Your next Head of AI may already work for you.
An outside search for an AI leader can take months, and the hire still has to learn your company. The person your team already trusts knows where work gets stuck. We coach them into the role in 12 weeks.
Already posted the role?
Keep searching. The insider path works alongside your search, and your new hire walks into a company where AI already runs instead of starting from zero.
- Momentum while you search
- A bench of AI champions ready for your hire
- A measured baseline they can build on
Outside hire or coached insider
Outside hire
- A search that can run for months
- Ramp time to learn your business and people
- Trust has to be earned before change sticks
- One person carrying the whole change alone
Coached insider
- Can start right away
- Already knows your processes and politics
- Already has the team's trust
- Backed by an AI engineer and a change manager
You probably already know their name.
It is rarely the most technical person. It is the one people go to when something is broken.
- Trusted across teams, not only in their own
- Curious about AI and already trying it
- Understands how work really flows, end to end
- Has, or can be given, the authority to change it
What your insider does, with us beside them
They lead. We coach them, and we coach the leaders around them.
- 1Weeks 1 to 2
Read the room
Leadership assessment, gaps between leaders, and 1 to 3 operational problems with a baseline.
- 2Weeks 2 to 4
Run the hackathon
Your insider runs it with our help. Early wins, and a list of champions.
- 3Weeks 4 to 10
Lead the build
Weekly coaching on the technology and on the change. Workflows go live.
- 4Weeks 10 to 12
Own the role
Results against the baseline, and a playbook your insider carries forward.
Before your search runs another month, talk to us.
One free call. We'll talk through the role you posted and whether the insider path fits.