RICK SPAIR

Fractional Executive Seats · AIXF

Two chairs. One Rick Spair.

Seventy four percent of companies expect AI to grow revenue. Twenty percent have seen it happen. The gap is not a technology problem. It is a leadership seat nobody has filled, because the person who can run AI and the person who can run revenue are almost never the same person.

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01The market, in four numbers

Budgets up. Outcomes flat.

76%

of organizations now have a Chief AI Officer in some form, up from 26% a year earlier

IBM 2026 CEO Study

22%

have scaled AI across more than one business unit

Gartner 2026

47%

growth in worldwide AI spend this year, to $2.59 trillion

Gartner 2026

30%+

of midsize enterprises will keep a fractional executive on retainer by 2027

Gartner forecast

02Four ways in

Pick the seat that is empty.

Every offer below is run by Rick Spair with the same supervised agent fleet underneath. Executive seats are billed hourly, five hour minimum retainer.

The seat nobody else can fill

Fractional Chief Revenue and AI Officer

Both chairs, one person. AI strategy that reaches the number, and a revenue engine built to use the fleet. Weekly leadership cadence, board readout every quarter.

$600/ hr

5 hour minimum retainer

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Fractional Chief AI Officer

For companies under $300M running scattered pilots with no owner. Strategy, governance, vendor decisions, and the discipline to say no. Built by someone who builds.

$400/ hr

5 hour minimum retainer

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Fractional Chief Revenue Officer

Thirty years of revenue practice and the Precision Revenue Framework, applied to your pipeline with an agent fleet doing the volume a full team would.

$400/ hr

5 hour minimum retainer

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03Why fractional, why now

A discount on nothing.

A fractional seat is not a discount on a full time hire. It is the only way most companies get the seat at all. The model produces more value than a permanent hire when three things are true at once, and for AI and revenue leadership in a mid market firm, all three are.

The talent is scarce

Very few people have run AI transformation at the executive level. Fewer still have also carried a revenue number. Shared access is the only practical model.

The full time cost is out of reach

A full time Chief AI Officer runs $300K to $550K in the mid market. A first year CRO runs $500K to $700K. Against a $10M to $100M firm, that is not a hiring decision.

The need is a transformation, not a shift

Getting AI to revenue and rebuilding a go to market engine are episodic. A permanent hire is wrong sized for episodic work. A fractional seat is right sized by definition.

04Who this is for

More pilots than owners.

B2B technology and services firms between $5M and $300M in revenue. A CTO or CIO who has been handed AI on top of the day job. A pipeline that underperforms the market it sells into. A board that has approved AI budget twice and seen a demo both times.

If you have more AI pilots than people accountable for them, the seat is empty.

Bring the org chart and the numbers.

Twenty minutes is enough to know which seat is empty and what it would cost, in writing, before anything begins.

05The seats

Executive leadership, priced like a line item.

Three seats. Rick Spair is in every one of them, and the agent fleet does the volume a full team would. Billed hourly, five hour minimum retainer.

Fractional CRO

$400

/ hr

5 hour minimum retainer

Firms whose revenue function underperforms the market it sells into.

  • Precision Revenue Framework applied end to end
  • Weekly leadership session, standing async line
  • ICP, target accounts, triggers, and sequences built by the fleet
  • Pipeline audits and live deal review at decision points
  • Monthly written revenue brief
Category of one

Chief Revenue and AI Officer

$600

/ hr

5 hour minimum retainer

When AI budget has been approved and revenue has not moved.

  • Everything in both seats, one accountable person
  • AI portfolio owned and sequenced toward revenue
  • Revenue engine rebuilt to run on the fleet
  • Weekly cadence, direct line, no queue
  • Quarterly board readout, authored and delivered

Fractional CAIO

$400

/ hr

5 hour minimum retainer

Companies under $300M running pilots with no single owner.

  • AI strategy tied to the operating plan, not a slide
  • Pilot portfolio triage with Go, Conditional Go, No Go verdicts
  • Vendor and build decisions from someone who builds
  • Governance, risk, and spend controls that fit your size
  • Board and leadership readout every quarter

Five hour minimum retainer on every seat. Every rate confirmed in writing after a discovery call.

06The comparison

What the seat costs, either way.

Full time hireFractional seat
Chief AI Officer$300K to $550K total compensation, mid market$400 per hour, 5 hour minimum retainer
Chief Revenue Officer$500K to $700K first year, loaded$400 per hour, 5 hour minimum retainer
Time to productiveSix months to recruit, six months to rampWorking within two weeks
Execution capacityNeeds a team hired underneathAgent fleet included, running continuously
If it is not workingSeverance, search fees, a lost yearThirty days notice

Full time compensation ranges from 2026 fractional executive and CAIO salary benchmarks. Fractional figures are AIXF list pricing.

07One person, both chairs

Why one person can hold both.

A fractional Chief AI Officer who has never carried a number will sell you AI strategy that never reaches revenue. A fractional Chief Revenue Officer who has never built an AI system will hand you a playbook that ignores the fleet. The combination is rare because the two careers almost never overlap.

Thirty years of revenue

Enterprise sales in technology services, $1.2B closed. The framework knows what actually happens inside a mid market firm.

A CAIO who builds

Architected a working agent fleet and runs it in production every day. The AI advice is credible because there is no software license at the end of it.

A framework with engines

The Precision Revenue Framework came first. The agents exist because it needed them, not the other way around.

08How a seat runs

The cadence.

Weekly

Leadership session

Decisions, priorities, and the calls only a human should make. Sixty to ninety minutes, on your calendar.

Continuous

Fleet execution

Research, modeling, account intelligence, sequences, and campaign production run around the clock between sessions. Judgment is scheduled. Execution never stops.

Monthly

Written brief

What moved, what did not, what happens next. Written so it can be forwarded to a board without editing.

Quarterly

Board readout

Authored and delivered by the seat holder. Revenue, AI portfolio, and the decisions the next quarter requires.

Bring the org chart and the numbers.

Twenty minutes is enough to know which seat is empty and what it would cost, in writing, before anything begins.

Fractional Chief AI Officer

Schedule an AI readiness call.

Book a paid 30 or 60 minute consultation to go deeper on where AI belongs in your business and what it is worth doing about it.

Fractional Chief Revenue Officer

Schedule a revenue diagnostic.

Book a paid 30 or 60 minute consultation to go deeper on where the Precision Revenue Framework fits your business and what it would take to deploy it.

30 min

$300

Teams video call

A focused, paid session on where AI or revenue strategy can help, and what is at risk.

60 min

$500

Teams video call

An in depth, paid session for deep dive planning on AI governance, adoption, or your revenue roadmap.

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