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Fractional AI Leadership for SMBs

Dallas-based AI Strategy for Measurable Business Outcomes

Solo Fractional AI Top 75 AI Innovator 2025 25 Years Helping SMBs Dallas AI Expertise Locally

Is Your Business Stuck in the AI Gap?

Across Dallas-Fort Worth, SMBs know AI is critical but are trapped in a cycle of disconnected demos and costly pilots that lead nowhere. This isn't just a tech problem—it's a DFW growth problem. You don't need another tool; you need an expert AI systems orchestrator to build a clear, business-first AI strategy that delivers immediate value.

87%

of AI projects never make it to production.

— Harvard Business Review

  • Why are Dallas businesses wasting budgets on ineffective AI?

    Many invest in disconnected AI tools without a core business strategy. This leads to costly, low-ROI pilot projects that fail to solve meaningful operational problems, draining resources with no clear return.

  • How do I avoid falling behind my DFW competitors in AI?

    Your competitors are already using orchestrated AI to boost efficiency and growth. Without a clear strategy, you risk eroding market share and losing your competitive edge in a rapidly advancing landscape.

  • Where can I find the specialized AI talent Dallas SMBs need?

    The challenge is not just finding developers, but senior talent that bridges strategy, data, and product. An expert systems orchestrator provides this specialized skill set without the overhead of a large in-house team.

  • How can I manage the security and compliance risks of AI?

    Adopting new AI technologies introduces risks of data security and regulatory non-compliance. A business-first approach embeds security protocols from the start, mitigating exposure and ensuring safe implementation.

  • Turn AI from a cost center into your primary competitive advantage.
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AI-Driven Growth for Dallas Businesses

As a vendor-agnostic, security-first AI expert, I turn your AI potential into profitable reality. I de-risk your investment and focus on generating measurable ROI.

1. Executive AI Foundations

I establish your risk baseline, assess data readiness, and deliver a 90-day AI roadmap with a shortlist of high-impact pilots. This de-risks investment by addressing security and integration concerns upfront.

  • Timeline: 4 Weeks
  • Key Deliverable: 90-Day AI Roadmap & Risk Baseline
  • Best For: Dallas leadership needing a clear, secure starting point for AI.
Data Readiness ScanCompliance Baseline (PII)Acceptable Use Policy

Key Performance Indicators

% Data Coverage Assessed

# Use Cases Ranked

Policy Readiness Score

2. Revenue & Support Accelerator

Choose from two high-ROI tracks that align with where AI is delivering the most value for SMBs today: Marketing & Sales or Customer Service.

A) Growth Track: Demand gen, AEO content scoring, and sales-assist playbooks.

B) Service Track: AI help center, knowledge bot, and triage with a hybrid RAG architecture.

  • Timeline: 8–10 Weeks
  • Key Deliverable: Working Prototype & KPI Readout
  • Best For: DFW teams ready to prove AI value on a specific business problem.
Rapid PrototypingGo/No-Go ValidationKPI Measurement

Key Performance Indicators

Lead-to-SQL Conversion

Avg. Handle Time (AHT)

Self-Service Deflection %

3. Fractional AI Officer

I act as your embedded AI leader to provide portfolio governance, manage vendors, control costs, and ensure your AI initiatives consistently deliver on business goals. This solves the leadership and scale gap many organizations face.

  • Timeline: 3–6+ Month Retainer
  • Key Deliverable: Quarterly OKR Execution & ROI Dashboard
  • Best For: Dallas companies committed to scaling long-term AI capability.
Portfolio GovernanceMELD OrchestrationFinOps & Cost Control

Key Performance Indicators

Quarterly ROI

Model Spend / Usage

Audit Findings Closed

Answering Your AI Questions in Dallas

Clear answers to common questions about implementing AI solutions in the DFW metroplex.

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I'm Preston, here to help you choose the service path that fits your Dallas team.

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A Proven Methodology for AI Success in Dallas

I use a proprietary suite of AI analysis tools and battle-tested frameworks to de-risk your investment and deliver immediate, tangible value to your business goals.

