What is a Fractional Chief AI Officer?

A Fractional Chief AI Officer is an experienced AI strategist who embeds part-time into your leadership team to design and oversee AI adoption — without the cost of a full-time executive hire. They set AI strategy, evaluate vendors, lead implementation, and train your team to operate at the frontier.

Who does Andrew Hazama work with?

Andrew works with founders and business owners at small to mid-size companies — typically 5 to 100 employees — who want to implement AI strategically rather than reactively. His clients range from professional services firms to retail businesses to startups ready to systematize their AI use.

What does a Fractional CAIO engagement with Andrew look like?

Every engagement starts with an AI readiness assessment to understand your current operations, pain points, and opportunities. From there, Andrew builds a prioritized AI roadmap, guides vendor selection and implementation, and stays embedded as your ongoing AI strategist.

How is working with Andrew different from hiring an AI consultant?

A consultant delivers a report and moves on. Andrew stays embedded — joining leadership conversations, holding the team accountable on implementation, and evolving strategy as the AI landscape shifts. You get a real executive on your team at a fraction of the cost.

What kinds of businesses does Andrew Hazama work with?

Andrew works best with founders and owners running service-based or knowledge-based businesses with 5 to 100 employees — professional services, consulting, healthcare, real estate, marketing, legal, financial services, and agencies. His clients are leaders who have tried AI tools without great results and want someone to build a real AI strategy and implementation plan tailored to their business.

Is Andrew Hazama's AI consulting right for my small business?

If you're a founder or business owner who wants AI to genuinely improve how your operations run, and you're ready to invest in a structured approach, Andrew's Fractional Chief AI Officer engagement is built for you. If you're still deciding whether AI is something you want to pursue, start with one of his free tools or the newsletter to get a clearer picture first.

Andrew Hazama — Fractional Chief AI Officer

The Math

What you're actually buying

What you get

You get 10+ hours back every week, for good. Your calendar opens up, and your inbox stops running your mornings.

Who does the work

Depending on what you need, I'll either build the whole system for you or teach you as we build it together. Either way, you walk me through how your business runs, and nothing gets built without you understanding it.

How fast

You'll be live in 28 days, one billing cycle from our first call to an AI system doing real work for you.

What you put in

Just a few hours of your time, total. We'll talk through your workflow, you answer some questions, and you approve the setup before anything goes live.

Who this is for

You're in the right place if…

I work best with owners whose business runs on their own expertise and relationships, where you're the product and AI's whole job is protecting that. If you see yourself in these cards, let's talk.

You own your business — solo, a small team, or somewhere in between

Business owner, founder, content creator, or a team of a few people doing the work. The common thread: you're the one making the calls, and you're ready to build the setup that actually fits how you work.

You've tried a few AI tools — and it's been underwhelming

You've got a ChatGPT tab open, maybe a tool or two you paid for, and mixed results so far. You just haven't had someone match the right tools to how your business actually runs.

You're losing hours every week to the same recurring work

You know exactly what's on the list. Scheduling, follow-ups, summaries, reporting, client onboarding, internal communication, email management — it's the same stuff, every single week.

You want implementation, not another report

You've read enough articles already. What you need is someone who stays in the room until the thing is actually running, then keeps improving it after that.

Your work runs on expertise and relationships

You're the reason clients stick around, whether that's consulting, healthcare, real estate, marketing, financial services, agencies, personal branding, or content creation. People trust you specifically. AI's job here is simple: protect that trust, and free up more of your time to spend on it.

You're ready to build something that actually runs differently

You want your business running better because of AI: structured, intentional, and built to stay that way. You know that takes real investment, time, money, and a real partner to build it with, and you're ready for that conversation.

This probably isn't a fit if

You're looking for a one-time audit with no follow-through
You want someone to build a product or write code for your startup
You're not yet sure if AI is something you want to pursue seriously
You need a full-time executive hire rather than a fractional engagement

About

I'm Andrew Hazama.

I'm a Fractional Chief AI Officer based in the United States, and I build AI systems for solo business owners and small business owners whose work runs on their own expertise and relationships. Consultants, real estate agents, content creators, financial advisors, agency owners, and personal brands.

