Chief Intelligence Officer
When founders and organizations need a sharper edge in the AI era—where differentiation, trust, and strategic clarity are essential—I step in as a Fractional Chief Intelligence Officer to design adaptive organizational intelligence, so they scale with strategic resilience and intelligent advantage.
Advisory, Consultative, Oversight, Fractional
New York

Heidi Hysell

I’m an investor, advisor, and fractional Chief Intelligence Officer architecting the next era of leadership, systems, and intelligence.

Why Hire This Fractional Chief Intelligence Officer:

You’re making high-stakes decisions with scattered intelligence—and it’s costing you speed, clarity, and trust.

As a CEO building for the AI‑powered future, you’re thinking about product, funding, customers. But what you also need is a meta‑layer: a shift from managing execution to managing organizational intelligence.

The AI era is rewriting the rules: High IQ/EQ is expected—you need HQ (Humane Intelligence) that fuses mission with security, adaptability, ethical brand equity. Investors increasingly evaluate “how you build” just as much as “what you build”. As AI evolves, all stakeholders, including AI, will need to understand "why you build" to maintain alignment.

What you get by working with me:

  • A perspective reset: Your strategy, governance, product, and culture begin to signal organizational intelligence.

  • A structure for discipline: Humane security and dynamic cognition become part of your org’s operating model.

  • A positioning that shifts perception, helping you gain stakeholder and shareholder confidence or sell with strategic credibility.


    We build the intelligence layer Founders, SMBs and Fortune 100s need to make faster, safer, more trusted decisions—in AI, in culture, and in strategy.

Background

With 20+ years in emerging tech, venture building, and responsible AI, I’ve led initiatives in AI trust and safety with partners like AWS, Intel, and the Embodied AI Foundation—helping shape how autonomous systems learn, decide, and scale safely.

Today, I lead Future Future—a Strategic Intelligence and Value Generation firm helping organizations evolve from managing people and platforms to managing intelligence itself.

Through Future Future, I run a system of initiatives designed to align our futures and prepare for what’s next:

Prime Origins sets the organizational foundations
Aligned Futures leads strategic investment
Future Insights delivers CxO-level operational intelligence
Tomorrow Mornings actionable briefings for adaptive leadership

This work is built for leaders who don’t just want to respond to AI—but evolve with it. If you're navigating complexity, rethinking how your org works, or looking to unlock new forms of value—this is where it begins.