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    Your leadership team was built for yesterday's challenges.

    Put an experienced AI and cybersecurity executive in the seat now. No search. No equity. No eighteen-month ramp.

    No searchNo equityNo recruiter fee90-day startAI + Security in one seat

    (01) The problem

    60%

    Nearly 60% of CEOs plan to replace a member of their C-suite within six months.

    The leadership team is about to change. The question is how fast.

    BCG's CEO Insomnia Index surveyed 645 CEOs. Asked what disappoints them about their senior teams, they point to capability gaps. AI is changing what those roles require faster than most leadership teams can adapt.

    Replacing an executive takes six to nine months and costs more than the salary. It also does not transfer capability to the team that stays.

    There is a faster path.

    Talk to us before you replace anyone
    Source: BCG CEO Insomnia Index, October 2026. 645 CEOs, companies with $100M+ in revenue.

    (02) THE CONVERGENCE

    AI and cybersecurity are a singular challenge.

    AI ALONE

    • Strategy and where AI goes first
    • Pilot to production
    • Digital Workers
    • What it is worth

    WHERE THEY MEET

    • AI governance
    • Every AI system as an identity with permissions
    • AI questions in security questionnaires
    • The insurance question

    SECURITY ALONE

    • Threat modeling
    • Access control
    • Incident response
    • Audits and compliance

    A security leader who cannot evaluate AI

    Your team deploys it anyway, around them. They lose visibility on day one and find out at the incident.

    An AI leader who cannot threat model

    You ship systems with standing access to your data, your customers, and your money, governed by nobody.

    These are not two jobs anymore.

    We run both. On most engagements that is one executive. When a specific certification is required for an audit or a compliance mandate, we staff it, and you still get one point of accountability instead of two vendors pointing at each other.

    (03) What you get

    An executive who has done it, in the seat in two weeks.

    A CyberWarrior Fractional Executive owns the AI and security agenda inside your company. Not advice. Ownership.

    1. Sets the strategy, then executes it.

      Where AI goes first, what it is worth, and what it will actually cost. Then builds it.

    2. Runs deployments to production.

      Most AI programs die between pilot and production. That is the stage we get paid for.

    3. Builds the governance before you need it.

      Approval gates, access control, audit trail, incident response. Designed in, not bolted on after your first bad outcome.

    4. Reports to your board in their language.

      Dollars and risk, not model names and token counts.

    5. Makes your team capable of running it.

      The engagement ends. The capability stays.

    (04) WHO THIS IS FOR

    This works when

    Pick the one that sounds most like you. We will show you where we would start.

    WHERE WE WOULD START

    AI and Security Assessment

    $20,000 fixed4 weeks

    Where AI belongs, what it is worth, what it costs, and what has to be true before it is safe. Board-ready plan with sequencing and numbers, credited in full against your first three months of retainer.

    NOT A FITIf you want a strategy deck, a vendor evaluation, or a workshop, we have fast-start consulting engagements for that. Our Fractional Executives get paid to put systems into production.

    See AI Fast Start

    (05) Engagement models

    Four ways to work together

    01 · Start here

    AI and Security Assessment

    $20,000

    Fixed fee, 4 weeks

    Where AI belongs, what it is worth, what it costs, and what has to be true before it is safe. Board-ready plan with sequencing and numbers.

    Credited in full against your first three months of retainer.

    02 · Direction

    Advisory

    $9,500 /mo

    2 days a month

    Executive counsel, vendor and architecture review, roadmap ownership, security program direction, board reporting. For teams with internal capacity who need direction.

    03 · EmbeddedMost common

    Embedded

    $20,000 /mo

    4 days a month

    Owns the AI and security agenda end to end. Strategy, deployments, governance, team enablement, board reporting. Functions as a member of your leadership team.

    04 · Open seat

    Interim

    $35,000 /mo

    6 to 8 days a month

    For an open seat or an active transformation. Full executive authority over the AI and security function while you decide on a permanent hire.

    90-day initial commitmentMonth to month afterNo equityNo recruiter feeCancel with 30 days' notice

    Not sure which model fits?

    Start with a fit call

    (06) The broader offering

    Fractional leadership is one of three options

    (A)

    Deliver the outcome.

    We build and run the AI systems ourselves, contracted as outcomes. Not hours. Not tokens.

    Managed AI Operations
    (B)

    Train your team to manage Digital Workers.

    Alongside humans. Approval, accountability, and roles all change.

    Training
    (C)

    Put a fractional executive in the seat.

    AI operations and cybersecurity depth in one engagement, because those are now the same job.

    YOU ARE HERE

    (07) WHO YOU GET

    Operators,not advisors.

    Security work is led by someone who has run security programs. AI work is led by someone who has deployed and operated AI in production, not advised on it. You meet the executive before you sign.

    CyberWarrior builds, deploys, and operates AI systems inside live businesses every day, and has delivered security operations and workforce training for fifteen years. The people we bring to the table come out of that practice, not from a career change last year.

    15 yrs
    Security operations and training
    Daily
    AI operated in live businesses
    Before
    You sign, you meet your executive

    (08) FAQ

    Questions we get

    Usually one executive, who owns the relationship and the outcome. When an engagement needs a specific certification or a specialist, we bring one in. You get one point of accountability either way.

    Still have a question?

    Ask it on a 30-minute call

    Start with a 30-minute call.

    Tell us where AI has stalled, or where security is about to become a problem. If we are not the right answer, we will say so and point you in the right direction.

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