First-Year AI Deployment Bench · One agreement
The whole AI deployment team, under one agreement.
One leader. Four to six seats. One Seat Map. For healthcare technology companies in the first year of an AI rollout: the head of AI deployment and the team under that leader, scoped on one page and filled by one partner.
Eight boards post the engineer. One posts a VP.
On October 1, 2026 we read the public job boards of fifteen healthcare AI vendors. On those boards, the deployment team is being hired one requisition at a time. The Bench scopes the team once, on one page, and fills it under one agreement.
Counts are open titles we could verify on public careers pages, so they are floors, not totals. Federal documents now say "super intelligence"; the job boards still say AI. We read both. The full list is in Talent Pulse, October 2026 →
One leader and the seats under that leader.
Once a healthcare technology company ships an AI product, every new customer needs someone to deploy it, someone to drive adoption, someone to own the product, and someone accountable for how the model behaves. These are the six seats we scope.
Head of AI deployment
Owns getting every customer live, used, and measured. Reports to the CEO or COO. Usually searched first, so the leader helps pick the team.
Forward-deployed AI engineers
Engineers who sit with the customer, wire the model into the workflow, and stay until it's used.
AI implementation and adoption managers
The people who turn a signed AI contract into a live, measured deployment, and get clinicians and billers to use it.
Clinical AI product managers
Product owners who speak clinical, know the model-risk questions, and ship inside a health system's rules.
AI governance and model risk lead
One person accountable for how the model is tested, monitored, and explained to a customer's compliance team. No vendor board we read on October 1 posted this seat.
Client success leader for AI accounts
Keeps deployed customers adopting and renewing once the engineers move to the next go-live.
Not every company needs all six. The Seat Map sets which seats, and in what order.
Scoped once. Filled in order.
One partner on every seat. Every call is made by the founder.
Scope
A Seat Map for the deployment team: each seat, what it has to produce in year one, and which work is done by people and which by agents. Free, and built the day you ask.
Source
Usually the leader first, as a retained search. The seats under the leader are calibrated once and run as a standing program, sourced from people who aren't looking.
Secure
Each hire carried through offer, resignation, and start, with a weekly pipeline report. When the next go-live opens a seat, the search is already running.
Three questions before any search starts.
AI agents now do part of the work these seats used to do. Every Seat Map, and the scorecard for every leadership search, answers three questions for each seat.
What do agents do in this seat, and who checks it?
Which tasks agents run today, which stay with a person, and who reviews the output before a customer sees it.
Who owns the AI spend?
Cost per deployment, or per closed deal, is a line someone has to manage. The Seat Map names the seat that owns it.
Who answers when an agent is wrong?
In front of a customer, a clinician, or a regulator, a named person is accountable. The Seat Map says which seat.
One agreement. Two fee types.
The leader runs on Retained Search terms. The seats under the leader run on Program Search terms. One short written agreement covers both.
AI does the research. Jeremy makes every call, every judgment, and every recommendation. Software never screens, scores, or rejects a candidate. Candidates never pay.
At a glance
- Seat Map
- Free, before any agreement.
- The leader
- Retainer plus success fee. The retainer is credited in full against the fee. 12-month replacement search.
- The seats
- Flat fee per seat filled, or a monthly retainer for the slate. 90-day replacement.
- Reporting
- Weekly pipeline report.
- Capacity
- One to three concurrent client engagements, by design.
Built on a public read of the market.
The Bench is scoped from what healthcare technology companies are funding, announcing, and posting. All three sources are public and free.
The monthly market read
Leadership moves, AI deployment hiring on public job boards, and the seats to plan for in the next 12 months.
Read Talent Pulse →Who raised, and who they hire next
Every US healthcare technology round of $20 million or more since March 2026, with what each company said the money is for.
See Funding Watch →Your next four quarters of hires
A free planner for the leadership and repeat seats a company like yours usually needs after a round, a deal, or an AI rollout.
Run the Seat Forecast →One client. The same hard seats. For years.
The Bench is how the Kaufman Hall account ran: one client, one calibrated profile, searched again and again for five years, nationwide by phone. It now runs on the AI deployment team.
Straight answers.
- What is the First-Year AI Deployment Bench?
- One engagement that fills the head of AI deployment and the four to six seats under that leader at a healthcare technology company, scoped by a single Seat Map and covered by one agreement.
- Who is it for?
- Healthcare software, revenue cycle, health IT services, and payer technology companies in the first year of shipping or rolling out an AI product. Buyers are usually the CEO, COO, or people leader.
- Which seats does it cover?
- A head of AI deployment, forward-deployed AI engineers, AI implementation and adoption managers, clinical AI product managers, an AI governance and model risk lead, and a client success leader for AI accounts.
- Do we have to hire every seat at once?
- No. The Seat Map sets which seats you need and in what order. Seats are filled as customer go-lives call for them.
- How is it priced?
- The leader on Retained Search terms: retainer plus success fee, with the retainer credited in full. The seats on Program Search terms: a flat fee per seat filled or a monthly retainer.
- How is AI used in the search?
- AI does research and drafting. A person makes every call and every candidate decision. Software never screens, scores, or rejects a candidate.
- Do candidates pay anything?
- No. Clients pay. Candidates never do.
- How do we start?
- Book 15 minutes and ask for a Seat Map, email jeremy@jgsearchgroup.com, or call 816-716-6815.
A single search runs on its own.
One leadership seat is a Retained Search. One repeat seat is a Program Search.
An AI rollout with no one named to own it?
Fifteen minutes is enough to know whether it's a fit. No deck, no pitch. Ask for a Seat Map of your deployment team.