FRACTIONAL / RESEARCH — INDEX 001
Research, frameworks,
Research, frameworks,
and field notes
from Fractional.
Verified analysis and working tools spanning every domain Fractional operates in — LegalOps, FinanceOps, Strategy, Branding, Operations, and AI.
01LegalOps
02FinanceOps
03Strategy
04Branding
05Operations
06AI
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Published research
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Articles
Verified, sourced analysis — the flagship output of the Fractional research pipeline.
Article
Fractional Firms Are Becoming Managed-Service Operators
AI now matches experts on 47.6% of real deliverables, per GDPval, pushing fractional firms past single-deliverable pricing toward managed-service pipelines.
Article
The AI Compute Price Reset Already Happened
AI compute pricing already reset: H100 rental rates rose 40% then fell in July 2026, and Colossus 1 clears $50 million per megawatt of capacity.
Article
AI Agent ROI: The 540% Study Forrester Never Published
The most-quoted AI agent ROI statistic, a 540% figure attributed to Forrester, traces to no study. What exists: 120% modeled ROI, and a fix operators can run.
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Market & benchmark studies
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Reports
Structured studies across the domains Fractional operates in.
AI
The Compute Cost Index: Q3 2026
Quarterly tracking of AI infrastructure pricing, GPU rental rates, and power availability across major providers.
2026 Q3
Coming soon
FinanceOps
Fractional CFO Benchmarks 2026
What lean finance functions actually spend, staff, and automate across seed-to-Series-C companies.
2026
Coming soon
LegalOps
The State of In-House Legal Automation
Contract turnaround times, tooling adoption, and where legal ops teams still rely on manual review.
2026
Coming soon
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Repeatable methods
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Frameworks
Named methods for problems Fractional sees recur across clients.
Strategy
The Fractional Maturity Model
A five-stage model for how a founder's office should scale its scope, staffing, and decision rights.
Coming soon
FinanceOps
The 5-Layer Cash Visibility Framework
A structured approach to building real-time cash visibility without a full finance hire.
Coming soon
LegalOps
Contract Risk Tiering Framework
A triage system for routing contracts by risk exposure instead of reviewing everything at the same depth.
Coming soon
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Tools & templates
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Repositories
Working tools and templates built from client delivery, generalized for reuse.
AI
agent-eval-harness
Evaluation harness for benchmarking AI agent task completion against cost and latency.
Coming soon
Operations
runbook-templates
A library of operational runbook templates mapped to common decision-rights structures.
Coming soon
FinanceOps
cashflow-model-kit
A modular cash flow modeling starter kit for early-stage finance functions.
Coming soon
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Engagement outcomes
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Case Studies
Anonymized outcomes from Fractional engagements, by domain.
AI
Cutting Agent Spend 40% in 90 Days
Rebuilding utilization measurement before renegotiating any vendor contract.
Coming soon
FinanceOps
Standing Up a Fractional CFO Function
Building real-time cash visibility for a bootstrapped team with no finance hire.
Coming soon
LegalOps
NDA Turnaround: 5 Days to 4 Hours
Tiering contract risk to route the 80% that never needed a lawyer's full attention.
Coming soon