Advisory

Work with Arshad.
Fractional executive & GTM lead.

Hands-on AI strategy, enterprise business development and revenue leadership for companies building at the intersection of AI and natural resources. Two concurrent client slots.

Why Arshad

You are hiring a person, not a tier.

Fifteen years across the full span: writing production ML, and closing enterprise deals with the executives who sign for them. Both halves, in the same person.

Fig. 1. Overlapping threads, not a sequence of jobs.

15+ YEARS

AI & machine learning leadership

From early NLP and computer vision through to today’s multimodal, agentic systems, architected production AI at global scale.

FORTUNE 50 & DEFENSE

Enterprise business development

Multi-million quota ownership and eight-figure pipeline closed with industrial and defense institutions.

MULTIPLE VENTURES

CTO / chief technology officer

Hands-on architecture across NLP, deep learning and LLMs, using Python, PyTorch, AWS, GCP and Azure.

3 COMPANIES FOUNDED

Serial entrepreneur

Zero to operating company, three times over, across product, GTM, fundraising and delivery.

Domain depth

Natural resources is not an adjacent market picked from a slide. Thimar reads Texas RRC filings, BLM claim registries and groundwater district transfers daily. That is the same vocabulary an operator, landman or royalty buyer uses, which is why the sales conversation starts a level deeper than a generalist can reach.

Role types

Four ways the work lands.

01 Enterprise BD

Partnerships and channel development.

02 Revenue leadership

Fractional CRO ownership of the number.

03 Chief AI Officer

Capability, architecture and roadmap.

04 Industry principal

Domain authority in front of the client.

Fig. 2. Four roles from one operator.

01

Enterprise BD & partnerships

C-suite relationships with operators, majors and royalty companies. Direct outreach and relationship-led closing.

02

Revenue leadership (CRO)

Quota ownership, team building and forecast accountability, what a full-time CRO delivers, fractionally.

03

Chief AI Officer (CAIO)

AI strategy, roadmap and architecture leadership, positioning the product to domain-expert buyers.

04

Industry principal

Technical credibility for sales engineering, RFP responses and product positioning in mining, O&G and carbon.

Engagement models

Three levels of involvement.

Fig. 3. Depth of involvement by model.

Directional

Strategic advisory retainer

Executive-level guidance for companies that already have internal teams.

GTM STRATEGY · DEAL REVIEW · EXEC INTRODUCTIONS · DIRECTION

Embedded · Most requested

Fractional CRO / CAIO

Two to three days a week, embedded. Full revenue or AI leadership, performance-aligned.

REVENUE OWNERSHIP · PIPELINE · TEAM · FORECASTING · AI ROADMAP

Focused

GTM sprint, 90 days

Fixed-scope, deliverable-based execution rather than open-ended advice.

ICP · POSITIONING · SALES PLAYBOOK · OUTREACH · FIRST RELATIONSHIPS

Two concurrent client slots. Slot count unconfirmed. PLACEHOLDERS A5.

Next step

Two slots. One conversation.

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