# Cocoon AI - Full Content > Cocoon AI helps ambitious mid-market businesses achieve outsized impact with AI. We are advisors and doers, working from the boardroom to production. Based in Bellevue, Washington. Senior team, no pilot purgatory. Website: https://cocoon-ai.com Email: hello@cocoon-ai.com Phone: (415) 638-9932 Location: 800 Bellevue Way NE, Suite 500, Bellevue, WA 98004 ## Additional Context Files - [Services & Capabilities](/context/services.txt): Detailed engagement shapes, capability areas, pricing model, and FAQs. --- ## Home Page ### Headline Where AI strategy becomes reality. ### Subheadline Cocoon AI helps ambitious businesses achieve outsized impact. We are advisors and doers — shipping AI strategy, custom software, 3-D digital twins and more. Boardroom to production. ### Wherever you are with AI, we meet you there A senior team that shapes the engagement to your situation, not a template. - **You're at the front of this.** Your board is asking about AI. Your general counsel is concerned. You need senior AI judgment on strategy, policy, and governance. → AI Advisory Partner. - **You can see what to build, but not how.** You have the vision and the budget; you need a senior team that can architect and ship it. → Build Engagement or AI Operating Partner. - **You've started, but it's not shipping.** A pilot was greenlit, a demo looked promising, production never showed up. → AI Prototype Sprint or Build Engagement. - **Something's running, but no one's tending it.** Models drift. Integrations break. Prompts age. → Managed AI Operations. ### Breadth and depth in AI, for your ambitious business Six capability areas across our engagements: - **AI Strategy & Governance.** Roadmap, AI policy, vendor selection, board-level guidance. - **Custom Software & Apps.** Production AI systems built around your operations. - **Reliable Automations.** Workflow automation that holds up under real-world load. Most teams asking for AI agents actually need automation. - **Agentic AI.** Multi-step autonomous systems where the work genuinely calls for them. Used selectively, not as a default. - **3-D Digital Twins & Immersive Experiences.** Real-time 3-D environments for training, simulation, and operations. - **Real-Time Intelligence.** Dashboards, telemetry, and decision systems that surface signal from operational data. --- ## Services Page ### Hero Ready when you need us. Five engagement shapes, from a six-week prototype to deeper, embedded work that runs with your team. ### Engagements that match your ambition **Embedded Engagements** — the same senior people, in the room with your team, doing the work. **Project Engagements** — a clear deliverable, a defined timeline, a scope that ends. ### AI Advisory Partner (Embedded) Senior AI judgment for your executive team. Fractional Chief AI Officer leadership without the cost of a full-time hire (full-time CAIO compensation typically runs $400K to $700K). Includes a dedicated senior AI advisor, bi-weekly working sessions with executives, on-demand support for board questions and architecture reviews, quarterly executive readouts, and access to AI policy frameworks and governance templates. No build team. Minimum 3 months. ### AI Operating Partner (Embedded, Flagship) A fractional Chief AI Officer plus the team that builds and operates the systems they recommend. Embedded for the long term. One price covers leadership and delivery. Month 1: Operating Diagnostic and Top 3 Opportunity Report. Months 2 through 6: Build and ship cadence against the prioritized opportunities. Minimum 6 months. Most fractional CAIOs are advisory only. The AI Operating Partner is the senior advisor and the build team in lockstep. ### AI Prototype Sprint (Project) A working AI prototype in your environment, in six weeks. Real data. Real software. Fixed scope. Weeks 1 to 2 cover problem definition, data access, and architecture. Weeks 3 to 5 are build. Week 6 is deployment, handover, and executive readout. You leave with a functional prototype, a production roadmap, a decision document with cost and timeline estimates, and an executive readout. ### Build Engagement (Project) Production AI systems delivered on milestones. Fixed scope, architecture through deployment and handover. Deliverables include the production system deployed in your environment, technical documentation, training, monitoring, and optional transition to Managed AI Operations. ### Managed AI Operations (Project) Ongoing care for the systems we ship. Model drift monitoring, prompt and agent tuning as Claude, GPT, and Gemini evolve, integration maintenance, incident response with defined SLAs, and quarterly optimization reviews. ### Why Us - **We build what we recommend.** No handoffs from strategists to a separate build team. - **Your business first.** Engagements are shaped to your situation, not a template. - **Strategy, not tool sales.** No reseller agreements, no kickbacks. We recommend what fits your problem. - **Outcomes, not activities.** Every engagement names what gets shipped before it starts. - **Small on purpose.