Senior AI delivery, sized for a 20 to 200 person business
SageKeeper places a Fractional Chief AI Officer and a small implementation team inside your business each month. We pick the right use cases, ship working systems, train your people, and report measurable impact, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire and without the lock-in of a Big Four engagement.
Three categories of value. Measured against your baseline. Reported monthly.
Most AI projects produce a feeling of momentum and no defensible numbers. We instrument every workflow we ship from day one, against a measured baseline, and report results in writing each month. Here is what that looks like in the categories where AI actually delivers for SMBs today.
Hours reclaimed in workflows your team performs hundreds of times a week.
Drafting, lookup, summarization, research. Time saved is converted to dollars only when the freed capacity is genuinely reallocated, never assumed at full loaded rate.
Realistic range: 30 to 60 minutes per knowledge worker per day in scoped workflows.Lower error and rework rates on the work AI touches.
Valued at the loaded cost of the people who would otherwise redo it. Measured against an established baseline error rate, not estimated.
In one engagement, rework dropped from 12% to 4%, recovering 12 senior-staff hours per week.Faster cycle times, sharper proposals, more outbound capacity.
Measured against control where possible, attributed conservatively where not. The hardest category to measure honestly, and the easiest to inflate. We do not blend it into productivity savings.
Reported separately from cost savings, every month, with assumptions visible.CFOs we work with use these reports verbatim in their executive updates.
Run a CFO-grade ROI projection for your businessAI leadership, installed inside your business.
The SageKeeper Office is a productized engagement that places a Fractional Chief AI Officer and a small implementation team alongside yours. We run the strategy, ship the systems, and train your people on a four-week cadence, so AI moves from idea to working capability without you needing to hire a full-time executive.
A Fractional Chief AI Officer costs a fraction of a full-time hire and brings the experience of multiple implementations across industries. Your FCAIO does not just advise. They run the cadence that drives the work, and ensure your internal team can operate the systems we install once the engagement matures.
The four-week cadence
How engagements scale
Every engagement starts narrow. One department, one or two carefully chosen use cases, measurable early impact. The shape that follows depends on your context, your pace, and how broadly you want to take AI across the business. We do not run packaged engagements. We design each proposal from your context.
See how the Office worksSix failure modes show up across almost every stalled SMB AI project.
What the research, including our own, says about why SMB AI projects stall.
SageKeeper conducted primary research with SMB decision-makers across our service geographies. The blockers below recur with striking consistency. The SageKeeper Office is built to solve each of them by design.
Data & integration
ROI & measurement
Trust & compliance
How The SageKeeper Office works.
A five-phase method that takes you from foundation to continuous optimization.
Every engagement follows the same five-phase progression. The pace varies with your engagement context, but the sequence does not change. Each phase produces a tangible artifact you can audit.
1Foundation
Discovery and fit. We define goals, constraints, and success criteria with your leadership team.
2Safe Pilot
Pilot embedded AI assistants in tools your team already uses. Human review built in. KPIs tracked from week one.
3Harden & Integrate
Stand up retrieval over your documents. Connect operational systems. Add data quality checks and access policies.
4Dashboard & Scale
Expand use cases. KPI dashboards make impact visible to executives. Begin EU AI Act readiness where applicable.
5Continuous Optimization
Strategy and governance, ongoing optimization, model monitoring and retraining, new use case pilots.
Compliance and trust, built in. Not bolted on.
What you can count on from day one.
For SMBs in regulated industries, or selling into Europe, AI without governance is a liability. The SageKeeper Office treats compliance and trust as part of the build, not a phase that comes later. Every workflow we ship has these controls in place before it goes live.
Trust by design
- Human-in-the-loop review on every workflow
- Fact-checking and source attribution
- Content filtering at the AI gateway
- Full explainability and audit trails
Compliance documentation
- GDPR-ready data processing agreements
- EU AI Act risk classification worksheets
- Data residency options for regulated workloads
- Audit-ready evidence packages
Standards alignment
- SOC 2 Type II aligned controls
- SSO and identity management
- Secure data pipelines with full logging
- Vendor-agnostic architecture, no lock-in
Five convictions that shape every engagement.
Stewardship over disruption. Narrow before broad. Measured before scaled. Human review before autonomy. Independence by design.
The full Philosophy is a 12-minute read. If you find yourself nodding through it, we are likely the right partner. If you find yourself disagreeing with most of it, we likely are not. Either is useful information before a first conversation.
Pick the door that fits where you are.
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Book a 30-minute strategy call. We will discuss your priorities, your constraints, and whether the Office is the right fit. You will leave with a directional view either way.
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