01.
You tell us what you’re building.
Not a job spec — the real work. The team, the systems, the pressure, and what “good” looks like in 90 days.
You need to build AI inside your company.
We find the people who already have.
Human in Residence places AI-native operators — people who've built and run AI in real companies, not just advised on it — into the teams that need it.
Operators in residence at
2024 - 2026
The private market
The people who can actually make AI work aren't applying for jobs. They're too busy building. Human in Residence is a talent agency for AI operators — think headhunter, but for people who've actually built AI, not just advised on it. We know who they are, and we place them inside the companies that need them.
The promise
No flood of CVs. A short list of people who’ve done it before.
Tell us what you're building. We bring you a few operators with the judgment, the context, and the appetite to own it — not a stack of applications to sort through.
You can't judge a real AI operator from a profile. The proof is in what they've built, how much they actually owned, and how they think when AI meets the business. We've built it ourselves — so we can tell the difference.
A short list, not a flood · Operators who’ve done it before · Fractional or permanent
How it works
From “we need to do something with AI” to the right operator on your team.
02.
We bring you operators who’ve done it before.
We know them beyond their CVs: what they’ve built, how they work, and where their judgment is genuinely useful.
03.
You meet a short list, not the whole market.
Only people who can credibly own the work. Try one fractionally, or hire permanently.
Who we build for
One problem, every kind of company. You need AI talent — and nowhere good to find it.
Enterprise & Fortune 500
You’re building an in-house AI team and need operators who deliver fast — or one senior operator to set the strategy and build the team underneath them.
PE & VC
You need AI firepower across the portfolio: someone who can drop in, stand up a function, or move the value-creation plan from slide to reality.
Growth-stage & SMBs
You want AI to make the business leaner and faster, but you don’t have a CTO’s network. We find the operator who can come in and make it real.
Consulting & services firms
You need to ramp AI-operator capability quickly to deliver for clients — without spending twelve months hiring it yourself.
Startups (seed onward)
You need your first AI hires, or a fractional operator to come in, define the strategy, and execute it.
Roles we place
The right operator depends on what you’re trying to change.
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AI Leadership
Sets the AI agenda, picks the bets, and moves the company from scattered pilots to systems that actually work.
AI Leadership
Sets the AI agenda, picks the bets, and moves the company from scattered pilots to systems that actually work.
Roles we typically place
- Head of AI
- VP / Director of AI
- Chief AI Officer
- AI Transformation Lead
- Fractional Head of AI
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AI Engineering
02 / 06
AI Product
03 / 06
AI Marketing
04 / 06
AI Ops
05 / 06
AI Growth
06 / 06
Why this exists
The market sells you search and strategy. The work needs an owner.
In residence
Judgment close to the work
Traditional AI hiring
Months of search, inflated titles, unclear proof, and full-time risk before you know whether the person can ship.
Consultancies
Expensive strategy, limited ownership, and too much knowledge leaving the business when the engagement ends.
Human in Residence
A vetted operator embedded close to the work. Systems shipped, judgment transferred, and a relationship you can extend when it works.
Start
For companies
Tell us what you are building.
We will help you understand the operator profile the work requires and make the introduction when the brief is real.
Build your teamFor operators
Join a residency.
You ship AI in production. We find the rooms where that matters.
For operators