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title: "Fit: fractional AI executive"
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author: "Todd Paul Brown Jr."
description: "Should you hire Todd Brown as a fractional AI executive? The COO-to-CIO arc, LEGION, Content Ops in production, and one anonymized rebuild, with receipts."
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# Fit: fractional AI executive

## What the role usually needs

A fractional AI executive sits inside a company's leadership, owns the AI-adoption roadmap, and is accountable for it actually running, not just for recommending it. That means process discipline as much as technical skill: writing down how things work so they don't live in one person's head, then automating the parts that can be.

## What I have done that matches

- I've done this at Adroit already, as an operator inside the company, not as an outside advisor: joined as COO in 2021, became Chief Innovation Officer since 2024 as the role turned toward technical architecture and AI orchestration. See [About](/about/).
- I built [LEGION](/builds/legion/), the multi-agent operating system Adroit now runs on. It's live, and it operates Adroit's hosted products, deploys them, and checks their health.
- [Content Ops](/builds/content-ops/) is live in production and drafted Adroit's own website rewrite: 92 of 95 planned pages in two days of batch runs, with 74 pages updated and 17 created, now live.
- A revenue-operations rebuild for an anonymized client, a national amateur sports league: 7 systems consolidated into 1, about 2,400 teams, in six weeks, with zero rollbacks.

## What I have not done

- All of the above happened at Adroit, where I already had authority and years of context built up. I haven't run this as a fractional engagement, dropped into a company I don't already know — but I'd take it on and figure out the implications for Adroit as they came up. More likely, Adroit would end up an invaluable part of whatever work I did there. I'm willing to be flexible depending on what the client needs.
- I work with owners and CEOs regularly, so depending on how narrowly you define "board-level governance," the old framing here was directionally false. Formal reporting to an outside board or investors specifically, I haven't done.

## Evidence

| Claim | Receipt |
|---|---|
| COO (2021) to Chief Innovation Officer (since 2024) | [/about/](/about/) |
| LEGION: live, runs Adroit's hosted systems, 64 capability packages | [/builds/legion/](/builds/legion/), [/receipts/](/receipts/) |
| Content Ops: live; website rewrite, 92 of 95 pages in two days | [/builds/content-ops/](/builds/content-ops/), [/receipts/](/receipts/) |
| League rebuild: 7 systems into 1, ~2,400 teams, 6 weeks, 0 rollbacks | [/receipts/](/receipts/) |

## How I work

Same discipline whether it's Adroit's systems or someone else's: write the process down, direct an agent to build it in plain English, gate the release behind tests, and label every number measured or estimated. The accurate frame: the agent writes the code, tests and documentation; I direct, decide, buy things and validate. See [receipts](/receipts/) for the numbers behind all of it.

## Where this would not fit

I do change management extensively — my career is full of system migrations, rebrands and acquisitions I've led. Where I'm the wrong pick is a role that's stakeholder politics with no actual system to build; give me something to build alongside the people-work and that's exactly the shape I fit.

More on the work: [/builds/](/builds/). Every number: [/receipts/](/receipts/).