Fractional AI Advisory
Get senior AI judgment without hiring a full-time executive.
For organizations running several AI programs and needing ongoing senior advisory across business, technology, and vendor decisions.
Discuss a fractional engagementWhen an AI Fractional Advisory engagement can help you
You need ongoing prioritization and governance, but not another full-time executive hire.
The CEO, board, CIO, or CTO is receiving conflicting recommendations and needs independent judgment.
Vendors are shaping the roadmap by default because no one inside is challenging assumptions strongly enough.
How our AI Fractional Advisor can help you
Help shape but also challenge your portfolio of AI initiatives to ensure they create business value.
Review business cases, vendor proposals, delivery progress, and risk exposure.
Support leadership and board decisions with clearer prioritization and challenge.
Help decide what to stop, continue, revise, or scale across the AI agenda.
How the engagement works
Step 1
Establish the baseline
We align with leadership on the business goals of the AI portfolio of activities and assess execution gaps.
Step 2
Review, guide and challenge
We review AI roadmaps, vendor proposals, internal capability, implementation progress and potential risks as the work evolves.
Step 3
Provide ongoing decision support
We provide second opinions and insights to leadership to make the right decisions related to AI roll out, vendors, etc.
Step 4
Keep the portfolio moving
We provide both organizational design and engineering guidance on what / how things should move ahead.
What makes our AI Advisory different?
15 years in C-level roles
Operator credibility across business and technology
Bao Nguyen has held C-level roles in various industries/countries and is equally fluent in business, investment, engineering and operations.
Investor-grade lens
Benefit from both an investor and technologist perspective
We work with investment funds and operators and will offer a balanced view from both side of the cap table.
Challenging vendors
Seasoned vendor management experience
We have decades of experience working with technology vendors and partners and will help you ask the right questions to avoid bad decisions or advice when it comes to AI.
Who will be your AI Fractional Advisor?
Transformation leader
Led complex digital transformations in enterprise banking, education, SaaS, AI and investment management.
Operator
15+ years of experience building companies, launching products, driving growth, from 0 to exit.
Investor
Experience evaluating business opportunities, working with capital allocators and enterprise value creation.
AI engineer
First-hand understanding of AI systems, harnesses, orchestration and governance.
Bao Nguyen (AI Value Creation Principal)
Bao brings a blend of business acumen, strategy and AI engineering capabilities, allowing him to help Clients bridge the gap between AI and actual value creation.
In the last 15 years, he has held C-level roles and led digital transformations across enterprise banking, education, SaaS, carbon financing and investment.
He has advised on AI strategy and implemented real-world AI solutions for an investment fund, leading the client from solution shaping to actual delivery to production. He also brought to market an AI and data platform in carbon financing. Both solutions included complex multi-step agent orchestration, RAG and AI governance planes.
In terms of commercial success, he enabled one of the first billion dollar exit in Vietnam (Commercial Real Estate) and exited 2 of his own companies (tech-enabled education and SaaS).
He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science (Paris, 2008), where he worked on neural networks - the foundations enabling most of current GenAI technologies.
Still on the fence?
This engagement is a good fit when…
- • You need ongoing senior direction, prioritization, and challenge over an existing AI agenda / portfolio of activities.
- • Leaders need independent judgment across vendors, delivery choices, and governance decisions.
- • The business needs someone to connect strategy, implementation progress, and risk without another full-time hire.
This engagement is not the right fit when...
- • You want a generic strategy project but no ongoing decision involvement.
- • You want prompt training or a technical education on AI.
- • You want a substitute for organization-wide implementation work.
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