The work — 03 / The Fractional AI Ops Seat
Your AI capability, without the hire.
After the sprint, someone has to own the system. Hiring that person costs six figures and they'd be underused. Instead, I hold the AI operations seat on your chart: monitor everything running, tune it against your numbers, and ship the next agent. Every month, the system gets better instead of older.
AI systems are not fire-and-forget. Models change, your business changes, and an agent nobody watches drifts. The difference between teams that compound and teams that stall is whether anyone owns the seat.
Monitoring & maintenance
Every running agent watched, patched, and kept healthy. Issues get fixed before your team files them.
Optimization against the scorecard
Agents reviewed against real numbers, not vibes. What underperforms gets tuned. What performs gets pushed further.
The next ship
One improvement or new build lands every month. The roadmap from your audit keeps moving instead of gathering dust.
Advisory in the room
A direct line to the person who built your system, plus a straight read on which AI developments matter for you and which are noise.
$3,500/mo founding rate for the first cohort. Roughly a third of what a full-time AI hire costs, holding a real seat on your chart. It follows a Build Sprint, so the systems it compounds already work.
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Review the numbers
The scorecard tells us how every agent performed. We look at the same numbers you do, so the conversation is about the business, not the technology.
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Tune what's running
Prompts sharpened, context updated, edge cases handled. The quiet work that keeps agents feeling like teammates instead of interns.
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Ship the next thing
The roadmap's next item goes live: a new agent, a deeper automation, a smarter handoff. Momentum is the deliverable.
Do we need a Build Sprint before the seat?
Can you take over systems another agency built?
Sometimes. It starts with a paid assessment of what exists, because inheriting an undocumented system is riskier than building a documented one. If the foundation is sound, the seat takes it over. If not, you get an honest read on what to rebuild first.
Why not just call you when something breaks?
Because a support contract waits for failure and a seat prevents it. The compounding is the point: every month agents get sharper and a new improvement ships. Teams with a seat keep widening the gap on teams that stopped at go-live.
What does the $4,000 a month cover, and what scales it?
The base covers monitoring and maintenance of every running agent, monthly optimization against your scorecard, one improvement or new build shipped each month, and standing advisory. It scales up with the number of running systems under the seat and the pace of new builds you want, always by scope, never by the hour. You'll know the price before the month starts.
The compounding tier