Your fractional Chief AI Officer, delivered as AI agents. Most mid-market companies adopted AI tool by tool, and nobody owns the result: which vendors you depend on, what breaks when one deprecates a model, who approves the next tool, and whether staff trust any of it. These agents draft that governance work — a maturity baseline, a roadmap, vendor scorecards, a live risk register, and a rollout your workforce will actually accept.
Built for companies of roughly 50–500 people who cannot justify a full-time CAIO hire — and for the advisors who do this work for them.
Adopting AI is one decision. Running on it is a standing job — and it is usually nobody's.
A scored baseline across data readiness, tooling, workforce skills and governance, so the next decision starts from evidence rather than impression.
Deliverable: rubric-scored maturity assessmentWeighted vendor scorecards, a genuine build-versus-buy comparison, and the sustaining cost nobody quotes: evals, drift, forced migrations.
Deliverable: scorecard, build/buy analysisA living register of every model, vendor and internal tool: deprecation exposure, renewal dates, pricing mechanism, and how much rides on one provider.
Deliverable: model & vendor risk registerPilot selection, training sequence, gate conditions and rollback — plus a change plan that treats displacement anxiety and shadow AI as real, not as objections to handle.
Deliverable: rollout plan, change plan, prompt-ops standardsEach agent drafts a document from the information you supply. What it surfaces depends entirely on your own estate, contracts and data — these are not benchmarks or predicted outcomes.
The Fractional CTO suite answers whether to adopt AI at all. This one starts once the answer was yes.
| CTO · AI Adoption Strategy | The Fractional CAIO | |
|---|---|---|
| Question | Should we adopt AI, and how does it fit our technical strategy? | We already run on AI — who owns it, what is the exposure, and how do we govern it? |
| Cadence | A one-off strategic document | Registers, scorecards and policies built to be re-run as vendors and rules change |
| Scope | The technical estate generally, with AI as one topic | AI specifically: strategy, vendor selection, rollout and governance |
| Buy it when | You are deciding | AI is already load-bearing in the business |
If you have not made the adoption call yet, start with The Fractional CTO — no agent in this suite re-argues whether to adopt AI. They all assume you already have.
A full-time Chief AI Officer is a hire few mid-market companies can justify for a function this young. A fractional one is a monthly retainer for a slice of a person's attention.
| Hiring for the function | The Fractional CAIO · Mulkern AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Full-time CAIO: roughly $200–350k/yr all-in. Fractional advisor: commonly $4–15k/month. | $12,000/yr for the suite, 5 seats · from $1,200/yr for one agent |
| Turnaround | Days to weeks per document | Minutes |
| Capacity | Limited to one person's hours | Unlimited runs on your own key |
| Consistency | Rebuilt by hand each time | QC-reviewed and scored on a rubric every run |
| Judgment and accountability | The person owns it | Still yours. These agents draft the work; a human decides and signs. |
Market salary and retainer ranges above are general context for sizing the decision, not figures Mulkern AI has independently verified. The suite is not a substitute for a Chief AI Officer's judgment or accountability — it produces the first-draft work product that person would otherwise build from scratch.
Drop in your own Anthropic API key and your license. The key is used only to run your document and is never stored — it pays only for that run.
Answer a focused intake: the tools in use, who owns them, what data they touch, what is contracted, and what you are trying to decide.
The agent drafts it section by section, runs a pre-delivery QC pass, scores itself against a 100-point rubric, and hands you a finished document.
A real AI Vendor Evaluation Scorecard, generated by the agent for Meridian Health Partners, a fictional 480-person revenue cycle firm re-evaluating an incumbent AI vendor at renewal. No key, no signup — just the deliverable you'd get.
See a finished vendor scorecard →Run the live demo →Each produces one board-ready document, drafted from your intake, QC-reviewed and rubric-scored. A license opens the agent; you bring your own Claude key.
Scores your current state across data readiness, tooling and infrastructure, workforce skills and governance maturity against a structured rubric. The natural entry point — and it can return a low score, because a baseline that flatters you is worthless.
Open the agent →A 12–24 month phased plan: which AI capabilities to build or adopt in what order, tied to business priorities and sequenced by effort and dependency. Scoped to AI initiatives, not your whole technical estate.
Open the agent →The cost-benefit case for a proposed initiative, plus a framework for ranking competing proposals. Every figure traces to an input you supplied or an assumption stated on the page; benefit comes as low, expected and high, and the low case is genuinely pessimistic.
Open the agent →A weighted RFP-style scorecard comparing vendors on capability fit, data handling, pricing model, lock-in risk, support and roadmap stability. Numeric, comparable, and free to conclude that none of the shortlist earns the switch.
Open the agent →Deliberately four-way — buy a product, buy a platform, build on a hosted API, or do nothing — because collapsing it to build-or-buy is where these decisions usually go wrong. Sustaining cost (evals, prompt versioning, drift monitoring, forced deprecation migrations) is weighted as heavily as delivery.
Open the agent →A living register of every model, vendor and internal tool you depend on: deprecation and pricing-change exposure, contract renewal dates, and concentration risk. Keeps vendors, models and internal tools as separate inventories, so you can answer what breaks when one provider retires a version.
Open the agent →A phased workforce rollout for a tool or initiative: pilot group selection, training sequence, the success measures that gate each phase, and a rollback plan for when a phase does not clear them.
