Fractional IT leadership & AI adoption · Sydney, remote across ANZ

Enterprise AI that survives contact with the business.

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Expertise

Three things
you can hand over.

The tooling moved faster than most IT functions could absorb. Work that needed a vendor and two quarters in 2023 is often a fortnight now. We work out which of those apply to you, then build them.

You have probably said one of these in the last month

“We bought the Copilot licences and nobody uses them.”

“Our IT manager left and nobody owns the roadmap.”

“The vendor negotiated our last renewal, not us.”

“Someone rebuilds that report by hand every Monday.”

“We can't answer a security question at board level.”

“Our AI plan is a slide, not a system.”

Fractional · 3–12 months

IT Leadership,
On Loan

Your IT lead left, or the function has outgrown the person holding it together. We step in as head of IT one to three days a week, owning the estate, the budget, the vendors and the board reporting, and leave behind a function that runs without us.

The difference from most fractional CIOs: the roadmap we write includes the parts we can build ourselves, so "we will need a vendor for that" stops being the default answer to everything.

  • Estate, risk and cost assessment in the first fortnight
  • Costed 12-month roadmap your CFO can approve
  • Licence, contract and vendor renegotiation
  • Where AI genuinely changes the shape of the team, and where it does not
  • Hiring and coaching your permanent replacement
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Programme · 6–12 weeks

Making AI
Licences Pay

You are paying per seat and usage is flat. Nobody wants to say so, because the business case went to the board eight months ago and the number in it has not moved.

We find the ten tasks per department that AI actually shortens, run the enablement that changes the habit rather than explaining the feature, and leave your executives with a usage figure they can defend at renewal.

  • Use-case audit, department by department
  • Enablement week: live sessions, recordings, Q&A library
  • Champion network that keeps momentum after we leave
  • AI usage policy and guardrails your security team signs off
  • Adoption dashboard with a before-and-after baseline
  • Executive coaching, one to one, for the people everyone watches
  • A prompt library written for your actual documents
  • Shadow-AI audit: what staff already use, and what to do about it
  • Agent governance, so who can build what does not become a problem later
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Fixed scope · 2–8 weeks

The Build
Nobody Got To

Most internal backlogs hold three or four items that used to be a quarter of vendor work and are now a fortnight. We find those and ship them. Fixed scope, fixed timeline, running in your tenant at handover. Not a requirements document.

  • Assistants grounded on your own policies and documents
  • Competitor price monitoring and match approval flows
  • Approval workflows that replace email chains
  • Agents that complete a task, not just answer a question
  • Executive dashboards fed from systems you already run
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Capability

We run the estate
and we write the code.

Those are usually two different people, and the gap between them is where most technology money disappears.

We can sit in your security review in the morning and ship the agent that came out of it the same week, with no handover, no scope variation and no delivery partner in the middle.

What JGKA hands over is working systems, not recommendations. An adoption programme with a usage number that moved. An assistant answering from your own policy library. A workflow that replaced an email chain. An IT function with a roadmap, a budget and a named owner.

Fifteen years inside enterprise IT sits behind the practice, but you are buying what we can build this quarter, not a CV. We take few clients at a time, we do not resell software, and we have no vendor commissions to protect.

What we work in, hands on the keyboard

Estate

  • Microsoft 365 & Entra
  • Azure & Intune
  • Google Cloud, BigQuery
  • SAP business systems
  • Vendor & licence contracts

AI & automation

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Copilot Studio agents
  • Power Automate & Power Apps
  • Retrieval over your own documents
  • Usage policy & guardrails

Build

  • TypeScript, React, Python
  • Postgres, Supabase, BigQuery
  • REST and API integration
  • Executive dashboards
  • Deployed in your tenant

When to call someone else

  • You need day-to-day support and ticket throughput. That is an IT manager or an MSP, and it costs a fraction of this.
  • Your software is your product. You want a CTO, not someone who runs enterprise IT.
  • The only brief is passing a security audit. Engage a specialist vCISO.
  • Leadership is not behind the change. No fractional rescues a programme the executive team has already stopped attending.

Ways to start

Four shapes of
engagement.

Scope, duration and price are fixed in writing before any work begins. No open-ended retainers.

Two weeks

Diagnostic

A written review of your estate, adoption and risk, plus the shortlist of things that are now cheap to fix and were not eighteen months ago. Costed, prioritised, and yours to act on without us.

Six to twelve weeks

Programme

A rollout delivered end to end, with your champions trained to carry it.

Two to eight weeks

Build

One tool, agent or dashboard, from the backlog that never gets funded. Quoted up front, running in your tenant at handover.

Three to twelve months

Fractional

Head of IT, one to three days a week. Board reporting, vendor cycles, budget, and hiring the person who eventually makes the arrangement unnecessary.

Before you enquire

The questions
everyone asks.

We already have an MSP. Do you replace them?+
No. An MSP runs your support and infrastructure. We sit on your side of the table when you talk to them, which is a different job. Most engagements make the MSP relationship better, because someone is finally reading the contract and holding the SLA.
How do you charge?+
Fixed price for diagnostics, programmes and builds, quoted before work starts. Monthly retainer for fractional leadership, billed on an agreed number of days per week. No hourly billing, no change-request games, no vendor commissions.
What happens when the engagement ends?+
You get the documentation, the runbooks, the source and the vendor relationships, and your team gets shown how to extend what we built rather than depending on us to. For fractional work the goal is to make the role unnecessary, usually inside twelve to eighteen months, by handing the roadmap to an internal lead we have helped you hire or coach.
Do you work outside Sydney?+
Yes. Most delivery is remote across Australia and New Zealand, with on-site attendance for board sessions, vendor negotiations and enablement weeks. US engagements run out of Dallas on Central time.
Will you sign our security and confidentiality requirements?+
Yes. NDAs, vendor risk assessments, tenant-scoped access and least-privilege service accounts are how we work by default, not concessions. Anything we build stays inside your tenant and your identity provider.
Everyone is selling AI right now. Why you?+
Most AI advisors have never carried an outage, a licence renewal or a board question, and most people who can run an IT function cannot build. The work that pays off sits between the two: knowing which tasks are worth automating, whether your data and permissions can support it, and then actually shipping it. That gap is the whole basis of this practice.
What do you need from us?+
An executive sponsor who attends, a named internal counterpart, and access to the systems in scope. Adoption work in particular fails without visible leadership participation, and we will say so early if it is missing.

Enquiry

Bring us the
problem, not
the brief.

Tell us what is actually going wrong. The stalled rollout, the function without a leader, the report someone still builds by hand. You will get a reply within two business days with a view on whether it is worth doing, roughly what it takes, and whether we are the right fit for it. No pitch deck, no discovery fee.

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