Fractional AI, Privacy & Data Leadership
Senior AI governance, privacy and data protection leadership; embedded in your team, without a full-time hire.
Many organisations need senior leadership across AI governance, privacy and data protection, but a full-time Chief AI Officer, Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) or Data Protection Officer (DPO) is not justified; or a gap has opened and needs filling now. Our fractional services put that leadership directly inside your organisation for a defined part of each month: a named, accountable senior leader who owns the work, not an outside consultant who reviews it.
Founder-led, drawing on board-level privacy and AI governance leadership at a FTSE 100 organisation and as privacy and AI legal lead at a major US technology company; we have held these roles, and we advise from that experience.
We also provide fractional data governance leadership for organisations that need senior oversight of data ownership, quality and flows alongside their privacy and AI governance programme.
Does any of this sound familiar?
You need senior leadership in AI governance, privacy or data protection, but a full-time hire is not justified, or cannot be made fast enough.
Our fractional roles give you a named, accountable senior leader for a defined number of hours or days each month; someone who can speak with authority to your board, regulators, or investors.
Responsibility for privacy and AI is spread across legal, compliance and technology, and nobody is quite sure whose job it really is.
That gap creates risk. A fractional leader closes it - bringing genuine senior ownership and joining up the work that is already happening, without undermining the expertise already in the room.
A regulatory moment is coming, or your board is asking questions you cannot yet answer.
We step in at the level you need, from independent oversight and challenge, to leading the work alongside your team. We step back when the job is done.
Three fractional roles
Available on their own or combined; with the regulatory and governance golden thread running through every one:
Fractional AI Governance & fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
Senior AI governance leadership for organisations deploying AI faster than they can govern it; a named, accountable lead at board and executive level, as a CAIO or as an AI governance lead alongside your existing team:
- AI governance strategy, oversight model, and accountability: who owns what, and how decisions about AI get made.
- AI register and use-case classification, underpinned by our paired KYAI (Know Your AI) and KYData methodologies.
- EU AI Act readiness and horizon scanning across UK and global frameworks, with a practical route to a defensible position.
- Board and executive reporting on AI risk and opportunity that leadership can actually act on.
- Ongoing oversight of AI deployment, third-party AI suppliers, and post-deployment monitoring.
Connected to your privacy and data governance programme, not running alongside it; there is no AI without data.
Talk to us about Fractional AI Governance & CAIOFractional CPO
Strategic privacy leadership at board and executive level; a Chief Privacy Officer who owns your privacy programme, its direction, and its commercial and regulatory performance, without a full-time hire:
- Privacy strategy and programme ownership, aligned to where the business is going: new markets, new products, and new uses of data.
- Fractional CPO retainer: Foundation, Core, Extended, or Complex (8-20 hours per month).
- Senior privacy advisory to board and executive leadership, tailored to the organisation's strategic and regulatory context.
- Privacy built into product, data, and AI decisions early; not reviewed at the end.
- Breach response, regulatory investigations, and major projects scoped separately from retainer hours.
Not a framework. Not a template. Judgement, built from doing the job.
Talk to us about Fractional CPOFractional DPO
A named Data Protection Officer for organisations that are required to appoint one, or choose to. The DPO is a statutory role with defined independence and responsibilities, and we treat it as such:
- Privacy deep dive: an independent assessment of your privacy position, before we act as your named DPO.
- Named DPO registered with the relevant supervisory authorities under the EU GDPR and the UK GDPR (as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025).
- Independent monitoring of compliance, and advice to senior management on your data protection obligations.
- Contact point for supervisory authorities and individuals.
- Advice on high-risk processing and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs).
- Spriggun suite of templates used where useful to you, to move at speed.
We also offer Fractional Engineering & Delivery Leadership > for organisations that need senior technical leadership alongside governance.
How fractional engagements work
Start with an honest picture
Every engagement begins by understanding where you actually are: your risks, your gaps, and what the role needs to achieve. For some roles, such as acting as your named DPO, an independent assessment is required before we start.
A defined commitment each month
A monthly retainer with an agreed allocation of hours or days, a named senior lead, and a clear picture of what a typical month looks like. Engagements run for a minimum term with a structured review point; so you can extend, adjust, or conclude based on what the organisation needs.
Projects and incidents scoped separately
Breach response, regulatory investigations, and major programmes are scoped individually; on a standalone or retainer-plus basis. Scoping them separately protects the ongoing work.
Leadership that holds up when it matters
You will have a senior leader who knows the regulatory landscape and the technology, gives you an honest view of where your risks sit and what to do about them, and is in your corner when the hard moments come: a breach, an investigation, or a major commercial decision.