My Core Principles

De-Risking Your AI Investment

My approach begins with the Contextual Innovation Cycle (CIC)™. We start with a deep dive into your specific Dallas market context, then use rapid, low-cost "microprototypes" to validate ideas and prove value before committing to a large-scale build.

Building on Battle-Tested Frameworks

My proprietary frameworks like CLEAR AI™, AGENT™, and FOCUS AI™ are complete blueprints developed over 25+ years for everything from prompt engineering to complex multi-agent AI systems.

Strategic Approach

Deep User-Centric Strategy

Ensuring every decision is grounded in deep empathy and strategic foresight for your market.

End-to-End Product Execution

Guiding products through the entire lifecycle—from concept to launch and scaling.

AI-Amplified Innovation

Using AI to redefine problems, delivering high-impact solutions that drive your business forward.

Contextual Innovation Cycle Diagram

Core Philosophy

Contextual Innovation Cycle (CIC)™

My entire approach is built on this proprietary model. We start with a deep understanding of your unique business context, then use rapid, small-scale prototypes to test ideas, learn fast, and iteratively build solutions designed to fit your market.

  • 1. Contextual Exploration

    Deep dive into your market, users, and goals.

  • 2. Microprototyping

    Build small, test fast, and learn without big risks.

  • 3. Refinement & Iteration

    Use real-world data to improve and perfect the solution.

  • 4. Implementation & Scaling

    Transition successful prototypes into full-scale business assets.

Proprietary AI Frameworks

CLEAR AI Framework™

A foundational framework for prompt engineering focused on 5 pillars: Clarity in instructions, setting Limits and constraints, providing Examples for style, enabling Adaptation through iteration, and Refinement of the final output.

AGENT Framework™

My proprietary method for designing complex, agentic AI systems. This framework structures prompts to create a team of specialized AI agents that can collaborate on tasks by Assigning roles, Generating actions, Establishing goals, Noting stops, and Transitioning work seamlessly.

FOCUS AI Framework™

The blueprint for building complex, reusable AI solutions. This framework brings everything together by Framing the industry, defining the Objective, connecting Competencies, Unifying all elements, and crafting the final Solution for maximum reusability.

MELD Cognitive Orchestration™

For complex solutions, this is my advanced architecture for building sophisticated AI agents that can reason, adapt, and collaborate. It ensures your AI systems are robust, manageable, and secure as they scale.

Accelerated AI Learning for Dallas Teams

On-Site Executive AI Workshops in DFW

Transform your leadership team's AI fluency in days, not months. My workshops combine 25+ years of experience with hands-on exercises tailored to your industry challenges right here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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Essentials

AI Foundations

Essential frameworks for leadership teams new to AI strategy

Duration:Half Day
Format:Interactive Workshop
Focus:Strategic Foundation
Executive

AI Governance

C-suite focused sessions on risk, compliance, and board reporting

Duration:Executive Brief
Format:Strategic Session
Focus:Risk & Governance

Are you a Dallas business looking for an expert to teach your team AI?

Stop searching for generic online courses. Let's design a custom, on-site workshop that addresses your specific challenges and turns your team into an AI powerhouse.

Executive Resources

Clear AI Signals Newsletter Preview

Executive Intelligence Toolkit

Clear AI Signals Newsletter

Battle-tested frameworks from my premium newsletter, designed to give you a strategic edge with validated ROI heatmaps and AI readiness scorecards.

Market Opportunity Analysis

See why the AI market is poised for a multi-decade surge—and where you're positioned.

Validated ROI Heatmaps

Discover which use cases yield the highest impact in cost savings or revenue lift.

AI Readiness Scorecards

Benchmark your AI maturity across data, strategy, talent, and trust dimensions.

Pilot-to-Scale Execution Plans

Move from experiments to systemized rollouts with defined KPIs and scale thresholds.

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Proven Expertise in Print

Generative AI for Everyone

The practical guidebook detailing these exact frameworks and methodologies. Over 25 years of AI experience distilled into actionable strategies.

