A fractional AI governance officer runs your AI governance programme part-time on a retainer — typically owning the AI inventory, risk assessments, policy set and regulator/customer responses — without a full-time hire. Retainer price bands are shown where the provider discloses them.
Part-time head of AI governance for fintech and payments firms, on a two-day-a-week retainer, fully remote.
Part-time AI governance lead on a monthly retainer for edtech and HR software companies with 20 to 200 staff.
Fractional AI governance officer and bias auditor for HR technology vendors selling into the US and Europe.
Fractional AI governance and privacy officer in Geneva for medtech and digital health firms exposed to EU and US rules.
Fractional AI governance lead for growth-stage medtech and clinical software companies, six-month minimum retainers.
Fractional AI governance and LL144 audit ownership for HR tech and edtech companies, from Seattle, remote.
Part-time AI governance lead for medtech and digital health companies that need an owner for ISO 42001 and EU AI Act work.
Part-time AI governance lead for early-stage health and education technology companies in Canada and the US.
Fixed-price EU AI Act readiness sprints and AI training for legal professionals from a lawyer-led Dutch boutique.
Solo ISO consultant in Saxony building ISO 42001 AI management systems for German SMEs, remote-first, with openly published price ranges.
Paris privacy consultancy extending outsourced-DPO work into EU AI Act maturity assessments, governance design and training.
Outsourced DPO firm offering fractional AI Officers and EU AI Act readiness work alongside its GDPR practice.
Solo London practice taking SMEs from ISO 42001 gap analysis to a certification-ready AIMS at published fixed prices.
Stockholm boutique for EU AI Act gap analysis, ISO 42001 implementation and part-time AI officer support across the EU.
Fractional Chief Responsible AI Officer (vCRAIO) retainers and AI audit readiness aligned to the EU AI Act, ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF.
Hamburg IT-security consultancy guiding German SMEs to ISO 42001 and EU AI Act readiness, with an external AI officer service.
External AI officers and EU AI Act governance from a Benelux legal consultancy with offices in Amsterdam, The Hague and Brussels.
Common questions
Retainers are priced on days per month, the number of jurisdictions and products covered, and whether the officer acts as your named contact for customers and regulators. Of the 9 fractional practitioners on this page that disclose a retainer band, the most common is $5k–$15k / month (44% of those disclosing). Compare disclosed bands on the cards above and fix deliverables in the retainer scope.
Choose a fractional officer when AI governance is an ongoing operating function — an AI inventory to maintain, customer questionnaires to answer, regulators to engage — rather than a one-off project such as an ISO 42001 implementation. Many organisations use a consultant for the build and a fractional officer to run it.
Typically: owning the AI system inventory and risk register, running impact assessments, drafting and maintaining policies, chairing an AI governance committee, and acting as the named contact for customers and regulators. Deliverables and time commitment should be fixed in the retainer scope.