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Pre-screened AI Developers who have already shipped LLM features, retrieval pipelines, and agent workflows, matched to your data and stack in about 3 days.
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When to hire a Fractional AI Developer
Bring in an AI Developer when AI is on your roadmap but nobody on the team has taken an LLM feature from prototype to production.
Your AI demo breaks on real customer data
The prototype worked on ten sample documents, then hallucinated or timed out once it hit your actual knowledge base.
Model API bills are climbing with no plan
Token costs grow every month and nobody has tested caching, smaller models, or batching to bring them down.
Your engineers are guessing at RAG and agents
Strong backend developers are reading docs on embeddings and vector databases instead of shipping the core product.
There is no way to measure answer quality
Changes to prompts or models go live without evals, so you only learn about regressions from support tickets.
The full-time ML search has stalled
Months into recruiting, the roadmap item your board asked about still has no owner.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional AI Developer
You get a senior AI Developer working on your product now, on a monthly retainer, without waiting months for a full-time machine learning hire.
Ship your first LLM feature on a retainer budget
Senior AI expertise in prompt design, retrieval, and model integration without a full-time salary, equity grant, and benefits package.
Start on your model integration within days
Pre-screened AI Developers are ready to review your data and API setup this week instead of after a long full-time search.
Hire builders who have put evals in production
Every match has shipped AI features with OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models, plus the evaluation and monitoring that keep them accurate.
How to hire a Fractional AI Developer
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional AI Developer is easy with Go Fractional.
Intro Call
Answer a few quick questions, then book a free 30-minute intro call with our team to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Our AI finds Fractional AI Developer candidates whose past clients and projects match your brief, which you won’t find on LinkedIn. A dedicated executive recruiter verifies each one’s experience, fit, and genuine interest, and you meet the ones who fit in about 3 days.
Start Work
Book time with candidates right from your shortlist, choose your operator, and sign a simple month-to-month agreement. We move as fast as you do.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional AI Developer
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional AI Developer on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim AI Developer
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Fractional AI Developer rates average $154/hr across our live benchmarks. Pricing scales with hours and scope.
AI Developer Hourly RatesFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get AI Developer leadership, and where each one wins.
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| Factor | Fractional AI Developer | Full-time AI Hire | Agency / Dev Shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days | 3-6 months | 2-6 weeks |
| Engagement | Monthly retainer, custom SOW | Salary + equity + benefits | Project fee with markup |
| Ownership of prompts, evals, and pipelines | Built in your repo, documented for your team | Fully in-house | Often stays with the vendor after handoff |
| Model and vendor choices | Chosen for your data and cost limits | Depends on one hire's background | Often tied to the shop's preferred stack |
| Best for | Shipping LLM features and AI strategy with flexibility | Long-term AI platform at scale | Fixed-scope builds with a clear spec |
We’ve helped hundreds of organizations Go Fractional
Twelve years: the average experience across a network of handpicked executives ready to make an impact on day one.
“It was literally three days after he started with us fractionally, our CEO was calling me and asking if we could get a full-time offer out.”
“It's a can't-lose scenario. You either get the learnings from the subject matter expert, or you get the full-time capability. It provided a ton of flexibility, much faster speed to market, and conservation of time and resources.”
“Go Fractional provided Mockingbird with a founder-level engineering leader that helped us out of a huge amount of tech debt, streamlining and modernizing our entire e-commerce stack”
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