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TREdwards Co We are a certified small and minority-owned business serving NC and SC for over six years. We specialize in sustainable building practices.

๐Œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š๐ง ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ.They buy before they build. They deploy befor...
03/27/2026

๐Œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š๐ง ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ.

They buy before they build. They deploy before they prepare. They automate before they understand what they are even automating.

I work with small businesses, nonprofits, and public sector organizations across the Southeast who made that mistake and are now starting over. The tools were not wrong. The order was.

Here is the sequence that actually works:
โ€ข First, look at your people. Where are they losing time every week on tasks that require no judgment? That is your automation map.
โ€ข Second, look at your decisions. Where is bad data, missing data, or slow data costing you money, time, or credibility? That is your strategy map.
โ€ข Third, look at your errors. Where does human mistake show up most in your workflow and what does it cost you each time it happens?

That is your priority list.

Now you know what to build. Now you go find the tools.

Most organizations skip straight to step four. They wonder why nothing sticks.

The sequence is not complicated. But someone has to walk you through it before you spend money on tools that solve problems you have not defined yet.

That is the work I do before anything else. ๐“๐š๐  ๐š ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ง๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐›๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐€๐ˆ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ.

๐Ž๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ.We found the risks early. Got the right pe...
03/25/2026

๐Ž๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ.

We found the risks early. Got the right people on board. Launched with full adoption.
That is not a lucky outcome. That is what happens when you do the work before the tool goes live.

Most organizations skip straight to deployment. They buy the tool. They send the logins. They wonder why nothing changes six months later.

The difference between full adoption and forgotten software is not the technology. It is everything that happens before anyone touches the technology.

โ€ข Risks surfaced before a dollar is spent
โ€ข Champions identified inside the organization
โ€ข Team trained on their actual tasks, not a demo
โ€ข Leadership modeling the behavior from day one
โ€ข Change management treated as equal to implementation

I work with small businesses, nonprofits, and public sector organizations who want the first outcome, not the second.

This week's AI Ally newsletter covers the full framework. Subscribe link in the first comment.

๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ด '๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ˆ๐˜.' ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ.

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ž.In 1969, Mary Moultrie organized 400 Black women at the Medical College Ho...
03/23/2026

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ž.

In 1969, Mary Moultrie organized 400 Black women at the Medical College Hospital right here in Charleston. They went on strike for 113 days. They faced the National Guard. They did not leave.

Most people in this city have never heard her name.
Moultrie saw what was happening inside that hospital and refused to look away. Black nurses doing the same work as their white colleagues. Classified as nurse aides. Paid less. Called by their first names while white colleagues were addressed as professionals.

Her demand was not complicated.

Call us Miss. Call us Mrs. Classify us correctly. Pay us what we are worth.

113 days. She did not blink.

I live and work in Charleston. I walk near that hospital. I know this ground.

And I think about Mary Moultrie every time I sit down to build an AI strategy for an organization because the pattern she fought in 1969 did not disappear. It moved.

Algorithms trained on biased data misclassify people today. Automated systems assign workers to categories that undervalue their actual skills and contribution. Organizations deploy AI tools that measure output without measuring the human doing the work.

The technology changes. The misclassification does not.

Mary Moultrie spent 113 days proving that the people closest to the work must have a voice in how that work gets defined, measured, and valued.

That principle does not belong to 1969. It belongs to every AI strategy being built right now.

The people closest to the work have to be in the room when the tools get designed. Their experience has to shape the process. Their dignity has to be non-negotiable.

Efficiency matters. Human respect matters more.

March is Women's History Month. Mary Moultrie is Charleston history. This story belongs to both.

We owe her more than a footnote.

๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ? ๐˜›๐˜ข๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ.
Photo credit: Avery Research Center at the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative.

03/20/2026

๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐จ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐›๐ฒ ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ.
I work with small businesses, nonprofits, and public sector organizations across the Southeast. The number one thing I hear is: we know we should automate. We just don't know where to start.

Here is your starting point.

Claude Cowork launched this year as a desktop AI agent for non-developers. You describe a task. It works across your files, folders, and browser to complete it. No code. No IT department. No developer needed.

What that looks like in practice:
1. Drop a folder of client emails into it and ask for a summary of every open action item.
2. Point it at your meeting notes from the last 30 days and ask it to build a status report.
3. Give it your social media content and ask it to schedule and format posts across platforms.

This is not future technology. It is available today on Mac and Windows.
The organizations that start now will operate at a completely different level in 12 months.

๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ? ๐˜‘๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ. ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฅ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ. ๐˜‹๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด. ๐˜ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ.

๐€๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐๐ž. ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค.When I run AI literacy workshops, I'm not ...
03/18/2026

๐€๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐๐ž. ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค.

When I run AI literacy workshops, I'm not teaching people to build models. I'm teaching them:
โ€ข How to evaluate an AI tool before committing to it
โ€ข How to write effective prompts for their specific job tasks
โ€ข How to spot where AI makes mistakes and why
โ€ข How to integrate AI into existing workflows without creating chaos

AI literacy is a leadership skill. Every manager and executive needs it right now.
๐˜–๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ.

Interested in an AI literacy workshop for your team? Visit tredwardsconsultancy.com.

03/17/2026

๐Œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐€๐ˆ. I help organizations actually use it. 15 years in Fortune 500. Now I work with small businesses, nonprofits, and public sector organizations across the Southeast.

My four focus areas:
โ€ข ๐€๐ˆ ๐‹๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ฒ: building the knowledge teams need to use AI with confidence
โ€ข ๐€๐ˆ ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ: roadmaps that align AI with real business goals
โ€ข ๐€๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: identifying the right workflows to automate and doing it
โ€ข๐€๐ˆ ๐€๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: change management that makes new tools stick. I've seen AI projects fail not because of bad technology but because of poor strategy and no change management.

That's the gap I close.

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Last week, KJ Kearney brought a story to my attention that stopped me completely.In 1850, seven enslaved people were for...
03/16/2026

Last week, KJ Kearney brought a story to my attention that stopped me completely.

In 1850, seven enslaved people were forced to stand in front of a camera on a South Carolina plantation. Not to be honored. Not to be remembered. To be used as evidence for a racist scientific theory that claimed Black people were a separate and inferior species.

๐“๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐š, ๐‰๐š๐œ๐ค, ๐ƒ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐š, ๐€๐ฅ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐, ๐…๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐š, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‰๐ž๐ฆ.

Harvard University held those images for 175 years.

This week, they came home. The daguerreotypes were transferred to the International African American Museum here in Charleston, built on Gadsden's Wharf. The same soil where nearly half of all enslaved Africans first arrived in America.

Renty and Delia are back where their American story began.

Here is why this matters to every leader thinking about AI right now.

In 1850, technology was used to strip seven Black people of their identity, their dignity, and their humanity. The data was extracted. The images were archived. The institution held the power. The community had none.

In 2026, AI systems are being built the same way. Data is being collected about communities. Decisions are being made that affect those communities. And the people closest to that data rarely have a seat at the table where those decisions are made.

AI literacy is not just a business skill. It is a power skill.

When your organization understands AI, you control your narrative. You shape how your community is represented. You decide what gets built and what gets protected.

That is the work I do every day with small businesses, nonprofits, and public sector organizations.

Thank you Kearney for making sure this story was seen. ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐๐ซ๐š๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ.

If this story moved you, share it. And if you are ready to make sure your organization has a voice in the AI conversation, let's connect.

Photo credit: Tailoring Freedom by Sasha Huber, Renty and Delia 2021

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