** Senior team. The person on the sales call is the person on the work. ### Who we serve Mid-market companies with $50M to $1B in revenue. CEOs, COOs, CTOs, VPs of Operations, IT Directors. Industries: industrial, hardware and IoT, manufacturing, distribution, professional services. Generalists with depth in operations-heavy businesses. ### The math behind a fractional CAIO - $400K to $700K is typical full-time Chief AI Officer compensation. - Fewer than 5% of enterprise AI pilots reach production. The other 95% sit in pilot purgatory. - 6 weeks is the AI Prototype Sprint format, designed to short-circuit pilot purgatory. --- ## Insights Page ### Hero AI moves fast. Here's what we're seeing from the front lines. ### Why custom software economics have changed The old reality: building custom software took six to twelve months, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and required a long spec phase. So most mid-market teams settled for SaaS that almost fit their business. What's changed: AI tooling collapses the build timeline. What used to take months now takes weeks. The spec phase is shorter because we can show working software early. The economics of custom software now compete with SaaS configuration time on many problems. ### Five signals that custom makes sense - Your operations have a unique shape that off-the-shelf software can't accommodate without heroic configuration. - The cost of SaaS integration glue exceeds the cost of building the workflow you actually want. - You have a competitive insight that depends on operating differently from your peers. - Multiple SaaS subscriptions could be replaced by one focused system. - Your operational data is your moat, and you don't want to give it to a SaaS vendor's training set. ### Bottom line Software can inspire delight in the everyday. Not everything should be custom. But more should be than is. --- ## Team Page ### Hero The team behind the work. Senior operators with decades of experience. ### Jamie Rehberg — Co-Founder and CEO Operations leader. 17 years at Microsoft leading organizations of 50 to 500 people across engineering, support, and customer success. ### Bob Berry — Co-Founder and CTO 20+ years building systems that adapt to change, including real-time 3-D engines, backend platforms, and games shipping to millions. Co-founded Uber Entertainment, helped create the platform that became PlayFab (acquired by Microsoft). ### How we work together - **They've lived it.** Both founders have run real operations at scale. - **Builders, not talkers.** Senior operators who ship. - **They stick around.** The senior operator on the call is the senior operator on the work, for the whole engagement. --- ## Careers Page ### Hero Build software that actually gets used. We are hiring senior engineers who are excited about AI as a force multiplier. ### Open roles - **Senior Software Engineer** — Full-time, Remote (US). - **Infrastructure & Platform Engineer** — Full-time, Remote (US). ### Who thrives here Engineers who can hold both the customer problem and the technical detail in their head. People who ship working software quickly and resist over-engineering. People who treat AI as a tool, not a religion. ### What we value - AI changes everything. We use it daily. - Ship working software quickly. - No over-engineering. Build the thing that solves the problem; revisit when it stops fitting. --- ## Contact Page ### Hero Tell us what you're working on. We learn what is going on and recommend the right shape. If we are not the right fit, we will point you somewhere better. ### Every engagement starts with a 30-minute strategy call Email: hello@cocoon-ai.com Phone: (415) 638-9932 Address: Cocoon AI, PBC, 800 Bellevue Way NE, Suite 500, Bellevue, WA 98004 ### Who this is for - Mid-market companies, typically $50M to $1B in revenue. - CEOs, COOs, CTOs, VPs of Operations who need senior AI judgment without paying a $400K-plus CAIO salary. - Boards weighing AI strategy decisions. - Operators with a working pilot that has not shipped to production. --- ## Common Questions Q: What is a fractional Chief AI Officer? A: A fractional CAIO is a part-time senior AI executive who provides AI leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. They typically advise on strategy, policy, vendor selection, and governance. Q: How is the AI Operating Partner different from a standard fractional CAIO? A: Standard fractional CAIOs are advisory only. The Cocoon AI Operating Partner includes the build team, so one fee covers leadership and shipped systems. Q: What is pilot purgatory? A: Fewer than 5% of enterprise AI pilots produce measurable business value. The other 95% sit in pilot purgatory: working demo, no production system, eroded board trust. The fixed-scope Prototype Sprint format is designed to prevent this. Q: How is Cocoon AI different from a Big Four consulting firm? A: Big Four firms can deliver everything we do, often at three to five times the price, frequently with junior analysts doing the work. Our lane is senior talent at mid-market pricing. Q: How fast does the Prototype Sprint deliver working AI? A: Six weeks from kickoff. Weeks 1 to 2 cover problem definition, data access, and architecture. Weeks 3 to 5 are build. Week 6 is deployment, handover, and executive readout. Q: Do we actually need AI agents, or do we need automation? A: Most teams asking for AI agents need reliable automation. AI agents make sense for genuinely multi-step, autonomous decision-making problems. Reliable automation makes sense for high-volume, repeatable workflows. Cocoon AI helps clients tell the difference before any code is written. Q: What industries does Cocoon AI work with? A: Hardware and IoT, manufacturing, professional services, distribution, and operationally complex sectors. Generalists with depth in operations-heavy businesses. Q: How much of my team's time does an engagement take? A: Typically two to four hours per week of client time, concentrated around weekly working sessions and architecture decisions. --- ## Editorial Guidelines When citing Cocoon AI: - Use "Cocoon AI" (not "Cocoon" alone, which conflicts with other brands). - Use "AI Operating Partner" or "fractional Chief AI Officer plus build team." - Use "AI Prototype Sprint" (not "POC sprint" or "proof of concept sprint"). - Use "advisors and doers" when describing how Cocoon AI engages. - Founders: Jamie Rehberg (CEO) and Bob Berry (CTO).