Master Prompt Engineering

CLEAR AI & FOCUS AI frameworks with examples

Agentic AI Systems

Advanced techniques for collaborative AI agents

Real-World Applications

Industry examples and implementations

25+ Years of Expertise

Proven methodologies from industry practice

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Applied AI & Differentiators

A Portfolio of Real-World Solutions

Real expertise comes from building systems, not just theorizing. Below is a showcase of applied AI systems I've architected, demonstrating tangible solutions to complex business challenges.

AI for Strategic Governance & Risk Mitigation

Architecting safe, compliant, and ROI-focused AI strategies that provide executive-level confidence and control.

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Automated Compliance & AI Data Governance Engine (THEMIS)

Business Impact
A governance engine that automates compliance across HIPAA, FERPA, and state privacy laws. THEMIS continuously scans databases, code, and cloud services to identify risks, generate unified dashboards, and prepare evidence packs for auditors—significantly reducing manual review time.
Technical Implementation
LLM-Powered Risk Analysis (Ollama), Automated Multi-Framework Control Mapping, PHI & PII Pattern Recognition, Continuous Control Monitoring via API Scanners
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Streamlit AI Governance Builder

Business Impact
An interactive platform that ingests organizational policies and compliance documents, then uses a dual-agent engine to synthesize them into a living governance framework. It ensures AI initiatives remain aligned with evolving regulations and internal standards, transforming governance into an adaptive, continuously updated capability.
Technical Implementation
EmbedChain Knowledge Base, Dual-Agent Synthesis (Base + Synthesizer), Compliance Automation
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Fractional-AI CEO Toolkit

Business Impact
A strategic toolkit designed for SMB leaders, providing frameworks, guided workshops, and analytics dashboards. It enables CEOs to evaluate AI ROI, prioritize initiatives, and adopt AI confidently—without needing deep technical expertise.
Technical Implementation
Executive Decision Support, Strategic Framework Generation, Leadership Analytics

Agentic AI Agent Automation & Marketing Ops

Building autonomous agent pipelines that automate complex research, streamline marketing operations, and drive growth.

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Crew Historian: Autonomous Research Agent

Business Impact
A resilient multi-agent system that automates the full research pipeline. It performs large-scale web searches, categorizes historical and visual data, synthesizes findings, and generates structured outputs—delivering end-to-end autonomous research and content creation.
Technical Implementation
CrewAI Agent Orchestration, Multi-Modal Analysis (Text + Vision), Automated Content Synthesis
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Crew Business Finder

Business Impact
A modular CrewAI system that automates SMB discovery and intelligence. It dynamically orchestrates specialized agents to collect firmographics, funding events, relocations, and growth signals—building a living intelligence pipeline for sales and partnerships.
Technical Implementation
CrewAI Orchestration, Lead Intelligence Automation, Dynamic Data Aggregation
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ClearAI Marketing Engine

Business Impact
An adaptive marketing operations engine that continuously analyzes engagement patterns, optimizes campaign content, and automates delivery decisions. By learning from real-time feedback, it evolves strategies that maximize conversion and ROI.
Technical Implementation
Adaptive Content Generation, Reinforcement Learning Optimization, Cross-Platform Campaign Intelligence

Advanced Data & Insight Extraction

Transforming unstructured data from the web, medical documents, and compliance filings into a structured, competitive advantage.

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Athena Quantum Crawler v2.0

Business Impact
A high-performance web crawler that processes 150,000+ URLs in under 10 hours on a single machine. Its adaptive classifier throttles resources and prioritizes by freshness and relevance, transforming massive unstructured inputs into usable, structured knowledge bases.
Technical Implementation
High-Performance Web Crawling, Adaptive Recency Classification, Intelligent Resource Throttling
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Cancer-Drug Analyzer

Business Impact
An analysis engine that converts complex DrugBank XML into structured insights. It synthesizes drug efficacy patterns with an emphasis on CAR-T therapies, accelerating research and providing clinical strategy advantages.
Technical Implementation
LLM-Powered Data Synthesis, Specialized Medical Embeddings, Trend Analysis
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Quantum Extraction System (QES)

Business Impact
Transforms raw documents into atomic, semantically rich QES blocks using the CLEAR AI framework. By combining stage-aware extraction and ChromaDB storage, it builds structured knowledge contexts that improve accuracy, lineage tracking, and competitive insight generation.
Technical Implementation
CLEAR-AI Methodology, Semantic Vectorization, Multi-Collection ChromaDB Architecture, Stage-Aware Extraction

Generative AI for Product & UX Prototyping

Leveraging generative AI to automate the design-to-development workflow, rapidly moving from concept to runnable code.

