Daniel Dumitru · Fractional Chief AI & Security Officer
Most consultants sell you AI or security. In the year your AI starts touching customers and company data, you need both — from one person who is accountable. I build private, self-hosted AI systems on EU infrastructure and wrap them in the governance that keeps them out of the 40% of AI projects that get cancelled.
Few clients, deep work. Published prices below — no “contact us for a quote” games.
The Dumithra Method
Three words, one standard. Every system I build or advise on has to pass all three — or it doesn’t ship.
Named risk controls, a human in the loop where it matters, and policies your auditor can actually read. AI literacy under Article 4 of the EU AI Act is already in force — governance is not optional paperwork, it is what keeps your project alive.
Your documents and customer data never train someone else’s model. Where confidentiality is real, the answer is a private LLM on controlled EU infrastructure — which I deploy and run myself, not resell.
Every initiative gets a number attached before it gets a budget. Monthly reporting on what the AI actually did — hours saved, requests handled, incidents avoided. If it can’t be measured, I’ll tell you before you spend.
Services & published pricing
Fixed scope, fixed price, named deliverables. Every engagement ends with a costed roadmap — so you always know what the next step is worth before you take it.
Two weeks, four named deliverables. Where AI genuinely pays off in your business, what your stack and security can carry today, and the 90-day plan to get there.
A senior AI-and-security leader inside your business, one to two days a week — owning strategy, governance and delivery. Board-level capability without the board-level salary.
An honest one: the high-risk obligations have been postponed to late 2027–2028 — anyone selling you “mandatory audits this summer” is selling fear. What is in force now is AI literacy (Article 4). I map your AI inventory, classify the risk, and close the gaps calmly.
From the “ANGAJATUL AI” curriculum: your team learns to use AI properly — privately, safely, measurably — in one focused session. Delivered in English or Romanian, on-site or remote.
Why this exists
There are plenty of AI consultants who have never written a security policy, and plenty of security consultants who have never deployed a model. I spent 17 years running operations, took an MBA in Cyber Security, and then built my own AI infrastructure in the EU — the same stack I now deploy for clients. When I recommend something, it’s because I run it myself.
When you need a team with SLAs, subscriptions and managed delivery rather than one person, that’s ELRU — the studio I founded. This page is for working with me directly.
Questions owners actually ask
Not on my watch. Where confidentiality matters, I deploy private models on controlled EU infrastructure — your documents stay inside your perimeter, and the contract says so in plain language.
Because tools aren’t the bottleneck — governance and fit are. Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by 2027, mostly for unclear ROI and missing risk controls. My job is selecting the few use-cases with measurable payback and building the controls that keep them in production.
Calmly, yes — panically, no. The heavy high-risk obligations were postponed to late 2027–2028, but AI literacy (Article 4) already applies. The sensible move now is an inventory, a risk classification and staff training — not an expensive emergency audit.
A full-time Chief AI Officer costs £150k+ a year and is genuinely hard to hire. Most SMBs need one to two days a week of senior ownership, not a full seat — that’s £3,000–£6,000 a month, with the strategy, governance and vendor decisions handled.
You get the scorecard, the roadmap and the recorded walkthrough — they’re yours either way. If the roadmap shows retainer-worthy work, the last page prices it. No obligation, no auto-renewal, no surprises.
One email is enough to start. You’ll get a straight answer about whether I can help — and what it costs — within 24 hours.