I'm the fractional AI Advocate who audits your stack, activates your team, and stays in your corner — independent of every vendor on your invoice. So the budget you already spent finally starts paying off.
$ ./ai_advocate --phases
> 01 audit 1–2 weeks $7,500
> 02 activate 60–90 days from $7,500/mo
> 03 advocate ongoing from $3,500/mo
> start anywhere. cancel anytime._
You're the one who pulled the trigger. A year ago you signed the company up for ChatGPT Teams, Copilot, or Claude. Maybe all three. The press release went out. The all-hands was energizing.
Now the seats sit half-used. Two power users built clever workflows nobody else can replicate. Finance keeps asking why renewals keep going up. Competitors keep announcing breakthroughs you can't tell are real. And every board update starts to sound suspiciously like the last one — which is the part that's actually keeping you up.
Vendors won't fix this — their job is to keep you on their tool. Consultants won't fix this — their job ends when the deck is delivered. IT won't fix this — they're already underwater.
You don't need another tool. You need someone in your corner whose only job is making sure the tools you have actually work.
Map your AI stack. Interview your team. Deliver an 8-page report with at least 5 ranked quick wins and a 90-day plan you can defend.
Hands-on with your team and embedded in your Slack — questions answered in real time, like a coworker. Build the workflows the audit prioritized. Train power users to share, not hoard. Adoption is the deliverable.
Your fractional AI partner. Quarterly stack reviews, vendor diligence, executive briefings, and ad-hoc support. Month-to-month.
// Or grab the bundle: 90-day AI Advocate, $25,000.
If you haven't bought AI subscriptions yet — or you're about to commit $200k to a new initiative — the Board Game Test is a 90-minute workshop that tells you whether your team is actually ready to build.
Can your team turn this process into a board game? Not a metaphor. Sketch the rules. Where does it start? How do you win?
If they can draw the board, they're ready to build. If it's all hand-waving and "the senior person just knows," they're not. And no amount of AI is going to save them.
Take the Board Game Test (free) →// 5-minute self-assessment. No email gate.
$ check start_state
Where does the process begin?
$ check rules
What decisions get made? By whom?
$ check win_condition
How do you know you've succeeded?
$ check edge_cases
What happens when things go wrong?
→ If you can answer these, you can build it.
→ If you can't, you're not ready yet.
I've been shipping software since 1998. I've watched cloud, mobile, big data, and now AI go through the same hype curve. The technology changes every few years. The failure patterns don't.
I built the AI Advocate role because too often 80% of the value a team needs is already sitting unused in tools they've already paid for — and because audits without follow-through end up filed in Notion, never read.
I sell no software. I take no referral fees. I'm only paid by you.
$ whoami
Scott Pierce
$ cat experience.txt
25+ years shipping software
10+ years in production AI
4 technology hype cycles survived
$ cat allegiance.txt
"On your side. Not the vendor's.
Not the consultancy's. Yours."
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Three workflows your team would defend in front of the board — not slideware
Power users multiplied from two into ten, sharing instead of hoarding
A renewal conversation that goes the other direction for the first time
Fifteen minutes is all it takes to know whether the next vendor pitch is real
That's what the budget you already spent should have been buying all along.
The seats that keep autorenewing while adoption stays flat
Your power users who eventually leave for somewhere that gives them more leverage
The competitor announcement you'll read 18 months from now
The board update that sounds suspiciously like last quarter's
The budget is the obvious loss. It's not the biggest one.
30-minute fit call. No pitch. No pressure. We'll talk about your AI stack and which phase makes sense to start with.
If we both think it fits, we kick off within 5 business days.
Or email me: hey@askscottpierce.com