A fractional chief AI officer turned a forty-site company's AI ideas into a program that delivered
A fast-growing, multi-site industrial equipment repair services company. Outcome verified
The problem
An industrial equipment repair services company had grown to more than forty locations and believed AI could improve operations and customer service. Ideas came from every department, but nobody owned the AI agenda or could say which were worth doing, in what order, or how to prove value without a large bet. IT was fully occupied, and the company did not want another full-time executive.
Why it mattered
Without an owner, AI would stay a talking point while competitors moved, or a poorly chosen first project would fail and sour the organization on the technology.
What we did
Vizius supplied a fractional chief AI officer month to month and sequenced the program deliberately: a narrow proof of concept first, strategy second, infrastructure third. The proof of concept read equipment nameplate data from photos so staff would stop re-keying it. The strategy tied each AI opportunity to a department and a core problem.
What changed
The company came away with an AI vision and roadmap, prioritized use cases, and the architecture it now builds on. The advisory role led to an engineering retainer that delivered production payroll and technician-reporting automation.
- Manufacturing
- Large company