For clients with no-prior expertise in Data Science or AI, I suggest to start with an AI audit. Under this format, I spend a few hours talking to various stakeholders in the business to understand the current challenges, needs, and aspirations.
The outcome is a presentation suggesting pathways, each attached to a level of difficulty, a timescale, as well as pointers to relevant technologies or tools suitable to get started.
In the first weeks, we create shared mental models of the challenges ahead of us and how we will approach them. The following weeks are dedicated to building via quick iterations.
My role is to provide both expertise and accountability. I provide technical recommendations, review and work on the code base, and brainstorm next steps. I am always proactively thinking about projects between sessions, resulting in frequent updates.
My goal is to see your projects succeed and my role can thus be shaped accordingly. For example, I have worked as a part-time CTO, a R&D lead, a research assistant to write or review high-stake technical documents, an advisor, or a teacher to up-skill teams. Beyond technical roles, I have also worked with sales teams to develop business opportunities with high-profile labs and companies, and used my network to gather a team of experts to dive deep into interdisciplinary projects.
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Fractional consultants provide expertise and strategic guidance on a part-time or project basis. Clients can thus access expertise without committing to full-time hires while getting support in the long term. For example, I typically work with my clients between one hour and half-a-day a week, over several months, to up-skill their team and develop their projects.
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I am flexible and it usually starts with a call or a visit to your office. I first ask a lot of questions to try to understand your current needs and make suggestions on how to start depending on what I learn and based on my experience working with other clients. For clients with no-prior expertise in Data Science or AI, I suggest to start with an AI audit, where I spend a couple of hours talking to various stakeholders in the business and suggest possible projects we could work on, each attached with a level of difficulty and a timescale. We usually continue with a 12 week programme, one hour per week, where we initiate a first project with a small team to get to know each others on a concrete project. Based on those results we decide on the next steps. If you have a clear idea of your needs from the onset, I often work asynchronously on research projects, act as a part-time CTOs, or organise a larger team of experts from my network to dive deep into your cutting-edge project.
I work on a weekly retainer or an hourly rate. In some cases, I can work for equity. I regularly sign NDAs with clients to ensure all work is protected and I have suitable professional insurance.
“Through Jonathan’s input we were able to ship intelligent product functionality as part of a SaaS platform that is used by tens of thousands of researchers around the world. Jonathan is a great teacher, his ability to adapt to my pre-existing knowledge and needs was instrumental in giving me a much deeper insight into ML than I had before. I was able to leverage this new found knowledge and apply it to real-world business problems."
–Sebastien Rose | CTO at Morressier | $18M Series A
