Fractional Executive · AI and Revenue, One Seat

One executive seat for AI and revenue.

A fractional Chief AI and Revenue Officer runs AI strategy and revenue performance together, with Rick Spair in the seat. Roughly thirty years in enterprise technology, sixteen AI agents running in production, and a published standard for what counts as evidence.

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The Record

Experience you can check.

30

Years in enterprise technology, including Fortune 500 systems integration, data modernization, security and architecture.

$1.2B

In delivered enterprise solutions across Fortune 500 manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, aerospace and consumer goods.

16+

AI agents running in production, under human supervision, doing real revenue work.

1,000+

AI systems reviewed, which is where the governance first position comes from.

Certifications: CISA, CISM, CGEIT, PMP, ITIL, CobiT, CMC, CITMC. Education: MBA and BS Computer Science, plus Harvard Business School Executive Education. 19 published titles and 700+ podcast episodes.

Four Criteria

Unbought. Built. Certified. Sourced.

Advice about AI is easy to find and hard to trust. These are the four tests applied to anyone who sits in this seat, and the seat is held to all four.

Criterion 1

Unbought

No vendor payments, sponsorships or affiliate revenue. DX Today, the daily AI briefing, takes no sponsored content and no pay to play, and the advisory practice funds it.

Criterion 2

Built

AI staffed roles run under human supervision: SDR, inbound, collections, sales operations and more. Advice from someone who operates the thing.

Criterion 3

Certified

CISA, CISM, CGEIT, PMP, ITIL, CobiT, CMC and CITMC. Audit credentials applied to AI oversight, not slideware.

Criterion 4

Sourced

Every claim verified against primary sources through three independent gates before it is published.

Verification Protocol

Five published steps. No exceptions.

Step 1

Primary sources only

Claims trace back to the original source, not a summary of a summary.

Step 2

Three independent gates

Three separate verification checks, each run independently.

Step 3

Verified before publication

Nothing airs until it clears all three gates.

Step 4

Visible corrections

When something is wrong, the correction is public and the contact is rick@dxtoday.com.

Step 5

One standard everywhere

The same bar applies to every channel, every format, every time.

Precision Revenue Framework™

Five shifts that replace the volume playbook.

The seat is run on the Precision Revenue Framework. Each shift is carried by named Axioms, and each Axiom goes live in about five business days.

1

Noise to Signal

Market positioning. Replace the generic claims every competitor makes with a narrow, named position buyers and AI models can find.

2

Lists to Landscapes

Account intelligence. Stop working a bought list and start working verified accounts and the whole buying committee.

3

Outreach to Orbit

Multi touch engagement. Reach the committee across channels instead of repeating one email at volume.

4

Demos to Discovery

Consultative sales. Pipeline creation that survives without the founder in every conversation.

5

Pipeline to Predictability

Revenue operations. An engine instrumented well enough that results compound instead of reset.

The Axiom Fleet

Four groups of supervised roles.

SDR and Inbound

Pipeline built and every inbound lead answered, nights and weekends included.

Positioning and Presence

How buyers and AI models see you, scored and fixed.

Growth and Retention

Reactivation, expansion, referral and renewal, worked every cycle.

Operations and Intelligence

Invoicing, collections, sales operations, GTM analysis and the daily briefing.

Core Advisory Services

Four services. One seat.

Service 1

Fractional Chief AI and Revenue Officer

One executive seat that runs AI strategy and revenue performance together, so neither is managed in isolation.

Service 2

AI Governance and Risk Architecture

The policies, controls and oversight that let AI run in production without creating exposure.

Service 3

Vendor and Stack Auditing

An independent read on what you pay for, what works, and what overlaps. Vendor independent by design.

Service 4

AI Strategy and Roadmap

A sequenced plan tied to revenue outcomes, with the evidence behind every recommendation.

Deployment Process

Diagnose. Architect. Activate.

Phase 1 · 2 to 3 weeks

Diagnose

Find where the revenue engine and the AI stack actually leak, before anything is built.

Phase 2 · 4 to 6 weeks

Architect

Design the roles, the governance and the roadmap that close those leaks.

Phase 3 · Ongoing

Activate

Agents go live in about five business days each, supervised and measured.

Principles

How the seat operates.

Evidence backed implementations

Every recommendation is tied to primary sources and a measurable result.

Governance first

Controls and oversight come before scale, not after an incident.

Vendor independence

No vendor pays for placement, so the advice follows your interests.

Deploy a role, not a seat

Work is delivered as a running, supervised role with an owner and a number.

Start Here

A free call, or a paid hour.

Free · Discovery call

See whether working together makes sense

A short, no cost conversation about your situation and what a first hour should cover. Booked on the live AIXF calendar.

Book the Free Discovery Call

$395 · One hour consultation

One hour with Rick Spair, Teams video call

A full hour applying thirty years of enterprise AI and revenue leadership to your business as a whole. A session summary, a strategic overview and an action plan follow within 48 hours.

Sessions run Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, starting three business days out and bookable up to six weeks ahead. Pick the slot right here, pay securely by Stripe, and the Teams invitation arrives the moment payment clears.

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