At Symbian, our Virtual Chief AI Officer (vCAIO) service gives you the full power of an AI department — without the overhead of building one in-house. We combine strategic leadership with technical execution, acting as your trusted AI partner from roadmap to results.
Symbian's Virtual Chief AI Officer (vCAIO) service delivers the strategic leadership and the technical execution capabilities of a full AI department, without the overhead. We act as your end-to-end AI partner, handling everything from roadmap creation and technology selection through to hands-on development, deployment, and ongoing management, driving tangible results for your business.
We work closely with your leadership to understand your unique business goals, identify high-impact AI opportunities, and craft a clear, actionable roadmap tailored specifically for your organisation's success.
We provide the hands-on expertise to build, test, and deploy your AI solutions. Our integrated vCAIO team manages the entire development lifecycle, delivering robust and effective AI applications ready for business use.
Our vCAIO service provides continuous support, proactively maintaining your AI systems for peak performance. We constantly scan the AI horizon, delivering cutting-edge insights and recommendations to ensure your solutions remain effective and your business stays competitive.
Gain access to strategic leadership and technical execution without the significant expense and time commitment of hiring a dedicated C-level executive and building an in-house team.
Leverage not just one person, but our entire team's collective knowledge across AI strategy, data science, software engineering, and project management.
Get your AI initiatives off the ground faster. Our established processes and expert team mean quicker deployment and realisation of business benefits.
Let us handle the complexities of AI strategy, development, and management, freeing up your internal resources to concentrate on what they do best.
We focus on delivering tangible business outcomes, not just technology for technology's sake. Your success is our primary metric.
As an Australian firm, we understand the local market context while bringing world-class AI knowledge and capabilities to your organisation.
This service is ideal for businesses that:
Think of our vCAIO service as your complete, outsourced AI department rolled into one engagement. It provides both the high-level strategic leadership you'd expect from a Chief AI Officer (defining vision, roadmap, governance) and the practical, hands-on technical team needed to actually design, build, deploy, and maintain AI solutions for your business.
Standard AI consulting often focuses on specific advisory projects, strategy workshops, or point solutions. Our V-CAIO service is an ongoing partnership. We provide continuous strategic leadership, oversee and execute the AI roadmap, manage deployed solutions, and proactively bring new insights – acting as your integrated AI function rather than just an external advisor for a fixed project.
Our V-CAIO service is comprehensive and flexible, designed to adapt to your specific business needs. While we tailor each engagement, it typically includes key capabilities such as: AI strategy development and roadmap creation, opportunity identification, project planning, hands-on AI solution development and deployment, system integration, ongoing maintenance and monitoring, performance optimisation, governance framework implementation, and continuous delivery of relevant AI insights and recommendations. We work with you to define the precise scope that delivers the most value for your organisation.
It starts with a conversation. We offer a complimentary initial consultation to understand your business goals, current situation, and AI aspirations. From there, we can discuss how the vCAIO model would work specifically for you and outline a potential engagement structure.
The vCAIO service is designed as an ongoing partnership to provide continuous value. Engagements are typically structured on a retainer basis with an initial minimum commitment period (e.g., 6 or 12 months) to allow sufficient time for strategy implementation and initial results. We can discuss flexible options based on your specific needs and scale.