Fractional data & AI leadership

The seat you don't need
to fill full-time.

Tesatori Consulting places a senior data or AI lead inside your company a few days a month — auditing what you have, setting the roadmap, and sitting in the room when it matters. No six-figure hire, no year-long search.

Engagements start at 2 days / month · No long-term lock-in
Fractional CDO
Your open seat, filled on demand
Northbeam CapitalAlto HealthFieldstone SaaSVerity LogisticsOrchard PE
40+
Audits delivered
9
Active seats
3.1x
Avg. hire cost saved
What we cover

Every function a data leader owns — none of the full-time overhead.

01

Fractional CDO

A part-time data strategy lead who sets the roadmap and reports to your CEO or board.

02

AI readiness audit

A paid diagnostic on whether your data can actually support the AI initiatives you're planning.

03

Board & investor advisory

A retainer seat that translates AI risk and ROI for non-technical boards and investors.

04

Data team build-out

We hire, structure, and hand off your first data team — then step back.

05

Governance & compliance

Ongoing privacy, access, and data policy work sized for a lean team, not an enterprise one.

06

Vendor & stack selection

An independent pick of tools and platforms, so the vendor's sales team doesn't choose for you.

The engagement

Three stages, in order — because handing off leadership badly is worse than not handing it off at all.

Stage 1 — Weeks 1–2

Diagnose

We audit your data, tools, and team against what your business actually needs to grow — and tell you plainly where you stand.

Stage 2 — Ongoing

Embed

Your fractional lead joins standups, owns the roadmap, and sits in the room for board and investor conversations.

Stage 3 — When ready

Hand off

As the need grows, we help you hire a full-time leader and transfer everything — documentation included, no black box.

Who it's for

Companies with real data decisions to make, and no one senior enough to make them yet.

Seed & Series A startups
PE portfolio companies
Healthcare & life sciences
B2B SaaS scaling past $5M ARR
Manufacturing & logistics
Financial services
Consumer & retail brands
Nonprofits & foundations
Cost of the seat

Priced like a consulting engagement, not a software subscription.

Audit

A single, sharp diagnostic — no ongoing commitment.
$15,997
one-time
  • Full data & AI readiness review
  • Written findings + prioritized roadmap
  • 90-minute board readout
Start with an audit

Board advisory

A standing seat for investor and board-level conversations.
$3,997
per month
  • Quarterly board presentation
  • On-call for investor diligence
  • AI risk & ROI translation
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In their words

What it's like having the seat filled.

"We were about to make a $400K data platform decision on gut feel. The audit alone paid for itself in the first meeting."

Dana Whitfield
COO, Fieldstone SaaS

"Our board kept asking about AI and nobody in the room could answer with confidence. Now someone always can."

Marcus Ilori
CEO, Alto Health

"They built the case for our first data hire, then helped us hire her. That handoff is the part everyone skips."

Priya Anand
Partner, Orchard PE

Fill the seat before
the decision gets made without it.

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