Fractional Chief AI Officer

Turn AI into your unfair advantage in growth.

Executive advisory and team training that turns AI into your unfair advantage in marketing and sales. Built for CEOs, CMOs, and CROs ready to move fast.

Advisory, Training, or Growth Partnership

Whether you need strategic guidance at the top, hands-on AI skills for your team, or a full engagement driving measurable growth, we meet you where you are.

Executive Advisory

For CEOs, CMOs & CROs

Fractional Chief AI Officer partnership for executives who need to integrate AI into their growth strategy without hiring a full-time AI leader.

  • AI roadmap development for marketing and sales
  • Vendor evaluation and tool selection
  • Strategic implementation oversight
  • Board and investor-ready AI strategy
  • Ongoing advisory and decision support

Ideal for Series A-C companies or established businesses ready to make AI a competitive advantage.

🎯

Team Training

For Marketing & Sales Teams

Hands-on training programs that get your team using AI effectively for real business outcomes, not just experimenting.

  • CRO with AI: conversion optimization workflows
  • GTM Engineering with AI: prospecting and outreach
  • AI-powered content and copywriting
  • Custom prompt libraries for your use cases
  • Ongoing skill development and support

Ideal for teams of 5-50 who need to move faster without adding headcount.

📈

AI Growth Partnership

For Companies Ready to Move Fast

A structured, phased engagement that starts with a deep-dive audit of your business and produces a prioritized AI growth roadmap, then transitions into an ongoing fractional CAIO retainer where we direct execution across your highest-leverage growth lanes.

  • Full AI opportunity audit across conversion, search, sales, and data
  • Prioritized growth roadmap with KPIs and implementation playbooks
  • Ongoing strategic direction across parallel workstreams (CRO, AEO, sales intelligence)
  • Implementation-level specs your team and agencies can act on
  • Agent commerce readiness as AI-mediated buying matures

Ideal for established businesses with existing teams and agencies who need an AI-specific strategic layer driving measurable results.

AI Applied to What Matters

We specialize in the intersection of AI and revenue growth.

Marketing

CRO with AI

Deep customer intelligence and data gathering, accelerated by AI. We spin up variations for A/B and multivariate testing at 10x the velocity, tuning into deeply held desires and beliefs to craft messaging that converts.

  • Advisory: Conversion strategy and optimization roadmaps
  • Training: Teach your team AI-powered testing workflows
  • Systems: Build automated testing and personalization engines
  • Applies to: Ads, landing pages, sales pages, websites, emails
Sales

GTM Engineering with AI

Modern go-to-market execution using AI for research, prospecting, and hyper-personalized outreach at scale. Turn pipeline building from a grind into a repeatable engine.

  • Advisory: GTM strategy and AI-first sales architecture
  • Training: Equip reps with AI prospecting and outreach skills
  • Systems: Build automated research and sequencing workflows
  • Applies to: Outbound, ABM, lead scoring, pipeline acceleration
Visibility

AI Search & AEO

AI models are becoming the new front page. When a prospect asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation in your category, your business needs to be the answer. We build the strategy that makes that happen.

  • Gap analysis across major AI platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity)
  • Content restructuring for LLM discoverability
  • Citation and mention-building strategy
  • Schema, structured data, and machine-readability optimization
Strategy

Agent Commerce Readiness

Consumers will increasingly discover, evaluate, and purchase through AI agents without ever visiting a traditional website. The companies that prepare now will capture the market. The ones that don't will be disintermediated by tools they don't control.

  • Monitoring how LLM commerce platforms are evolving
  • Foundational prep: site architecture, product data, and API readiness
  • Ensuring today's CRO and AEO decisions are forward-compatible
  • Applies to: E-commerce, SaaS, service businesses, B2B

Your Fractional Chief AI Officer

Founded in 2012 by Sam Woods, Stimulead is a Fractional Chief AI Officer advisory firm focused on customer acquisition, monetization, and retention.

Our Background

We started in development, moved into conversion rate optimization, then into machine learning and data science, and now into AI strategy and agent architecture. That path means we don't just advise on what AI could theoretically do. We understand the technical implementation, the conversion math, the data requirements, and the practical constraints your team will face when executing.

How We Work

Your team builds. Your agencies execute. We provide the AI-specific strategic lens your current partners may not have and translate it into clear direction they can act on. We know what tools are ready for production, which approaches waste time, and where the gap between a demo and a deployable solution is still too wide. In a landscape that changes month to month, that filter is as valuable as the strategy itself.

Industries We Serve

We provide AI expertise for growth-focused businesses:

SaaS Professional Services E-Commerce DTC Brands B2B Tech FinTech Healthcare / HealthTech EdTech MarTech Agencies Media & Publishing Real Estate Tech

Our Team Has Worked With

HubSpot AppSumo CB Insights Teachable AWeber Copy Hackers Predictable Revenue DataStax FE International Agora Financial The ASK Method Company Money Map Press Authority Nutrition Location Rebel The Paperless Agent Dassault Systèmes CrashPlan

See If We're a Fit

We work best with growth-stage companies ready to make AI a priority. Not sure yet? That's okay too.

No pitch, no obligation—just an honest conversation to see if we're the right fit for each other.

Growth is a process, stop improvising.