25 years leading marketing & strategy.
20 putting algorithms to work.
The last five, building with AI myself.
Former CMO at Reuters, Liquidnet, Axioma, and Chief Outsiders.
I help leaders of growing organizations put AI to work on the marketing and operating problems that actually matter, without betting the company on a vendor's pitch.
The AI is never the hard part. The operating rhythm around it is.
Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. Travel to you or remotely with clients anywhere.
How I work with leaders
Four ways in, from one day to standing partnership.
Every step includes the one before it.
Most leaders start with the Lab or the Circle and move up when the work calls for it.
Start here
The AI Decision Lab
$1,250 one day offered quarterly
A working day with David Mathison and me. You leave with a decision for one ranked, funded AI priority, a 90-day blueprint, and a peer group that stays with you for three months.
The core
AI Leadership Circle
$750 / month • 8-12 leaders per circle
A monthly peer group with a spine. Each session: one member's live AI decision worked as a case, a short briefing on what actually changed, one thing everyone commits to test. The Lab is your quarterly gathering.
For the C-Suite & Board
Executive AI Advisory
From $2,500 / month
One-to-one counsel for CEOs, boards and leadership teams: where AI is already at work in your organization, what it's worth, identify exposure, and what to do next. And bench-building for the rising leaders who will run it.
When you need a leader
Fractional Leadership
From $5,000 / month
I install prioritized AI-assisted operations in 90 days, train your team to run it, and stay on as the executive who governs it if needed. Remote, a fixed weekly rhythm, no drama.
A small selection of what I've built with AI
I know what AI can do because
I run my own work on it every day.
Most people selling AI have never run a P&L.
Most people who've run a P&L haven't built anything with AI.
These are working systems, not demos.
Machine-learning cohort models
Built with a data-science team to match Medicare members to the programs that close care gaps.
750,000 lives
An outreach and contact engine
Enrichment, segmentation and paced outbound across my own prospect file.
50,000 contacts
Cue, an SMS-first AI companion & Coach
A career companion for students and recent graduates, in beta with two cohorts.
In Beta
A complete publishing operation
Five books and fifteen field guides, from idea to draft to print-ready, with a design standard and QA pipeline.
1 Person
The AI Decision Lab
Not another AI seminar.
A hands-on working day that ends in a decision
Spend a day with "The CAIO Whisperer," David Mathison, and me. Map one real workflow, rank the opportunities, set guardrails, and build a 90-day blueprint. Then meet your table peers on Zoom at 30, 60 and 90 days.
Next session
November 18, 2026
Where
Flowing Springs Inn
Chester County, PA
Seats
36 in 6 table groups
Follow-through
3 facilitated peer Zooms at +30/60/90
Investment
$1,250
About Topher
In 2024 I did with AI what I did with personal computers in 1980.
I dove all the way in.
I've been a Chief Marketing Officer for Reuters, Liquidnet, Axioma, and at Chief Outsiders and have held embedded fractional C-level roles in healthcare, fintech and media. I founded a global nonprofit technology platform and I'm currently launching another.
Since 2024 I've built AI-based automations, agents and full working systems and applied them to strategy, research, publishing, outreach, operations and new ventures. I built ML-based systems long before that. I know what AI can do because I run my business on it, and I know where it works, where it breaks, and where it's risky.
I'll tell you plainly which of your problems AI solves and which it doesn't.
Topher
