Set the destination.
Understand the company, the operating knowledge it depends on, and the outcomes the owner wants. Establish the starting measures and the decisions the plan must resolve.
Dan Caulfield · CEO of Smokejumper
The architect of a company-wide AI capability.
Dan coaches the owner through the consequential decisions, sets the scorecard, and brings specialists and company employees together in the Lab. He stays involved as evidence turns the plan into operating work.
Book a Vision/Strategy Intro with DanA screening conversation about your company and whether a company-level plan fits.
DAN’S ROLECEO · DELIVERY ARCHITECT
Direction.
People.
Measures.
01Listen to the owner and operating team
02Define the plan and scorecard
03Assemble the Lab and delivery team
04Review results and adjust the work
The work is scoped with each client. Specialists and company employees build and test together.
A CEO-to-CEO conversation
Start with the business Dan is helping you build.
Dan begins with the owner’s destination: customers, capability, people and constraints. He helps leadership decide where AI could matter, where judgment must stay with people, and which decisions need better evidence.
The first paid engagement is a company-level Smokejumper Plan. It names the work, owners, dependencies, controls and measures before a tool or lab project is treated as the answer.
See the plan →The delivery architecture
One plan. A working Lab. A visible scorecard.
Build with the people who know the work.
Bring company employees and specialists together in the Lab. Give them time to challenge assumptions, test workflows and make useful capability their own.
Move proven work deliberately.
Review quality, adoption and business measures. Assign operational owners, release only work that meets agreed criteria, and change course when the evidence says to.
Dan’s longer-term role is to keep coaching the CEO and reviewing the scorecard as the company learns. Continuing responsibilities are agreed with each client.
See how the Lab works →The scorecard
Make progress something the team can discuss.
For each agreed initiative, Dan wants a baseline, an owner, a quality threshold, evidence of employee adoption and a review date. The scorecard should show what is working, what is stalling and what leadership will do next.
Business outcomes are selected with the client. A plan is not a promise of a particular return, valuation or technology deployment.
The first call
Bring the business question. Dan will help frame the work.
The 30-minute conversation is for owners and executive leaders considering a company-level AI plan. Dan will ask what is changing in the business, who must be involved, and what would make the first engagement useful. If there is mutual fit, the next step is a deeper working discussion.
You can review the optional fit questions first or book directly.
Choose a time with Dan