AI Advisory for Executives
Shipped is Quant Solvent's AI advisory for senior leaders. Most people selling AI advice to executives have never built or run a production system. We have — in regulated healthcare, where a wrong answer has consequences. This is not a course and not coaching. It is an operator who closes the gap between "leadership wants AI" and "it is live, adopted, and returning money."
The reason AI stalls is rarely the technology
The model usually works. What fails is the organization around it: the data isn't ready, the pilot never gets wired into the tools people actually use, and no one owns the change. The numbers bear this out — data and AI leaders overwhelmingly name culture and change management, not technology, as their biggest hurdle; only a small fraction of companies see real financial return from AI; and the single strongest predictor of the ones that do is strong, hands-on senior-leadership ownership. That gap between intent and adoption is the entire job.
A fractional AI advisor is a senior operator who works with your leadership part-time — setting AI strategy and staying hands-on through execution — instead of a $300K–$550K full-time Chief AI Officer. You get the judgment that matters, applied to the initiatives that matter, without the full-time hire.
Who this is for
Senior leaders — in tech and non-tech industries alike — with genuine AI ambition, an existing technology stack, and pilots that have stalled or never reached production. Sharpest fit today is regulated and data-heavy sectors, where getting AI right under real constraints is the whole game. You're buying de-risked execution and a truth-teller, not another training.
How we work together
- AI Readiness Diagnostic. A two-to-three-week, fixed-scope engagement. We inventory your stack and data, map where AI creates value versus where it's theater, surface the integration blockers that kill pilots, and hand you a prioritized, costed 90-day plan. Fixed fee, agreed up front. This is the front door.
- Fractional AI Advisor. An embedded monthly retainer. Standing access for your leadership, monthly working sessions, and hands-on oversight of the priority initiatives — the operator in the room keeping the roadmap honest and the execution unblocked.
- Executive workshop or session. Optional. A focused half or full day with your leadership team to pressure-test AI strategy and separate what's real from what's vapor.
What makes this different
Production credibility, not a following. Quant Solvent has shipped AI and data systems that run in production in healthcare revenue cycle management — under HIPAA, with business-associate agreements, audit trails, and access controls, because in that world you cannot hand-wave the hard parts. That discipline is exactly what de-risks an AI program anywhere else. The promise is simple: here is what's real, here is what's vapor, here is what to do Monday.
What one session surfaces. In a recent working session, a senior leader wanted to AI-enable their own workflow — not run a company-wide program — using only tools they already had. No new software, no pilot. Inside one conversation we identified concrete changes: turn meeting transcription on by default so every meeting produces a reusable artifact; land those transcripts in one place an AI can read; generate first-draft decks, docs, and summaries from the transcript instead of building them by hand; and make the internal case for the access that unlocks the rest. The point of an advisory session isn't a strategy deck. It's changes you can make the same week.
Frequently asked questions
What is a fractional AI advisor?
A senior operator who works with your leadership on a part-time retainer instead of a full-time hire — setting AI strategy and staying hands-on through execution. A full-time Chief AI Officer runs $300K–$550K+ all-in; a fractional one gives you the judgment that matters for a fraction of that, applied to the two or three initiatives that actually move the business.
How is this different from an AI course or executive coaching?
Courses and coaching teach; they never touch your stack. This is an operator who has shipped production AI, working on your actual systems, data, and organization — which is exactly where AI initiatives stall. The documented reason corporate AI fails is organizational integration, not model quality, and that's not something a pre-recorded lesson or a strategy deck can fix.
Do you only work with healthcare and regulated companies?
Regulated healthcare is where the credibility is sharpest — shipping AI under HIPAA and business-associate agreements, where being wrong has consequences. But the failure mode we fix, turning executive intent into adopted systems, is industry-agnostic. Start with a diagnostic and we'll know quickly whether it fits your context.
What does the AI Readiness Diagnostic deliver?
A two-to-three-week fixed-scope engagement: an honest read on where AI creates value versus where it's theater, the data and integration blockers that quietly kill pilots, and a prioritized, costed 90-day action plan your leadership team can act on immediately. Fixed fee, agreed before work begins.
Who is this for?
Senior leaders with real AI ambition, an existing technology stack, and pilots that have stalled or never reached production. You're buying de-risked execution and a truth-teller who has done it — not education, and not another deck.
Start with a straight answer about your stack
A fixed-fee AI Readiness Diagnostic tells you where AI actually creates value, what's blocking your pilots, and what to do in the next 90 days. Two to three weeks, scoped up front.
Book a 30-minute intro call Prefer email? clayton@quantsolvent.co