Most companies treat AI as something engineers add. David ran it as a job for the whole company: every team, every role, measured results.
Fractional Chief AI Officer · babaVC
Save time and reduce your costs by hiring a fractional Chief AI Officer.
Fifteen years in tech, building products and scaling organizations. Jack of all trades: tech, product, business.
Co-founded EasySize (AI for fashion sizing, from scratch to PMF and profitability over eight years). Most recently ran tech, product and strategy at Cludo (site search product, company-wide AI rollout, best-selling quarter in company's history).
What's actually happening
If you're in the seat
You were hired to run product, engineering, or revenue. Now every AI question lands on you: vendor demos, team training, board prep, the pilot that won't die.
You're the default owner because you were closest when AI showed up. Not because anyone cleared your calendar or gave you authority across teams. So adoption stalls and decisions queue behind the job you were actually hired for.
If you're the founder
Your CTO ships the platform and owns AI for sales, marketing, and ops on the side. You see the cost: roadmap slips, exec time eaten by AI meetings, nobody with clean accountability for what actually gets adopted.
You don't need a full-time CAIO, especially in today's market. You need someone whose only executive job here is AI, so your technical leadership can go back to one job.
What you get
Product, engineering, unit economics, and GTM: the cross-functional view that's hard to come by today.
In your exec rhythm. Accountable for adoption and outcomes, not a deck that lands and leaves.
Vendor calls, rollout decisions, onboarding: offloaded from the person already running your company.
Most companies treat AI as something engineers add. David ran it as a job for the whole company: every team, every role, measured results.