Fractional Data Leadership
Fractional Chief Data Office.
We sit in your C-suite, part-time, as your data executive—owning strategy across your team, directing the cleanup of the schemas underneath, and standing up the governance that gives your board one agreed set of numbers. The outcome of a senior CDO hire, without the headcount or the equity.
Book an Intro CallArchitected by a leader who runs AI-enabled analytics across 13 corporate data domains for a $9B+ multinational, accountable to the CEO and board.
From first meeting to first deliverable
Your first working session—data team or project sponsor
Diagnostic delivered—maturity map + 3 ranked plays
Your first source-of-truth deliverable, live
| Attribute | Traditional Full-Time CDO | Axiom Fractional CDO |
|---|---|---|
| Investment | $350k–$500k+ all-in (salary, equity, benefits) | Fixed monthly scope — sized to your stack on the intro call |
| Time to Impact | 3–6 months (hiring + onboarding) | Week 1 — first working session, no ramp |
| Commitment | Permanent hire, equity dilution | Monthly retainer, zero equity, cancel anytime |
| Focus | Managing headcount, vendor meetings, internal politics | Strategy, governance, and one agreed source of truth |
| Technology | Whatever stack they came from | Vendor-agnostic; agentic AI built into the stack you own |
Scope, drawn on purpose
We own the decisions. We direct the build.
A Chief Data Officer owns the strategy and the truth—and directs the team that lays the pipe. You get the executive, not another pair of hands to manage.
- Data strategy & roadmap
- Governance & the single definition of each board metric
- Agentic AI — designed, built & deployed in your cloud
- ROI tracking & cost recovery
- Vendor & architecture decisions
- Data pipelines & ETL
- Data warehousing
- Dashboard building — in the BI tools you already own
- ML model engineering
Most consultancies hand you a roadmap and a software license.