Fractional CAIOs who work solo
3 solo practitioners offer fractional CAIO work on their own. First on the list are Valerian Valkin, Fractional Chief AI Officer, Alex Goryachev, Fractional Chief AI Officer and Vasko Ckorovski, Fractional CTO. A solo practitioner is the person you hire and the person who does the work. There is no bench of associates behind them, so ask how many clients they carry at once. One publishes a monthly fee: $6,500 a month at Valerian Valkin, Fractional Chief AI Officer. The rest quote.
A fractional Chief AI Officer usually works 1 to 4 days a month at a $1M to $50M company; larger programs run one day a week or more.
How this list is built. Every listing here is one person who offers fractional CAIO work on their own site and works without a firm around them. Order is editor's pick, then a published fee, then name. Nobody pays to appear or to move up. Full methodology.