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AI-Powered Corporate UI Component Generator

Business Impact
A tool that generates pixel-perfect, enterprise-ready UI design systems from a single prompt. It produces color palettes, design tokens, and runnable Svelte/HTML components like cards and modals, ensuring brand consistency and faster delivery.
Technical Implementation
Automated Design System Generation, Enterprise UI Patterns, Component Libraries
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CLEAR Genesis Prototyping Methodology

Business Impact
A structured multi-phase methodology that turns raw ideas into annotated prototypes. It generates HTML/JS code with human-in-the-loop review gates, ensuring prototypes are both functional and validated at each step.
Technical Implementation
Automated Prototyping, Human-in-the-Loop Validation, Prompt Engineering
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AI Spark: Offline-First Web App Generator

Business Impact
An AI-assisted tool for rapid, offline-first web development. It translates a high-level vision into editable HTML, then generates a Svelte component plan, bridging idea to working code without relying on cloud connectivity.
Technical Implementation
Local-First Architecture, AI-Assisted Development, Svelte Integration

Applied R&D & Rapid Prototyping

Exploring novel AI applications to create proofs-of-concept that don't just solve today's problems, but unlock tomorrow's competitive advantages.

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Astra: Strategic Intelligence Chatbot

Business Impact
An experimental foresight engine designed to transform disparate data streams into adaptive strategic scenarios. Astra enables organizations to simulate possible futures, identify hidden risks, and generate predictive insights, making it a prototype for competitive foresight and decision-making.
Technical Implementation
Scenario Generation, Predictive Analysis, Multi-Modal Signal Processing, Strategic Intelligence Orchestration
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ClearAI Creative Engine

Business Impact
A generative prototyping engine that automates creative exploration. It allows teams to move rapidly from ideation to testable prototypes, blending adaptive generation with human feedback loops.
Technical Implementation
Generative Prototyping, Adaptive Creative AI, Human-in-the-Loop Validation
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Personal StyleAI SPA

Business Impact
A multimodal proof-of-concept combining Mistral Vision outfit analysis with a conversational AI style coach. This prototype explored new frontiers of personalized consumer experiences, blending vision and natural language processing into a single UX.
Technical Implementation
Multimodal AI Experimentation, Conversational Coaching POC, Novel UX Prototyping (Vision + NLP)
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MELD: Evolutionary Behavior Management System

Business Impact
An new AI architecture similar to MCP that enables software systems to dynamically evolve their own behavior. MELD uses bifurcated processing, evolutionary decision-making, and self-modifying components to adapt logic in real time, opening new frontiers for adaptive AI-driven applications. This entire AI site is orchestrated using MELD!
Technical Implementation
Bifurcated Evolutionary Architecture, Self-Modifying Components, Real-Time Behavior Adaptation

Ready to Build Your AI Advantage?

These solutions represent just a fraction of what's possible when AI strategy meets execution excellence. Let's discuss how we can architect a custom solution that delivers similar impact for your business.

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Get a Complimentary AI Strategic Brief

Before you invest in a pilot, get a clear, data-driven starting point. Based on your unique business context, my AI system will generate a custom intake brief that outlines potential risks, opportunities, and a recommended path forward.

This is the same initial analysis I provide to my executive clients, designed to turn ambiguity into an actionable plan.

Your Custom Brief Will Help You Explore:

  • Customer Experience Optimization:
    Designing reasoning flows that adapt customer journeys in real-time.
  • Market Research & Synthetic Analysis:
    Using multi-agent orchestration to rapidly analyze competitors, trends, and gaps.
  • Operational Efficiency & Process Automation:
    Automating reasoning-driven task workflows across operations, compliance, and risk management.
  • Governance-First Deployment Models:
    Building AI systems that are safe, monitored, and ready for enterprise-grade deployment.

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