One accountable AI executive, and the team that ships the roadmap.
A weekly working session with your leaders. A monthly report to your executive team. One active build at a time, from a backlog you own. From $10,000 a month, six-month minimum.
Who it’s for
Executive teams with AI work scattered across departments, vendors, and one enthusiastic employee, and nobody accountable for the whole. You want one person who owns the roadmap, shows up every week, reports every month, and has a team that builds what the roadmap calls for.
What you get
- An accountable AI executive. Dan Klosterman owns your AI roadmap, the decisions, and the results, and reports to your leadership like an officer would.
- A weekly 60-minute advisory call with your sponsor and whoever the week’s decision needs. Every call includes a build demo, even a small one.
- A monthly 60-minute leadership call and a written report the day before it: what shipped, what it did, what’s next, what needs a decision, what the risks are. Written so it can be forwarded to your board unchanged.
- Engineering capacity: one active build at a time, from a roadmap you own. Your leadership sets the priorities. Our engineering team ships the next build, then the next. You always see what’s in progress, what’s queued, and what shipped. Builds are planned in two-week cycles, so nothing is ever more than two weeks from a checkpoint.
- An AI roadmap and a 90-day plan each quarter, a backlog you can see any time, a Slack channel with your team, and a runbook and a trained owner on your side for every build that ships.
How it runs
The first 30 days
should feel like an executive arrived. Week one, Dan listens: your leaders, your system owners, your data. Week two, the inventory and the backlog. Week three, the AI operating plan, presented to your leadership on the first monthly call. Week four, the first build is moving.
Every build
starts from a one-page brief: the problem, the trigger, the output, the user, the human review point, the success measure, and what’s out of scope. The brief is approved on the advisory call. The build is demoed every week and ships with a runbook, under your accounts, in your environment. Thirty days later, the measure is checked and reported.
Changing your mind
is fine. Reorder the backlog any time. Changing an active build’s scope sends it back to the backlog as a new build, so the current one ships as written.
What it costs
From $10,000 a month, invoiced, six-month minimum, then month to month with 30 days’ notice. That price is one active build at a time. If you want two builds moving in parallel, that’s a separate order form; ask on the call.
What it is not
It isn’t a block of hours, and we won’t quote one. It isn’t hosting, an SLA, or 24/7 support; those are separate terms when you need them. It isn’t a legal or compliance opinion; when a build touches regulated data or decisions, we say so and route it to your specialists. It isn’t unbounded parallel engineering.
Where this comes from
The model was written for a real estate team with a 200-task back office, a training library nobody could search, an inherited software product, and a website to move. A weekly working session every week since February; three systems shipped by August; an operations lead who now ships code herself. And a wind-energy services company whose crew-scheduling whiteboards became a live app in their own cloud, launched in July and extended to a second department by September. Named versions of both stories are coming as the clients approve them.
Questions people ask on the fit call
How is this different from hiring?
A full-time Chief AI Officer is a $250,000-plus seat before you know whether you need one. This is the mandate, the cadence, and a build team, for six months, and it tells you what the permanent role should look like.
What if we need three things built at once?
Then we’ll show you the backlog with the three in order and start the first one this week. Parallel builds are available; most companies find that one thing shipped every three weeks beats three things in progress.
Who does the building?
EdgeTeam’s engineering team, which includes Dan. You’ll know who is on your build by name.