Deploy top talent to activate AI capabilities and execute key initiatives with precision.
Burtch Works doesn't just fill roles — we design and deploy workforce strategies that align specialized talent to transformation outcomes. Retained executive search, staff augmentation, contract placement, and interim leadership, combined into a single coherent model built around your business goals.
Our Deployment Models
The right engagement model for every transformation stage.
Dedicated search for C-suite and VP-level AI, analytics, and data science leaders — CDOs, CAIOs, VPs of Data Science, Chief Data Engineers, and analytics executives at every level of the organization.
Best for: Permanent executive placements where the hire defines the transformation trajectory and the search demands depth, diligence, and exclusive focus.
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Flexible deployment of specialized practitioners — data scientists, ML engineers, analytics engineers, and AI practitioners — embedded within your team on a project or longer-term basis.
Best for: Scaling delivery capacity without the overhead of permanent hires during critical transformation initiatives and time-sensitive programs.
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Project-scoped placement of specialized analytics and AI talent — time-bounded, outcome-focused, and immediately deployable from Burtch Works' active candidate network.
Best for: Defined initiatives with clear timelines where specialized skills are needed quickly and a permanent hire isn't the right structure.
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Experienced analytics and AI executives deployed on an interim or fractional basis — to lead transformation initiatives, bridge critical leadership gaps, or provide strategic direction during organizational transitions.
Best for: Leadership transitions, post-acquisition gaps, or organizations testing AI leadership structures before committing to a permanent executive hire.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Analytics advisory consulting helps organizations design, build, and operationalize high-performing analytics and AI capabilities. This includes capability assessments that diagnose current-state maturity, operating model design that defines team structures and governance, transformation roadmaps that prioritize investments against business outcomes, and embedded advisory support that stays through execution—not just strategy. BurtchWorks advisory engagements are designed to deliver working capabilities, not strategy documents.
Building an analytics Center of Excellence typically involves four stages: assessment of current capabilities, talent, and technology; operating model design that defines the COE structure, governance, and decision rights; talent activation through executive search and practitioner deployment; and capability transfer that ensures the function operates independently after the engagement. Burtch Works has built analytics Centers of Excellence across industries, including financial services, healthcare, CPG, and private equity portfolio companies — typically from assessment to operations in seven weeks.
A Chief AI Officer advisory engagement with BurtchWorks typically begins with an AI readiness assessment that evaluates leadership alignment, technology infrastructure, talent capability, and strategic clarity. From there, we design the organizational and governance model for the AI function, identify the right internal or external leader for the CAIO role, and support the onboarding and alignment process. We work with both organizations, hiring their first CAIO and those looking to optimize an existing AI leadership structure.