Is where buying starts now. Buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers who to call. When those answers name a competitor, the deal is gone before your sales team knows it existed.
3 active client slots. Applications open.
Fractional Chief AI Officer: Your competitors are putting AI to work. You're still sitting through vendor demos.
I'm Jason Colapietro, a fractional Chief AI Officer for B2B CEOs running companies between $50M and $500M in revenue. In 90 days you have a working AI system in production. In 12 months AI is how your company gets found by buyers, answers every lead and runs its operations. One operator. One accountable name. No deck.
90 days First AI system live in production
90 days Of retainer refunded in full if it isn't
3 slots Active engagements, maximum
Or call (561) 401-0518. Slots run Monday to Friday until 6 p.m. Eastern.
The role
What is a fractional Chief AI Officer?
A fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO) is a senior AI executive who works inside a company part time on a monthly retainer. The role owns the AI agenda: which workflows to automate first, what to buy and what to build, and how each system reaches production and stays there. The company gets the judgment of a full-time AI executive, scaled to the work, without a full-time hire.
- Led by
- Jason Colapietro, founder and CEO of Suede AI
- Built for
- B2B companies with $50M to $500M in revenue
- First system
- Live in production within 90 days
- Engagements
- Advisory, Builder or Embedded retainer, starting with an AI Roadmap Session
- Capacity
- Three active clients at a time
- Based in
- West Palm Beach, Florida. On site across South Florida and the United States, remote anywhere.
- Pricing
- Quoted case by case after a scoping call
- Contact
- info@suedeai.ai · (561) 401-0518
The cost of waiting
You don't get this window back.
AI compounds. Every quarter a competitor puts another working system into the field, the gap gets wider. Here is what a year without an AI operating plan costs a company your size.
Of enterprise generative AI pilots delivered no measurable P&L impact in MIT's 2025 GenAI Divide research. Every stalled pilot burns budget, credibility with your team and months you can't buy back.
More likely to qualify a lead when you respond within the hour instead of an hour later, according to Harvard Business Review research. The lead that arrives at 9pm and gets a call tomorrow has already talked to someone else. The speed-to-lead playbook shows the fix.
Is what a full-time CAIO hire rides on. Senior salary, equity, a recruiting fee and months of ramp before the first system ships, all on one person who hasn't shipped anything for you yet.
Is how long it takes to learn a company signed the wrong AI platform, because nobody on its side knew which questions to ask. By then the switching cost has quietly become the strategy.
Go where the work feels modern. When your strongest operators start polishing their LinkedIn profiles, falling behind on AI has become a talent problem.
Sources: MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide (2025), as reported by Fortune. Harvard Business Review, The Short Life of Online Sales Leads (2011).
One accountable operator
You don't need another advisor. You need an operator who builds what he recommends.
Companies usually try to staff AI one of four ways. Here is what each one becomes when a fractional Chief AI Officer owns the work.
A written roadmap and the person who builds it.
Strategy and delivery stay in one set of hands, so the plan reaches production with the same person accountable from the first session to launch.
Senior direction for the people you already trust.
Your strongest internal team members get a senior AI lead, hands-on training and a clear plan. They own what we build together and keep the systems they know.
An advocate on your side of the table.
Vendor evaluation, contract review and integration with the systems you already run, so you buy what serves the roadmap and walk away from what doesn't.
Senior AI leadership, starting this month.
The judgment of a full-time AI executive, scaled to the work, with no recruiting fee, no equity and no ramp before the first build starts.
One operator decides what's worth doing and then builds it. That's the whole model.
Where you are a year from now
In 12 months, AI is how you operate, not a slide in the board deck.
Your first AI system is live in production.
A working system inside a real workflow with a measured dollar impact. Your team has watched it work, the skeptics come around, and the board has something concrete to point at.
Two or three systems running side by side.
Your highest-leverage workflows are AI-assisted. Buyers find you inside AI answers. New leads get a call back in minutes, at any hour. Your people are being trained, not replaced, and a board-ready AI report is on the calendar.
AI is part of the operating system.
It stops being a project. The board stops asking about AI and starts asking what's next. You hold a speed and cost advantage that a competitor starting today can't buy off the shelf.
The offer
Everything you need to put AI to work, and nothing you don't.
Exactly what's included when you engage. No surprises, no scope creep, no handoffs.
What's included
- On-site discovery with your leadership team. I learn the business before I touch anything.
- A written 12-month AI roadmap ranked by dollar value, not by what's trending.
- Hands-on build leadership on your first production system, delivered as forward-deployed engineering inside your stack.
- Production AI agents for the work that leaks revenue: lead response, follow-up, call review and intake, built as managed AI agents you can watch live in Suede AI Agent Studio.
- AI search visibility through Suede AI SEO, the full-stack GEO practice, so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers name your company when buyers ask.
