Fractional AI Leadership & Production Builds

Senior AI direction, without the full-time hire.

Perigee Labs embeds as your fractional Chief AI Officer — setting the strategy, architecting the agents, and training your team to run them. And when it's time to build, the same hands ship it. Senior leadership plus real production work, on a retainer, no lock-in.

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$49/hrbilled hourly

Daysnot months to ship

100%code ownership

0production errors, live builds

A custom RevOps console Perigee Labs built — unified CRM, live agent workspace, and AI next-best-action, layered on ClickUp and HubSpot — A recent build — a unified operations console layered on a client's existing tools, with live agents and AI-drafted actions. This is the caliber of system I ship.

The flagship engagement

Your Chief AI Officer — for a fraction of the cost.

Most companies don't need a full-time AI executive. They need someone senior who can cut through the hype, decide what's actually worth building, build it, and leave the team able to run it. That's the role I take on — embedded in your business, accountable for outcomes, not slideware.

AI strategy & roadmap

I map your operations, rank every opportunity by ROI, and decide what to build first — and what to leave alone.

Agent architecture

I design and build the agents and automations that do real work: intake, qualification, routing, compliance, follow-up.

Tooling & systems

CRM, workflow, and data plumbing — HubSpot, ClickUp, and the connective tissue that keeps it all honest.

Team enablement

I train your people to operate what I build — to independence, not dependence. A tool your team can't run isn't finished.

Ongoing stewardship

Models drift, APIs change, priorities shift. I keep the system earning and the roadmap moving, month over month.

Fractional CAIO

Embedded AI leadership

For founders and operators who need senior AI direction and hands-on building — without carrying a full-time executive salary.

Retainer— let's scope it together

Direct line, senior-level, embedded in your team
Strategy and hands-on building — not just advice
Monthly roadmap, priorities set by ROI
Training so your team runs it without me
Month-to-month · cancel anytime · code is yours

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Projects

Real builds, running in production right now.

Not prototypes, not slideware. Agents doing real work for real operators — every one shipped with the source code handed over.

Instant Quote Builder — ProTint Arizona

Window tinting · Phoenix, AZ · live since June 2026

Quote agent

Pricing a tint job used to mean a phone call and a callback whenever Joel got off a ladder — and quotes that take days get shopped around. Now a guided nine-step funnel walks each customer through their own job and prices it on the spot. Every quote saves to a database and lands in Joel's inbox with one-click approve-and-schedule actions. It plugs into his site with a single button, runs on Cloudflare's edge, and the code's been in his GitHub since day one.

ProTint guided quote funnel — step 4 of 9, live running estimate

9-step

Customer self-serve quoting

24/7

Quotes without a phone call

1-click

Approve & schedule for the owner

100%

Code ownership at handoff

Sales Inbox Agent — Global PM SaaS

8M+ downloads · anonymous at client request · live since May 2026

Autonomous agent

The founder was burning ~10 hours a week sorting his sales inbox while hot leads sat unanswered. Built over one weekend: an autonomous Gmail agent that reads every inbound message, classifies it with a Claude-backed model, runs a 7-layer spam filter, and sends the right branded reply — every five minutes, around the clock, with nobody touching it.

Sales Inbox Agent dashboard — running every 5 minutes, classifying and routing messages

90+

Real replies, first 24h

30+

Bot signups blocked

~10h

Owner time back, weekly

Production errors

How I work

One rate. Billed hourly. Your code from day one.

No flat-price tiers, no surprise invoices, no lock-in. I bill by the hour at a single transparent rate — whether it's a one-workflow build, a full multi-agent system, or ongoing fractional AI leadership. You see the hours, you own the code, and you can stop anytime.

$49/hour

Billed hourly · every engagement

Custom builds — scoped to an outcome, billed for the hours it takes
Fractional AI leadership — embedded, ongoing, same hourly rate
Ongoing support & iteration — keep your agents earning as things change
Full code ownership from day one · no lock-in · cancel anytime

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About

Connor O'Brien

I spent years in B2B SaaS sales watching the same thing over and over: teams drowning in repetitive work while the AI tools that could fix it sat untouched — or worse, bought and never adopted. So I started building the fixes myself, and learned that the build is the easy part. Getting a team to actually run it is the job.

That's why I work the way a fractional Chief AI Officer should: I scope the real problem, architect and build the solution, and train your people to own it — then keep it earning as things change. Companies hire me directly or through Upwork, on retainer or project-based, at the same production quality bar. The intro call is thirty minutes, and there's no slide deck.

What if you're hit by a bus?

Fair question. Every build commits to your repo from day one with daily progress notes. If I'm unavailable mid-build for any reason, any qualified engineer can pick it up where I left off. Your code is yours from the moment work starts — not at the end.

Credentials

Certified across the modern AI stack.

The vendor certifications behind the builds — from the model labs to the clouds they run on.

Anthropic

Claude Code in Action AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations Claude 101

OpenAI Certification

OpenAI

Generative AI LeaderProfessional Machine Learning Engineer

Google Cloud

Azure AI Engineer Associate

Microsoft

AWS Certified Machine Learning — Specialty

Amazon Web Services

HubSpot Certification

HubSpot

n8n Certification

n8n

Tell me what's eating your week.

Bring the one thing you're sick of doing by hand — or the AI direction you need but can't justify a full-time hire for. I'll tell you straight whether it's worth building, what it costs, and how long it takes.

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