David, here’s your new CTO’s first 90 days. What to fix first, where AI pays off soonest, and what the hire should own.

What we noticed

Employee-owned since 1986, ranked 238 on the ENR 500 list, and still adding firms, with MI Engineering joining on March 29.

Your Chief Technology Officer posting went up on October 22, and it asks one person to lead applied AI that is already underway, be the authority on Autodesk and Bentley work, and win over project managers, next to a CIO and a Director of IT.

• Your GIS practice A certified Esri partner supporting utilities through the move to the newest Esri utility network. That is a technology product your own firm already sells. GIS and asset management page
• Your data work Data acquisition, integration and visualization are services you offer clients, so the firm already handles the kind of data that AI needs. GIS and asset management page
• A CIO already The leadership team already lists a Chief Information Officer, and the posting names a Director of IT. The new CTO’s first job is the line between them. About LDG
• The tools your staff already use The posting expects fluency in the general AI tools, which means your people are probably using them already, inside a CMMC-regulated environment. Chief Technology Officer posting

Seen in your stack: WordPress · Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics · Cloudflare · Microsoft 365 · Autodesk · Bentley · Esri

What your posting asks for

• “Develop and maintain LDG's multi-year technology and innovation roadmap.”
• “Lead enterprise applied AI initiatives, including those already in progress, and be directly involved in the practical implementation of AI-driven solutions across the organization.”
• “Establish frameworks for responsible, secure, and effective use of AI technologies, in coordination with the Director of Information Technology, who retains ownership of security and CMMC/CUI compliance.”
• “Serve as the organization’s technical authority on AEC technology platforms (including the Autodesk and Bentley ecosystems), workflows, and emerging industry trends.”
• “Success depends on adoption by project managers and discipline leads, so partnership with them is central to the role.”
• “Negotiate technology agreements related to innovation initiatives, software platforms, and emerging technologies, ensuring terms are reviewed for federal flow-down and CUI/CMMC implications.”

From your Chief Technology Officer posting, posted October 22, 2026.

What changes for your new Chief Technology Officer

Your new CTO starts with a plan: who owns what next to your CIO and Director of IT, which AI work to keep, stop or start first, where AI saves your project teams time soonest, and a clear line between what they own and what a fractional lead can carry while they settle in.

Where AI pays off soonest

Workflows from your own business, in the order they save your team time.

1. 1 First drafts of project documents, with an engineer reviewing

   BIM, digital delivery and project execution workflows repeat across projects. A drafted first pass from past projects lets engineers review instead of compile.

   Source: Chief Technology Officer posting
2. 2 Scripted GIS data work for utility clients

   Utility migrations repeat the same data transforms. AI can draft and test the scripts so your GIS team checks them instead of writing every one.

   Source: GIS and asset management page
3. 3 Finding past project experience for proposals

   Four decades of projects are spread across offices. A search that finds the right past project and its numbers speeds every proposal.

   Source: About LDG
4. 4 A first pass on contract clauses for federal terms

   Your posting asks for flow-down review on every technology agreement. A first-pass flagger saves counsel’s time on routine ones.

   Source: Chief Technology Officer posting
5. 5 Safe use of the AI tools staff already have

   People use Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude today. Settings, approved uses and short training keep controlled data out of the wrong tool.

   Source: Chief Technology Officer posting

1. “he was singularly responsible for the company’s single largest customer by revenue - the Center for Medicare & Medicaid within the US Department of Health and Human Services.”

   RLRobert Liebowitz, worked with Kash on MarkLogic’s Public Sector team; now First Ascent VenturesLinkedIn recommendation, April 2026

2. “Kash and I built ERT Credit together in 2021. He took my MVP and turned it into a SaaS that hit $10M ARR in twelve months.”

   Jordan Anderson, CEO, PayStreetgobridgehead.ai/about

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