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Executive & Technical Leadership Search

Search for the leaders who will own AI, data, and engineering outcomes — assessed by people who have done the work.

01 — The problem

AI programs fail for lack of an owner more often than for lack of a model. The leaders who can carry both the technology and the organization are few.

A new kind of roleTitles are recent and inconsistent; track records are short.
Hard to assessGeneralist search firms struggle to test technical judgment.
Cost of a missA wrong leadership hire sets a program back by a year.
02 — What we deliver

What we deliver.

01AI & data leadershipChief AI, data, and analytics officers and their direct reports.
02Engineering leadershipCTOs, VPs of engineering, and heads of platform.
03Architecture leadershipChief and principal architects for AI, data, and cloud.
04Technical assessmentStructured evaluation by practicing engineers and architects.
05Market mappingA clear view of who is doing comparable work, and where.
06Interim leadershipExperienced leaders who can hold the role while a search completes.
03 — Engagement model
01AssessAI readiness assessment and a prioritized value case
02ArchitectReference architecture, data plan, and governance design
03BuildProduction-grade agents, applications, and platforms
04StaffVetted AI and engineering talent or managed delivery pods
05ScaleOperating model, AI Center of Excellence, and run support
06 — FAQ

We are model- and cloud-agnostic. Most programs run on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or Microsoft Copilot models, selected per use case on cost, latency, and risk.

Executive & Technical Leadership Search

Find the leader who will own the outcome.

Tell us about the role, in confidence.