One accountable roadmap
A sequenced 90-day action plan and rolling 12-month roadmap connecting people, data, technology, governance and deployment.
Fractional AI Officer
Get an accountable AI function without hiring an internal AI leadership team.
Altitude gives hedge funds, asset managers and family offices a named leader for AI strategy, roadmap, architecture, governance and value. One seat keeps training, data, vendors and agents moving as a connected programme.
When this is the right starting point
Recognise your firm?
AI activity is increasing across the firm, but ownership is fragmented between technology, operations, compliance and individual power users. Leadership needs one accountable person to set direction, connect decisions and keep the work moving.
- Nobody at the firm has AI as their actual job.
- Teams are buying tools or building workflows without one roadmap or architecture position.
- Management, technology and compliance are making related decisions in separate rooms.
- The board, investors or allocators are asking for a clearer AI strategy and evidence of control.
The changed state
What your firm gets
Faster, better-connected decisions
Architecture, model, vendor, licence and build-versus-buy decisions are made against the same business outcomes and control position.
Governance that produces evidence
The firm maintains a practical policy position, AI and agent register, approval trail, human-review patterns and allocator-ready evidence.
Visible cost and measurable value
Management can see what is running, what it costs, what has changed and where the next investment in capability should go.
Scope
What Altitude does
The work is shaped around the firm and the use cases that matter. These are the capabilities the engagement can draw on—not a generic checklist imposed before value appears.
AI diagnosis and maturity by use case
Map approved and shadow use, current tools, power users, workflows, exposures and maturity without forcing one false score across the firm.
Strategy, sequencing and roadmap
Decide what should happen in the next 90 days, what belongs on the 12-month path and which attractive distractions should wait.
Architecture and vendor direction
Set the firm’s position on models, platforms, data, memory, gateways, portability and when to adopt, integrate or build.
Governance and regulatory intelligence
Maintain the AI register, policy and control patterns, regulatory watch, promotion decisions, exceptions and evidence with the CCO and counsel.
Agent-estate oversight
Track what is running, who owns it, what data it reaches, how it is evaluated and when it should be promoted, changed or retired.
Executive, board and allocator reporting
Provide concise updates on roadmap progress, material decisions, control posture, value and the evidence behind the firm’s answers.
How the work moves
A controlled path to an operating capability
- 01
Diagnose
Establish the current state, risk and exposure register, opportunity portfolio and foundation gaps.
- 02
Set direction
Create the 90-day plan, 12-month roadmap, architecture position and named decision rights.
- 03
Run the cadence
Connect training, vendors, data, governance and deployments through recurring management decisions.
- 04
Re-cut and evidence
Review value, cost, maturity and controls; update the roadmap and maintain board- and allocator-ready evidence.
Frequently asked questions
How is a Fractional AI Officer different from an AI consultant?
A consultant may deliver a report or project. The Fractional AI Officer is a standing management seat with responsibility for keeping the roadmap, decisions, governance and value connected over time.
Does the Fractional AI Officer also build agents and data platforms?
The seat defines and governs what should be built, adopted or integrated. Training programmes, data-foundation builds and managed agents are separately scoped delivery services, but they flow through the same roadmap and ownership model.
Does Altitude replace the CCO, counsel or internal technology team?
No. Altitude prepares AI-specific strategy, architecture and control positions, operates the decision cadence and gives each function better evidence. The client adopts policy, the CCO owns the compliance programme and specialist counsel provides legal advice.
Connected services
Clients can enter through one need. The work stays connected as the firm progresses.
AI Training & Fluency
Move the people work in the roadmap through practical, role-specific adoption.
Learn more →Data & AI Foundation
Build the governed information foundation required by the selected use cases.
Learn more →Managed AI Agents
Turn priority workflows into evaluated and continuously managed operating capacity.
Learn more →Put someone accountable in the seat.
We’ll map the decisions already being made across your firm and show where a Fractional AI Officer can turn scattered activity into one managed path.
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