Ongoing senior guidance for leaders who need AI value creation and governance without adding a full-time AI executive. Monthly retainer with 30-day review points; scope and price band are set after a fit check. The shape one-off reviews graduate into — the advisor carries your stack and constraints forward, so each decision builds on the last.
A short overview of the Fractional AI Advisor — the recurring-decision-stream trigger, what you bring and what you get, and the 30-day rhythm re-earned each month.
The retainer works when there is a real, recurring decision stream — not a one-off question. Three inputs make it productive from the first month.
Architecture, AI, vendor, and roadmap questions that keep surfacing across a quarter or more — build vs. buy, rebuild vs. refactor, AI in-house vs. vendor, and whether the current architecture survives the next 12 months of growth.
Your stack, constraints, in-flight initiatives, and a seat in the forums where the decisions actually get made — so guidance lands where it is decided, not in a report nobody reads.
An executive sponsor who owns the actions between review points. The advisor advises; a named person on your side decides and executes. That split is what keeps the engagement honest.
The outcome the engagement is scoped against: decision cadence, governance discipline, roadmap clarity, vendor reviews, and faster executive alignment.
A standing senior counterpart who carries your stack and constraints forward from month to month, so each decision builds on the last instead of restarting from a blank brief.
An operating model that names where AI can act, where a human approves, where evidence is logged, and where a rollout should stop. A named human owns every recommendation that reaches you.
Vendor-neutral reads on platforms, models, and build-vs-buy calls. Comuvia sells no software and takes no reseller commissions — the advisory fee is the only revenue, so the recommendation follows the evidence.
Recommendations arrive with written rationale and explicit assumptions — framing that holds up in front of a board, a partnership, or an investment committee.
Share the decision stream — the questions that keep resurfacing. Comuvia recommends the lightest engagement that settles them; a retainer is proposed only when the stream justifies one.
The proposal names the decision areas covered, the working cadence, access, and confidentiality — NDA, rights, and retention terms are part of every proposal — plus the price band and a start date.
The advisor absorbs your stack, constraints, and in-flight decisions, and takes on the live decision queue. The first review point lands at day 30.
Each 30-day review point checks delivered value against scope and is an explicit moment to continue, refocus, or stop. The engagement is re-earned every month, not locked in.
When a single decision turns on numbers or a deal, the retainer can spin out a scoped decision pack or diligence engagement — and its findings fold back into the standing cadence.
Monthly retainer with 30-day review points. Price band: scoped after fit check.
Every Comuvia engagement is productized — a defined deliverable, a fixed turnaround, and a fixed price band. Retainer bands depend on the breadth of the decision stream and the cadence you need, so the band is set after the fit check rather than published as one list price. Request a fit check and you get scope, band, and a start date — with no obligation beyond the conversation.
The substrate a fractional advisor helps you build and keep honest — a 219-chapter, AI-managed publishing pipeline running on Comuvia's own 12-tier stack, with weekly, monthly, and quarterly review loops and public, checkable output. The case study names the fractional retainer as the engagement shape this work speaks to.
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A self-improving model run on 476 real companies' SEC filings — improved out-of-sample on 5 of 5 splits, and reported the one split where it did not beat the baseline. That defensive honesty is the verification discipline the retainer installs in your AI decisions.
Read the article →Leaders whose architecture, AI, and roadmap questions keep surfacing across a quarter or more: PE firms and their portfolio operators, family offices and private capital, and founders, CTOs, and architecture leaders who need senior AI judgment without a full-time AI executive.
When one-off reviews keep repeating. The retainer is the shape one-off reviews graduate into — an Architecture & Decision Review Sprint or a decision-support engagement often surfaces a stream of follow-on calls, and the advisor who already carries your stack and constraints settles them faster than restarting each time.
Generic AI brainstorming, staff augmentation, unmanaged implementation ownership, or requests to deploy autonomous agents without governance and client-side production ownership.
Primarily senior advisory and decision support. Comuvia does not resell or implement vendor platforms, which is what keeps recommendations vendor-neutral. Bounded hands-on AI acceleration exists inside a retainer or as a post-diligence on-ramp — always with a named client-side owner.
That is what the 30-day review points are for. Each one is an explicit decision to continue, refocus, or wind down, checked against delivered value — the engagement is re-earned every month.
Client-confidential data is handled under explicit controls and never folded into public content or shared corpora. NDA, rights, and retention terms are part of every proposal.
Share the decision stream — the architecture, AI, or governance questions that keep resurfacing. Comuvia recommends the smallest useful next step; if a retainer is the right shape, you get scope, price band, and a start date.