Open the agent →Standards for how your company writes, tests, versions and shares prompts internally — the operational discipline that keeps AI-assisted work consistent and auditable once usage passes a handful of early adopters.
Open the agent →Stakeholder, communication and resistance planning for AI-driven change. It asks what leadership has actually decided about headcount and accepts "not decided" as an answer — the plan then says so plainly rather than inventing a reassurance you cannot keep. Shadow AI use is treated as a signal of unmet need, not misconduct.
Open the agent →The suite is designed as twelve agents in four bundles. Three bundles are built, licensed and working today. The fourth is not, and we would rather tell you here than after you buy.
Why Bundle 4 is held. Those three agents advise on regulatory readiness as their whole purpose, not incidentally, and that carries a different level of exposure from the rest of the catalogue. They are held pending a legal-risk review of how that advice is framed, and an open decision on our own EU AI Act disclosure obligations. Selling AI-governance readiness while that question is unresolved internally is not a trade we are willing to make. When they ship, they ship — and suite licensees get them at no extra cost.
The suite price already reflects this. $12,000/yr buys the twelve-agent suite, with nine agents live now and the remaining three included when they are released. If you only want what exists today, the three live bundles are $3,000/yr each.
In August 2026 a run of model deprecations across several providers forced us to sweep our own codebase for hardcoded model references and repair what broke. It was our own internal operational experience — not a client engagement, not a case study, and we are not publishing a result from it — but it is exactly the failure the AI Model & Vendor Risk Register is shaped around: nobody holds a list of what depends on which model until a provider retires one.
That is the general posture here. Every agent in this suite covers work someone has to own, and the tools that exist for it are usually a spreadsheet somebody started and stopped maintaining.
Annual, on your own Anthropic key. Same rates as every other Mulkern AI suite — no launch premium and no launch discount.
Checkout for this suite is not open yet — email support@mulkernai.com and we will set the license up directly. Want the whole executive team? The Full Office bundles all 97 live agents across eight suites — CFO, COO, CHRO, CRO, CEO, CMO, CTO and CAIO — on one license. See all eight suites →
Your logo and your name on every deliverable, with no Mulkern AI mark — built for fractional executives, advisory firms and agencies who deliver this work to their own clients. Same agents, same pre-delivery QC and 100-point scoring, your brand.
Pricing is one simple rule: +50% on the license. The CAIO Suite is $12,000/yr → $18,000/yr white-labeled. Extra seats stay $2,000/seat.
Set up white-label →AI agents for the work a Chief AI Officer owns once a company already runs on AI: an AI maturity assessment, a strategic roadmap, a business case and prioritisation framework, a vendor evaluation scorecard, a build-versus-buy analysis, a model and vendor risk register, an adoption rollout plan, a prompt-ops playbook and a change management plan. Nine agents are live today; each is QC-reviewed and scored against a 100-point rubric.
Because that is what exists. The suite is designed as twelve agents in four bundles, and Bundle 4 — Governance & Compliance — has not been built. Those three agents advise on regulatory readiness as their entire purpose, so they are held pending a legal-risk review of that framing and an open decision about our own EU AI Act disclosure obligations. There is no release date. Suite licensees get them included whenever they ship.
They sit in sequence. The Fractional CTO's AI adoption strategy agent answers whether to adopt AI and how it fits your technical strategy — a one-off decision document. This suite starts after that answer was yes: who owns the AI you now run, what your vendor and model exposure is, how it gets rolled out, and how it is governed on an ongoing basis. No agent here re-argues the adoption decision.
You bring your own Anthropic (Claude) API key, fill out a short intake about your AI estate and what you are deciding, and the agent drafts the document, checks it, and scores it against a 100-point rubric — then you review and act. All you need is an Anthropic key and a couple of minutes to set it up the first time.
Yes. The AI Vendor Evaluation Scorecard agent runs as a free live demo — no API key, no signup. It works a fictional company, Meridian Health Partners, a 480-person revenue cycle firm re-evaluating an incumbent AI vendor at renewal, and you can jump straight to the finished scorecard or run it yourself. Licenses also carry a 30-day guarantee, so if your first deliverable is not board-ready you can email within 30 days for a full refund of the license fee.
A single agent is $1,200/year ($600 for 3 months, $900 for 6). A 3-agent bundle is $3,000/year, and the full CAIO Suite is $12,000/year with 5 seats, plus $2,000/year for each extra seat. On top of that you pay your own Anthropic usage — usually a few cents to a couple of dollars per deliverable, with no markup from us. Checkout is not open for this suite yet; email support@mulkernai.com and we will set the license up.
No, and no agent here will tell you that it does. These deliverables are readiness and gap assessments, registers and planning documents — they are not a compliance determination or a certification, and no agent in the suite states that your company meets a regulatory standard. Anything with a legal or contractual consequence should be reviewed by qualified counsel before you act on it.
Everything runs on your own Anthropic key. Your inputs pass through our gateway only in the moment needed to call Claude — they are never written to disk, logged or stored. We keep only your license details and basic usage counts, and we never sell or share your data.
No. It produces the work product that role would otherwise draft from scratch — the assessment, the register, the scorecard, the plan. Judgment and accountability stay with a person. Treat every deliverable as an expert-quality first draft to review, not a decision already made.