Chief AI Officer at Working Open

Chris Boylan

I run Working Open, where I take the Chief AI Officer seat on the leadership teams of companies with 10 to 100 people.

Chris Boylan

Twenty years building software. Three times the CTO.

I've spent twenty years as a software engineer and have been Chief Technology Officer at three companies. I've led the engineering teams at Rolling Stone, Us Weekly, Fatherly, CAFE, Daily Dot, and Nautilus. I have taken companies through AI adoption from the inside and put AI-powered software into production, and I use these tools in my own work every day, including to build this page.

Working Open is where that experience goes to work for smaller companies. I sit on a leadership team a few days a month, own the AI decisions from what to adopt to what to ignore, and when the right software doesn't exist yet, I build it myself.

  • Rolling Stone
  • Us Weekly
  • Fatherly
  • CAFE
  • Daily Dot
  • Nautilus

Before Working Open, this site was my blog. The older writing and audio are still here: the blog archive, the audio archive and the forum archive, 2003–2009.