Work with me

I embed, I build, and I make your team the builders.

I've spent more than twenty years inside organizations, in the room, in the work, accountable for what happens. Now I do that work with AI as a core part of how I operate. Three kinds of engagements, one way of working: deliberate, embedded, and built to outlast me.

These are the ways I work with organizations and teams. If you're an individual who wants to build your own AI operating system, that's TEMPO.

01 — Embed

Embedded fractional COO

Formatongoing, inside your team
I buildhuman OS + AI infrastructure
Best forgrowing faster than your systems
Investmentfrom $8,000/month

I work inside your organization as a fractional COO, as a partner, not a consultant who parachutes in and leaves. I'm in your leadership meetings. I'm working alongside your team. I'm building with you.

In these engagements, I'm working on three things at once. The human operating system: the clarity, accountability structures, and processes your team needs to make good decisions and move fast. The AI infrastructure: the automations, dashboards, and agent workflows that reduce manual work and surface what matters. And the team's capacity to use what we're building and keep going.

This is right for you if your organization is growing faster than your systems, you've got good people but unclear accountability, and you're ready to think seriously about how AI fits into how you operate.

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02 — Team cohort

Team AI cohort

Formatprivate cohort, 8–12 weeks
Commitment3–4 hrs/week per person
You geta shared AI operating system
Investmentfrom $20,000

A private, tailored version of my AI operating system cohort, designed for your team.

Before we build anything, I work with you to understand how your organization operates: what your team's work actually looks like, where the friction is, and where AI would add the most value. The materials, the sessions, and the system we build together are shaped around that. Your team doesn't learn a generic framework. They build something that works for how they actually work.

By the end, your team has a shared AI operating system, the skills to keep building on it, and a foundation for what comes next.

This is right for you if you want your team genuinely working with AI, and your people don't need to be ready: curious to quietly terrified is where every team starts. It fits when you want something built around your context rather than a one-size approach, and you don't need a full fractional COO engagement.

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03 — Build

AI-native operations

Formatfocused sprint, one problem
You geta working system + a team that can run it
Best fora process that isn't working
Investmentfrom $5,000

Every organization runs on a handful of processes it repeats constantly: hiring, procurement, forecasting, reporting, campaigns. Most were never really designed. They're held together by manual work, a few key people, and knowledge that lives in someone's head. That's fragile, and it's usually the reason things slow down as you grow.

I take one of those and rebuild it with AI in the loop, so it runs reliably, scales without adding headcount, and stops depending on any one person. Your team doesn't get a tool they have to babysit. They get a system they own: the process, the AI doing the heavy lifting, and the skills to keep improving it.

Some of what that's looked like: procurement and contractor management, financial forecasting, hiring, marketing automations.

See what this looks like in the case studies below →

This is right for you if you have a process that isn't working well enough, you're open to rethinking how it works, and you want someone who understands the operational side as well as the technical one.

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How every engagement runs

Different formats, same discipline.

STEP / 01 Get clear map every decision STEP / 02 Reimagine AI in the loop STEP / 03 Build tested at every step STEP / 04 Adopt your team runs it
the plum diamond is a human decision gate, one at every step

What this looks like in practice

An operations dashboard blocking an invoice that would exceed its work order budget
CASE 01 — OPERATIONS

One operating system, built without an engineering team

A fast-scaling nonprofit's contractor management, procurement, invoicing, and grants, moved from email and spreadsheets to one system. Built in four weeks. ~4 hours a week back per manager.

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A campaign dashboard with full-funnel metrics broken down per persona
CASE 02 — MARKETING

A marketing engine that learns

AI drafts 100% of the creative, a marketing manager agent grades every piece, humans approve at every gate, and every campaign's learnings feed the next.

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A knowledge base visualized as a dense graph of cross-linked notes
CASE 03 — MY OWN PRACTICE

The system that runs my own practice

The AI operating system that runs my multi-client practice every day, and became TEMPO, the cohort where I teach others to build their own.

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“Erica is a rare combination as a fractional COO: real experience, sharp judgment, and energy most people can't sustain even full-time. ‘Fractional’ usually implies half-there. Erica is the opposite, her presence and contributions are constant. And the work she does elsewhere doesn't dilute her focus on Tandem, it sharpens it. She brings back better instincts and patterns from other rooms that make us better too. Highly recommended (but don't hire her full-time please!).”
For individuals

Not a team, just you?

Everything on this page is how I work with organizations. If you're an independent professional who wants to build your own AI operating system, I teach that directly through TEMPO, my six-week cohort.

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Every engagement here is the same idea applied: adopt AI deliberately, in service of work that matters. That's what I mean by AI on purpose.