I'm Micah Berkley. I'm the Fractional Chief of AI for businesses that know they're behind. I take you from watching AI happen to running on it in 90 days. I sit on your side of the table, build the roadmap, ship the systems, and train your team. Ex-Google Cloud Architect. Builder of Claresto.com. Front page of the Miami Herald.
As your Fractional Chief of AI, I embed with your team part-time to own both the strategy and the execution — senior AI leadership without the full-time hire. We pick the use-cases that move the business, build them, and leave your team able to run them.
I spent two decades keeping critical systems running for some of the biggest companies in the world. Site Reliability Engineering at Google. Cloud architecture and machine learning at BMW of North America. Big-data marketing science at Fashion Nova, where AI-driven strategy cut ad spend and drove millions in revenue. My job was always the same: walk into rooms where leadership didn't speak the technology, and build the bridge.
Today I do that for business owners. I'm the Fractional Chief of AI for companies that know they're behind. I sit in your leadership meetings, map where AI cuts cost and unlocks revenue, build the roadmap, and ship the systems myself. I don't talk about AI. I build with it. Claresto.com is my receipt: a live Ad Operations Command Center I architected and shipped.
And every week, I teach AI free to youth and entrepreneurs across Miami. Because this technology should be a tool for the many, not a privilege for the few. That's not marketing. That's the mission.
No vague "AI transformation" decks. No menu of services. One way to work with me: I become your Fractional Chief of AI, and we move one real number in 90 days.
I sit in your leadership meetings. I map where AI cuts cost and unlocks revenue in your business — not in theory, in your P&L. You get a 90-day roadmap tied to one KPI your board actually cares about.
Then I build it. Agent workflows, automations, integrations. I shipped systems at Google scale and I ship product today. You're not getting a deck — you're getting working software in your business.
Your team learns to run what I build. Plain language, hands-on, no jargon. When the engagement ends, the capability stays. That's the difference between renting AI and owning it.
Every month you get a one-page outcome report: what moved, what's next, what it's worth — written so you can forward it straight to your board.
My personal opinions, essays, and editorials on AI and where it's headed — in plain language, straight from the work.
Most companies are one good operator away from real AI leverage — not one expensive executive. Here's the model I use to embed, ship, and hand off, and why it beats both consultants and full-time hires for the next two years.
Read the essay ↗Field data from a mass-tort reply engine — what makes an AI phone call get answered, trusted, and filed.
Read ↗The exact free and near-free tools I used to lift a Wynwood restaurant's profit 25% with AI imagery.
Read ↗What happens when you hand frontier tools to kids the industry forgot — and why it's the most important work I do.
Read ↗New essays and research, regularly. Get them in your inbox — no spam, just the work.
A dozen-plus community and technical honors over the years. A few that matter most.
"A dynamic, compelling voice, pairing a practical, urban-centered approach with untethered, brashly honest insight on AI."On Micah Berkley as a speaker
From founders who needed pipeline to communities learning to build. (Placeholder quotes — swap for real client words.)
Micah doesn't sell AI hype — he shipped a lead engine that actually books revenue, and explained every step in plain English.
The workshop changed how my team works. We went from nervous about AI to confidently building with it in a single afternoon.
He taught our kids to earn real money with a laptop and free tools. That's not a class — that's a future.
Book a strategy call and we'll find where AI creates real value for you — honestly, quickly, and built to ship.