Built for the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
Every mid-market company we worked with had the same problem: dozens of SaaS tools, no one owning how they fit together, and high-paid people doing work that shouldn't exist. They didn't need another automation vendor. They needed someone who could sit in leadership meetings and own the outcome.
That's why we built Inside Partners — the Fractional Chief Automation Officer for mid-market companies. We bridge the gap between technical automation and board-ready strategy, so our clients get C-suite automation leadership without the $300k+ full-time hire.
Our approach is simple: Audit. Pilot. Govern. We start by finding the truth — our Process Heatmap Audit typically uncovers $250k+ in annual savings in two weeks. Then we prove it with a quick win and stay to govern the roadmap. Because automation without governance is just expensive chaos.
Most companies have a CTO for their product and a CFO for their money, but no one managing their efficiency. We fill that gap.
Based in Colorado. Serving mid-market companies ($5M–$100M) across North America.
People, Not Vendors
Buyers of fractional executive services are buying people. Here's who you're working with.
Michael Weber
CEO & Co-Founder
Mike Weber is a Strategic AI Architect and 3x B2B SaaS Founder with over 15 years of experience leading digital transformation and operational AI scaling. At Inside Partners, Mike leads client strategy, business development, and the firm's fractional CAO engagements. He currently serves as the Fractional Chief Automation Officer for the Ballpark Denver GID, and will be presenting 'The Automated District: Ballpark Denver' at the 2026 IDA Annual Conference in Toronto.
Mike's approach to AI enablement goes beyond technology deployment. He builds AI Competency Frameworks that embed directly into HR performance management systems — giving organizations measurable, transparent criteria for AI adoption at every level. It's the bridge between 'we bought AI tools' and 'our people actually use them.'
- Enterprise AI Strategy & Enablement
- AI Competency Frameworks & HR Integration
- B2B SaaS Operational Scaling
Ben Fuller
CTO & Co-Founder
Ben Fuller is the Founding Chief Automation Officer at InsidePartners.ai — the category-defining firm for the Fractional CAO. He helps CEOs and COOs solve the scaling math problem by eliminating Operational Debt: the compounding cost of manual labor bridging disconnected systems. Before Inside Partners, Ben served as VP of Technology at Inunity and Co-Founded NYMBLR as CTO.
With a deep technical background in intelligent workflow orchestration, multi-agent AI architectures, and complex API integrations, Ben doesn't just draft strategies—he actively leads the engineering teams that build them. He ensures that every automation pilot connects seamlessly to existing tech stacks, proving measurable ROI and driving compounding operational efficiency without requiring clients to hire full-time developers.
- Operational Debt Elimination
- Lead-to-Cash Data Architecture
- Revenue Per Employee Optimization
How We Think
It's an executive problem
Tools are cheap. Misalignment is expensive. Automation without governance becomes a portfolio of disconnected point solutions.
One metric matters
Revenue Per Employee. Everything else is noise at the board level. We build toward that number, every sprint.
Governance beats heroics
A sustainable automation program looks like a finance function — roadmaps, guardrails, ownership, KPIs. Not a side project.
Ready to Close the Gap?
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