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Fractional 360
Build history · August 2026
Fractional 360 · Build history

How we productized the CMO chair.

The template for every chair. This is how Innovative Group turned one fractional seat into a repeatable, productized offer on the site, in the order it happened, so each chair can follow the same path.

01 · The idea

Knowledge got cheap. Experience did not.

AI made information nearly free. What it cannot hand anyone is the scar tissue of having run the function. We built the CMO chair as a productized offer around that difference: a clear method, a repeatable page structure, and a buyer-specific lens. What follows is the same sequence any chair can run.

02 · The build sequence

Six moves, in order.

The chair shipped in phases across a few weeks. Each phase is reusable for the next chair.

1 · Strategy doc

Start with the thesis: who the buyer is, what the chair actually sells, and how it is structured. Everything downstream traces back to this.

2 · Keystone and pillar

One authoritative hub page for the chair, with the pillar that carries the core story. This is the page everything else links to.

3 · Vertical depth

Industry and stage pages, so the offer reads as specialized rather than generic. For the CMO chair those were dental, SaaS, benefits, and restaurants.

4 · Buyer-specific lens

A module on the sister brand, Next-Best Action, tuned to one buyer persona, so the same offer meets a different reader where they are.

5 · Production and launch

Promote from staging to production, refresh the sitemap, and pair it with a LinkedIn launch so the pages have traffic on day one.

6 · Optimize

Post-launch: schema gap-fill, copy tightening, and structured data so the pages are legible to AI search. The build is never quite done.

03 · What made it defensible

The structural edges.

The chair holds up because of how Innovative Group is built, not because of a claim.

Multi-pattern operator authority

Chris has run the CMO role eight times across eight categories. The chair is illustrated by someone who has actually sat in it.

Shipped AI execution depth

Next-Best Action, Beat, and agentic personalization are live in production, not slideware.

A sister venture arm

IG writes checks into AI companies through its funding and incubation arm, rather than selling consulting hours.

An operating company

Fractional is one delivery mode of a broader operating company, not the whole business. That is the difference the market feels.

04 · The pivot

One chair became seven.

The original build lived as a single, marketing-focused cluster. In July 2026 it was reframed as Fractional 360: a full, interoperable fractional C-suite. The keystone lives at innovativegroup.io/solutions/fractional-360/. The seats and the operators behind them:

CMO
Chris Salazar

Innovative Group. Held the fractional CMO seat eight times.

CIO
Greg Higham

StrataFusion. Founding CIO at Marketo through IPO; nine PE engagements.

CISO
Henry Ivey

StrataFusion. Security through multiple IPOs; deep in agentic AI.

CHRO
Sheren Bouchakian

Thirty-plus years building HR from the ground up.

CPO
Chad Kutting

Product across the 49ers, Facebook, Salesforce, and PayPal.

CFO
Tom Fox · placeholder

25 years in tech, the back half in the CFO chair. Confirming his own fit.

CRO
Seat open

Revenue leadership with operator scars. Introductions welcome.

COO
Seat open

Operations leadership, likely vertical-specific.

05 · Where it lives, and what is next

The artifact, and the open work.

Live

The Fractional 360 keystone at innovativegroup.io/solutions/fractional-360/, plus the Next-Best Action module tuned to the marketing-leader buyer.

Open

Path consolidation: whether the deep chair pages migrate under /solutions/fractional-360/ or keep their original home. A decision for after the roster settles.

Why this connects to StrataFusion

The five-seat model only works with partners who cover the non-CMO chairs. That is the strategic reason IG and StrataFusion clicked at the June 30 kickoff and July 2 working session. The pages are the public artifact; the partnership is what makes the offering deliverable at full depth.

In one line

Most fractional firms sell senior thinking by the hour. Innovative Group operates AI products, invests in AI companies, and productizes the full fractional C-suite. That is the wedge, and it is the template every chair can build on.