Will Frasier — Vol. I
Fractional AI Architecture · Issue No. 01 · 2026
Available for fractional work · Q3 2026
Founder · Principal AI Architect · 18 years at Microsoft scale
Fractional AI architect for founders and lean teams shipping agentic products to real users. I help you define quality, orchestrate context across long workflows, and ship evals and telemetry so the system evaluates and guides—not only generates. Two-time Microsoft Global Hackathon winner; patented work on deep telemetry understanding; founder of Story Stream.
“
The hardest part of long-horizon agents is not the agents — it is the orchestration layer that decides what each agent needs to know.
What I do
Three offersFractional AI Architect
Embedded one or two days a week with the founder and team. I own the AI roadmap, agent topology, orchestration, and production delivery alongside your engineers.
Best fit: 5–15 person teams shipping AI to paying or pilot users.
AI Strategy Advisory
Architecture review, eval design, build-vs-borrow spikes, and working sessions on multi-agent design, RAG, cost–quality–latency tradeoffs, and telemetry. I help you decide where the next quarter of AI effort actually moves the needle.
Best fit: founders and leads choosing what to build vs. buy vs. defer.
Custom Multi-Agent Build
Intake → ground truth → orchestration → eval → deploy. Same architecture discipline as Story Stream—intent and context routing first—sized to your domain and data.
Best fit: domains where quality is subjective, contextual, or hard to automate.
Selected work
Four pieces2025 — Present · Story Stream Editor
Founder & CTO
Multi-agent AI manuscript editor: narrative structure, reader response, theme, and craft—not grammar mirroring. Concept to revenue as sole founder; hundreds of writers; advisory board and equity access for underserved communities.
Three-layer system (intent detection → wisdom selection → dynamic context) cuts cost 87–93% versus full-manuscript approaches at $0.035 / paragraph.
Read more ↗2023 · Microsoft Edge
AI Digital Twins
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2023 winner. Patented approach to deep telemetry understanding — a live read of what is happening in a complex system, not only what was logged.
2021 · Microsoft Edge
Real-Time Emotion Parsing
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 winner. Among the first LLM applications to large-scale product telemetry at Microsoft. Behavioral churn analysis linking frustration signals to outcomes at hundreds of millions of users.
2024 — 2025 · Microsoft Azure
Data Science Manager / Principal AI Architect
Led an 8-person data science team while staying hands-on. Multi-agent AI on live operational data across tens of thousands of machines. Sustainability-focused fleet analytics tying efficiency to environmental impact.
How I work
Four principles01
Judgment before topology.
The AI layer is only as good as your model of what quality means in the domain. You cannot prompt-engineer or agent-sprinkle your way around missing ground truth.
02
The IP is the actionability.
Most teams over-invest in parsing and under-invest in what the system does with what it parsed. Ship the actionability layer earlier than feels comfortable.
03
Split agents by context shape, not by action.
The hardest part of long-horizon agents is not the agents — it is the orchestration layer that decides what each agent needs to know.
04
Raise the ceiling, not the floor.
Mentoring stays compatible with shipping when the mentoring itself produces shippable output. Pair on real production work; let async PR review carry the rest.
P. 09 — Profile
About
Will Frasier builds human-centered AI: systems that aim to understand context and intent, not only mimic text. Founder of Story Stream; eighteen years at Microsoft as Principal AI Architect on Edge and Data Science Manager on Azure. Two-time Global Hackathon winner; patent holder; classical composition background. Based in Seattle.
Recognition
- 01Microsoft Global Hackathon winner — 2021 (Real-Time Emotion Parsing) and 2023 (AI Digital Twins)
- 02Patent: AI Digital Twins
- 03Gold Star Award — outstanding engineering achievement
- 04Microsoft high-performance program participant
- 05B.A. Classical Music Composition — University of Sydney
P. 10 — Contact