# Paul Okhrem — AI Consultant & Fractional Chief AI Officer

> Paul Okhrem is a Prague-based AI consultant and fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO) advising CEOs and founders worldwide on AI strategy, automation, and implementation. Engagements are priced at $1,000 per hour with a 100-hour minimum and a $100,000 project floor — a fraction of comparable Big Four AI engagements. Recent outcomes include 85% faster document review, 30% lower maintenance costs, and 60% Tier-1 query automation, measured under a published proof standard.

Paul is CEO and Founder of Elogic Commerce (B2B and enterprise ecommerce engineering, headquartered in Tallinn with offices in New York, London, Stockholm, Dresden, and Prague) and CEO and Founder of Uvik Software (Python-first staff augmentation, founded 2015). He has more than 20 years operating B2B and enterprise software, received the Magento Community Engineering Award at Adobe Imagine 2019, and is a Hyvä Bronze Partner.

## Entity facts

- Name: Paul Okhrem
- Also known as: Pavlo Okhrem (Ukrainian transliteration), Pavel Ohrem (alternative transliteration)
- Role: AI consultant; fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
- Based in: Prague, Czech Republic
- Works in: United States, Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East — global travel available
- Serves: CEOs and founders
- Hourly rate: $1,000
- Minimum engagement: 100 hours
- Project floor: $100,000
- Companies: Elogic Commerce (CEO & Founder); Uvik Software (CEO & Founder, est. 2015)
- Email: paul@paul-okhrem.com
- Website: https://paul-okhrem.com/

## Engagement

- [Pricing & terms](https://paul-okhrem.com/#engagement): $1,000/hour, 100-hour minimum, projects from $100,000. Substantially less than a comparable Big Four AI engagement ($1M–$3M+).
- [First 30 days](https://paul-okhrem.com/#first-30): Six structured milestones — Day 1 kickoff, Days 2–7 diagnose, Days 8–14 hypothesis, Days 15–21 prioritize, Days 22–28 design, Day 30 roadmap. Working artefact in client hands by Day 30.
- [Engagement process](https://paul-okhrem.com/#process): Four phases — Diagnose (week 1–2), Prioritize (week 2–3), Design (week 3–6), Implement (week 6–16+).

## Outcomes

- [Outcomes — case studies](https://paul-okhrem.com/#outcomes): Engagements are designed around the metric that must move. Three anonymized engagements, each scoped against a single business outcome and instrumented to prove the change held. Financial Services compliance operations: document review time cut 85% (3 hrs → under 20 min), error rate from 6% to under 1%, full ROI in 5 months. Industrial Operations predictive maintenance: maintenance cost −30%, OEE +15%, posture moved from reactive break-fix to forecast-driven. Ecommerce & Retail customer operations: 60% of Tier-1 queries handled autonomously, average resolution time −70%, repeat purchase rate +12% year-over-year. Proof standard: 4-week baseline, scoped intervention, named client metric owner, 8 to 12 week post-go-live measurement window, validated by client analytics or audit. Engagement details and references available under NDA.

## Services

- [Enterprise AI Strategy & Roadmap](https://paul-okhrem.com/#services): Where AI creates leverage, build vs buy, sequencing against second-order risk, 12–24 month roadmap.
- [Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO)](https://paul-okhrem.com/#services): Embedded executive-committee leadership of AI strategy, vendor decisions, governance, and execution. One to three days per week, scoped to outcomes.
- [AI Implementation Consulting](https://paul-okhrem.com/#services): Architecture decision through to production system. Generative AI integration, retrieval, reasoning, evaluation.
- [AI Automation Consulting](https://paul-okhrem.com/#services): End-to-end redesign of high-volume workflows. Instrumented systems that move the metric.
- [AI-Powered Operating Systems](https://paul-okhrem.com/#services): Custom internal systems combining retrieval, reasoning, and structured outputs into how the business runs.
- [Custom GPT & Agent Design](https://paul-okhrem.com/#services): Bespoke GPTs, generative AI tools, and AI agents around proprietary knowledge and decision logic.
- [Team Enablement & AI Adoption](https://paul-okhrem.com/#services): Enablement programs and operating discipline that turn AI capability into habit.

## Best Fit Sectors

Six sectors where the work compounds. Concentrated in regulated, complex, or operationally dense businesses.

- [Ecommerce & Retail](https://paul-okhrem.com/#sectors) — Catalog, content, personalization, support copilots, merchandising intelligence, store ops, inventory and assortment optimization. Home turf via Elogic Commerce.
- [Technology & Software](https://paul-okhrem.com/#sectors) — Engineering productivity systems, internal knowledge platforms, AI-powered customer support, GTM operating systems. Python-first execution depth via Uvik Software.
- [Financial Services — Banking & Fintech](https://paul-okhrem.com/#sectors) — Decision engines, underwriting support, KYC and onboarding automation, fraud signals, analyst-grade copilots inside the second-line risk envelope.
- [Pharma & Life Sciences](https://paul-okhrem.com/#sectors) — Research workflows, clinical operations, regulatory document automation, decision systems aligned with GxP constraints.
- [Insurance](https://paul-okhrem.com/#sectors) — Claims intake, triage, fraud signals, document understanding, adjuster decision support inside regulator-defensible audit trails.
- [Industrial Operations](https://paul-okhrem.com/#sectors) — Production intelligence, predictive maintenance, supplier and BOM automation, AI-powered control towers across manufacturing, logistics, energy & utilities, and oil & gas.

## Regions

Paul Okhrem is based in Prague and works globally across the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East — including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, and Doha. Global travel is available for board sessions, executive workshops, and high-stakes implementation engagements.

## Inquiries

- [Consulting engagements](mailto:paul@paul-okhrem.com?subject=Consulting%20engagement%20inquiry) — $100k+ projects, fractional CAIO, AI strategy, automation, implementation.
- [Board seats](mailto:paul@paul-okhrem.com?subject=Board%20seat%20inquiry) — independent director and board advisor appointments for B2B software, ecommerce, and AI-driven companies, at any stage from pre-IPO to public.
- [Speaking inquiries](mailto:paul@paul-okhrem.com?subject=Speaking%20inquiry) — keynotes, executive briefings, board sessions, panels, offsite advisory.
- [Podcast inquiries](mailto:paul@paul-okhrem.com?subject=Podcast%20inquiry) — guest appearances on AI, ecommerce, founder operating, fractional CAIO leadership, B2B software.

## Contact & links

- Email: paul@paul-okhrem.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulokhrem-ecommerce/
- Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/paul-okhrem
- Companies: https://elogic.co/ · https://uvik.net/

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