- Vendor evaluation and contract review. I tell you what to buy and what to walk away from.
- Integration with the systems you already run: CRM, ERP, phones, email and document management.
- Training so your people own what we build instead of just using it.
- A board-ready monthly AI report: initiatives, spend, return and what's next.
- Async access between sessions for vendor calls, contract redlines and second opinions.
- A hard cap of three active clients. You get me, on every engagement.
How every engagement runs
- A written plan your team can execute, delivered alongside the build
- One monthly retainer, with no hourly billing
- Senior work from me on every engagement
- A roadmap your team owns and keeps running after the engagement
- Vendor-neutral advice: you buy only what serves the roadmap
- Delivery led in house through launch, start to finish
The process
Discovery, roadmap, build, operate.
I run all four phases, and every phase ends with a written output you keep whether we continue or not.
- Phase 01
Discovery
Weeks 1 to 2On site with your leadership. I interview the people who do the work and map your systems, data, vendors and internal politics. I also capture what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google say about you and your competitors today.
You keepEvery AI opportunity in the business ranked by dollar impact and time to value, plus your AI visibility baseline. - Phase 02
Roadmap
Weeks 3 to 4A 12-month plan written as a document. Project order, budget ranges and KPI targets, with the first project scoped to ship inside 90 days and a summary your board, PE sponsor or partners can fund without another meeting.
You keepA written 12-month plan with sequence, budget ranges, success metrics and a board-ready executive summary. - Phase 03
Build
Months 2 to 3I lead the implementation myself, using the Suede AI agent stack, your own people or your preferred vendors, whichever gets the outcome. Working systems in your environment, in production.
You keepA working AI system live in production with measured impact. - Phase 04
Operate
Month 4 onwardKeep what shipped running, improve it, and stack the next use case on top. Your internal owner takes on more every quarter until the AI function runs on its own. That is the success metric.
You keepA running AI function, a trained internal team and a quarterly review rhythm.
Senior AI leadership for a fraction of a full-time hire.
Three active slots. One accountable operator. A working system in 90 days.
Who this is for
Built for a specific kind of company, on purpose.
Three slots means every engagement has to ship. These are the companies that get the most from a fractional Chief AI Officer, and what they bring to the first call.
Apply if
- You run a B2B company with $50M to $500M in revenue
- Your board, owners or PE sponsor are asking about AI and you want a confident answer
- You've run AI projects that never shipped, or you're ready to start and want the right first project
- You want one accountable person who owns the outcome
- You have budget for senior AI leadership, and a full-time AI executive is more than your stage needs
- You're ready to act in the next 30 days
Come ready to
- Name the business problem AI should solve first
- Ship a working system, with the board update to follow
- Decide within 30 days of the scoping call
- Invest in senior, hands-on work over the lowest hourly rate
- Give one internal owner one to two hours a week
- Bring a product your customers already buy and a sales process to build on
Track record
Built, shipped and running in production.
Everything below is something I built and still run today. Client work stays under NDA and is shared on request.
20+ Years building and scaling multimillion-dollar businesses
54 Pull requests merged across 46 external open-source repositories (public record)
30+ Live Suede sites where the AI search program runs first
3 Active client slots, and never more
Suede AI SEO
Suede AI runs full-stack GEO at seo.suedeai.ai: SEO, AI search visibility, digital PR and managed AI operations, with answer share as one visibility measure across the buyer prompts a client approves.
Suede AI Agent Studio
Managed AI agents with a name, an inbox and a phone line. They call new leads first, qualify and follow up, and clients watch every run live.
Call centers, built and sold
I built, ran and sold call centers before founding Suede AI. The sales scripts I wrote are still in use across that industry, and that operating experience shapes Suede's agents for call review and lead qualification.
The operator's manuals
The Claude Code Bible and Codex in Production document how Suede runs a software estate on agent labor. The Screenshot explains how AI engines decide which company to name.
Jason ColapietroFounder and CEO, Suede AI
I founded Suede AI in West Palm Beach, Florida in 2024, after two decades of building and scaling companies. Suede has been in partnership with Google Cloud since September 2025, with its stack on the Vertex AI suite. I write the operator's manuals for running a business on AI agents, and I publish under the pen name Johnny Suede. My full founder record and press kit are public.
Engagement tiers
Three retainers. One way in.
Every retainer starts with a paid AI Roadmap Session, so we both confirm the plan before committing to a long engagement. Each retainer is quoted case by case on its scope.
Advisory
Strategy and senior judgment, no build.
Quoted case by case
Scoped on revenue, the number of active builds, and on-site versus remote cadence.
- A monthly working session with the CEO
- Async access for vendor evaluation and contract review
- A quarterly AI landscape briefing for your leadership team
- A board-ready written update every quarter
- Built for teams with a capable internal builder who needs senior direction
Builder
Strategy plus delivery on up to two active builds.
