Send the link to your posting. No call or systems access needed.
Give the work an owner before your hire starts.
Example responsibilities. Your posting defines the work.
01
While the role is open
Choose the first team. Decide what to build. Agree the number to watch.
Agree the work and hours
02Paid engagement
Dima holds the agreed role part-time
Weekly decisions with you. One queue of work. Engineering support within your chosen level.
Written date + readiness conditions
03
Your own person takes the role
We step down or hand over under the conditions in your first agreement.
Needs your own employee
Day-to-day people management. Ownership of the AI budget and vendor contracts.
Paid work has a three-month minimum. Your agreement names what your own person must be able to do before our level drops. Keeping the current level is your call.
150+
production AI projects in the founder's record
Dima Levin
Someone who has done it, in the room every week. Dima holds the role at every level.
Your posting may combine work a part-time AI officer can own with responsibilities that need your employee. We separate them on your free page and name the first move we'd make.
Your free first step
The first quarter of your Head of AI role, on one page
On your page
What the role’s first quarter holds
What can start before your hire
What needs your own employee
What you shouldn't pay us for
The one move we’d make first
Yours within 3 business days. Keep it whether or not you reply.
Your free page works from your own posting and public pages.
Example, fictional company · excerpt
“Own AI adoption and manage the team.”
One sentence in a posting can contain two different jobs.
Can start before your hire
One team’s shared setup of prompts, pipelines and agents. A number you already watch, tracked.
Needs your own employee
Managing people day to day. Owning the AI budget and vendor contracts.
Do not pay us for this
A strategy document on its own, with nobody to act on it. Choosing an AI coding tool for your engineers.
The first move in this example
Choose one team and the number it already watches. Start there.
Keep the free plan. Choose whether to continue.
After the page or call, you can stop at no cost. The page stays yours.
Your choice at each free step
1
Free first-quarter plan
You send your posting. We write one page from public sources within 3 business days.
Keep it. You can stop here.
2
Optional 30-minute call
You and Dima agree the first team and the number to watch.
Free. Choose this if you want a proposal.
3
Written proposal
Scope, fee, hours, minimum term and handover conditions.
within 5 business days of the call.
You decide whether to sign.
You sign. Paid work starts.
Fee, hours, three-month minimum and handover date agreed first.
The timing is written into your first agreement
4
Months 1 to 3
Dima and your named engineer work within the hours and scope on your proposal.
Three-month minimum
5
Month-three review
Use fewer than three in ten of the agreed hours and you move to paying by the hour.
Otherwise, continue month to month from month four.
the written handover date
Agreed handover
Your own person takes the role. We step down to the agreed level, or hand over and stop. Your first agreement names what your person must be able to do before the level drops.
The minimum term applies. Keeping the current level is your call.
What happens while we hold the seat
We work through your team’s queue and report to you each month.
1
You + Dima
Choose the first team and the number you already watch.
2
Dima
Meet with you each week, write decisions down and watch the queue.
3
Your named engineer
Works within the scope and hours of your chosen level. Embedded adds work in your repos.
4
Cone Red → you
Report work done, what changed, hours used and the decisions you need to make.
You decide what goes into the next month’s queue.
Your monthly page: work, progress, cost, decisions
What we did
the month's work, and the decisions we wrote down with you
What changed
on the one number you already watch
What it cost
the hours used, against the hours printed on your proposal
Your decisions
at most three, each answerable in one word
Start with one team. Choose the work it needs.
Start at Advisory. Choose Embedded when your posting asks for hands-on building in your repos.
Monthly hours, printed on your proposal.
Recommended for one team
Advisory
Ownership and decisions
Dima’s role
8 hours a month. A weekly hour with you, decisions written down, one queue watched.
Engineering work
12 hours a month within the agreed Advisory scope.
USD 5,500a month
When the posting needs
Embedded
Hands-on work in your repos
Dima’s role
12 hours a month holding the Advisory role.
Engineering work
40 hours a month. An engineer day a week inside your repos.
USD 10,000a month
When you have
Dedicated
An actual build queue
Dima’s role
16 hours a month behind the architecture decisions.
Engineering work
160 hours a month. An engineer of ours on your build queue.
USD 20,000a month
Every level has a fixed monthly fee and a three-month minimum, then month to month. We invoice on the first of each month. Hours are printed on your proposal. Prices are in US dollars.
Start with the free page. Decide on the role afterwards.
In writing, before you sign.
The same limits for every client.
No round-the-clock cover. A named engineer answers inside working hours, within the response time printed on your proposal.
No accuracy percentage as a promise. We measure it in the first month and report it in every note after.
We don't sell blocks of hours. The monthly fee buys a role; the proposal prints the hours it covers, and work above them waits for your written yes.
No automatic price change. The price we quote you stays your price.
We won't talk you out of your hire. The free page names the parts of the role that need your own employee, and we don't bid for those.
Send the posting. Keep the plan.
Get the first quarter of your Head of AI role on one page, free within three business days. It stays useful if you never hire us.
