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I'll help you get started (and improve) your data/AI strategy, to help you understand your customers, find blindspots to refine your product, and scale your business.

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I'll be your strategic advisor, helping you fill gaps on your team(s) to help you understand and solve your customers’ pain points with the power of data, analytics/ML/AI -- regardless of where you are on your data journey. I'll guide you every step of the way, from the 1st mile of getting started -- to the last mile,to help your company make decisions in real-time.

Depending on what you'd like to see accomplished, we'll tailor to your business needs and your customers, to help your company grow, which includes:

Advising (executive) team(s) on product and business strategy, roadmap, scope and priorities, to identify highest-impact, lowest-hanging fruit for data-centered products/features.
Helping you identify your customers' pain points, advising on ways to solve them while aligning customer and product incentives, to help you improve your market fit.
Your customers come first. Uncover who your best customers are -- and how to keep them coming back again and again.
- - You can't get insights from data you didn't collect. We'll collaborate to fill gaps in your data strategy to make better data-driven decisions.
Mentoring and/or filling gaps on your team(s), as they execute against the roadmap to help the company make decisions in real-time with highest impact to the business.
Interim Head of Data (fractional) services, filling-in the gaps on your team, with expertise in:
- - Hiring a "Head/Director of data" and mentoring your team in the interim;
  - Hiring data professionals.
Other support as needed, including pitch deck due diligence.

My missions is to help you avoid mistakes others make, and to help you make the next smallest step with the biggest impact towards your goal.

I answer frequently asked questions around data and AI strategy, as well as a number of other topics on my "Dear Advisor" blog.

Are you ready to improve your product -- and need an expert to guide you on strategy/implementation? Schedule a complimentary, 30-minute, NDA-free strategy session to see if there's a fit.

Testimonial from Chris Hovanessian, CEO of Whistle (acquired by Cloudbeds)

"Irina is a highly skilled and knowledgeable fractional CDO, whose capabilities and insight surpass any other individual we’ve engaged with. Out of all the candidates we interviewed and worked with, Irina immediately stood out and far exceeded our expectations. She is flexible to work with, across all fronts, including: time commitment, level of involvement, and project scope.

Irina has helped us ‘make sense’ of our data, and we have made better product and business decisions as a result. She has also provided our team with a wealth of knowledge; she helped us learn and become proficient along the way."