Fractional Head of AI
Set priorities, lead production deployments, and build your team’s capability.
Zain Hoda
I help companies drive real business outcomes using AI. I train teams, build software, and put AI to work in everyday operations.
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Built on experience
Founder & builder
Vanna AII built Vanna to help people get answers from their data using AI. That work took me from open-source software to production deployments inside real businesses.
20K+ GitHub starsEarlier experience
The work, in good company
Companies I’ve helped.
Explore the work
Ford
Built a dealer sales analytics portal for Ford Mexico, giving dealerships a way to explore their sales data through natural-language questions.
Volvo
Enabled analysis of vehicle telemetry data using locally deployed small language models (SLMs).
Brynson
Brought answers from real-estate data directly to customers through an AI assistant inside Brynson’s platform.
OPTX
Brought natural-language data exploration into OPTX’s casino analytics product, helping users ask questions in the platform they already used.
Comerc Energia
Gave internal analysts natural-language access to company data, helping them explore questions without writing SQL for each one.
Tesla
Confidential use case
Companies I’ve partnered with.
01 / How I work
From first use
to everyday impact.
- 01
Discover
Understand the workflow and the result that would make a difference.
- 02
Decide
Choose a focused use case and define what success looks like.
- 03
Build
Build and evaluate against your real data, tools, and business rules.
- 04
Own
Deploy, monitor, and improve as your team puts it to work.
02 / Three ways in
Start where you are.
Support for your Head of AI
Add hands-on engineering and product judgment to get important projects shipped.
Team enablement
Help your team build, evaluate, and maintain AI systems.
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