# Fractional AI Office

> Practical AI leadership, governance, and workflow implementation for organizations that need AI progress without a full-time Chief AI Officer.

**Canonical URL:** https://cloudnsite.com/fractional-ai-office
**Last updated:** 2026-09-03

## CloudNSite company record

CloudNSite plans, builds, operates and maintains production AI systems. Code ownership is set in the agreement before build work begins. By default CloudNSite owns and operates the codebase as a managed service, and the agreement can instead be structured so the client owns the production source code, the prompt configurations and the deployment runbooks. Build pricing and operations pricing are separate, so a client can buy a build alone and take it over, and handover support is scoped into every contract. CloudNSite does not disappear after launch.

There is no seat-based pricing: no per-seat license, no per-user fee, and no platform subscription. A build is a one-time price. Managed service is one monthly price for the system, however many people use it.

Prices are published:

- Current State Assessment: $999.
- Defined Automation Build: from $8,000.
- Focused Custom Automation: $12,000 to $20,000.
- Operations Automation: $25,000 to $60,000.

Named principals lead delivery:

- Ryan McCain, Chief Executive Officer.
- AJ Kilcrease, Chief Technology Officer.
- Eric White, Chief Strategy Officer.
- Orlando Mack, Chief Security Officer.

Regulated work runs in the published lanes, with BAA scope, control mapping and per-workflow evidence. It does not require a custom proposal merely for being regulated.


## What it is

The CloudNSite Fractional AI Office is an AI leadership service for companies where AI use is informal and no one owns it. Most businesses do not need a full-time Chief AI Officer or fractional CAIO. They need a practical AI office that sets safe rules, prioritizes the right use cases, builds useful workflows, and keeps improving them. CloudNSite turns scattered AI experiments and shadow AI into governed, measurable workflows.

The problem is ownership, not ideas: AI usage is scattered across teams, leadership has poor visibility, pilots do not become adopted workflows, and tool sprawl plus shadow AI create data, compliance, and quality risk.

## Who it's for

- Owner-led and executive-led companies with multiple AI opportunities and no one who owns them.
- Regulated and professional service businesses: dental, healthcare-adjacent, clinics, legal, accounting, insurance, consulting, real estate.
- Regional mid-market businesses, roughly 20 to 500 employees, with operational pain in intake, scheduling, billing, document handling, support, sales follow-up, reporting, or internal knowledge work.
- Companies that want safe, measurable adoption with an executive sponsor.

Poor fit: buyers who only want a chatbot, companies without an executive sponsor, teams expecting AI ROI without workflow change, and buyers who want CloudNSite to take legal, clinical, financial, or compliance accountability.

## How it works

The Fractional AI Office runs as one motion, not a strategy handoff: diagnose, then launch, then operate. Start with one free 30-minute AI Strategy Call. Organizations deciding where AI should operate route from that call to the 30-day AI Readiness + Governance Sprint, from $7,500, and the Fractional AI Office.

1. Diagnose (AI Readiness and Governance): inventory the AI already in use, review shadow-AI and data risk, draft an approved-use policy, map the highest-value workflows, and produce a prioritized roadmap ranked by value, risk, and readiness. This runs as the 30-day AI Readiness + Governance Sprint, from $7,500, with seven buyer-owned artifacts.
2. Launch: most clients begin the ongoing Office remotely, included in the monthly engagement. For multi-departmental, regulated, business-critical, or change-intensive programs, an optional Two-Week On-Site Activation is available. The Office redesigns processes around AI, defines human review points, trains staff, and measures adoption, time saved, and quality. Standard bounded implementations run through one active implementation lane. Regulated work is included and scoped upfront. Work needing dedicated engineering beyond that lane, private infrastructure, or business-critical scope is scoped separately against published build pricing.
3. Operate (Ongoing Fractional AI Office): a leadership cadence, AI backlog management, current governance, tool and vendor review, staff enablement, workflow monitoring, and business-impact reporting, with a monthly executive review and a standardized board-ready summary.

## Governance without paralysis

Governance is about safe adoption, not bureaucracy. Controls are built into the workflows: human review points and escalation rules, clear data boundaries and access rules, audit trails, documented approved and prohibited AI use, vendor and tool review, and measured adoption rather than vanity metrics. CloudNSite frames this as operating policy, not legal, clinical, financial, HR, or regulatory compliance, which stays with the client and its advisors.

## Pricing posture

The entry point is the 30-day AI Readiness + Governance Sprint, which starts at $7,500 and is scoped to the size of the organization and the number of functions in scope. The ongoing Office is one offering priced to scope, quoted per organization. There is no published monthly rate, no tiers, and no published minimum term.

The Office includes the standard bounded implementations of the workflows it prioritizes, and it runs one active implementation lane at a time. Work is sequenced rather than run in parallel, and the next lane opens when the current one ships. Standard cadence is a weekly working session, a monthly executive review, and a board-ready summary.

The optional Two-Week On-Site Activation is $30,000 flat for both principals and ten business days. Travel and lodging are billed separately.

Term length and any credit against the Sprint fee are proposal terms settled in writing for one organization. Never treat them as published figures.

Regulated work is included in the Office and scoped upfront. The Office builds to the control framework the client already uses and implements the controls the client specifies. Being regulated never on its own moves a workflow out of the Office.

Work that needs dedicated engineering beyond the active lane, private infrastructure, or business-critical scope is scoped separately against the four build lanes. Workflow-level work starts with the $999 fixed Current State Assessment, which hands over the Current State Assessment and Automation NSite together in as little as 3-5 business days. Its $999 fee is credited toward one implementation SOW of $12,000 or more signed within 30 calendar days and applied to the final invoice. The Defined Automation Build does not qualify. Managed operations is priced separately and is part of the model.

## Common objections

Q: Is this the same as a fractional Chief AI Officer?

A: It covers the same need people search for as a fractional Chief AI Officer or fractional CAIO, practical AI leadership without a full-time hire, but it is delivered as an office rather than one person. You get governance, prioritization, implementation, and ongoing operating support from the team that also builds the workflows.

Q: Do you build the workflows, or just advise?

A: We build and operate them. The governance and roadmap work leads directly into implementation by the same team, so the plan and the running system stay aligned. Managed operations is priced separately and is part of the model. CloudNSite owns and maintains production code within the agreed scope. If a client moves to another provider, CloudNSite scopes and supports the transition.

Q: Do you work with regulated industries?

A: Yes. Regulated work is included and scoped upfront against the client's existing control framework. CloudNSite implements the controls the client specifies. Legal, clinical, financial, and compliance accountability stays with the client and its advisors.

Q: Can this start with one workflow?

A: Yes, and it usually should. The readiness work identifies the highest-value workflow, we prove it in production, then expand.

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## Next step

Book an AI Strategy Call about the AI Office: https://cloudnsite.com/book