You don't need a head of AI. You need someone who owns the decision.
At 50-350 people, the gap is not a missing hire: nobody owns the decision of what AI is for, and the right owner is already on your leadership team.
Writing
Our thinking on AI and the work of putting it to use.
Articles and notes from the people at Accord.
An AI agent is a job description, not a strategy
Agents pay when they are given one narrow job with a number attached; an "agent strategy" is how projects end up cancelled.
The AI seat is not the mistake. Buying it first is.
Per-head AI licences help people write faster, but the return for a 50-350 person company sits in specific work between systems, and no seat finds that work for you.