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Business acumen
We start with your model, your economics, your goals, not the technology.
For Leaders Navigating AI
Everyone’s talking about AI. Almost no one is sure what to do, who to trust, or what action to take.
If that’s you, you’re not alone. Every company in every sector is trying to figure out what to do, when the next shift is coming, and how it’s going to hit their business.
Here’s the test: how do you know whether you should spend $5,000 or $500,000 on AI? If that’s hard to answer, you don’t need another tool. You need a strategy.
Why this is so hard
It isn’t you. AI moves faster than anyone can keep up with.
The models, the tools, the best practices: all of it changes week to week. Staying current isn’t a stretch goal, it’s more than a full-time job. No leader running a business has that kind of time, and pretending otherwise is how good companies quietly fall behind.
You’ve probably already stood up a working group to handle it. Smart move. But for everyone on it, AI is a part-time job, and keeping up is more than a full-time one. So the group does its best while the field keeps moving faster than a few hours a week can track.
There’s a better way
You don’t need everyone chasing AI. You need a team whose whole practice is staying ahead of it.
That’s what we do, every day. We live at the front of this so your people don’t have to, and we bring it back to what matters: AI woven into your business strategy, not bolted on beside it. You get the clarity and the direction without pulling your leadership off the business to keep pace.
And you get back what the pace was taking
Capability. Your people, with skills they couldn’t field before.Velocity. The same team, moving faster.Focus. Attention on the work only people can do.An edge. Gained, or protected.
We’ve sat where you’re sitting
We get it, because we’ve lived it.
We’ve spent 25+ years inside real organizations, leading technology through wave after wave of change. We know the tyranny of the now: the day job never stops, the tactics never stop, and something as consequential as AI demands the kind of sustained, focused attention the daily grind makes almost impossible to give. That sustained attention is exactly what we bring.
You don’t need to become an AI expert. You need someone in your corner who already is, and who speaks the language of your business, not just the technology.
Why leaders bring us in
The rare combination this actually takes.
Most AI help is one-dimensional: technologists who don’t speak business, or strategists who can’t build. The decisions you’re facing sit right where all three meet.
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Technology acumen
25+ years leading real engineering organizations through real change.
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AI expertise
Deep, current fluency in what AI can and can’t do for a business like yours.
Our job isn’t to be the hero of your story. It’s to make sure you are, with the clarity and the direction to lead your organization through this well.
So here’s the plan
You don’t need to figure this out alone.
Every engagement starts the same way: we get clear on where AI fits your business, then give you a way to act on it that keeps pace with how fast this moves.
It starts here · the AI Strategy Engagement
A strategy on top. Tactics in 90-day cycles underneath.
We align AI with your business and understand your organization, using our TRUST framework to assess where you are and set a baseline. Out of that comes two things: the strategy, your overarching vision for how AI serves the business, and the first 90-day tactical plan, concrete execution you can start on now. Nobody can plan a rigid two-year AI roadmap when the ground moves this fast. So the strategy stays steady and sharpens over time, while the tactics move in 90-day cycles, each one shipping something real, then feeding what you learn back into the strategy.
Beyond the strategy · how we keep delivering
Ongoing strategic support
Fractional CTO and CAIO level guidance as the strategy evolves and the next cycles get set.
An embedded AI leader
A fractional role inside your organization whose focus is AI: the strategy, and how it rolls out across the business.
Agentic workforces, built
Not just designed and planned. We help build and deliver the AI resources the strategy calls for.
The tactical execution layer
Tool and model selection, on-prem versus cloud, organizational advocacy, training, and support.
It’s not a tool game. It’s a strategy game.
Where this goes
Picture it working.
When AI is built on a clear strategy instead of bolted on in a panic, the whole picture changes.
Every AI decision traces back to a real business need and a clear reason.
Money goes to what moves the business, not to whatever was loudest.
People are freed for the work only they can do.
You set the direction on AI instead of reacting to it.
I started Drag6 after 25+ years leading technology organizations through change, because I kept seeing the same thing: the companies that win with AI are the ones who get clear before they spend. That clarity is what we help you find.
Jason Swafford, Founder
Let’s talk
Let’s see if there’s a fit.
No pitch. Just a conversation about what you’re dealing with.