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Interim AI leadership with responsibility.
Jonny Bowker holds the Law Society of Scotland's accreditation for intelligent systems expertise. He's built operational and technical AI governance inside Fortune 500 enterprises and legal teams.
What we bring is directorship. We do not review your position and hand over a report. We take the seat, carry operational responsibility, and are accountable for the calls we make.
When a business needs real direction on AI, not another document to file away, that is the difference that matters.
How It Works
Direction without inventory is malpractice.
We will not tell a business what to do with its AI until we know exactly what it already has, what is built, what is shadow IT, what is actually working, and what has simply been bought and left idle.
Every engagement starts with an agentic due diligence pass across the organisation's AI estate: technical, operational, and commercial. It is not a formality. It is the only honest way to know which decisions are actually needed.
02 Shadow AI use across teams, suppliers, and operational workflows
03 Data, policy, security, brand, compliance, and governance exposure
04 Existing automation, agentic systems, prompts, workflows, and assets
05 What is working, what is idle, and what should be stopped
The Directorship Sequence
Diligence first. Direction second. Build if wanted.
01
Due diligence first
We map the AI estate before giving direction, identifying live systems, unused tools, shadow practice, risk, and evidence.
02
Then direction
With the inventory in hand, we set priorities: what to keep, stop, build, govern, fund, and where accountability should sit.
03
Then build, if wanted
If the business wants delivery, we build through our own asset library and skills, reducing the cost and time of assembling a team.
Three Ways To Work Together
Choose the level of responsibility the business needs.
A set number of days each month
Strategic Advisory
Senior challenge and direction at the points that matter: board meetings, key decisions, quarterly reviews, and programme checkpoints. Suited to organisations with operational capacity but no senior owner for the AI conversation.
A regular day or more each week
Embedded Directorship
One of our directors sits inside the organisation as a genuine member of the leadership team, not a periodic visitor. They carry operational responsibility for AI decisions as they arise and keep direction tied to live work.
A fixed term, typically three to twelve months
Defined Programme
A named owner for a specific transformation, diligence, governance, or build programme with clear milestones. Suited to work that needs accountable direction from mobilisation through handover.
Why Interim Rather Than Recruit
Hiring a permanent AI director is slow. Getting it wrong is expensive.
The search alone can take months, and the brief is often unclear until the work has already started. A bad hire costs far more than the salary: wasted time, stalled decisions, misdirected investment, and lost credibility with the board. Interim leadership gives the business accountable direction now, while keeping the permanent decision properly informed.
Immediate mobilisation
AI decisions rarely wait for a permanent search. We can become operational within a short, defined window from sign-off.
No headcount risk
You pay for the work and the judgement, not a permanent seat. If priorities shift, the commitment can move with them.
Diligence before opinion
Direction starts from what the organisation actually has: live systems, unused tools, informal practice, risks, and gaps.
Credentials that carry weight
Law Society of Scotland Legal Technologist accreditation, with expertise in AI, data privacy, and knowledge management, plus operational and technical AI governance work inside Fortune 500 enterprises.
Scalable commitment
Advisory, embedded, or programme-based support lets the level of involvement match what the business really needs.
Clean exit
Clear terms and planned handover mean the engagement can end without creating dependency or organisational drag.
From first conversation to mobilisation
01 Discovery call
A practical conversation about where the business is, what has already been tried, and where the gaps sit.
02 Proposal
A clear scope, time commitment, deliverables, and decision points. No ambiguity about what is included.
03 Mobilisation
We become operational within a short, defined window from sign-off, beginning with the due diligence pass.
When the stakes are high, experience matters.
If AI has become material to your strategy, operations, brand, risk, or cost base, it needs named ownership. Fractional Chief AI Officer services and interim AI directorship give the business that ownership without waiting for a permanent hire.