Fractional CAIO & AI Services
Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO), AI strategy and EU AI Act governance for UK boards, led by Paul Forrest. Or talk to our AI adviser now.
Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
Board-level artificial intelligence leadership without a full-time hire. Paul Forrest works as a fractional CAIO and fractional Head of AI to UK boards, private equity portfolio companies and growing businesses, setting the AI roadmap, chairing the governance forum and holding delivery to account. The engagement runs to a few days a month and is built to leave a capable internal team behind it. Read how the role works in practice.
AI Strategy and Executive Leadership
Sequencing decides whether an AI programme pays. As an AI strategist, Paul Forrest names the two or three use cases worth funding, the data and skills they depend on, and the decisions the board must take first. The method is set out across nine sector whitepapers covering private equity, financial services, law, accounting, health research, aerospace and defence, media, logistics and critical national infrastructure. Start with the private equity paper.
AI Capability Building and Training
Skills decide whether an AI strategy survives contact with the organisation. We run board briefings, executive workshops and hands-on programmes that move teams from general awareness to competent, governed use of the tools in their own workflow. Sessions are built around your own data and regulatory position, and the material draws on Tales from AI Development Hell, which sets out how AI projects go wrong and what the pattern costs.
AI Governance and the EU AI Act
Regulation has moved from principle to obligation. We build governance that meets the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001 while delivery continues, covering risk classification, model inventories, human oversight and the audit trail a regulator or an acquirer will ask for. Begin with our EU AI Act primer, updated for the 2026 Digital Omnibus, and AI Made the Decision. Nothing here constitutes legal advice.
