Work With Me

Everyone starts with the free Score or a call. Everything else is what comes after.

No programs. No discovery theater. Three doors, and what’s behind each one.

Quick answer

Jay Templeton finds the highest-ROI AI use case in a business, makes the build-buy-or-bin call, and stays until it pays — a first build is typically live inside 30 days. AI builder for founders; part-time AI transformation lead. Co-founded an AI company in 2016 and exited (Aware Group → HSO, 2024); built the original Microsoft 365 Copilot demos and helped bring Copilot to market. Specialties: AI for business innovation and transformation, AI implementation, part-time AI leadership. Updated July 2026.

Three doors

What’s behind each one

Door 01Free · 5 min

AI Opportunity Score

Find out where AI pays in your business.

The scored quiz + your personalized slice of the library, with your numbers in the math.

Get Your Score

Door 02 · THE WEDGE$7.5K–$15K · 2 wks

AI Opportunity Audit

Stop guessing where AI fits. Get the number and the call.

Leadership + operator interviews
Impact × Effort matrix, ROI math on every candidate
A proposal that ends in build, buy, or bin calls
Fee credited toward the retainer.

Scoped for larger organizations.

Book the Audit

Door 03Part-time · Ongoing

AI Transformation Lead

From the roadmap to AI running in your operations — and kept running.

A few days a month, embedded with your team — not a full-time hire. 90-Day Roadmap + first build live in 30 days, then an ongoing retainer: Advisory / Part-Time / Embedded. Maintenance non-optional.

Talk it through

Context

A full-time Chief AI Officer runs $300K–$500K+ fully loaded. Most engagements here land between $8K and $25K+ a month.

Capacity

I take four Audits a month.

Risk

If I’m not adding obvious value, fire me. No long contracts, no hourly billing, and the Audit fee is credited toward the retainer.

Or just use the products

Everything I run is built on AwareOS — the AI operating system behind the work. And for fractional executives, there’s the fractional CxO community ($97 / $297 / $497). Text links, no pitch.

Not ready for a call? Score yourself in 5 minutes.

It’s the same first pass I run at the start of every Audit.

Get Your Score

FAQ

Questions founders ask

I find the use case with real payback, put a number on it, and build it with the people who’ll run it — then stay until it pays. The build is the proof I’ll ship, not just advise.

A full-time Chief AI Officer runs $300K–$500K+ fully loaded. Most engagements here land between $8K and $25K+ a month, and the Audit fee is credited toward the retainer if you continue.

A first build is typically live inside 30 days — a working system in your operations, not a pilot or a slide.

Then I’ll tell you to buy it off the shelf or bin it. One of the three verdicts is “do nothing,” and I’d rather say it than sell you a build you don’t need.

Founders and CEOs who own the P&L and want AI that pays for itself — and the fractional executives who bring me into their client accounts as the AI counterpart on their bench.

Question not here? Ask the chatbot — it’s trained on the library, the work, and 35 years of the timeline.

None of these fit? Email Jay.