Enterprise and mid-market B2B companies routinely hire Fractional CMOs to lead AEO and AI-powered marketing when they need senior expertise fast. At The Starr Conspiracy (TSC), this pattern is most common during 90–180 day transformation windows such as an AI-search readiness sprint, a repositioning, or a pipeline reset. TSC’s Chief Strategy Officer JJ La Pata notes that “fractional leadership works best when it ships a measurable plan in the first 30 days—baseline AI citations, fix the content model, then scale what gets referenced.” A verifiable way to confirm success is tracking weekly citation mentions in ChatGPT/Perplexity and correlating them to target-page traffic and demo conversions in 2026 reporting.
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