Fractional AI Lead & CTO
Senior AI leadership, without the full-time hire.
I'm Alexandre Vandenbroeck. I join leadership teams one to three days a week and turn AI into results that hold up in production.
- Own the AI roadmap with your leadership
- Ship the first use cases, from idea to production
- Leave a team that can run them
An hour to understand your situation and see whether I can help.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
ExperienceBuilt with teams at these organisations — as an employee, a consultant or a freelance lead.
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How I engage
Four ways to work together
Every engagement starts with a conversation, and an honest view on whether I can help.
Fractional AI Lead
One to three days a week inside your team: the AI roadmap, and the first use cases shipped with your people. Forward-deployed: I build in production with your team, not in slide decks.
Fractional CTO
Technical leadership for AI products: architecture, build-or-buy calls, and a team that ships. Built Counzel.AI from prototype to production.
AI Strategy Sprint
Where AI can matter in your business, what it takes, and what to fund first — written for boards.
AI Training & Enablement
Programmes for executives, product owners, developers and data teams. More than 100 people trained so far.
Not sure which fits? That's exactly what the first conversation is for. Book an hour
How I work
AI with surgical precision: where and when it matters.
AI Product Discovery, adapted from product practice: every step tied to a business outcome, learning cheaply before investing heavily.
Outcomes
Start from the business challenge that matters, with a sponsor who owns it. Never from the technology.
Opportunities
Map where AI could help, prioritised by value and feasibility. Sometimes the best first step isn't AI.
Experiments
Test the riskiest assumptions cheaply — data, feasibility, value — then decide on evidence.
Scale
Build the MVP with the people who will use it, deploy, measure, and grow what works.
- Think big, start small, move fast
- Start simple — AI only where it adds value
- Stay aware, stay agile
Curious how this would apply to your situation? Book an hour
Experience
Ten years of AI, from strategy to production
Explore by theme, start from a figure, or open any role for the detail.
Fractional & advisory · 2023 – today
- 2025 – today
2025 – todayLead AI — Manufacturing 4.0Safran Aero Boosters · 3–5 days a weekEmbedding AI in the factory-of-the-future vision.
What I did
- Prioritised AI use cases with operations teams
- Ran proofs of value
- Delivered AI in production
Outcome
A prioritised, funded path for AI on the factory floor.
Tools
PythonAWS SageMakerBedrockPower BI - 2025 – today
2025 – todayFractional AI AdvisorThree business & IT consultancy firms · about 1 day a weekSenior AI support for consultancies and their clients.
What I did
- AI strategy and adoption training
- Technical guidance and data-enabler identification
- Pre-sales support
- 2025 – today
2025 – todayAI TrainingSeveral companies · about half a day a weekAgentic AI programmes for technical and business teams.
What I did
- Programmes for developers, data/BI specialists, product owners and business teams
- Hands-on with today's AI coding and agent tools
Outcome
Part of the 100+ people trained.
Tools
Claude CodeCursorCopilot Studio - 2025
2025AI StrategyTelenet Group, via Board of Innovation · 2 days a weekAI strategy work for a leadership team.
What I did
- AI market overview and executive education
- Opportunity mapping
- Investment recommendations
- 2023 – 2025
2023 – 2025Lead AI & DataDIGI Belgium, via Turing of Trust · 4 days a weekBuilt the AI & Data function of a new mobile operator.
What I did
- Built and led the team; owned the AI & Data roadmap
- Solution and data architect across Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations
- Delivered data lakes, ETL, BI and AI use cases
- Data & AI point of contact for privacy (GDPR)
Outcome
A 4-FTE AI & Data team built and led.
Tools
MS SQLAirbyteLookerPythonLLMs - 2023 – today
2023 – todayFounder & CTOCounzel.AIAn agentic AI platform for tax and accounting.
What I did
- Built the platform end to end and deployed it on Azure
- Designed agentic RAG flows with traceable steps
- Secured a public grant, private investment and Microsoft for Startups support
Outcome
Founded and leads the product.
Tools
Azure AILangChain / LangGraphFastAPIPostgreSQL
Earlier career · 2015 – 2023
- 2022 – 2023
2022 – 2023Strategy, B2B & Partnerships LeadProximus Ada (AI & cybersecurity)Strategy for Proximus's AI and cybersecurity company.
What I did
- Defined the strategy and internal business model
- Led B2B partnerships and public representation
- AI point of contact for privacy and the upcoming EU AI Act
- 2017 – 2022
2017 – 2022AI Strategy & Implementation ManagerProximus — Customer OperationsSet up AI governance and owned the AI roadmap and delivery.
What I did
- Set up AI governance, later reused by other business units
- Owned the AI roadmap and delivery
- Led the analytics translators, coaching 5 people
- Designed and taught a 5-day analytics translator bootcamp (80+ trained)
Outcome
40+ AI use cases delivered over three years — NLP, speech and text analytics, fraud, forecasting, computer vision.
- 2015 – 2017
2015 – 2017Strategy Consultant, Data AnalyticsIBM Belgium — for AG Insurance and ShellData and programme roles at two large clients.
What I did
- AG Insurance: business analyst and product owner for Solvency II master data
- Shell: programme management for knowledge management
- Two IBM Service Excellence Awards (2015, 2016)
A Turing of Trust product
Counzel.AI — the AI advisor for Belgian SMEs and their fiduciaires
An agentic platform specialised in accounting, tax and finance. I founded it and lead it as CTO — advice is more useful from someone who also builds.
Built on Azure, every step traceable — the same standards I bring to client work.
Visit counzel.ai(opens in a new tab)
Contact
Let's take an hour.
An idea, a stalled project, a board asking questions. One hour on your situation, and an honest answer on whether I can help.
alex@turingoftrust.ai
- Conversations in English, French or Dutch — in person in Belgium or online.
- I usually reply within two working days.