivery. Availability confirmed at discovery.
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“The person on this page delivers your engagement.”
Large firms cannot make that sentence true. AltNexus is built on it.
Fractional CAIO: the five questions.
What does a fractional Chief AI Officer actually do?
Four standing deliverables on a retainer: AI governance ownership (policy, risk register, impact assessments, board reporting), strategy and portfolio oversight, on-call executive advisory, and capability building. The same mandate as a full-time CAIO, compressed into concentrated senior time.
How much does a fractional CAIO cost compared to a full-time hire?
The median full-time CAIO base salary is approximately $353K (Glassdoor, June 2026), before benefits and a 6-to-12-month search. A fractional retainer is a fraction of that, fixed-price, with defined monthly deliverables. Specific figures are provided at proposal; AltNexus does not bill hourly.
How do engagements work?
In 90-day cycles. Most begin with the AI Velocity Gap Diagnostic™ (implementation roadmap or refund). At day 90 of any cycle, leadership decides: scale, continue, or conclude. No open-ended lock-in.
Do you work with Government of Canada departments?
Yes. AltNexus Corporation holds a Facility Security Clearance at Secret under the Contract Security Program, with continuously sponsored personnel screening since 2005 and Protected B delivery experience, and engagements align to the Treasury Board Directive on Automated Decision-Making. The corporation holds no Document Safeguarding Capability: classified and protected material is accessed at your site and never held at ours. See the Government page for procurement standing.
What is Considered Intelligence™?
The AltNexus operating framework for the 70% layer, people, process and governance: govern before you deploy, decision velocity over tool velocity, adoption as architecture, compliance as advantage.