Fractional Chief AI Officer
Your company is deploying AI.
Who is accountable when it fails?
AI failures are not hypothetical. They are compliance violations, privacy breaches, and production systems that hallucinate in front of customers. Quintrec provides executive-level AI oversight — without the cost of a full-time hire.
AI is moving faster than
your governance can.
Most organisations are deploying AI with nobody accountable for the consequences. Developers build what they are asked. CTOs manage teams and infrastructure. Nobody owns the gap between AI capability and AI accountability. That gap is where companies get into trouble.
GDPR, PIPEDA, and the EU AI Act carry real penalties for AI misuse. Most companies have no designated owner for AI compliance. A fractional CAIO owns it — reviewing data handling, model governance, and regulatory alignment before they become enforcement actions.
LLMs hallucinate. Retrieval systems return wrong results. Computer vision models misclassify in real-world conditions. These failures happen in front of customers. Quintrec identifies production failure modes before deployment — not after the incident.
AI projects fail to reach production at an extraordinary rate — not because the technology does not work, but because the business case was never stress-tested and the success metrics were undefined. Quintrec models the return before you commit the capital.
Technical teams building AI regularly face decisions with significant business and legal implications — which data to use, how to handle model drift, when a system is reliable enough to deploy. Without senior AI leadership, those decisions default to whoever is available.
A senior AI executive commands $300,000–$500,000 annually. For most organisations, that is not the right commitment at this stage. A fractional CAIO delivers the same strategic leadership and compliance oversight at a fraction of that cost — scaled to exactly what your business needs.
Choosing the wrong AI infrastructure, locking into a vendor with poor data portability, or building a system that cannot scale — these decisions are expensive to reverse. An independent CAIO review before a major commitment is the cheapest risk mitigation available.
Three practice areas.
One mandate.
Every engagement begins with a diagnostic call. Every engagement concludes with a written deliverable. We do not deliver verbal briefings. Findings are documented, prioritised, and yours to retain.
AI Risk Audit
A systematic review of your existing or planned AI implementation. We examine privacy architecture, compliance posture, production failure modes, data handling practices, and model governance. Delivered as a written report with prioritised findings and remediation guidance.
Fractional CAIO Retainer
Ongoing advisory engagement. Quintrec participates in architecture reviews, AI procurement decisions, vendor evaluation, and incident response. Structured as a monthly retainer from five hours per week. Works in parallel with your existing CTO or engineering leadership.
AI ROI Modelling
Structured financial analysis of a proposed AI investment. We model total cost of ownership, projected efficiency gains, risk-adjusted return scenarios, and build-vs-buy trade-offs. Delivered as a financial model and board-ready memo for capital allocation decisions.
The organisations that
need this most.
A fractional CAIO is the right fit for companies at a specific inflection point — deploying AI seriously, without the infrastructure or budget to manage it at a senior executive level.
Advisory grounded in
firsthand development.
Quintrec's practice is led by a founder who has built production AI systems, filed hardware patents, and navigated real-world compliance constraints. The following technologies are under active intellectual property development.
Autonomous Healthcare Reception System with Integrated Physical Kiosk
A combined hardware and software system for autonomous patient intake, appointment scheduling, insurance verification, and checkout in clinical environments. Integrates voice AI, practice management software APIs, and a physical patient-facing kiosk into a unified operational layer.
Privacy-Preserving Group Availability Coordination with AI Booking
A coordination infrastructure that determines mutual availability across groups without exposing individual calendar data to any party. Ingests free/busy signals only, computes overlap server-side, deletes source data immediately post-computation, and surfaces only the derived overlap window.
From first call to
written report.
Complete the audit request form describing your AI implementation, deployment stage, and primary concern. All submissions are reviewed within two business days and treated as confidential.
A 45-minute intake covering your stack, deployment context, data flows, and regulatory exposure. This call defines the scope and depth of the engagement. No commitment to proceed is required.
Quintrec conducts the risk assessment, ROI model, or architecture review as scoped — examining documentation, codebases, integrations, data handling, and compliance posture.
Delivery of the written report with prioritised findings and a walkthrough session with your technical and executive leadership. Retainer clients retain ongoing advisory access thereafter.
Transparent pricing.
No surprises.
All engagements begin with a complimentary diagnostic call. Fees are confirmed in writing and agreed before any work commences. A mutual NDA is available prior to any technical disclosure.
- ✓Full privacy and compliance review
- ✓Production failure mode assessment
- ✓Data handling and model governance audit
- ✓Written report with prioritised findings
- ✓60-minute results walkthrough session
- ✓Ongoing architecture and compliance advisory
- ✓AI procurement and vendor evaluation
- ✓Incident response and risk escalation
- ✓Attendance at key technical decisions
- ✓Unlimited email correspondence
- ✓Monthly written KPI and risk summary
- ✓Total cost of ownership modelling
- ✓Risk-adjusted return scenarios
- ✓Build-vs-buy analysis
- ✓Board-ready financial memo
- ✓Vendor comparison framework
What companies
typically ask us.
Start with a no-obligation diagnostic call.
The diagnostic call is complimentary and takes 45 minutes. You will leave with a clearer picture of your AI risk exposure regardless of whether a formal engagement follows.