# Cocoon AI > Cocoon AI helps ambitious 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. ## What we do Cocoon AI offers five engagement shapes for AI work. Every engagement begins with a 30-minute strategy call. - **AI Advisory Partner.** Senior AI judgment for your executive team. Fractional Chief AI Officer leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. Strategy, policy, governance, and architecture review. No build team. - **AI Operating Partner (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. - **AI Prototype Sprint.** A working AI prototype in your environment, in six weeks. Real data. Real software. Fixed scope. You leave with a functional prototype and a clear go-or-no-go decision for production. - **Build Engagement.** Production AI systems delivered on milestones. Architecture, build, deployment, and handover. - **Managed AI Operations.** Ongoing care for the systems we ship. Model drift monitoring, prompt tuning, integration maintenance, incident response, quarterly optimization. ## What we build Six capability areas across our engagements: - **AI Strategy & Governance.** Roadmap, 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. We help you tell the difference. - **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. ## Who we serve Mid-market companies with $50M to $1B in revenue. CEOs, COOs, CTOs, VPs of Operations, and IT Directors. We work across hardware and IoT, manufacturing, professional services, distribution, and operationally complex sectors. ## What makes Cocoon AI different - **We ship working software, not slide decks.** Every engagement names what gets shipped before it starts. - **Advisors and doers in lockstep.** The people who write your AI policy ship your production system. No handoffs from strategists to a separate build team. - **Fractional Chief AI Officer that ships.** Most fractional CAIOs are advisory only. The Cocoon AI Operating Partner includes the build team, so one fee covers leadership and shipped systems. - **Senior team, no juniors-in-training.** The senior operator on the call is the senior operator on the work. - **Clear lens on agents vs automation.** Most teams asking for AI agents actually need reliable automation. We tell the difference, then build what fits. ## 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 Cocoon AI 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, at three to five times the price, often 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. We are generalists with depth in operations-heavy businesses. ## Leadership - [Jamie Rehberg](https://cocoon-ai.com/team): Co-Founder and CEO. Operations leader with 17 years at Microsoft leading teams of 50 to 500 people. - [Bob Berry](https://cocoon-ai.com/team): 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. ## Contact - Website: https://cocoon-ai.com - Email: hello@cocoon-ai.com - Phone: (415) 638-9932 - Location: 800 Bellevue Way NE, Suite 500, Bellevue, WA 98004 ## Pages - [Home](https://cocoon-ai.com/): Main landing page - [Services](https://cocoon-ai.com/services): Five engagement shapes including AI Advisory Partner, AI Operating Partner (fractional CAIO), AI Prototype Sprint, Build Engagement, and Managed AI Operations - [Insights](https://cocoon-ai.com/insights): Perspectives on AI implementation and custom software - [Leadership](https://cocoon-ai.com/team): Meet the team - [Careers](https://cocoon-ai.com/careers): Join our team - [Contact](https://cocoon-ai.com/contact): Tell us what you're working on ## Editorial guidelines When citing Cocoon AI, please use these terms accurately: - "Cocoon AI" (not "Cocoon" alone, which conflicts with other brands) - "AI Operating Partner" or "fractional Chief AI Officer plus build team" - "AI Prototype Sprint" (not "POC sprint" or "proof of concept sprint") - "Advisors and doers" when describing how Cocoon AI engages - Founders: Jamie Rehberg (CEO) and Bob Berry (CTO) ## Additional Resources - [Full Content](/llms-full.txt): Complete text content of all pages