Cocoon AI
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Five engagement shapes. From a six-week prototype to deeper, embedded work that runs with your team.

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Embedded Engagements

The same senior people, in the room with your team, doing the work.

AI Advisory Partner

Senior AI judgment for your executive team. Strategy, governance, and an honest read on what's worth doing. Fractional Chief AI Officer.

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AI Operating Partner

Fractional Chief AI Officer that advises and ships.

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Project Engagements

A clear deliverable. A defined timeline. A scope that ends.

AI Prototype Sprint

A working AI prototype in your environment in six weeks. The fastest way to find out if an idea is real.

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Build Engagement

Production-grade systems, custom software, or immersive 3-D experiences. Milestone-based delivery against a defined scope.

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Managed AI Operations

Ongoing care for systems already in flight. Models drift, systems break, and the work doesn't end at launch.

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Engagements that match your ambition.

AI Advisory Partner

Senior AI judgment for your executive team. Without hiring a $400K Chief AI Officer.

A fractional senior AI leader who works with your executive team to make the right AI decisions. Pattern recognition from dozens of deployments. No build team. Strategy, policy, governance, and architecture review.

Best for

CEOs and CTOs at mid-market firms who need senior AI judgment but already have their own developers. Boards that need responsible AI policy before broader deployment.

What's included

  • Dedicated senior advisor
  • Bi-weekly working sessions with your team
  • On-demand support for urgent questions
  • Quarterly executive readout
  • Access to our frameworks, policies, and templates
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AI Operating Partner

Flagship

Fractional Chief AI Officer that advises, and ships.

A senior AI executive plus the team that builds and operates the systems they recommend. Most fractional CAIOs are advisory only. We ship. One price covers leadership and delivery, embedded for the long term.

Best for

Mid-market CEOs who need continuous AI capability but cannot justify a $400K to $700K full-time CAIO. Companies scaling AI from one successful pilot to many production systems.

What's included

  • Senior AI leadership (fractional CAIO equivalent)
  • Delivery capacity from the right specialists for your project
  • Month 1 Operating Diagnostic with Top 3 Opportunity Report
  • Months 2 to 6 build and ship cadence with milestone reviews
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AI Prototype Sprint

A working AI prototype in your environment, in six weeks.

Most AI consulting ends with a slide deck. The Prototype Sprint ends with software running against your real data. You leave with a functional prototype and a clear go-or-no-go decision for production.

Best for

Mid-market operators with a specific AI opportunity to validate. Leaders whose board needs working AI, not slides. Buyers tired of pilot purgatory.

What's included

  • Working prototype, deployed in your environment
  • Production roadmap (what it takes to scale this thing)
  • Decision document with cost and timeline for full build
  • Executive readout for your board or leadership team
  • Built to easily move to production and expand features iteratively
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Build Engagement

Production AI systems delivered on milestones.

When you know what needs to be built and you need senior engineering to ship it. Build Engagements are production deliveries, not pilots. Fixed scope. Clear milestones. Explicit acceptance criteria.

Best for

Clients who completed a Prototype Sprint and are ready to scale, or organizations that already know what they want and need senior engineering execution.

What's included

  • Production system deployed in your environment
  • Full technical documentation and architecture docs
  • User training and migration support
  • Monitoring, observability, and operational runbooks
  • Knowledge transfer or transition to Managed AI Operations
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Managed AI Operations

Ongoing care for the systems we ship.

Production AI systems are not set-and-forget. Models drift. Prompts need tuning. APIs change. Integrations break. Managed AI Operations is ongoing care for the systems we built, monitored and measurably improved quarter over quarter.

Best for

Clients who completed a Build Engagement with us, or organizations running legacy systems and want a modern support experience.

What's included

  • Model drift monitoring and retraining
  • Prompt and agent tuning as Claude, GPT, and Gemini evolve
  • Integration maintenance as ERP APIs and schemas change
  • Incident response with defined SLAs
  • Quarterly optimization review and recommendations
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What this looks like in practice

5 days→6 hours
400+ hours/year saved
“We knew the process was slow. We didn't know it was costing us 400 hours a year.”
Scattered priorities→3 actionable wins
1,200+ hours annually
“We didn't know where to start. They figured it out in a day.”
16 hrs reconciliation→2 hrs reconciliation
Error rate: 15% to 5%
“We were tracking everything in spreadsheets. It was a mess.”

Why companies choose us

We Build What We Recommend

No strategy decks that collect dust. Every recommendation ships as working software, integrated with your stack and used by your team.

Your Business First

We learn how your operations actually run before touching technology. Process mapping, ride-alongs, real conversations with the people doing the work.

Strategy, Not Tool Sales

We have no reseller agreements and no kickbacks. We recommend the right approach for your situation, not the vendor that pays us the most.

Outcomes, Not Activities

Hours saved. Errors reduced. Revenue recovered. If we cannot measure the outcome, we do not propose the project.

Small On Purpose

Senior operators on every engagement. No junior analysts learning on your dime, no handoffs between sales and delivery.

Built for mid-market operators tired of pilot purgatory

CEOs, COOs, CTOs, and VPs of Operations at mid-market companies ($50M to $1B in revenue) who:

  • Need senior AI judgment AND senior delivery in one engagement
  • Want working software in their environment, not a strategy deck on a shelf
  • Are tired of pilot purgatory and ready for production
  • Cannot justify a full-time Chief AI Officer at $400K to $700K
  • Operate in industrial, hardware, manufacturing, distribution, or professional services

Senior people on every engagement. The same person who writes your AI policy ships your production code.

The math behind a fractional CAIO

$400KThe average full-time Chief AI Officer earns $400K to $700K. The Operating Partner gives you the same caliber of leadership AND a build team for a fraction of that.
95%of AI pilots never reach production. Cocoon's engagements are scoped to ship.
6 wksfrom kickoff to working AI in your environment, with the Prototype Sprint.

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