Your First Real AI Move.
Clear, in just 45 minutes.
A candid, 45-minute session with Paul Phelps, former COO and Fractional Chief AI Officer. Built for CEOs, COOs & VPs who want a trusted partner, not another vendor with a slide deck.
The gap is widening every quarter.
95% of enterprise AI deployments generated zero measurable financial return in 2025 — despite $30–$40 billion invested (MIT Project NANDA). RAND puts the overall AI failure rate at 80% — double traditional IT projects. The companies getting AI right are pulling ahead. The rest are falling behind.
Sources: MIT GenAI Divide Report 2025 • RAND Corporation 2024 • S&P Global Market Intelligence 2025
Paul Phelps
Fractional Chief AI Officer • Former COO
Reserve Your Seat in the
Executive AI Briefing
Thursday, July 9 at 6:00 PM CST
You’ve built something real.
AI shouldn’t be the thing that derails it.
You’re a CEO, COO, or senior leader at a company with momentum. You’re not afraid of new tools — but you’ve watched enough hype cycles to know that moving fast on the wrong AI initiative can cost a company a year of progress, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the confidence of your board.
You don’t need someone to sell you an AI product. You need someone who’s been in the operator’s seat — who can look at your specific situation and tell you honestly:what to build, what to buy, and what to leave alone.
- CEO, COO, CTO, or VP at a company with 200 to 2,000+ employees
- Your board is asking “what’s our AI strategy?” and you want a real answer — not another deck of generic best practices
- You’ve had vendors pitch AI tools and couldn’t tell what was signal versus noise
- Your team is already stretched — you can’t absorb a failed initiative right now
- You want a trusted human partner — not another consultant telling you to “transform”
45 minutes. Clarity you’ll actually use.
A clear understanding of why 95% of enterprise AI projects fail — the patterns that quietly kill initiatives, and how to spot them in your own organization before you invest.
Paul’s proprietary SIMPLER™ Framework — the seven-part decision filter he uses with mid-market operators to evaluate AI initiatives against real constraints: margin, team bandwidth, data readiness, and time horizon.
A clear-eyed read on your own situation— Paul will walk through the diagnostic questions he asks every client, so you leave knowing which 1–3 AI moves are right for your specific business this quarter.
A plain-language answer to: what to stop immediately — the initiatives draining your team’s time and budget without a credible path to ROI.
Ready to put SIMPLER™ to work on your business?
Reserve Your Seat →Complimentary • 45 minutes + live Q&AA fellow leader — not a technology vendor.
Paul Phelps understands something most AI consultants don’t: what it actually feels like to run a business. He’s been a COO. He’s had exits. He’s made decisions under board pressure with incomplete information. That’s exactly the context he brings to every conversation.
Paul Phelps
Fractional Chief AI Officer • Former COO
Paul is not an AI academic or a technology evangelist. He’s an operator who went deep on AI because he saw, firsthand, how badly most companies were being led into expensive, time-consuming failures by vendors with no skin in the game.
He’s spent a decade in AI — long enough to have watched two full hype cycles, and to know the difference between what changes the business and what just changes the slide deck. He built SIMPLER™ to give executives a reliable decision filter for AI — one that respects their time, their margins, and the reality that most leadership teams are already at capacity.
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What Leaders Are Saying
From leaders who’ve worked with Paul.
“I really love Paul! He is so patient, and yet has the vision to work with his clients in a way that truly empowers them. He inspired me to learn more about AI and how it can really work for my business, instead of fearing it or falling behind. He always makes sure you focus on the right thinking. Honestly, the world needs his teaching ability — I am so happy to work with him!”
Madhu Sarkar
“I love how Paul and his team are genuinely open to listening — it makes all the difference. My biggest takeaway from the course was discovering just how much agentic AI can really do. I had no idea it was capable of simplifying the automation of so many of my technological processes without me needing to write a single line of code. That realization alone has completely changed how I think about growing my business.”
Jessica Williams
Leadership is lonely enough.
AI decisions shouldn’t have to be, too.
Paul built this briefing for leaders who are quietly worried they’re going to make the wrong call on AI — and who want a straight-talking, experienced partner in the room before they do.
Register Now →Complimentary • 45 minutes + live Q&A