Quoted case by case
Scoped on revenue, the number of active builds, and on-site versus remote cadence.
- Everything in Advisory
- The full AI Roadmap Session included when you engage
- Hands-on build leadership for up to two active projects
- The Suede AI agent stack and a senior implementation team
- Weekly CEO check-ins during active builds
- A board-ready monthly executive report
Embedded
Acting Chief AI Officer. AI staffing comes off your list.
Quoted case by case
Scoped on revenue, the number of active builds, and on-site versus remote cadence.
- Everything in Builder
- A weekly seat at your leadership table
- Ownership of the full AI function across every initiative
- Team training and internal capability building
- Board and PE-sponsor presence on the AI agenda
- A direct line: dedicated Slack channel, mobile and calendar
Start here
AI Roadmap Session
Quoted case by case, plus travelA one-day on-site working session with your leadership team. You leave with a written 12-month plan, a ranked opportunity list with dollar values and a board-ready summary, yours to keep whether we continue or not. Start a Builder or Embedded retainer within 90 days and the full session fee credits toward your first month.
Your downside, covered
You pay for systems that ship.
On the Roadmap Session
Finish the day. If you don't believe the written 12-month plan is worth more than the session fee, tell me before you leave the room and I refund it in full. You keep the plan either way.
On the retainer
If after the first 90 days you don't have a working AI system in production and a clear plan for the next quarter, I refund all 90 days of retainer. You email me and I send the money back. The scoping call is where we confirm the first system is one I can deliver in that window.
FAQ
Questions CEOs ask before applying.
What does a fractional Chief AI Officer do?
A fractional Chief AI Officer owns a company's AI agenda part time: which workflows to automate first, which vendors to buy from, how each system is built and integrated, and how results are reported to the CEO and board. Jason Colapietro does that work and leads the build himself, so the roadmap ends in a working system in production.
How much does a fractional Chief AI Officer cost?
Every engagement is quoted case by case after a scoping call. The monthly retainer depends on company revenue, the number of active builds, and on-site versus remote cadence, and it runs at a fraction of the fully loaded cost of a full-time AI executive. Engagements start with a paid AI Roadmap Session, and its fee credits in full toward the first month when a Builder or Embedded retainer starts within 90 days.
Why hire a fractional Chief AI Officer instead of a full-time one?
A full-time Chief AI Officer brings a senior salary, equity, a recruiting fee and months of ramp before the first system ships. For a B2B company with $50M to $500M in revenue, fractional leadership delivers the same senior judgment scaled to the work, starting this month, with no long-term compensation commitment.
How is a fractional Chief AI Officer different from an AI consultant?
Jason Colapietro sets the strategy and leads the build himself, and he is accountable for the result: a deployed AI system with his name on whether it ships. Strategy, vendor decisions and delivery stay in one set of hands from the first working session to production.
What does an operator who builds mean here?
Jason Colapietro has built and scaled multimillion-dollar businesses over two decades, including call centers he exited for millions, and the sales scripts he wrote are still in use across that industry. He runs Suede AI, its full-stack GEO practice and its managed AI agents, and has 54 pull requests merged across 46 external open-source repositories. He has run companies and he builds the systems.
Which industries does this engagement fit?
B2B companies with real operations and a real sales process, in any industry. The patterns carry across: lead response, intake, quoting, support, documentation, and getting named when buyers ask AI assistants for a recommendation.
How much time does it take from our team?
For the AI Roadmap Session, about six hours of executive time across the discovery interviews. During an active engagement, one to two hours a week from a single internal owner, usually a COO, CFO or VP. The model adds senior AI leadership without adding meetings.
How is confidentiality and company data handled?
An NDA comes before any discovery. Data handling stays clean, no client is named publicly without written permission, and no case study names a client without sign-off. The proof published on this page is Suede's own work for that reason.
Can we start with a one-time AI roadmap?
Yes. The AI Roadmap Session is a one-day on-site working session with your leadership team. You leave with a written 12-month plan, a ranked opportunity list with dollar values and a board-ready summary, yours to keep whether or not a retainer follows.
Why only three active engagements?
Three is the number Jason Colapietro can lead well himself. Every client gets Jason, not a team billing under his name. Embedded means his calendar, his phone and his judgment, and three slots is what that takes.
Where is Jason Colapietro based, and does he work on site?
Jason Colapietro is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he founded Suede AI in 2024. He works on site with leadership teams across South Florida and the United States, and remotely with companies anywhere.
3 slots. One is yours or it isn't.
Stop renting strategy. Start shipping AI.
If you're the CEO of a $50M to $500M B2B company and the board is asking about AI, the answer is senior AI leadership inside your business, without a full-time executive's cost. Apply below, and approved applicants are on the calendar within a week.
Every application is reviewed personally, with a reply within 2 business days. NDA available on request. info@suedeai.ai · (561) 401-0518
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