Experienced human talent, with specialized AI agent teams when they make the work faster and more effective.
Your business might need a COO to improve execution, a marketing director to generate more qualified demand or an experienced manager to get an important part of the operation running smoothly. You may need that person one or two days a week rather than full-time.
Integral Fractional helps you bring in the right talent for the responsibilities, schedule and budget that fit your business. Add one fractional professional or several. Engage one AI team, more than one or none at all. Every arrangement is tailored to what you need done, with a person accountable for the work whenever human leadership is part of the engagement.
Also available: specialized Fractional AI Agents and live voice demonstrations.
The Talent Gap
Bring in experience at the level where the work is getting stuck.
The company grows and the requirements change. More customers mean more operating complexity. Marketing needs consistent direction. Department managers need support. Projects need somebody to make decisions, coordinate people and follow through. The founder can still get the work done, but the company is paying for that dependence in missed opportunities, slow decisions and uneven execution.
A full-time hire is sometimes the right answer. Often the business needs a smaller, more focused commitment from an experienced professional. That might be an operating executive who attends the leadership meeting each week, a marketing director who leads the function across employees and agencies or a manager who oversees delivery and fixes the everyday handoffs.
Fractional talent gives you seniority where it matters and a workload that matches the need. The role is defined before the commitment begins, and the person works alongside your existing team.
Choose the Level of Talent
Start with the responsibilities. We help determine the right level of person.
For business-wide leadership, operational performance, major transitions and AI direction. Roles we can scope include fractional CEO, COO and Chief AI Officer. These leaders work with ownership and the executive team on strategic priorities, management accountability and business results.
For a department or growth function that needs an experienced owner. Examples include fractional Marketing Director, Operations Director and Growth or Revenue Director. A director can coordinate staff, manage external vendors, establish performance reviews and improve execution without creating a full-time executive position.
For businesses that need experienced, hands-on management of defined responsibilities. Depending on professional availability, that might be a Marketing Manager, Operations Manager or Project and Program Manager. These are practical assignments built around the work that needs consistent attention.
Every position is scoped to the client. Availability is confirmed before we propose a named professional. You can begin with one role and add another when the need is clear.
Design Your Combination
Your goals, your people and your budget determine the configuration.
Bring in a fractional executive, director or manager who works directly with your team. We define the responsibilities, meeting cadence, decision authority, expected time commitment and measures of success. You can choose human talent without buying an AI agent team.
If you already have capable leaders and managers, our specialized AI agents may be the additional capacity you need. Your existing people can direct the work. AI-only engagements are available and are scoped around the capabilities, integrations and support you choose.
For some businesses, the best answer is an experienced person supported by agents. A fractional COO might use the Operations Team for reporting and process support. A marketing director might draw on the Revenue Team. You might want two part-time professionals with one AI team, or one professional supported by selected agents from several teams.
If you want an intensive build-and-transfer engagement, our existing six-month installation model remains available as a separate service. That program has a defined implementation and handoff. Ongoing fractional positions are available independently and do not end automatically after six months.
We recommend a configuration based on the work and expected value. You should never need to purchase people or software simply to fit a package.
The AI-enabled Advantage
Keep human judgment. Reduce the hours consumed by routine preparation and coordination.
Fractional professionals are most valuable when they are leading, deciding, coaching managers and improving how the business works. They are less valuable when their limited hours disappear into gathering information, preparing drafts, chasing status updates and assembling reports. Those are areas where well-configured AI agents can help.
Integral Fractional has four specialist AI teams organized around the core work of a growing company. They are purpose-built around defined jobs, with named agents and a live voice experience you can explore.
Supports marketing, leads, sales and customer relationships.
Supports people, processes, operating visibility and business systems.
Supports planning, teaming, execution and management follow-through.
Supports AI strategy, priorities, implementation and adoption.
Our aim is to produce major time savings and higher throughput on tasks that suit AI. For selected, well-defined tasks, five-to-tenfold productivity improvement is an ambition we can test, not a universal claim about everything an executive or manager does. We establish a baseline and measure what changes for your business.
The human executive or manager sets direction, evaluates the results and remains accountable. Agents perform only the work and actions agreed during implementation, with appropriate review and approvals.
Small-business Economics
Fractional services designed for growing businesses that need results without a large hiring commitment.
We want the numbers to make sense for a small or midsize business. You should know which responsibilities you are buying, how much time the person will devote to them, what AI capabilities are included and what success will be measured against. A leaner operating model and efficient use of AI help us avoid unnecessary work and keep our proposals focused.
An executive assignment costs differently from a director or manager assignment. An AI team on its own is priced differently from a human-led engagement. We discuss scope and price together, explain any setup or ongoing costs and provide a written proposal before you commit. There is no requirement to buy every team or accept a fixed bundle.
We aim to show useful progress early, then expand only when the value justifies it. Depending on the role, that may mean fewer operational delays, stronger management reporting, faster marketing follow-up, improved project completion or reclaimed staff time. The measures are agreed with you, tracked against a baseline and reviewed together.
How We Work
The first decision is what needs to get done. The contract follows from that.
We start with a no-fee conversation about the business, the responsibilities that need attention and the results you want. Sometimes the answer is a senior executive. Sometimes it is a director, manager or an AI capability supporting your existing team.
We agree on the role or agent team, time commitment, reporting relationships, decision rights, systems access, expected outcomes, price and term. If a person is part of the engagement, you meet that person before you commit.
The professional joins the agreed meetings and starts working with your team. If AI agents are included, we configure the selected capabilities, define approval points and connect them to the appropriate workflows.
We establish an initial operating rhythm and review progress against agreed measures. Some roles continue for years because the need continues. Others are defined assignments with a clear finish. Your business determines the right arrangement.
Who We Work With
Especially founder-led businesses that have more work and complexity than their current management capacity can handle.
We typically work best with business owners and CEOs who have an operating company, a team and an immediate need for stronger execution. They may need management capability before a full-time hire is justified, or they may want specialized AI support for a function their current leaders already own.
You may need a COO to help the business run without constant founder intervention, a director to stabilize marketing performance or a manager who can lead a specific operation. Whatever the level, we focus on observable work and agreed outcomes. We will say when a full-time hire, a narrower assignment or a different service is the better fit.
The People and Firm Behind the Work
Your relationship is with the person doing the work, supported by the broader Integral capabilities when useful.
Integral Fractional is led by Brett Thomas, founder of Integral Corporation. Brett has spent more than 25 years advising founders, CEOs and leadership teams on strategy, organizational performance and business leadership. He is the author of 20 books on leadership, management and AI and has developed operating frameworks and AI-enabled software for business leaders.
Brett is available to discuss fractional COO and fractional Marketing Director engagements. The firm is also developing a network of experienced executives and specialists whose individual roles and availability will be confirmed before they are presented to clients.
Integral Associates contributes leadership and organizational expertise. Integral Digital contributes software and AI system design. Together they allow a fractional professional to draw on practical methods and specialist agents when the client would benefit, while remaining accountable for the role they accepted.
Questions
Clear answers before you decide whom to bring into the business.
Start with one need. We will help you choose the people, agents and level of involvement that fit.
Maybe you need a fractional COO one day a week, a marketing director to lead your customer acquisition effort or a manager who can keep an important initiative on track. Maybe your current leadership team simply needs better tools and more capacity. Tell us where progress is getting stuck and what you would like to improve. We will discuss a sensible starting point and a clear proposal.
Initial conversation: 60 minutes, no fee. We will help define the need and determine whether there is a fit.