My background is in business management and HR. So yes, I have zero background in coding or computer science. This exact website was built utilizing AI, and so are the systems I build for clients: the same process I'd walk you through with your own business. I've learned under an AI company founder, online courses, and hold AI certification specifically with Claude. If I can build out complete workflow systems without any technical background, it says something about what's possible for yours too!

The longer version — who I am and how I got here → Where I stand on AI ethics →

Andrew Hazama, Fractional Chief AI Officer

Free Tools Coming Soon

Things you can use today

Claude Prompting Template

New to Claude? Start here. A simple three-part framework — Context, Goal, Rules — that scores your prompt in real time and shows you a stronger version side by side, so you can see exactly why it works better.

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AI Readiness Scorecard

Find out exactly where your business stands on AI adoption in 10 questions. A Claude-powered diagnostic that gives you a score, a gap analysis, and three next steps you can act on right away, no vendor pitch attached.

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ICP Builder

Define your ideal customer profile using the same framework I use with clients — adapted from a16z and McKinsey ICP methodology. Drop it into Claude and get a nine-dimension customer profile in one session.

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AI Opportunity Map

Score every AI use case for your business on Impact × Feasibility using a consulting-grade force scoring model. See exactly which AI investments belong in your 90-day plan and which ones to defer.

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The 90-Day AI Roadmap

A structured planning template that converts your AI strategy into a concrete implementation plan. Week-by-week milestones, owner assignments, and KPI checkpoints — so "we're going to use AI" becomes "here's what we're doing next Tuesday."

Coming Soon
The SMB AI Playbook

The complete guide to AI adoption for small and mid-size businesses — what to automate, what to leave alone, how to evaluate tools, and how to build a business that AI makes genuinely better.

Coming Soon

Work with me

How I engage

I work with business owners moving from experimenting with AI to actually running on it. I don't sell software, and I don't run ads. I embed as your AI strategist and stick around until the work is real.

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Fractional Chief AI Officer

Ongoing embedded advisory. I join your leadership team, attend key meetings, guide AI vendor decisions, and hold your team accountable to the roadmap. Built for businesses serious about becoming genuinely AI-driven, running an AI-native operation day to day.
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AI Readiness Assessment

A structured engagement that starts with a deep intake interview, maps your current operations, scores AI opportunities using a consulting-grade framework, and delivers a prioritized roadmap with a 90-day action plan. The right starting point before any larger commitment.
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AI Implementation Support

For businesses that have a plan and need someone to drive it. I lead vendor selection, configure tools, build workflows, and train your team. The gap between "we know what to do" and "it's actually running" is where most AI initiatives fail. I close that gap.
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Team AI Training

A half-day or full-day workshop for your leadership team or entire staff. We cover what AI can and can't do, how to use it safely and effectively, and how each person's role looks in an AI-enabled business. Practical, specific, and built for your industry.

Let's set up your AI virtual assistants.

What you're actually buying

You're in the right place if…

You own your business — solo, a small team, or somewhere in between

You've tried a few AI tools — and it's been underwhelming

You're losing hours every week to the same recurring work

You want implementation, not another report

Your work runs on expertise and relationships

You're ready to build something that actually runs differently

I'm Andrew Hazama.

Things you can use today

Claude Prompting Template

AI Readiness Scorecard

ICP Builder

AI Opportunity Map

The 90-Day AI Roadmap

The SMB AI Playbook

How I engage

Fractional Chief AI Officer

AI Readiness Assessment

AI Implementation Support

Team AI Training

Ready to find out what AI can actually do for your business?

Let's set up your AI virtual assistants.

What you're actually buying

You're in the right place if…

You own your business — solo, a small team, or somewhere in between

You've tried a few AI tools — and it's been underwhelming

You're losing hours every week to the same recurring work

You want implementation, not another report

Your work runs on expertise and relationships

You're ready to build something that actually runs differently

I'm Andrew Hazama.

The AI Brief

Things you can use today

Claude Prompting Template

AI Readiness Scorecard

ICP Builder

AI Opportunity Map

The 90-Day AI Roadmap

The SMB AI Playbook

How I engage

Fractional Chief AI Officer

AI Readiness Assessment

AI Implementation Support

Team AI Training

Ready to find out what AI can actually do for your business?