Fractional AI Officer (Chief AI Officer)
Helping small businesses unlock their bottom line — and grow faster with AI.
Unleashing Flow works with owner-operated businesses doing $2M to $20M. We find what's slowing your operation down, fix it, and build the AI tools — web and mobile — that compound the result.
A note from Elliott
I spent twenty years running operations inside organizations much bigger than yours — the Pentagon, Morgan Stanley, healthcare, pharma, a telehealth division I built from scratch. I'm now working with small businesses for one reason: they have the same operational problems as a billion-dollar enterprise, but the leaks are visible, the fixes pay back faster, and the owner is in the room when the decision gets made.
Most of what's costing your business money isn't visible until someone looks carefully. That's the work. We find it, quantify it, and use AI as the leverage that lets a small senior team serve a $5M business at a fraction of what a full-time hire would cost.
Elliott English Co-Founder, Unleashing FlowHow we start
Five ways to begin
You don't sign up for a long engagement. You buy a first piece of work — fixed scope, fixed timeline — and decide what's next from there. Most produce direct ROI you can measure inside a few weeks.
AI Audit
Where will AI move our bottom line the most?
A focused audit of where AI will produce real dollar impact in your business — not just where it's technically possible to deploy. We rank the highest-value opportunities, quantify expected return, and tell you which one to fund first. The output is the shortlist worth your time, not a list of everything possible.
2 weeks, written report
Dashboard
I need to see my business clearly.
Margin by SKU, throughput by hour, capacity by shift, cash discrepancy across locations. The view of your operation you should already have but probably don't.
2–6 week project
App Development — Web, iPhone, Android
Build me a tool that's mine.
Custom web applications and native iOS / Android apps. Production planners, intake forms, supplier portals, custom CRMs, field-data capture, cash tracking — software designed for the exact way your operation actually runs. Certified Apple developer; TestFlight beta workflow; Supabase backend.
4–12 week project
AI Upskilling
Train my team on AI tools.
Workshops and hands-on training on the specific AI tools your team needs — built around your business, not generic prompts. Half-day or full-day formats, with 90-day follow-up to make sure adoption sticks.
1–3 days + 90-day follow-up
Online Presence Revamp
Make sure customers actually find us.
Your website, Google ranking, and reviews, working together as one system. A fast modern site, local search visibility, and a review engine that turns happy customers into the marketing you're not doing.
3–6 week project
After the first piece of work
Two ways we work together long-term
You're not asked to commit to either upfront. The first engagement earns the right to propose the second.
Throughput Cycle
Recurring quarterly diagnostic plus a monthly cadence call. We keep finding the next constraint as the business grows — because the constraint always moves.
- Quarterly mini-diagnostic
- Monthly operating cadence call
- Async access between sessions
- 12-month minimum, renewing
Fractional AI Officer Retainer
A Chief AI Officer embedded into your business 15–40 hours per month. Senior operational leadership through an AI lens — strategic execution, ongoing throughput improvement, and the custom AI tools that compound the result.
- Advisory, Operating, or Embedded tier
- Monthly P&L and pipeline review
- Hiring oversight for key roles
- AI tools built alongside the relationship
Honest fit
Who this is for
The wrong fit hurts both of us. So we name it sharply.
You're a fit if
- You're the owner-CEO of a business doing $2M to $20M
- You're working too many hours and most decisions still flow through you
- You believe AI is real but you're skeptical of the people selling it
- You want senior operational counsel, not another vendor
You're probably not a fit if
- You need a full-time C-suite hire on the leadership team
- You're looking for an AI vendor selling a product
- Your business is pre-revenue or experimental
A thirty-minute discovery call.
Free, no pitch. We want to understand what you're trying to fix; you want to know whether we're the right people for it. If we're a fit, we'll scope a first engagement that produces something measurable in 4–6 weeks. If we're not, we'll usually be able to point you toward someone who is.
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