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Bio
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Chris Taylor is the CEO & Co-Founder of Fractional AI, an AI-native services firm supporting many of the world’s largest private equity firms and their portfolio companies. He helps leadership teams rapidly deploy AI workflow automations and product features while guiding PE investors on AI diligence, risk assessment, and opportunity identification.
Taylor’s background spans leadership roles across SaaS, adtech, and financial services, including co-founding Xip, serving as VP at Samba TV, and holding senior sales roles at LiveRamp. His career reflects a consistent focus on scaling technology adoption and driving enterprise growth.
At Fractional AI, Taylor and his team emphasize practical, results-oriented AI adoption. They cut implementation cycles from years to months, deliver measurable ROI, and help clients gain confidence with production-ready deployments instead of endless pilots. His work ensures portfolio companies unlock value quickly and PE firms make smarter, AI-informed investments.
Expertise and Skills
Offerings
Private Equity-Focused Services
- PortCo Value Creation — Partner with portfolio companies to design and implement generative-AI solutions that drive cost savings via custom workflow automations and modernize products through impactful AI features.
- AI Due Diligence — Supplemental buy-side and sell-side diligence reports assessing a target’s generative-AI disruption risk, margin-enhancement potential, organizational readiness, and aiding confident investment decisions.
- Co-Investments — Fractional AI co-invests 10–30% equity alongside PE firms in deals with substantial gen-AI transformation potential, participating across the entire deal cycle, from underwriting to post-acquisition value creation.
- Supporting services in their Center of Excellence include:
- Workflow Automation — Custom AI agents that automate high-volume tasks faster, cheaper, and more accurately than BPOs.
- Product Transformation — Help PortCos refine AI-driven product roadmaps and build generative-AI product features to stay competitive.
- Portfolio Reviews — Identify highest-ROI AI opportunities across PE portfolios and prioritize value-creation initiatives.
- Up-Skilling & Education — Conduct bootcamps for technical teams and roundtables for executives to share frameworks and real use cases.
Enterprise-Focused Services (from Fractional AI’s “For Enterprises” page)
- AI Roadmap — Assist enterprises in shaping a generative-AI roadmap: scoping feasibility, cost, timeline, and projected impact for informed prioritization.
- Workflow Automations — Build custom AI agents that automate repetitive manual tasks with higher efficiency and accuracy, replacing BPOs and freeing up resources.
- AI Product Features — Design and build high-impact generative-AI features for key product releases, partnering enterprise PMs and senior AI engineers.
- Detailed Project Scoping — Leverage experience scoping thousands of projects to accurately forecast generative-AI project timelines, costs, and impact.
- Custom Built AI Software — Build end-to-end, production-grade AI software across diverse stacks and use cases.
- Evals — Provide evaluation metrics and ground-truth data to guide development and validate AI system accuracy pre-deployment.
- Deep Collaboration — Close collaboration combining enterprise domain knowledge with Fractional AI’s AI engineering capabilities.
- Deployment & Handoff — Deliver working solutions with documentation, walkthroughs, and support to ensure smooth hand-offs and client autonomy.
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