AI Leadership··3 min read
What a Chief AI Officer Should Be Measured On
Measure this role on projects shipped and you will get projects. Here are five measures that reward the judgment you hired for.
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The JournalEssays & Field Notes
Practical writing on AI in the wild.
Field notes from real engagements. Frameworks, postmortems, and the unglamorous discipline of shipping AI in production.
Oct 2026
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AI Strategy··3 min read
Your AI Strategy Should Fit on One Page
A forty-slide AI strategy is a document nobody acts on. Six statements on one page changes what happens next quarter.
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The AI Vendor Security Questions Worth Asking
Most security questionnaires are long and answer nothing. Twelve questions get you further, if you read the replies properly.
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Getting an AI Pilot Into Production
The pilot worked. That was the easy part. Here is everything still missing before it can run unattended.
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Where AI Should Sit in Your Org Chart
Three structures, each with a predictable failure mode. The right one depends less on strategy than on how many people you have.
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What Is a Fractional COO, and When Do You Need One?
The symptom is usually the same: the founder is the operating system, and the company cannot grow past their attention.
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Why Your Team Hides How Much AI They Use
They are not being reckless. They are responding rationally to how your company treats the answer.
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Six Clauses to Negotiate in Any AI Contract
The price is the least negotiable thing in an AI contract, and the least important. Here are the six that matter.
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How to Budget for AI When You Can't Predict Usage
Usage-based pricing makes AI budgets guesswork. Here is a structure that survives the guessing.
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- AI strategy and leadership decisions for growing businesses: what a Chief AI Officer actually does, how to evaluate vendors, how to measure return, and why most AI projects fail. It is written for people deciding what to fund, not for people building models.
- How often is it updated?
- New pieces publish regularly, and existing ones are revised when the underlying facts change — pricing, market rates and vendor landscapes move quickly enough that stale posts become misleading rather than merely dated.
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- Erin Moore, a fractional Chief AI Officer and U.S. Army veteran with an Executive MBA, an MS in Data Science and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Everything is written from the buyer's side of the table, which is where the work happens.
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- If you are new to the topic, start with what a fractional Chief AI Officer does and why most AI projects fail. If you are already spending on AI, the posts on AI audits and measuring ROI will be more immediately useful.