Innovation shouldn't require a strategy department.

Systematiq turns your biggest business problem into a structured, measurable experiment in about a minute, then holds you to a 5-week plan with a go/no-go checkpoint built in.

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The Problem We Solve

76% of small businesses use AI. 14% have it embedded.

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices surveyed 1,256 owners in February 2026: 76% use AI, and 14% say it's embedded in core operations. The missing piece is a structured process for turning a tool into a plan.

Source: Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices, February 2026.

A fractional CIO costs $4,000 to $15,000 a month

That's the 2026 market rate, and it's built for companies with a strategy department. SMEs need answers in days, at a price that doesn't need board approval.

Source: fractionalcxo.to, 2026 fractional CIO cost guide.

You already know the problem

You already know what's broken. Systematiq takes what you know and turns it into a plan you can execute this week.

From Problem to Execution in 5 Steps

Every Sprint follows the same discipline. Describe your problem. Get a specific, AI-analyzed solution. Execute it in weekly milestones with clear success criteria. Know within 2 weeks if it's working.

1

Describe Your Challenge

Tell the AI what's costing you money, time, or customers. No forms. No multiple choice. Just describe your problem in your own words. The AI will ask clarifying questions if needed.

2

AI Analysis

Your AI Chief Innovation Officer analyzes your problem against your industry, company size, and revenue range. It generates one specific recommendation, not a list of options. One solution with ROI estimates, timeline, cost breakdown, and implementation steps.

3

Refine Through Conversation

Push back. Ask questions. Challenge the recommendation. The AI refines its solution based on your feedback, up to 3 conversational exchanges. You control the direction. The AI does the analysis.

4

Create Your Project

One click converts the AI recommendation into a structured project with 5 weekly milestones. Each milestone expands into an AI-generated action brief with specific tasks, starter resources, done criteria, and common blockers.

5

Execute and Measure

Work through your milestones week by week. At the 2-week checkpoint, your AI CIO evaluates progress against a pre-defined go/no-go metric. If it's working, keep going. If not, pivot or start a new Sprint. Either way, you learned something real.

Built-In Accountability

The 2-Week Checkpoint

Most innovation fails because there's no kill switch. Systematiq builds accountability into every project with a go/no-go metric defined before you start. At the 2-week mark, you answer one question: did you hit the metric?

Met the metric: Keep executing. Your experiment is validated.

Partially met: The AI recommends adjustments. Pivot without starting over.

Didn't meet it: Kill the experiment. Start a new Sprint with what you learned. You spent 2 weeks and minimal resources.

Go/No-Go Metric

Reduce weekly manual counting hours from 10 to under 6 within 2 weeks of implementation

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The Innovation Score

Not all business advice is innovation. Systematiq holds every recommendation to a three-part standard before it reaches you.

Differentiator

Does this introduce something genuinely new to your business? If every consultant would suggest the same thing, it doesn't make the cut.

Calculated Bet

Does this require you to try something unproven? Innovation means venturing beyond the safe and familiar.

Measurable Value

Can you measure the result in dollars? If the outcome can't be tied to revenue, cost savings, or growth, it's not actionable.

Every recommendation scores 1 to 3 points. A 3/3 means your AI CIO is confident this is a genuine innovation opportunity for your business.

What You Get

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  • 1 Innovation Sprint
  • Problem analysis by your AI CIO
  • 5-week milestone plan
  • Action briefs with tasks & resources
  • Go/no-go metric
  • PDF project report
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CIO Retainer

$249 a month

  • Unlimited Lightning Sprints and projects
  • An AI CIO that remembers every decision and outcome
  • The Monday briefing
  • Go/no-go checkpoints and outcome tracking
  • A 45-minute monthly review call
  • Everything in Spanish and English
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Innovation Assessment

$2,500 one-time

  • A 90-minute intake call, in English or Spanish
  • The 13-dimension assessment, scored
  • A Lightning Sprint on your biggest challenge
  • The written Innovation Agenda, with a go/no-go at week 2
  • A 60-minute readout with your team
  • Credited against your first 3 months of the Retainer
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Grounded in research. Built for reality.

Systematiq's methodology draws from established frameworks in innovation management and adapts them for the speed and resource constraints of small and medium enterprises.

Micro-R&D Discipline

The Sprint treats every business problem as a structured experiment. Define the hypothesis. Set success criteria. Run the experiment. Measure the outcome. It's the same discipline an R&D department runs, compressed to fit your timeline and budget.

AI as Customer Proxy

MIT CISR research identifies a new class of business model where AI acts within guardrails set by the user to achieve defined outcomes. Systematiq operates as a Customer Proxy: it manages your innovation experiment within the boundaries you set. You define the problem and the constraints. The AI handles analysis, planning, and execution support.

Fail Fast, Fail Cheap

A Sprint puts a 2-week checkpoint in front of every idea, so you never invest more than necessary in one that isn't working. When a Sprint fails, you've spent 2 weeks and gained real information about what doesn't work, and that feeds your next Sprint.

Stop planning. Start experimenting.

Your first Innovation Sprint is free. Describe your biggest problem and get an implementation plan in about a minute.