Do I need a Chief AI Officer or can I outsource it?
Many mid-market companies ($5M-$50M revenue) need AI leadership before a full-time CAIO hire is realistic. Fractional Chief AI Officer engagements through Aegis Advisory deliver the leadership outcome at fractional cadence.
The short answer.
Many mid-market companies ($5M-$50M revenue) need AI leadership before a full-time CAIO hire is realistic. Fractional Chief AI Officer engagements through Aegis Advisory deliver the leadership outcome at fractional cadence.
A capable Chief AI Officer hire is expensive, hard to source, and often poorly defined inside a mid-market operating reality.
The fractional CAIO model pairs a named senior advisor with an agent layer configured to support the agreed operating cadence. The function ships; the cap-table line item does not.
See /insights/fractional-chief-ai-officer/ for the full positioning.
How Aegis approaches this.
Aegis Boardroom's answer is shaped by three frameworks. Truth Architecture: recommendations are designed to be source-traced. Confidence Contract: recommendations are mapped to the canonical Aegis confidence states (I Know / I Think / I'm Inferring / I Don't Know). Life Integrity Engine: recommendations that may increase irreversible-harm risk are flagged for refusal or human review, not softened.
The fastest path is the AI Readiness Assessment: it returns a confidence-mapped band for your specific situation. From there, the Quick Win Plan or a deeper engagement scopes the right paid Aegis next step.
Frequently asked questions.
What's the Aegis Boardroom price range for engagements that answer this?
Aegis Boardroom does not publish pricing on the public site - a deliberate decision driven by engagement-scope variance. Pricing is set after the discovery call.
Who is Eric Pharr?
Eric Pharr is the founder of Aegis Boardroom LLC. Headquartered in Olathe, Kansas. Background in telecom and network architecture. See /about/#eric for the full profile.